Champei begged her mother to let her go, but when she arrived in Malaysia, she was mistreated from the beginning. She ate poorly, had boiling water poured on her hands and wound up in a psychiatric hospital before she returned to Cambodia. She is now traumatized, her parents devastated.
Sokhea, who is 17 and still in high school, convinced her illiterate mother to sign the paperwork that would fake her age and allow her to go to Malaysia. She got as far as the Phnom Penh recruiting center before prison-like conditions and the warnings of another village girl convinced her to flee and return home to Preah Vihear province in northern Cambodia.
Sal, who lost her parents and went to Malaysia to support her uncle and siblings, was raped by her employer there. She tells of electric shocks and being drugged and abused for a year before she returned to Prey Veng province in southeastern Cambodia. Her aunt says she is ruined for life.
