Tens of thousands of children in Cambodia are employed in the sex industry. About a third of sex workers in Cambodia are between the ages of 12 and Many are sex slaves who given no money, just food and are threatened with guns f the escape. Many were sold into the trade by family members or lured away from their villages with false promises of good jobs. Some repeatedly have had their hymen stitched up so they can be passed off virgins. These children are coerced into having sex and are exploited abused and put at great risk of contacting AIDS. Violence, mistrust, and rejection can become norms, and the children may become dependent on their exploiters for emotional stability and support. In the early s the child sex industry operated quite openly in front of authorities, who did nothing about it and were paid quite well to do nothing.
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Please register, and you will get it every month. Cambodian sex workers wait for customers at a public park in Phnom Penh. The latest trend seems to be sexual abuse of children in Cambodian orphanages. Male perpetrators, in the guise of tourists or volunteers, get easy access to underage girls and boys.
She has a lap dog named Chica, and her own car that she bought herself. But behind her seemingly charmed life, Sokha hides a dark past from her childhood that still haunts her to this day. Sokha grew up in a poor village near Phnom Penh, the capital city. She said she was just 7 years old when she was sold for sex to an American man named Michael Joseph Pepe, a former U. Marine, who was then living as an ex-pat in Phnom Penh. She did not know why he had come to Cambodia to buy a child like her for sex. At one point, a man could be heard asking for a year-old girl. Another asks for a year-old, while another said he would take an 8-year-old. The video was shot over the last two years by Agape International Missions, or AIM, an organization dedicated to fighting child sex trafficking in Cambodia. Despite progress made by the government to crack down on the issue, it is still a major problem in the country.
