Somaly Mam, a former child prostitute, has made it her responsibility to save other children from horrible sex acts around the world. Children can be sold to pay off a perpetrators debts. Some families are also guilty in selling their own relatives because of poverty. Although some victims are labor servants, the vast majority of slaves are kidnapped and brought into prostitution. When Mam finally found an opportunity to leave the brothel (where she endured beatings and rapes)she married a french man and moved to France. Mam ended up going back to Cambodia drawn by the stories of those whose suffering had been even worse than her own. More people should be aware of stories like Somalys’ and be inspired to do more because of them.
http://smithsonianmag.com S.C.C. Student - Chmielewski, Christine
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