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'My mom sold my virginity when I was 12'
My mom sold my virginity when I was 12: Teenager's firsthand experience reveals the horrors of the sex trade in Cambodia
Robbed of a childhood: Dara Keo (pictured), now 17, a Cambodian teenager whose virginity was sold when she was just 12, has opened up about the horrors of the sex trade in her home country
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A Cambodian teenager whose virginity was sold to a man when she was a child has opened up about the horrors of the sex trade in her home country.
Dara Keo, now 17, told Marie Claire that she was just 12 when her mother Rotana sold her to a 'rich, powerful man' because she was desperate to pay off her late husband's gambling debt.
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He kept her in a hotel room for a week and would visit her twice or even three times a day for sex. 'He was very forceful,' she says, recalling the pain as 'excruciating.'
After the week was up, Keo was left with tearing and bruises and she found it 'agonizing' to walk or urinate for two weeks.
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While her case may seem dire, Keo is just one of thousands of Cambodian girls whose virginity is sold each year - mostly to prominent politicians and policeman, the only men rich enough to afford it.
Indeed, destitute families typically receive around $1,500 to sell a daughter's virginity, which is equivalent to four years' salary. Rotana was so desperate, however, she accepted just $500.
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Her loyalty to Rotana is likely because of the attitude in Cambodia that 'children exist for their parents' benefit, not the other way around,' says Nget Thy, executive director of the Cambodian Center for the Protection of Children's Rights.
'Children have a strong duty to pay back their parents for raising them,' he adds. 'The concept of child rights is very weak.'
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Easy targets: Hostesses wait at a beer garden in August 2013, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. These girls are often targeted by rich and powerful men looking to pay for their virginity
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz2xYbBUCr9
 This is such an upsetting story. I feel so sad for these girl that had to be born in such world.
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