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Previously on Life.

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We are deeply disturbed
what is happening to us

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in the contemporary world.

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You find that these
are people have

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moved from the countryside.

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They don't have
requisite education.

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They don't have skills.

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They're not able to find a job.

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You need shelter.

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You need a roof.

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How can you have dignity?

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How can you bring up a family
if you haven't got some space

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in the world to live?

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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A police raid in Phnom
Penh, capital of Cambodia.

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Officers have been tipped off
that this brothel is illegally

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holding girls as
young as 12 years old.

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They've been sold
to the [? elder ?]

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to work as prostitutes.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Photographs are
taken as evidence.

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In Cambodia, you can legally
be a prostitute at 18,

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but the selling of
children for sex

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contravenes legal
and moral codes.

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How old are you?

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Having commandeered
a tourist bus

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as cover for their
operation, the police

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are taking the
girls to the station

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to establish their age
and their identities.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Ling is 12 years old.

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She was rescued in a similar
raid just five months ago.

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Ling's mother sold
her as a housemaid,

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but she ended up a victim of
prostitution, forced to have

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sex with several clients a day.

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Here at this
rehabilitation center,

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ling and other girls
like her are learning

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to rebuild their lives.

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She's learning to read and write
for the first time in her life.

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It's only recently
with counseling,

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that Ling's been able to talk
about what happened to her.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Her mother was tricked
by another man.

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And so that they brought to
the brothel and sold her there.

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And later on, the mother
recognized that she's

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working as prostitute.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Every client five
customers, five guys.

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Every day?

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Yes.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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The situation is very serious
the problem of sexual abuse

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and trafficking in children,
people are easily deceived,

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by the businessman.

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People, especially young
girls, [? can't do it ?]

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[? all right. ?] So all these
girls are easily tricked

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by people who come
and charm them.

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They say that they will
look for good job for them.

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The girls don't understand
the truth of their situation

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and go along with them.

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[? Saree ?] is the
director of this center,

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one of several in Cambodia.

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It's a temporary
home to 20 girls.

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Every one of them has a story
of abuse or is in danger.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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If a child has been a
prostitute or sexually abused,

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when they arrive here, are
very different to the others

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who have not been abused.

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They just sit down and
don't want to talk.

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They don't want to
talk to the others.

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They seem to feel very
inferior and alone.

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Safe now, Ling shares a
bedroom with other girls

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at the shelter.

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She's one of five
children, brought up

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by her mother on her own
after her stepfather was

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jailed for abusing her.

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she was sold for $100 and
forced to work as a prostitute

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to pay off this debt.

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In the brothel where
she used to work,

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she had her own room for
entertaining clients.

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Today, there are an estimated
50,000 prostitutes in Cambodia.

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Many brothels masquerade
as karaoke bars.

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In 1991, there were
just 6,000 sex workers.

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That number trebled
within a year,

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following the end of 20 years
of war, when thousands of UN

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peacekeepers came to Cambodia.

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Most clients today are
Cambodian, the numbers

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of sex workers fueled by
a combination of poverty,

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corruption, and now
a new way of tourism.

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Over a third of all the
victims of prostitution

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of children aged 11 to 17.

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Most of them are
trafficked within Cambodia.

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Others arrive across the border
from Vietnam, Laos, or China.

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Half the girls are
sold to traffickers,

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either intentionally
or unwittingly,

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by parents desperate for cash.

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Children as young as four
being sold into the sex

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industry in Cambodia.

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In the parks of
Phnom Penh, Solamy,

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who runs a child
protection charity

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hands out condoms and
spells out the dangers

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of the sex industry to potential
clients and to sex workers.

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She's worried about the
increasing number of people

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contracting HIV/AIDS
and the growing

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exploitation of very young girls
trafficked into prostitution.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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They tell the young girls
[? maternity ?] because they

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say it will keep them young.

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They swear it brings
them good luck.

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And also because
of AIDS problem,

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the increased number of
HIV positives people.

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Before, virgin were
15 or 16 years old,

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but there aren't
enough any more.

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So they look for
even younger girls,

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now around 13 or 14 years old.

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With the AIDS
explosion, rich mean

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don't sleep with
the prostitutes.

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They buy virgins.

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Because there are not
enough virgins to go around,

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sometimes a girl will
have sex with a customer

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and then they get sewn
up straight afterwards.

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They then sleep with
another customer.

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He thinks that she
is being broken in

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and because she bleeds
and is in lots of pain,

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they think she must be a virgin.

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Solamy's the Director of AFESIP
an organization working with,

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particularly vulnerable girls.

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She often receives death
threats from traffickers

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who still have contracts
on some of the girls

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she's helped to rescue.

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Part of her work is
to help girls acquire

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new skills to earn money.

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Without alternatives,
the girls here

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may have no option but to
go back into prostitution.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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They are traumatized.

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They are really,
really traumatized.

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You need to hear it from
the girls themselves,

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because many people
find it hard to believe.

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It's hard for me
to talk about it.

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It hurts my country and when
other women see this abroad,

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they may be shocked.

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The problem is monstrous.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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This girl Came to
AFESIP a week ago.

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Before, she was trafficked
from neighboring Vietnam.

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She was in three brothels.

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The people there beat her
with sticks and tortured her

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with electric shocks.

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So now she's not so good.

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She's damaged.

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She was refusing
clients because she

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didn't know how to
satisfy them, how

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to be a sex worker, what to do.

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So she was beaten.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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She said that the
woman who took her

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promise that she would return
her home, but she never did.

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Nowadays, the number of
prostitutes is going up.

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The reason is poverty.

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There is no work and there
is not enough education

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in the countryside.

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Most of these girls come
from the countryside.

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Seven out of every 10 Cambodians
live in the countryside.

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They scratch a living
farming the land, which

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is often subject to natural
disasters and flooding.

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But today, the greatest
threat to their land is debt.

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More and more people
are selling their land

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to pay off debts incurred when
one of their family falls ill.

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Without land it's even more
difficult to make ends meet.

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Today Saree, is taking
Ling to visit her village

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to see if it's suitable for
her to go home to her mother.

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This is the first time Ling's
been home for six months.

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Most people here don't
own any of their own.

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Like many other
villages, endemic poverty

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makes it easy for traffickers
to prey on children.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Her house is over there.

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She's living there.

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I come to visit my mother.

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Her mother went away
because they could not

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find her living here.

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So her mother disappeared?

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Yeah.

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Too poor to stay, ling's
mother has abandoned her home

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to look for work elsewhere.

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Most family have between
six to eight children.

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The children can't go
to school because they

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need to help their
parents earn money.

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They collect small crabs
and sell the meat from them.

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With the tiny income
they get from this,

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they have to buy rice
for the whole family.

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It's not enough.

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If they're lucky, this work
earns a family a mere $1 a day.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Before Ling came to stay
with me at the Center,

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she used to pick up
the left over scraps

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on the beach for her living.

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And then one day, a
man called Parker Cole,

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he told her that if you
keep doing this job,

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you never earn enough
money to survive.

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But you could work
for someone who

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would give you 150,000
riel, about for $40.

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When Ling's mother
heard this, she

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let her daughter go with him.

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But he took Ling and sold
her to be a prostitute.

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Saree told us that she didn't
see any future for Ling

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in the village.

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With no family home to
go to, Ling must now

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learn to fend for herself.

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The Cambodia Thai
border, 20,000 people

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cross through the
gates every day.

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Many are children trafficked
across to wealthy Thailand

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to work in the sex industry
or beg on the streets.

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Nine out of every 10
child beggars in Thailand

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come from Cambodia.

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They either travel alone
or are brought over

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by gangs or agents.

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Over 2/3 of them are boys.

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The children are smuggled
over in trains, on the backs

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of trucks, or in buses.

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Traffickers here
don't target children

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who are not resourceful,
who aren't attractive,

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who aren't smart.

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There tends to be a number of
ways children are trafficked.

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Rent children is probably one
of most significant ways here.

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And that is where a
parent or caregiver

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rent the services of that child
to be taken to Thailand to earn

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money, with the idea that
money will be sent back

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to the family.

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In reality, they very
rarely see money.

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Many families know
who the trafficker is.

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And we do find that
some families actually

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think the child will be
better, working and earning

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some money in
Thailand as a beggar

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than maybe not having food
or livelihood in Cambodia.

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Linda works at this reception
center near the border

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with Thailand, temporary
home to children

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who've been trafficked over
and then sent back to Cambodia.

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With many still indebted
to the gangs who

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bought or rented them,
it's too dangerous

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to show the children's faces.

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We've got quite a
few older children

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who may have been
trafficked at two or four,

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and have lived in
Thailand for 10 years.

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They have no idea
where they came from.

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So they have no history.

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Little children clearly
have very limited knowledge

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of where they came from.

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Also, children who have
intellectual difficulties who

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have been trafficked
for begging,

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they have very
little memory as well

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of where they have come from.

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So you start to get this fairly
significant group of children

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who can't identify
where they've come from.

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And of course, our tracing
has to come from the children.

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They're our only choice.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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I asked someone to
take me to Thailand.

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I went there to look for money.

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I was living with a lady who
told me to beg for money,

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and then I got some
I gave it to her.

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She said, man, I got a lot.

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She would share it with me.

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Someone told me she
used the money to gamble

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and she only gave
me a little bit.

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She told me she sent
the rest to my mother.

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Many of the children,
when you talk to them,

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they feel like it's
their duty to earn money.

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Many of the children
with disabilities

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feel like that's the
only way they're going

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to be valuable to their family.

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So it's really hard work with
those children to actually say,

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there may be things
you want to do.

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Here, here, here.

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[INAUDIBLE] OK. now, I want
the man sitting next to him,

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to crouch down and
look up at him.

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Now, let me ask, the people
who are looking up, how do you

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feel?

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You feel really intimidated.

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You are looking up at
this giant of a person.

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This is how children
feel when they

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look at you, because
they're looking up at you.

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And you are a giant.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Bearing in mind their
age, you explain to them

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as best you can,
what will now happen

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and what steps you are
taking to protect them

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and to make sure it
doesn't happen again.

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This is one of
the first projects

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that I know of that actually
targets the law enforcement.

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It's no good having laws
when they're not enforced.

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It's a lot of the projects
that they have here in Cambodia

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actually looking at victims
and assisting the victims after

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the event;s occurred, et cetera.

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But they've never
really targeted

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the actual law enforcement
side of things before.

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The laws in Cambodia are
fairly complex at this stage,

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although there is a
new criminal code being

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drafted at the moment.

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They rely on some of the old
French colonial type laws.

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The UNTAC laws, which are left
over from when the UN was here.

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And also, they have a human
trafficking legislation,

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which they can utilize as well.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Yes, there are laws,
many laws, to many rules.

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The problem is that
people don't apply them.

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People don't earn enough.

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They have to be corrupt to get
a bit of money, to buy food

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or to buy things
for their women.

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You don't get good
wages in Cambodia

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and so you have to be corrupt.

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The staff working for
the Cambodian government

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don't have good wages either,
and so we have well known

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legal and corruption problems.

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It's rare that
traffickers get put away.

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They either don't get caught
or they pay off the judges.

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Lusaka has been sent to prison.

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Convicted of selling her
daughter to traffickers.

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She feels that she's
being made an example of.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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I am scared here in prison.

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I'm upset because I see
that someone with money

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can avoid prison.

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Other people have money
to bribe, but I don't.

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For example, when I got to
court they asked me for $200.

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I didn't have it.

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And so I was sent to
prison for five years.

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You hear cases often where the
wrong people have been charged.

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And hopefully again,
a little away along,

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when more police
and judiciary have

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been trained in
this field, they'll

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start to recognize who are the
victims, who are the offenders.

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What we try and do is
place emphasis on the fact

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that when you're dealing with
child exploitation matters,

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corruption is just not an issue.

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We don't put up with it in
any way, shape, or form.

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And hopefully that
message will get through.

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Poverty, corruption, and
lack of other opportunities

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drive more and more
children into the hands

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of the traffickers.

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Democracy is still
quite new here,

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but the government and agencies
like the International Labor

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Organization are
addressing the issue.

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There's now a national
plan specifically designed

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to crack down on the
trade in children.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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We have now to set up to make
committees, The Committee

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Against Trafficking, The
Committee Against Child

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Labor, and The Committee To
Create A Legal Framework.

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It's important that the
Ministry of Social Affairs

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cooperates with all the
organizations involved

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in the fight
against trafficking.

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We are trying to implement the
Cambodian government's strategy

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on trafficking through the
non-governmental groups.

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But we still have a lot to doing
and we are still trying hard.

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We are working with the
Ministry Of Labor And Social

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Affairs at a government
institution, the local NGO.

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We have developed
together what we

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call the National
[INAUDIBLE] on Child Labor

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to fight against child labor.

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And they have a lot
of things that we

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can do about trafficking issue.

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But prevention and protection
is the best approach.

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Of course poverty plays a
very important role in this.

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But besides poverty, it
can be the legal issue,

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the understanding in general,
of parent and of the public,

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of the community.

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So it had to be
[INAUDIBLE] approach.

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As Cambodia moves
into the 21st century,

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more and more
tourists are visiting.

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They bring much needed
revenue to restore

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the country's economy.

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Most of them come to admire
the ancient temples of Angkor,

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to appreciate the Khmer
culture and to relax

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on the beaches in the South.

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Some, however, visit with
a more sinister intent.

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In July last year, the
Ministry of Tourism seven out

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of every 10 children
living near Angkor Wat

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had been propositioned
by tourists for sex.

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Unless this new problem of sex
tourism is also dealt with,

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there will be even more
children like Ling,

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who face abusive futures.

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For now, Ling remains in
the care of [? Saree ?]

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in the rehabilitation center.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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In the past, Cambodia had a
strong sense of their culture,

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the kind of sexual abuse
we see today was rare.

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What we need are strong laws,
so that the real offenders

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are punished.

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Only then, I believe, will
the abuse of children stop.

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Back at the station
in Phnom Penh,

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the police judge
their raid a success

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and they're planning more.

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But for the confused and
scared girls they have rescued,

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some as young as 12, the
future looks far less certain.