Girl, 6, embodies Cambodia's sex industry

CNN ^

[SmoothTalker]

" At an age when most children might be preparing for their first day of school, Srey, 6, already has undergone trauma that is almost unspeakable.

She was sold to a brothel by her parents when she was 5. It is not known how much her family got for Srey, but other girls talk of being sold for $100; one was sold for $10."

"Srey is HIV-positive, she said."

"Srey was rescued from the life of a sex slave by Somaly Mam, a former prostitute who runs shelters for the victims of Cambodia's sex trade. Somaly has rescued 53 children, so far. Many of them have profound psychological trauma. Some clearly are mentally ill. (Watch how one woman has saved dozens of children from brothels )

"A lot of them, when they arrive, have psychological problems ... very big problems. ... And they never have love by the people, by their parents," Somaly said.

One girl at Somaly's shelter appears especially disturbed. She was rescued after being imprisoned for two years in a cage, where she was repeatedly raped."

"Around the world, more than 1 million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade each year, according to the U.S. State Department. The State Department believes Cambodia is a key transit and destination point in this trade."

[SmoothTalker]

This sort of thing makes me very angry. And yet people in many parts of the world see American culture as the source of all evil.

[NonValueAdded]

Thank you Jane Fonda and John Kerry for making that possible. /utterdisgust

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If we hadn't made the evil movie "Pretty Woman" that glorified prostitution and shipped it to Cambodia, this would never have happened!

/sarcasm

[river rat]

Less we forget.....

All cultures are equal...
Multiculturalism is the spice of life...
Diversity is our strength.....


And all that other leftist bullsquat....

Semper Fi

[Red Badger]

"Pretty Woman"........you mean "Pretty Baby"?.......

[Fierce Allegiance]

DO NOT READ THIS THREAD!

[Hegemony Cricket]

She have to wait 6 more years to find work in hollywood....

[swatbuznik]

I agree, how can America be called "evil" when have true evil like this! It makes me furious to know this is happening.

[Graybeard58]

I read about a Protestant Minister once who was rescuing these sex slave children, I don't remember his name but he too had single handedly bought and freed many of them to an American run orphanage.

[edcoil]

What is sad it that a man would be attracted to a 6 year old.

[2banana]

The need for Jesus Christ is huge...

[fishtank]

Buddhism has no concept of "sin". Now we know why.

[Zeroisanumber]

Nick Kristoff is a liberal douche, but good on him for getting that girl out of the brothel, regardless of how she ended up.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The owners and customers of these type of sex child abuse houses should be castrated with the cut done around their neck.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Multiculturalism is the spice of life..."

Waiter: Would you like some fresh ground arsenic for your salad?

Democrat Customer: Yes, please!

[L98Fiero]

"If we hadn't made the evil movie "Pretty Woman"..."

I wouldn't have been on the dating scene with every woman I talked to telling me they wanted "the fairytale" and we probably would have to look at Julia Roberts' butt-face these days.

Yeah, I hate that movie.

[L98Fiero]

"Wouldn't" have to look at Julia Roberts' butt-face...

[Zeroisanumber]

I wouldn't have been on the dating scene with every woman I talked to telling me they wanted "the fairytale" and we probably would have to look at Julia Roberts' butt-face these days.

Too right. Romantic comedies have given women a lot of bad ideas about men and dating.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe Robert Redford will make a movie about this subject that will "push the boundaries" and be "lyrical" and "strangely beautiful".

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

She's six years old. She's already been sold for sex for over a year. And she's no doubt doomed to a miserable death in a short time because of her HIV.

And for what?

I don't understand people sometimes. But I do know that the procurers of children and the "sex tourists" need to be taken out and shot like the pigs they are. No mercy.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Is Julia Roberts a real person or is it just Eric Roberts in drag?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Absolutely correct, and they should be slapped in the face with the reality of what they helped create. It's amazing that the so-called progressives can focus all their criticisms and hate at America, but ignore these types of inconvenient truths.

[NonValueAdded]

It is the cut-and-run end game, isn't it?

[null and void]

Thank you Jane Fonda and John Kerry for making that possible. /utterdisgust

See? It is our fault!

[ichabod1]

Have you ever seen them in the same place together?

[null and void]

What is sad it that a man would be attracted to a 6 year old.

Yeah, real men (like mohammad) wait until they are at least 8.

[JimSEA]

Buddhism has no concept of "sin". Now we know why

That is absolute nonsense. Two of the main problems in Cambodia are the destruction of the family units and the killing of the Buddhist monks under Pol Pot removing the "moral compasses" of the poor. Now Cambodia has a socialist government headed by a former supporter of Pol Pot. This government permeated by corruption, combined with grinding poverty from which people are largely prohibited from working their way out, presents a situation in which some parents sell their children. Add the growing drug problem in the urban areas of Cambodia, and you have a recipe for hell.

[null and void]

It is the cut-and-run end game, isn't it?

Yeah, and some people never learn...

Kerry Lied

Millions Died

[HighlyOpinionated]

As long as the USofA allows such "freedom of speech" as NAMBLA, how can we say we're not tainted with the evils of child sexual abuse?

How can the USofA claim that "children are to be protected" when the USofA allows unborn children to be horribly abused in late term abortions?

The USofA talks out of both sides of her mouth. It's not just child sexual abuse, it's freedom of speech abuse which must be addressed.

The USofA IS guilty. We need to quit pandering to NAMBLA and Hollywood and the "sex industry" here in the USofA if we are going to be condemning same in other countries.

The USofA needs a reality check and a long hard look into the mirror.

[isthisnickcool]

Thank you Jane Fonda and John Kerry for making that possible. /utterdisgust"

This looks like a good place to post some Kerry quotes:

QUOTE ONE

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared -- seared -- in me."

QUOTE TWO

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

QUOTE THREEE (the best one?)

"There are powerful (*sniff-sniff*) reasons to want to continue that fight now. But I have concluded (*Waa!-Waa!*) this isn't the time for me (*Boo-Hoo!*) to mount a presidential campaign."

[null and void]

The best one is #3. Now if we could just get him to GO AWAY!

[sgtbono2002]

The UN is worried about prisoners living high on the hog in Gitmo while crap like this is going on.

Why the hell are we still members of that failure?

[Alter Kaker]

This sort of thing makes me very angry. And yet people in many parts of the world see American culture as the source of all evil.

Ok, put all the blame on the Cambodians but remember that it's Americans and Europeans who are funding this barbarism -- Western sex tourists fund virtually the entire southeast Asian sex industry. For every supply there must be a demand. Eliminate the demand (preferably with a 50 caliber round to the head) and you'll eliminate the supply.

[Alter Kaker]

This sort of thing makes me very angry. And yet people in many parts of the world see American culture as the source of all evil.

Ok, put all the blame on the Cambodians but remember that it's Americans and Europeans who are funding this barbarism -- Western sex tourists fund virtually the entire southeast Asian sex industry. For every supply there must be a demand. Eliminate the demand (preferably with a .50 caliber round to the head) and you'll eliminate the supply.

[i_dont_chat]

You know they are siblings, right?

[Constitution Day]

Same age as my daughter. This makes me nauseous.

[taxed2death]

Whew, stuff like this...I get physically sick when I read about it.....hard to sum up my feelings, disgust, sadness, extreme rage. You'd think "humans" would all be ingrained with some hardwired level of protection...or a certain base level of compassion for our young ones. I guess not.

I saw some soldiers diary show on last week where a squad came upon a hut in Iraq with two mentally retarded girls...looked to be about 10 + maybe 14 years old, sitting half naked with no water or food on a dirt floor, 120 degree heat. Outside were a few grown Iraqi men...seemingly oblivious to the suffering and indignation that these two retarded kids were going through. The lead guy (American) was visibly disgusted and pissed off at these Iraqi's. He held it together pretty good, a lot better than I would have in that situation. I guess the fact that there was a camera rolling made him think twice about retribution. If I was there, I'd probably have stripped the men, chained them to the wall and put a bowl of water just out of reach..... let them see how it felt.

One can only wonder if those scumbags abused those kids (sexually)....
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.


...sorry for the rant.

[taxed2death]

"Ok, put all the blame on the Cambodians but remember that it's Americans and Europeans who are funding this barbarism -- Western sex tourists fund virtually the entire southeast Asian sex industry. For every supply there must be a demand."

Do you have any hard facts from reliable sources for this assertion?

Are you saying that indigenous peoples in these countries do not partake of this disgusting endeavor?

[Alter Kaker]

Are you saying that indigenous peoples in these countries do not partake of this disgusting endeavor?

I don't think pedophiles are any more common in Cambodia than they are anywhere else. But the difference is that Americans and Europeans are much richer -- and therefore have the money to fund the industry.

[null and void]

...sorry for the rant.

Don't be.

[Alter Kaker]

Read Nicholas Kristoff's columns on the subject. He's spent more time in the child brothels of Cambodia than just about anybody.

[Ramius]

It is not known how much her family got for Srey, but other girls talk of being sold for $100; one was sold for $10." ... "Srey is HIV-positive, she said."

Oh, my God. It just hits you right in the gut. I can't even wrap my head around what it takes in a person to be this cold and soulless. It seems like it can't truly be real, but then the thump hits your gut that it really is.

[najida]

As a dad,
How are you handling it?

[null and void]

In some primitive (and therefore superior) cultures people believe having sex with a virgin cures AIDS.

She was in all probability specifically targeted by an AIDS sufferer. Probably several as I am sure the madam got a premium every time she claimed she was new and a virgin.

[taxed2death]

Thanks for the tip. I will.

[Fierce Allegiance]

With a vomit bucket.

[Alter Kaker]

In some primitive (and therefore superior) cultures people believe having sex with a virgin cures AIDS. She was in all probability specifically targeted by an AIDS sufferer.

Forgive me, but you don't know what you're talking about. Supposedly (and I say supposedly because there's little evidence anybody actually believes it), that's a myth prevalent among poor rural South African tribal peoples. There are precious few poor rural South African tribal peoples in Cambodia.

Why do people continue to pontificate from positions of abject ignorance?

[Junior]

Thank you Jane Fonda and John Kerry for making that possible. /utterdisgust

As much as I detest those two, this cannot be chalked up to their actions. This crap was going on there for hundreds of years before the Vietnam War, and will probably go on there until the damned peninsula sinks into the ocean.

[ArrogantBustard]

Handling this with a Tommy Gun seems appropriate.

[najida]

Add me to the list that thinks the parents, owners and customers should be shot on site.

I don't see the humor in raping children.