SKIRMISHER

In the deeply fulfilling world of human trafficking, where kids as young as five can be bought for as little as $10, the business is all about empowering the consumer with a rich array of choices. Kept in cages until the arrival of the right client, kids wait for the next rapist, often topping off a 30-men-a-day quota.

On MSNBC:

Early one morning, our producer walks out the front door of the hotel and is greeted by a local motor bike taxi driver, who explains how easy it is to find girls for sale:

Twelve-year-olds for sale. As shocking as that sounds, we’re about to find out in some places that’s considered old. Children who should be in elementary school are being exploited by adults.

A human rights investigator we’ll call Robert is acting as a sex tour guide for a Dateline producer and cameraman posing undercover. The investigator is a former police detective from New Zealand. We agreed not to show his face or use his real name, because of his ongoing undercover work.

Robert has developed local contacts who know where to go and whom to see. All it takes is a quick phone call for this man to arrange a visit to a brothel in Phnom Penh.

The producers and investigators arrive across from what looks like a local café, but it’s really a brothel. The owner is a woman who goes by the name Madam Lang. She’s eager to do business. She leads the group through the café and up a back staircase to meet some girls for hire. And when she says they’re girls, she means it literally: young girls, younger than we even imagined. And as an extra attraction, she says they’re still virgins.

With all these virgins, it’s a perplexing wonder why suicide bombers wouldn’t want to enjoy them in the here and now. Meanwhile, enjoy your morning’s inspiring tale of perversion.

via METAFILTER

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