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Feb. 9, 2006 (ABC News) - Fifteen-year-old "Debbie" is the middle child in a
close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student
-- the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the seamy world
of sex trafficking.
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Ho Chi Minh City , Feb 10 (IPS) - Searching Nguyen Thi Hien's house in the northern province of Lai Chaau, last November, police discovered a diary in which she had meticulously recorded the names of 142 Vietnamese women that she had sold into sexual slavery in China.
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Cambodia's thriving sex industry and its porous border with Vietnam has the country awash with women and girls swept away from their Mekong Delta homes and subjected to lives of exploitation. It costs $60 a year to keep a child in school in Vietnam, and that's not a light expense for families earning $300 to $400 a year, John Anner, the executive director of the East Meets West Foundation (EMW), writes in a piece posted by the Pacific News Service.
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Somewhere in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, a young girl sits in school. Let's call her Thuy. Thuy is 10 years old and studying in the fifth grade. A shy girl, she has large soft eyes and a fair complexion. She doesn't know it, but all around her malevolent forces are gathering that might condemn her to a life of suffering, shame and exploitation.
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TRAFFICKING Vietnamese women and children increased last year to 125 cases, up 123 percent over the previous year, Guangxi regional public security officials said.
People smuggling increased in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that shares land and water borders with Vietnam, police said.
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