Child Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Child Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Child Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Child prostitution is ardently denounced, but still endemically entrenched in Southeastern Asia. Children as young as four are sold to brothels in Cambodia, often coming from poor families that are in desperate need of money. The families are told that their children will be employed and will be able to mail money back from their wages, but they often do not know that their child will be beaten, ill treated, drugged, raped, and prostituted.

This website will focus on Svay Pak, a tiny village outside of the famous Cambodian red-light city Phnom Penh. Since the 1990s, international sex tourists have been frequenting the one dirt street that runs through the entire town. It is notorious for offering the youngest prostitutes in Cambodia, many under the age of 10.