Cambodia’s Child Sex Industry Is Dwindling—And They Have Christians to Thank

Sek Saroeun first read the Bible at a Phnom Penh bar where young girls were illegally sold for sex. Hamburgers were $1.00, draft beers were $1.50, and bigger bills could get you a companion for the night.

The Buddhist law student worked as a DJ at Martini Pub and had recently begun serving as an undercover informant for the Christian human rights group International Justice Mission (IJM). He scanned the room to scope out suspects as Michael Jackson boomed over the speakers. He cracked open a loaned copy of the Bible—a curiosity introduced to him through IJM—and began to make his way through it in the DJ booth.

Sek took part in the organization’s earliest sex trafficking investigations in Cambodia. The Southeast Asian country had turned into a cheap, shabby hotbed for sex tourism in the decades after its notorious genocide and resulting civil unrest. In 2003, IJM launched the first large-scale attempt to fix the Khmer kingdom’s public justice system that allowed pimps and pedophiles to go free.

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kiwiincambodia wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 7:34 pm

StroppyChops wrote:

kiwiincambodia wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 7:34 pm

I honestly get more out of reading the comments on articles like this than the article itself. I skim the article, and then focus on the comments! And yes, I know you're taking the piss.

AE86 wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 7:42 pm ^^I always read comments to get people's reactions. That's why I despise news outlets that don't have a comments section.

Anyway, couldn't read the entire story without subscribing. However, I happen to know some people in an anti-trafficking NGO and they're saying the same thing for the most part, trafficking is on the downfall.

It is good news to hear, so hopefully it continues.

boozyoldman wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 8:11 pm Kate Shellnutt, the writer, was able to see grey-haired foreign men on mopeds cruising Svay Pak in search of young p*ssy.

Anyone seen ANYONE on a moped lately?

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 7:40 pm

kiwiincambodia wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 7:34 pm

I honestly get more out of reading the comments on articles like this than the article itself. I skim the article, and then focus on the comments! And yes, I know you're taking the piss.