you go girl !

Somaly Mam. That name brought me to tears today when I was reading about her in Metro today. She is really a hero and this is her story...

Somaly Mam was an orphan growing up in Cambodia. All alone not knowing where her parents were. When she was 12 years old she was sold to the neighbourhood´s "businessman" for the first time to pay of a debt. She was forced into marriage with the man she called grandfather and then when he got tired of her, at age 15, she was sold to a brothel in Phnom Penh where she were raped, beaten and locked up against her will. She tried to run away but they catched her and kept on torturing her until she accepted the situation she was in - they broke her down.

One day a 10 years old girl came to the brothel and Somaly didn´t want an innocent person like her to be teared apart like herself and she gave the girl all her own money and helped her to escape. As punishment she was beaten for several hours and locked into a cage, just to show the other girls what would happen if they didn´t obey the pimps. after that experience she became one of the brothel´s most obedient sex sex slave.

Then one day an American man gave her 3 000 dollar and for those money she bought out all the 10 girls working at the brothel and herself. After 8 years in hell she was finally free and started to save other girl from the same faith she´d been through. It´s dangerous and he 14 years old daughter was kidnapped as revenge on Somaly and was drugged, raped and sold to a brothel in Thailand. 4 days later they found her but she told her mum to continue saving the innocent girls even though the things she had been through. Somaly did and she is on Friday beeing given The World´s Children Prize.