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In rural Bangladesh parents often regard their daughters a financial burden. Marrying off girls as young as 10 has become a cultural norm, despite child marriage being illegal.
Last year in Bangladesh there were 179 acid attacks. Often the result of land disputes, the crime has long been seen as 'family business'. Finally, police are cracking down on this nation's shame.
We travel with Farida back to her father's home. The last time she saw him was when he sold her into prostitution. She was nine years old. She was smuggled into India and made to work in a Calcutta brothel. Every year thousands of young girls from Bangladesh are sold to work as sex slaves in India. Fear of AIDS drives the trade - as Muslims, Bangladeshi girls are seen as cleaner than Indian women…
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