Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have arrested the mother and stepfather of a teenage girl for allegedly forcing her into the s*x trade for two years. The 13-year-old has been rescued and taken to a state-run shelter home. She has told counsellors that her parents would solicit customers and force her to have s*x with the men. BBC has more:
Her mother has told a news channel that she would charge 3,000 rupees (£30; $47) from a customer for her daughter. Police said they had identified 25 of the 40 customers who had allegedly paid for s*x with the teenager.
Ten others, including a broker, have also been arrested in connection with the case. The 37-year-old mother has seven children – the oldest is 24 years old and the youngest is aged four. Her 55-year-old husband worked as a driver and would solicit customers showing the girl’s photograph, police said.
The family lived in a rented house in the town of Kottakal in Malappuram district in the north of the state. In 2011, police in Kerala arrested the father of a 17-year-old girl for forcing her to have s*x for money with up to 200 men. Twenty-nine others were arrested in connection with the case.
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