The nefarious female pimps of Iraq

“…That underworld is a place where nefarious female pimps hold sway, where impoverished mothers sell their teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who reach the age of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims, some just 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as $2,000. ‘The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it’s like the trade in cattle,’” Hinda says. ‘I’ve seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters.’… ” Story here.