This might be relevant. Taken From one of Mundyaa's posts in the General Forum
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IN RURAL INDIA, TRADITIONS OF CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ENDURE
Scripps Howard News Service
By JOHN STACKHOUSE
Toronto Globe and Mail
SANGLI, India - The prettiest girl in this leafy, tropical town in western
India's sugar belt doesn't have much time to talk. Dressed in a stunning
mauve silk sari, with gold jewelry dripping from her ear lobes and nose,
18-year-old Chandra must get to work.
"My entire family depends on me," she said with a laugh as her alcoholic
mother stood at the doorway ordering her back to the family's brothel.
A prostitute since she was 12, Chandra expects to net the equivalent of $50
for her day's work, because in her state of Maharashtra it's the annual
snake festival and a time for local men to celebrate another good monsoon.
In an average month, Chandra figures she can bring home $500 - an amount
many of her customers don't earn in one year.
"My family, my brothers, they sit around all day and do nothing," continued
Chandra, who has a five-year-old son from her initiation as a commercial
sex worker. "Everything they have is from me."
Far from the chaotic brothels of Bombay and Calcutta, where many children
are kept in forced custody, Chandra represents what many experts say are
the majority of India's 100,000 or more child prostitutes: girls put to
work by their families for no other reason than the enormous, if brief,
profits they can earn.
They can be found at truck stops, dingy small-town hotels and roadside tea
stalls. They often do double duty as kitchen help and sex workers.
And they have little choice - not when their parents, siblings and other
relatives depend so much on their earning power.
With her movie star looks, Chandra was virtually destined to become a sex
worker at the age of 12. It was her mother's occupation, too.
But as with many Indian children, she wasn't sold directly into
prostitution. Instead, Chandra's mother confirmed her as a "devadasi," a
Hindu temple servant who before reaching puberty is dedicated for life to
the goddess Yallamma.
Traditionally, the divine and elaborate marriage would transport a
low-caste girl such as Chandra into a devotional career of temple singing
and dancing. In modern times, the outlawed ritual, which is believed to
absorb as many as 10,000 girls a year, often means sexual enslavement to a
temple priest or prostitution.
The devadasi system is only one of countless traditions of child sexual
exploitation in rural India that seem sure to endure, driven by the
economics of poverty, tyranny of caste and compulsions of culture and
religion.
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Seems like that documentary was right about the male members of families acting as pimps. Still...at least the money's kept in the family.
