Chiang Mai, Thailand, Thailand
Eighteen year old's mother sold her into marriage to earn profit. After being with her first husband for two months, where she worked as a housekeeper, nanny, and cook, her husband found another wife and her mother took her back. Her mother then sold her again to a different man, collecting her earnings for a second time.
Location
Thailand · Chiang Mai, Thailand · 2009 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
police were not informed
The Mirror Foundation was told by a friend of the girl that her mother was selling her. Mirror first questioned the victim who did not deny her bondage. Mirror then questioned the mother and she denied her daughter;s bondage. The girl is no longer married to her second husband, but is still living with her mother.
Interview with Moo, director of the Mirror Foundation
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