Poor woman sells daughter for Rs 0.1 million

KARACHI - Poverty forced a woman to sell her juvenile daughter into prostitution, The Nation has learnt on Friday.

Twelve-year-old (K), currently residing at the Ansar Burni Trust, confessed that she worked as a prostitute in Jhelum after her real mother sold her to a man for Rs 100,000. She said that her mother, Allah Rakhi, married one Shaukat in Lahore, after getting divorce from her first husband, the father of the ill-fated K.

“About one year back, my mother sold me to a woman, Parveen, who ran a brothel in Jhelum. When I resisted this inhuman act, my mother tortured me severely and later handed me over to Parveen”, the girl told.