With no knowledge that my hidden camera is rolling, he is more than happy to find me a year-old temporary bride — for a fee, of course. My secret camera is cupped in my hand, pointed directly at his face. I lean back in my chair feigning nonchalance. I was familiar with the concept of temporary marriages, and unfortunately child marriage is not uncommon in certain countries in the Middle East , including Iraq. But what really shocks me is discovering there are men who combine the two, preying on girls and young women displaced by the fighting in Mosul or who have fled their own abusive families, only to then cast them off in the street afterwards. That, and that the powerful forces orchestrating this underage sex trade hold such influential positions in society.
Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
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I went undercover to expose Iraq’s secret sex trade, and what I discovered shocked me to my core
Prostitution in Iraq is illegal. Punishment can be severe, including life imprisonment. Many women fleeing the war in Iraq have been forced into prostitution. Some sources claim up to 50 thousand Iraqi refugee women in Syria , many of them widows or orphans, have been forced into prostitution. The Iraqi Kurdistan region has reportedly received "women and children trafficked from the rest of Iraq for prostitution ".
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