Earlier this year, in the northwest corner of Cambodia, at a brothel in Poi Pet, a New York Times columnist paid for two teenage prostitutes.
He took them to his hotel room, interviewed them, and decided to buy their freedom. Nicholas Kristof paid the Madams 353 dollars, and then set out to return the girls to their villages.
Kristof has been covering Asia, for a long time, and wrote a feature on the sex slave trade. “Nothing” from that time, he says “shook me more than interviews with 13-year-old girls who had been sold by their parents or kidnapped by neighbors.”
So this year Kristof went back to Cambodia to pick up this story, and wound up writing a very different kind of ending.
Guests:
Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of “China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, ” and Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times.