That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation. “As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this. The mother added: “There were huge sums, hundreds, or thousands of pounds at a time … The money had been in exchange for sexually explicit photographs of my child.”Ī BBC spokesperson said: “We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them. She said the presenter did little to conceal his identity and requested “performances.” Bank records show the teenager was paid a lump sum of £5,000 on one occasion. “I blame this BBC man for destroying my child’s life,” she was quoted as saying. The mother claimed that her child had used the money to fund their crack cocaine habit.
The corporation launched an investigation headed by a cybercrime expert, but the presenter remained on air. In this exclusive investigation, 101 East exposes the Indian villages where parents sell their daughters for sex.She told the newspaper that she lodged a complaint with the BBC on May 19. Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of reported child rape cases of any state in the nation. “This practice is like the serial rape of the children … They are raped about 10 to 12 times in a day.” “The people who are exploiting the child – they are not customers, they are rapists,” says Asheif Shaikh, the founder of a local NGO that frees local girls from what he describes as sexual slavery. While India introduced tougher child rape laws in 2018, advocates say the laws are not properly enforced. But what can I do? I can’t say much because this is our tradition.”įilming undercover, 101 East discovers that girls as young as 10 are being offered to men.
“I feel like I am born in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing. She now has a two-year-old daughter of her own and says she feels trapped. Meneka’s mother forced her into prostitution at the age of 15. Most of the Bachara men say discrimination stops them from getting jobs, so generations of girls have supported their families through prostitution. The girls are from the Bachara tribe, an unprivileged-caste community known as Dalits. Girls as young as 10 are being forced to work as prostitutes – and it is their own families selling them to passing truckers.
A notorious highway in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is the site of a shocking trade.
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