The desperation in Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power is absolute. So much so that some parents are literally selling their daughters to get some money. This is the case that CNN’s American television has shown. The heartbreaking video shows a family selling their daughter for $ 2,000 to a 55-year-old man. She is only 9 years old and completely terrified.
The video is completely harrowing and shows the complete sequence of the terrible moment. From the time little Parwana Malik prepares and paints to prepare for her new ‘owner’, until her father, Abdul Malik , negotiates with the pedophile who will stay with his daughter. Desperately, he pleads with her to treat her well and never hit her. The buyer says he will not.
The situation of total famine in Afghanistan would be behind this terrible event. The father of the family explains to CNN that he has “no job, no money, no food” and that he has to “sell” his daughter because he has “no other option.” The girl also justifies in this way having to separate from her parents: «My father has sold me because we don’t have bread, rice or flour. My father sold me to an old man.
After Abdul Malik agrees to receive $ 2,000 for his daughter, the most heartbreaking moment arrives. The video shows how the little girl is next to the pedophile who will be her new owner. It is the moment of the presentation. She is covered with a nihab that only shows her face, but does not want to show it and covers her face with her own clothes.
Can’t hold back crying. Meanwhile, the pedophile does not show any kind of compassion and grabs her tightly to drag her out of the house and take her away kidnapped. The little girl tries, in vain, to return to her family but her new owner practically dragged her out.
9 year old girl sold to pedophile for $2,000 in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/Gxql8tqH9Y
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) November 6, 2021
Human rights activists claim that there has been an increase in child marriage since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. The humanitarian crisis has worsened since the radical Islamist takeover. More than 20 million people face food insecurity and 3.2 million children suffer from acute malnutrition.
