With the help of children’s councillor Rita Marques, who is based in the town of Medina, Roper began to meet the girls whose lives were blighted before they had even reached adulthood. “I couldn’t understand how this tragedy had been kept hidden, unreported, for so long.” With the help of children’s councillor Rita Marques, who is based in the town of Medina, Roper began to meet the girls whose lives were blighted before they had even reached adulthood 'I later discovered a hushed-up Brazilian government report into the motorway, which had identified 262 places along the motorway where children were known to be sold for sex – that’s one, on average, every ten miles. 'Every story I heard was more distressing than the last and the girls were all so vulnerable, completely alone and unprotected. 'I’d stumbled upon what appeared to be an epidemic of child prostitution, involving thousands of young, innocent girls. 'I was expecting to find something alarming, something that would make a shocking investigative story, but never this,' Roper said.
The cheapest fee for a transaction is £8. Many are prostituted by their own families. Leliah was just one of thousands of girls – some as young as nine - sold for sex every ten miles along the BR-116. Left: Mara, 16, left, performed an abortion on herself after being raped by her landlord and right, Josilene, 15, who would end up miles away from home on the motorway after selling her body
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