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Cote d'Ivoire: Children selling sex, having babies

30-06-09 The baby was born and 12 days later died on a dilapidated upper floor of the Adjamé market in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital Abidjan. The mother, Aminata*, is barely 15. She does not know who the father is.

Aminata exchanges sex for money – so she can eat, she said. Aminata is among scores of young girls – some as young as 10, according to a local NGO – who sell their bodies at Adjamé market, known locally as ‘Biêlôgô’; in the Dioula language, lôgô means market and biê means the female sex organ.

Culled from IRIN News

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One of the young women who exchange sex for money in the Adjamé market in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital Abidjan. She gave birth in the market. © Nancy Palus/IRIN

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