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Greenlit: Stacey Dooley Investigates – Child Sex Trafficking in Cambodia, BBC3
Stacey Dooley Investigates: Child Sex Trafficking In Cambodia (1×60′) - Stacey Dooley, one of the stars of the hit BBC Three series, Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts and her follow-up series Stacey Dooley Investigates, returns with two new moving and insightful documentaries exploring the issue of child exploitation.
Stacey Dooley travels to Cambodia, where an estimated third of the country’s 80,000 sex workers are under 18, to investigate under-age sex trafficking.
Her journey begins in the capital’s red light district, where thousands of young girls are thought to be working. Here she sees how these youngsters are paraded in front of local Cambodian men in the capital’s bars. Stacey also meets a young girl who tells how she was trafficked when she was just 12 years old. Now 18, she agrees to take Stacey on a trip back to the street brothels and gangland areas where sex is the only commodity that’s recognised.
Stacey sees for herself how poverty is driving adults to sell their own children into this horrific underworld, from which it is hard to recover. But she also sees how, with the help of charity workers, it is possible for these girls to lift themselves out of the mire and start a new life.
Channel: BBC3
Producer: Ricochet Productions
TX: Autumn 2010
Source: BBC
Tags: BBC3 Discussion
2 comments for “Greenlit: Stacey Dooley Investigates – Child Sex Trafficking in Cambodia, BBC3”
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OK, I’ll try and be kind here, because I do like Stacey but this programme is an A Typical BS production of the young teen generation TV progs that the BBC is spawning.
I feel for the girls in Cambodia, I want it to stop, but for the love of GOD! They sent out Stacey to cover an issue that is deeply F’d up with regards to corruption on a SE Asian scale, so why send a young female who is quite clearly out of her depth?
The only conclusion I can come to is to draw empathy from the audience to indirectly grow the “fan” base which, if I’m right, is not only morally corrupt but also ethically F’d!
Try to help, yes. I’m all for it. I want to help. I’m actually working towards helping out people in need in SE Asia, but sending a girl into an area who quite clearly knows NOTHING about the world is irresponsible on the part of the BBC.
She tried, yes, but do you really think that she changed a single thing? I’m sorry to say, I doubt it very much…..
I think Stacy does an amazing job, a few times i wondered weather her safety was at risk, shes an amazing young girl who i can see having a big future in polotics.