Thirty-two-year-old Chea Kimyenh is seen at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Kimyenh and another woman have been charged with ‘procurement of prostitution’. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of two women charged with procuring prostitutes, including a 16-year-old whose vagina was allegedly sewn repeatedly by the suspects so she could be sold as a virgin.

Presiding judge Chaing Sinath said Tith Phon, 47, and Chea Kimyenh, 32, were charged by the court for “procurement of prostitution”, a crime falling under human trafficking and sexual exploitation laws.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – May 08, 2013)