ABSTRACT
When Maya was just 14, she was sold. Maya was duped into leaving her rural Nepali village with a young man who promised her a good job in Delhi. He took the unsuspecting Maya over the border to India, her destination a brothel in Mumbai. There, she was badly beaten and repeatedly raped for months. After she submitted to the brothel life, she had to take 11 to 35 clients a day. If she took more than a few minutes with each client, she was beaten with iron rods. She survived this life for 11 years. Then she was sent home, too ill to work any longer. Maya was suffering from tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. After finding out that she had tested positive for HIV, her family did not allow her to live with them. They refused even to drink water she had drawn from the spring.
