I am so sorry, I ate my daughter
“I am so sorry, I ate my daughter.” said Sangeeta Sani, a poor Tamang woman in a remote village in north-east of Katmandu. Confronted with extreme poverty, she encouraged Meena, one of her two daughters, to go to Katmandu to find work. Search for work took Meena from Katmandu to a brothel in Bombay where she contracted HIV. When Meena could no longer work, she returned home and died of AIDS two years later.
A minor girl child, daughter of a prostitute, amongst the clients in the back ground and a passer by prostitute in the foreground. Growing up in a brothel environment doesn’t leave children here with much options and usually turns them into young prostitutes.