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Central American Women Face Horrors on Trek Northward |
03/28/05
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
Rosa left Honduras for the United States last year to look for work and escape beatings by her parents. Now she works in a dingy railroad brothel.
A 17-year-old, she is one of tens of thousands of young Central American women who every year confront abuse, mutilation and death traveling northward through Mexico to escape the poverty and violence of their homes.
Illegal immigrant women are so vulnerable to rape on the journey that Guatemalan officials say many take birth control pills tablets before setting out.
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