Sitting cross-legged on the concrete floor, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears in a Malaysian bedroom that has been turned into her prison. She says that her 35-year-old Husband violations her almost every night in this place. The Rohingya girl devoted her life last year to protect her family, setting off on a perilous journey from her native Myanmar to a foreign land where she would marry a man she had never met.

That wasn't her decision. Nothing about this was. nor the choice to uproot her entire life, nor the forced marriage she wasn't ready for. However, she claims that her family was starving, destitute, and afraid of Myanmar's military after it launched a wave of widespread attacks on the nation's Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017. A neighbor, in a state of desperation, found a man in Malaysia who was willing to cover the girl's passage cost of 18,000 ringgit ($3,800) and, upon her marriage, provide sustenance for her parents and three younger siblings.

The youngster then gave her parents a heartfelt farewell hug, identifying herself and all the other females in this article by their first initials to spare them from reprisals. Then M climbed into a trafficker’s car packed with children. The horrors that awaited her were unknown to her at the time. At the time, all she knew was that it was up to her thin shoulders to keep her family alive.

Now, dressed in teddy bear pajamas, she sits in her bedroom in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. There is no furniture in the room, and the white walls are cracked and discolored. A knotted rope, intended to support a hammock for any children her husband makes her carry, hangs from the ceiling.

She continues in a tiny voice that is hardly audible above a mumble, "I want to go back home, but I can't.I feel trapped."

BOB Post