Written by: Michelle McNeil for my blog
Book: The Road to Lost Innocence
Summary: Born in Cambodia and orphaned at an early age, Somaly Mam, a Buddhist sex trade survivor, grew up never knowing her real name or birthday.
As a teenager, Somaly Mam was sold into prostitution and spent years in the brothels of Cambodia where she witnessed and experienced the full-blown horrors of the human sex trade – rape, torture, and nearly unfathomable abuse. After her eventual escape, she could not forget the young girls (some as young as 5) left behind in the brothels, and so she returned to serve them. Her new book, “The Road of Lost Innocence,” is her newest means of advocacy. It tells her personal story, ultimately inviting people of conscious, such as our Christian community, to become involved (or to continue involvement) in this war against an epic evil, a modern battle for “the least of these.” Truly, not only is this book worth reading, it’s worth sharing.
This book was both hard to read and hard to put down. The details of Somaly Mam’s story belong in a horror novel, but unfortunately not only is her story true, it is played out every day all over the world, in the lives of countless young women.
Somaly Mam is the cofounder of AFESIP (Acting for Women in Distressing Situations) in Europe and The Somaly Mam Foundation in the United States, whose goal is to save and socially reintegrate victims of sexual slavery in Southeast Asia. She was named Glamour’s Woman of theYear in 2006. She lives in Cambodia and France.
Read about her journey – buy the book from amazon.com
