KATHMANDU: Nine-year-old Manjita Chaudhary had never spent a night away from her parents when her father sold her to a Nepalese policeman for $25.
She left her family in western Nepal and travelled some 200 kilometres (124 miles) to her employer's home near the Indian border.
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