Somaly Mam Become a millionaire celebrity by lying about men having sex with children

westly99 · 2014-05-30T05:56:56+00:00

Somaly Mam, one of the world’s best-known activists against sex trafficking, resigned Wednesday from the foundation she created after an investigation uncovered discrepancies in the shocking personal history she used to raise millions of dollars in funding around the world by making fake stories up about men and child sex trafficking.

Newsweek article: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/30/somaly-mam-holy-saint-and-sinner-sex-trafficking-251642.html

westly99 · 2014-05-30T06:01:44+00:00

Another of Mam’s biggest “stars” was Meas Ratha, who as a teenager gave a chilling performance on French television in 1998, describing how she had been sold to a brothel and held against her will as a sex slave.

Late last year, Ratha finally confessed that her story was fabricated and carefully rehearsed for the cameras under Mam’s instruction, and only after she was chosen from a group of girls who had been put through an audition. Now in her early 30s and living a modest life on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Ratha says she reluctantly allowed herself to be depicted as a child prostitute: “Somaly said that…if I want to help another woman I have to do [the interview] very well.”

She, like Pross, was never a victim of sex trafficking; she and a sister were sent to AFESIP in 1997 because their parents were unable to care for all seven of their children.

Nomenimion · 2014-05-30T06:11:05+00:00

You could clog the Nile with this turd.

westly99 · 2014-05-30T06:00:24+00:00

In 2009, Nicholas Kristof wrote in The New York Times about one of Somaly Mam's girls - a girl named Long Pross, who had finally summoned the strength to tell her stunning story of sexual slavery. He reported that a woman had kidnapped Pross and sold her to a brothel, where she was beaten, tortured with electric wires, forced to endure two crude abortions and had an eye gouged out with a piece of metal by an angry pimp. Pross, Kristof said, was rescued by Mam and became part of her valiant group of former trafficking victims fighting for a world free of sexual slavery.

Pross also told her disturbing story on Oprah and appeared in the PBS documentary Half the Sky. “Believe it or not, when I returned home, my mother and father didn’t want me around. I wasn’t considered a good person,” she says in the documentary.

Equally hard to believe is the fact that Pross’s family, neighbors and medical records all tell a different story. Dr. Pok Thorn says he performed surgery on Pross when she was 13, after her parents brought her to a hospital with a nonmalignant tumor covering her right eye. Photographs in her medical records clearly show the young girl’s eye before and after the surgery.

JayBopara · 2014-05-30T11:50:50+00:00

Thanks to bebopper76, this shows how systematic these falsehoods are, people and celebs making up stories to continue with their androheterophobic agenda.

westly99 · 2014-05-31T18:44:17+00:00

Somaly Mam is a MENS RIGHTS ISSUE because she puts innocent men in prison by framing them with fake sex trafficking stories. This is a MRA to the extreme!!!!!!!!!!

Captaincastle · 2014-05-30T06:10:27+00:00

As long as she's helping to fight the very real and insanely tragic sex slave trade, I don't really care that she lied to do it, and I don't really think this has any place in Men's Rights.

Title	Somaly Mam Become a millionaire celebrity by lying about men having sex with children
Author	westly99
Upvotes	6
Comments	10
Date	May 30, 2014 5:54 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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