This is the story of Radhika Pariyar and her son Rohan, five. They told KM Group reporter Chris Denham their story.

Miss Pariyar was trafficked to India twice, after her rural family threw her out aged 13, as they could not afford to keep her.

From a small village in Sindhupanchow district, she was one of 10 members of the family, including her grandparents and siblings.

But there is only one family that has actually taken care of her: “Aunty is my mother now. I have love and affection more than I got from my actual mother.”

After leaving her family, Miss Pariyar made her way to Kathmandu, where she fell in with a man who drugged her and took her to India. She was then drugged again and eventually woke up in a hospital in Madras.

She said: “I tried to get up to go to the toilet but I couldn’t. There was something in my stomach. I had a scar there and when I asked why he said: 'I don’t know’. Only the person who had taken me to Madras eventually told me they had taken my kidney.”

She was taken back to Nepal, and given 125,000 Nepali rupees. She fell in with the same people and was forced into a marriage with a man, who was attracted by her new-found wealth. But for Miss Pariyar, stability was to be short-lived as health problems meant she couldn’t work.

Soon after she had a baby, the money ran out and so did her husband.
She was then trafficked again, back to India, this time to work in brothels across the country.

She said: “My child was taken away and my physical condition was not good. I had 20-25 clients a day. There was no money for me. There was no explanation of HIV although the men were forced to wear condoms. I spent six months in Assam without my child, then Calcutta for one year. The person who took care of my son burned his tongue with cigarettes as he was crying.”

Miss Pariyar evetually escaped from a brothel in Pune with several other women and her son and made it back to her sister in Nepal. It was then that she heard of Maiti Nepal and made her way back to Kathmandu, Aunty, and safety