Sold for Sex at Puberty is Village Girls Fate in Wealthier India

Women look out the window of a building above signage warning of the penalties for trafficking minor girls on Garstin Bastion Road in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. Districts such as Bharatpur, Rajastan, where half of the women are illiterate, are breeding grounds for the countrys $4 billion sex trafficking industry. Girls can end up working on Garstin Bastion Road, the red-light district in New Delhi. The area, just a few minutes walk from the citys main train station, is home to shops selling water pumps, paint, tiles and toilet seats, as well as 92 brothels and about 4,000 prostitutes, according to data cited in the UN report. India has 3 million sex workers, of whom 1.2 million are below the age of 18, according to a government estimate, and the South Asian nation traffics more woman for sex than any other country. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg via Getty Images