Police have arrested two people accused of illegally detaining an underage girl and forcing her to have sex at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district. Keo Thea, director of the municipal Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Bureau, said the couple was arrested on Tuesday. “We arrested two people who detained a minor and forced her to sleep with guests who want to have sex,” he said. He declined to give further details, saying he was in a meeting.
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