AFGHANISTAN: Benazir, Afghanistan, "I was sold four times"

My guess is this is only one of hundreds if not thousands of such stories that could be told. Of course I realize things like this happen. In Thailand and elsewhere parents are known to sell children, especially if they have too many girls. But I still find it very difficult to get my head around such behavior.

I had lived for more than nine years with my first husband and had four children from him when he decided to sell me to Qabayels [tribal groups living on the Pakistani side of the border]. He was a landlord who made money from his farms. I don't know how much I was sold for.

Via Alertnet (Reuters).