Somaly Mam won the hearts of the international community with her story of being a sex trade survivor and a freedom fighter for trafficked victims across Southeast Asia. But then a Newsweek cover story exposed her story as false and that her actions were not saving girls, but rather recruiting them into a false reality to attract foreign donations. In this episode, we explore the lies behind Cambodia’s orphan industrial complex and how the desire from Westerners to do good in post-genocide Cambodia fuels a system of perpetual harm.

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