She lives in a slum in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana. Melphia has sex with up to five men per night: workers, businessmen, police officers — and increasingly, tourists. “Without the foreigners, child prostitution wouldn’t be nearly as lucrative,” says Martin Opoku Sekyere, who works as a volunteer to combat child prostitution in Kumasi. Like the other girls in the slum, she has a short afro that emphasizes her pretty, childish face. She has started getting her period in the past year, but her body still looks like that of a child.

Source: GhanaWeb April 18, 2019 06:22 UTC