Time Magazine reports on how mothers in Iraq and selling their daughters out to human traffickers.  The report mentions that girls as young as 11 and 12 are being sold to traffickers at prices up to $30,000.  Others are sold for $2,000.

The girls are then trafficked primary to other areas in the Middle East, such as Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.  They are able to enter the destination country through the use of counterfeit passports or other forged documents.

Source: Rania Abouzeid, “Iraq’s Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters,” Time, March 7, 2009.