![]() ![]() ![]() He arranged to see Neth, who had been in the brothel for a month, having been sold to its owner by her own cousin. ![]() But that, as is made clear in his new book, written with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, is just the start of it.Īt the time of his purchase, Kristof had been travelling to a wild and dangerous part of north-western Cambodia, and had checked into an $8-a-night hotel-cum-brothel in the town of Poipet. Nick Kristof: double Pulitzer prize winner, bestselling author, slave owner. Yet there he was, in 2004, blithely forking out $150 (£96) for Srey Neth and $203 for another teenager, Srey Momm handing over the money to a brothel keeper in exchange for a receipt and complete dispensation to do with the two girls as he would. As a columnist on that most august of newspapers, the New York Times, he belongs to an elite within an elite, the embodiment of journalistic seriousness. N icholas Kristof is not the kind of person you would expect to be a slave owner. ![]()
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