On a hot summer afternoon, the eunuch held the little girl, now her adopted daughter Saleha. She recalled the injuries on her 13-month-old body. "It was a sexual assault," Zeenath Pasha said. "Bringing up children in brothels is difficult. What do I do?" In her room at Ramabai chawl, a brothel in Kamathipura, Zeenath broke down recollecting the injuries on her daughter's body. On the first floor, a few migrants make a living from pressing clothes. A couple of shops occupy the ground floor. Kamathipura, in India's commercial capital Mumbai, is one of the oldest and largest red light districts in India. The windows on the second floor face the street where a group of sex workers are sitting on...
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