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A terrible video gone viral on Twitter shows a young teen girl crying and struggling to not sign herself away to an older Muslim man. Notice her mother is forcing her angrily to sign, most likely to collect money from the older man after the transaction is complete.
In the eight months since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, more than 120,000 children are feared to have been bartered for some sort of financial incentive, according to an analysis made by several aid agencies.
"UNICEF is hearing more and more reports of destitute parents being forced to take desperate measures to keep their families alive," Joe English, a spokesman for the U.N. Children's Agency (UNICEF), told VOA.