Highway to Hell: The road where childhoods are stolen

by Matt Roper

Overview

When British journalist Matt Roper and Canadian country singer Dean Brody turn onto a remote Brazilian highway, they have no idea that their lives are about to change forever. A chance encounter with a young girl, selling her body beside the road in the early morning, alerts them to an untold tragedy - thousands of girls, some as young as ten, trapped in prostitution. Travelling over 1,500 miles along the BR-116, they find entire communities living from child sexual exploitation, where parents sell their own daughters and those in authority turn a blind eye. Their shock leads to action - to bring hope, healing and justice to traumatised young lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857212542
Publisher:	Lion Hudson
Publication date:	09/20/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Matt Roper is the author of Street Girls and Remember Me, Rescue Me. He spent eight years with the Daily Mirror as a journalist. He and his Brazilian wife now live and work in Brazil. Matt speaks fluent Portuguese.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Prologue 9

Map of BR-116 motorway 11

1 The Girl in the Lilac Dress 13

2 Keep Going 21

3 The Journey Begins 33

4 Looking for Leilah 44

5 Living Dead 56

6 Precious Stones 73

7 Predators 79

8 Mariana 90

9 Starting Again 103

10 How Can She Smile? 121

11 Beginning and End 132

12 The Cow's Head 140

13 Enslaved 149

14 Tell the World 162

15 Chilli Peppers 175

16 Apathy 190

17 Untold 207

Postscript: The End - and Beginning - of the Road 214

Appendix 221

Editorial Reviews

This is the story of the world's exploitation motorway, the girls, the truckers who use them - and the brave few seeking to change things

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