Brought to Malaysia when she was 14, she worked for two years without pay and then was kept in a detention centre in Penang.
PETALING JAYA: A Cambodian teenager has been released from an immigration detention centre in Juru, Penang, and reunited with her family, according to the civil society group Tenaganita.
“She is home, but there still isn’t justice for her. We applaud those who worked for her release, but we also reiterate that she should never have been handcuffed and detained in the first place,” she said in a statement. Aegile questioned why the deputy public prosecutor had not taken up the exploitation of a child who “was kept from her family, threatened, and forced to work for two years without pay” and why the magistrate did not exercise their power to ensure that the ‘best interest of the child’ was taken into account.
“There must be a substantive conception of justice: are we doing right by the child? Are there resources and systems that support healing from the violence of exploitation?”
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