DROUGHT FORCES INDIAN FARMERS TO LOAN WIVES TO BROTHELS

The Daily Telegraph in the UK reports that farmers in India, who have been bankrupted by a serious drought, have resorted to selling their wives to brothels to help pay off their creditors.

Farmers in the northern states of the country have been hit hard by successive droughts and flash floods in recent years, leaving them deep in debt.

One wife told of how her husband had to sell her to a pimp for a month to raise 2,500 ruppees (£31) to pay back his debt, the Daily Telegraph reported.

“We had nothing to eat and my husband had huge debts. It was difficult to survive and I had to sell myself to live,” she said.