101 East investigates Indian villages where it is custom for parents to sell their young daughters for sex.
Girls as young as 10 are being forced to work as prostitutes - and it is their own families selling them to passing truckers.
The girls are from the Bachara tribe, an unprivileged-caste community known as Dalits.
Most of the Bachara men say discrimination stops them from getting jobs, so generations of girls have supported their families through prostitution.
Meneka's mother forced her into prostitution at the age of 15. She now has a two-year-old daughter of her own and says she feels trapped.
"I feel like I am born in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing. But what can I do? I can't say much because this is our tradition."
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