so she can receive a commission. She used the money to flee, tricking the management that she will only be at the mall to entertain herself. Ara, however, has to stay working in a bar for more than a year. She had a chance to go home when the bar owner overheard about the raid among bars that allowed and recruited minors to work. Threatened, the bar owner immediately pulled out the minors including Ara. Others experienced that their customers helped them to go home by giving them money. One of them experienced being ferried home using the police car. Meanwhile, in December 2012, a co-worker of Ria who worked in the bar helped her escape and she was able to successfully go home from Mati City to Davao City. She was traumatized by the incident and frightened that the recruiter will find her. Added precarity: pregnancy, intimate partner violence, sexually transmitted infection, and drugs After a month of disengagement, Ria found herself in prostitution again since her father was not able to support her basic needs. On 2013, when she is still 13 years old, she decided to live with her boyfriend. During their cohabitation, she experienced beatings, she was forced to take drugs (shabu) and marijuana, and her partner sexually abused her. On 2015, Ria decided to separate with her boyfriend because of violence and abuse she experienced during their relationship. In the same however, she was impregnated. During the entire stage of pregnancy, she finds it hard to handle her situation since no one in the family is supporting her. In May 2016, she delivered her first-born. The child is in custody of her ex live-in partner’s family until today since she is still incapable to sustain the needs of her child. Few months after delivering her first born, she tried disengaging herself from prostitution; she worked in Uyanguren as sales lady and tried to work in a restaurant as waitress and washer. Meanwhile, Fanny’s childhood boyfriend was the one who taught her how to use drugs. He uses her money to buy drugs. She became a drug user and a runner (one who sells drugs). They got separated since he is incapable of taking care of their child, addicted to drugs and alcoholic, and has several affairs. 16

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