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Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade

Part Two

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News ChannelLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

A BBC News Arabic investigation filmed undercover in Baghdad and Karbala, some of Iraq's holiest shrines, exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation of children and young women by a religious elite. In this second episode, the investigation reveals that some clerics don’t just make money from illegal 'pleasure marriages'; they actively recruit girls and even pimp them out. A 16-year-old alleges she has been pimped out by a cleric to dozens of men, while secret filming catches a cleric in the act of pimping a young woman. A young widow also tells how a cleric from an important shrine sold her to his friends in a prostitution ring. Show less

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