Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.Īn old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal.
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Several hours later, the authorities explained: Brown had tried to kill a fellow prisoner.īurlington police said Brown had picked up a pen and stabbed a fellow prisoner in the neck, narrowly missing vital arteries and veins, while in the basement holding room at about 9:55 a.m. Judge Samual Hoar said the decision to keep Brown away was made "under circumstances that the court is persuaded and counsel have agreed legitimately prevent his being here, or make it unnecessary or unwise for him to be here." Brown, 21, who is accused of attempted first-degree murder arising from Sunday morning's incident, was in a holding room in the basement of Vermont Superior Court while his arraignment was being conducted a few floors above. Public Defender Stacie Johnson stood next to an empty chair in a Burlington courtroom Monday as she entered a not guilty plea for her client, who was accused of trying to stab his sister the day before. |