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Sex for transport : Paedophile boatmen demand sex from young girls to ferry them across crocodile infested river as they flee Zimbabwe

Girl, 11, revealed how a boatman told her she could 'pay with her body'

Some 350 to 400 children cross daily, escaping abuse, poverty or drought

An estimated 42,000 children are suffering severe malnutrition in Zimbabwe

But those who make it to SA face growing prejudice, dubbed 'cockroaches'

Callous boatmen are demanding sex from desperate and penniless children fleeing crippling drought and poverty in Zimbabwe to ferry them across a crocodile-infested river border to the safety of South Africa.

Aid workers say that school girls as young as 11 - many of who have walked for days to reach the banks of the vast Limpopo river - are facing the stark choice of agreeing to what they term the ‘transport for sex’ ultimatum or trying to swim across the dangerous waters.

Some terrified girls have been held at knifepoint as men demand sex while others have been kept prisoner or faced sexual demands even after successfully making it to South Africa.

Read more: Paedophile boatmen demand sex from girls to ferry them across crocodile river | Daily Mail Online