Dhaka, June 23 -- Bound by a Bargain

A fatal 'price tag': The parents claim the 9-year-old was killed after they tried to bring her home and repay a disputed Tk 10,000 fee

Employers imprisoned: A Dhaka court has rejected bail and jailed a senior engineer and his wife over the domestic worker's suspicious death

Unanswered questions: The employers claim the child fell accidentally, but her family found her body covered in severe, brutal injuries

Before dawn on Friday, the lifeless body of 9-year-old Rikta Moni lay beneath an 11-storey building on Road 9/A in Dhaka's Dhanmondi.

The child, employed as a domestic worker barely a month earlier, had travelled from a poor village in Sunamganj with the promise of a better life. By sunrise, sh...