Surkhet, March 16 -- Indra Bahadur BK had a simple explanation for why he left Nepal six years ago to work as a security guard in Dubai. His pension from the Nepali Army was enough to get by, he said-but just barely. His daughter Inisa had bigger plans: she wanted to be a doctor, or maybe an engineer, or perhaps an army officer. She changed her mind often, the way ambitious teenagers do. What didn't change was her father's conviction that she would need money to get there-and that he would have to go far away to earn it.

"I went abroad for her future," he said. "But her dreams were stolen midway."

Inisa BK, 16, was found unconscious in Janajagaran Community Forest in Birendranagar, Surkhet, on the morning of Saturday, March 7. She was r...