India, Oct. 11 -- he was barely ten when she first learned the rules of her world - not in a classroom, but in the narrow lanes of the village where women's laughter was traded for survival. Her grandmother once stood there, her mother too. The little girl knew that when the time came, she would inherit not a home, not a surname, but a destiny. This is not a story from fiction. It is the chilling reality of intergenerational trafficking, where sexual exploitation is passed down as inheritance, and freedom remains a distant dream.

On this International Day of the Girl Child, while the world celebrates empowerment and equality, it is essential to confront the dark continuity that persists across generations in parts of our society. Interge...