After years of torture and forced labour, 11-year old Champey is free because of the bravery of a teenage girl.  Voleak and Champey lived and worked together for a wealthy Cambodian couple in a Phnom Penh suburb. 

Every day was a nightmare. 

A speck of dust.  A misplaced bowl.  The slightest misstep was grounds for horrific torture and abuse.

Voleak was the second to arrive at the couples' high-gated villa.  Right away she noticed something was wrong. The woman beat both girls, but treated Champey the worst.  She would tear her skin and hair out with pliers, leaving hundreds of horrible scars.

Voleak couldn't stomach what was happening to young Champey.  And after a month of being beaten herself and of seeing Champey suffer, Voleak escaped and got help.

She told the police who immediately set out to arrest the perpetrators and called Hagar to care for the girls.

Sue Hanna, Hagar's Children's Program Manager said Voleak demonstrated stunning bravery. 

 "She saw something that was wrong had the courage to do something about it," Hanna said.  "We all see things that we think that are wrong, but there aren't many of us who are brave enough to do something about it."