Liberian teenagers takes refuge in Palm Grove cemetery

 Princess Chea and her friend, Joshua Williams, 17, are part of what documentaries now refer to as the lost children of Liberia.

The teenagers have lost all their family members and have chosen to take refuge in the grave yards, Palm Grove Cemetery to be precise, to live as they believe no one would dare hurt them there.

Chea 16, who lost her family in the civil war, tells Daily Mirror of what she went through since she became an orphan at 10.

“I’ve been sleeping here in the graveyard for five years.

“There is no other option, my parents both died after the civil war. There was nobody to protect or look after me.

"It is safe in here, in the tombs, where nobody dare come to hurt us.”

Chea who has survived by selling her body to older men on the streets of downtown Monrovia, who would pay her the measly sum £1.40 for sex, she said;

“I’ve been working as a prostitute for six years now. I am not happy at all, but I have nobody to turn to.

“Every day I sleep with up to 10 older men. I have been lucky never to have got pregnant – and I am not afraid of Aids because hopefully God will protect me.

“I smoke cocaine to take away the pain while praying every single day that I can one day leave my grave and perhaps even go to school.”

Chea is one of many underage girls in Monrovia who “cut jopu”, or hustle in this shocking manner just to survive.