Dedicated to an Indian goddess when she was a child, Huvakka Bhimappa's years of sexual servitude began when her uncle took her virginity, raping her in exchange for a saree and some jewellery. Bhimappa was not yet 10 years old when she became a "devadasi" -- girls coerced by their parents into an elaborate wedding ritual with a Hindu deity, many of whom are then forced into illegal prostitution. Four decades after the state ban, there are still more than 70,000 devadasis in Karnataka, India's human rights commission wrote last year. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES