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We met her at a charity that defends women who've been trafficked.
Her parents request we keep her identity anonymous.
They say their daughter's been socially stigmatised and she dropped out of school after her classmates found out that she sold her eggs.
She's now 15, and she says about two years ago, a neighbour told her she'd get $180 for her eggs.
But she says she really wanted a smartphone.
The teenager's lawyer, Krishna Gopal, believes this is happening to other minors, but there's no incentive for families to come forward.
The teenager's neighbour was arrested, but he says the police have not followed up with the clinic that extracted her eggs.
The clinic in question is part of the Nova IVF fertility franchise.
In a statement, Nova IVF Fertility said that the teenager was screened by a separate company that signed off on having her eggs harvested.
Industry professionals who are critical of the new laws say there's just not enough oversight of this massive industry.
According to the Indian Health Ministry, there's nearly 8,600 fertility clinics and egg banks operating in India.
Just over 3,200 are actually registered.
H says in her experience, the industry does what the industry wants.
She says clinics and egg banks don't look very hard at her IDs.
She has two, and they're fake, to maximise her egg sales.