Work Abroad. All Expenses Paid…
November 17, 2009 by Jo
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I spent my senior year of college researching and writing about human trafficking and on Sunday when I saw the footage of the man taking 5 year old Shaniya Davis into the hotel room was the first time I can say I’ve seen such a graphic depiction of what happens. It was something about seeing him carry Shaniya then seeing her face so clearly made me jump, scream a bit, shaking my head then turn off the tv because I knew she was dead.
Human trafficking includes selling a person into a life of bondage through a life of servitude, as sex work and selling off their body parts. From facts about Human Trafficking, “It is estimated that there are approximately 27 million slaves around the world. Around half of trafficking victims in the world are under the age of 18. Trafficked children are significantly more likely to develop mental health problems, abuse substances, engage in prostitution as adults, and either commit or be victimized by violent crimes later in life.”
A lot of parents who agree to send their children to work in other countries aren’t aware of the conditions their children are facing nor have the resources to find out. Most of the time, traffickers approach the needy family with an opportunity to create income by allowing the family member to work for someone else without telling them the country in which they will work. They then sell the dream by promising to give the person better resources then which they are privy mean more opportunities to better themselves. Unfortunately, it results in parents entering their loved one’s into the slave trade.
To think of a person’s conditions being so grim that they’d sell their child for sex is devastating. Currently, the slave trade/human trafficking industry is worth 32 billion dollars worldwide.
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Now that’s #$%#$ Up for real, this planet has some serious issues that people need to stay on top of on a day to day bases until change occurs..
This is so sad. It saddens me that people can commit some of the henice crimes that they do in the world today. People’s minds can go way to the left at any given moment. We are definately living in the last days.
Selling children for sex is one of the most vicious crimes that one can commit. However, we rarely hear of sentencing (when they are caught) that matches the crime. Last week you discussed a 12 or 14 year old boy who’ll spend the rest of his life in jail because he raped an old woman. I thought that he could/should be rehabilitated if given the opportunity.
However, when we’ve heard of Catholic Priests raping choir boys, Boy Scout Leaders having sex with scouts, Teachers sexing students, and other crimes that included adults _ucking with kids – it seems that our judicial system is too “forgiving.” Damn! Personal thought? There is a lot of deviant behavior that this country has accepted. Slavery, the crime of the century, allowing one human being to totally dehumanize a whole ethnic group for years – allowed perpetrators to go unpunished, which enabled descendents of slave owners to believe that deviant behavior was (and still is) OK.
Now it’s so out of control that few totally respect the law – even those paid to uphold it. I’ll stop now, but this is sickening, and with people growing more out of touch with reality – there’s no easy way of ending this kind of behavior.
Thanks for a great posting. I understand how coming to grips with the size of modern slavery can leave people feeling overwhelmed. But there’s an interesting paradox about the 27 million slaves in the world – yes, it is a huge number, the largest ever in human history, but it is also the smallest fraction of the human population to ever be in slavery. Likewise, the amount of money slaves pump into the world economy is big, around $50 billion a year, but it is also the smallest fraction of the global economy to ever be represented by slave labor.
The truth is that slavery has been pushed to the edge of its own extinction and working together we can tip it over the brink. I hope you’ll visit and share our website – http://www.freetheslaves.net, and maybe look at my book on how we can bring slavery to an end in 25 years, it is called: Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves.
All best wishes,
Kevin Bales