Reply #4: some more articles

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On the slave trade in general, I hope this is of interest. I believe we may be able to do something about it.


...Lured from impoverished villages throughout India, Nepal and Bangladesh, young girls are tapped by local recruiters who promise to give them coveted jobs working as domestics or in factories in the big cities. Or they are sold by relatives or neighbors. “If a father has five daughters, he sells two to feed the other three,” says Durga Ghimere, head of ABC Nepal, an agency aiding former sex slaves. Others are duped by brothel procurers who marry them and as many as one hundred other victims. Illiterate and raised to be compliant, these girls have no idea of their fates until they are abandoned in the brothels, but by then it’s too late.

Young girls are auctioned off to the brothels regularly: A pre-teen with light skin goes for as much as $1000; darker-skinned girls sell for $200 to $300. But such sums are recouped by the brothel in a girl’s first few weeks of work. A customer typically pays $45 for a virgin; after her first time, she’ll be turning tricks for one dollar each, with the price dropping to 25 cents in the early hours of the morning, when the customers thin out.

“I was auctioned to the highest bidder when I was 12,” says Yellu. “He became my master, and I had to have sex with him. At 14, he sold me to this brothel. I’ve been here ever since.” It’s where she will stay until she succumbs to tuberculosis, malaria or AIDS. “Seven girls have died from AIDS in this room in the last two years,” she says...

http://www.freeachild.org/article3.html

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She was like, 'I don't really think that happens. People wouldn't sell their children. People wouldn't let their children be taken from them.' And I didn't know what to say," Bonner recalls. "You don't want to believe that one human can treat another, especially a child, in that way."

Outright denial is a reaction Kolleen sees with unfortunate regularity.

"Child trafficking offends our very notion of human decency," she says. "I certainly don't want to believe in a world where people actually do this to children. Yet, it is true. I believe the more we wake up to this reality and allow our hearts to break, the closer we will be to stopping this horrible crime."

http://www.boulderweekly.com/archive/020305/newsspin.html
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Here's a link to a video on the subject

http://www.freeachild.org/Race/9News/Index/CLICKME.html