Dateline goes undercover with a human rights group to expose sex trafficking in Cambodia
At best the girls’ families get a few hundred dollars, a debt the girls then owe to the brothel owners. It can take years to work it off. It’s a form of slavery. And when girls refuse to go along, they are beaten.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038249/
- “Inside the world of child sex trafficking, each year, by some estimates, hundreds of thousands of girls and boys are bought, sold or kidnapped and then forced to have sex with grown men. Dateline’s investigation leads to the troubled and distant land of Cambodia. We reveal what “tourists,” like one American doctor, may be up to, and we’ll take you inside a dramatic operation to rescue the children.”
- “They are children born into poverty and sold for sex. And while the thousands of men who flock here each year — many of them Americans — may think that they’re involved in nothing more than prostitution, by any definition it is rape.”
Chris Hansen: “Why has child sex trafficking become such an important issue for you and the Bush administration?”
Colin Powell: “Because it’s the worst kind of human exploitation imaginable. Can you imagine young children, learning their ABCs or whatever the equivalent is in their language, being used as sexual slaves for predators? It is a sin against humanity, and it is a horrendous crime.”
My response:
Colin Powell could not be more correct in his assumptions. Child sex slavery is the worst kind of human exploitation possible in our society. These children are innocent and barely even know what is happening to them or why this kind of danger has been brought upon them. “Twelve-year-olds for sale. As shocking as that sounds, we’re about to find out in some places that’s considered old. Children who should be in elementary school are being exploited by adults.” How are we letting something this immoral, unethical, and down right absurd go on in other countries.
How is America’s first priority not stopping the exploitation of the youth. Children are innocent and do not deserve this kind of crude treatment. This dehumanizes little girls and boys and will have them scarred for the rest of their lives. In my opinion, this is worse than killing a child because this completely takes away their sense of being and self-worth.
