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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Child - Sex - Slaves

"The boss is introduced to me by my local contact as "the chairman" - and half-jokingly "the underworld king". At this, the chairman smiles tightly - and it is hard to tell if he is flattered or angry...
He is disarmingly open about all this - explaining how he lies to the families, buys the girls, and then forces them into brothels....
He agrees to show me round his patch. A maze of dark crowded alleys, throbbing with karaoke music. Young girls hover inside the bars - some smiling, some not....
I met one girl who was 11. And another 14-year-old who believed she had been hired as a waitress, but ended up being raped by a Korean tourist who had paid for sex with a virgin."

Last week I was writing about our local brothel street, but as sad as that is, this story opens up a deeper and sadder reality. This is human trafficking, this is sexual slavery and we are talking about children! Read this article from BBC about sex slavery in the Philippines, but be ready, because it isn't for a moment vague about the world it is describing.
You may not have wanted to know, but I'm sorry I don't think not knowing is any ones' right. Please people - ask God, or examine your conscience, and decide what you can do, what you will do. And then determine to makes steps toward that goal TODAY! To read the article, click HERE.

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