Youth in lawless Haiti at risk for sex trade, slavery, murder (Click the link to read the whole article)
According to Nicolette Gramms, who worked with an human rights agency, the International Justice Mission, in today's world, the twin causes of human slavery -- poverty and vulnerability -- increase exponentially after natural disasters... Even without the pandemonium unleashed by a 7.0 earthquake, an estimated quarter-million Haitian children are trafficked (into slave labor or the sex trade) within the country each year.
The earthquake and devestation in Haiti is HORRIBLE! I can't wrap my mind around the loss and the grief and the pain and the destruction; but this takes the cake. I'm not surprised, it's the perfect moment of vulnerability for abuses like this to occur. However, that does not lessen my disgust nor my abhorrence at the corruptness of humanity.
As Mark Driscoll said, "People are desperate. Young girls are ripe for the worst you can imagine." (Check out Mark's blog for his first hand thoughts/observations from the ground. Click here.)
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