Article Summary: Selling Children Into Human Trafficking
Samantha Jones
Professor Martinez
English 101
7 December 2012
Selling Children into Human Trafficking Every American knows and learned that when the Civil War ended slavery ended. Internationally there were several agreements and treaties to end the practice of slavery beginning from 1926. However, slavery for many in other countries has still not come to an end. Sex and human trafficking is finally being realized by many. There is an estimation of about 27 million people currently in slavery. Even though people are getting more knowledge on trafficking, perhaps they don’t know enough about it still. There are many articles about how millions of women and children are abducted a year into human trafficking. Trafficking can be defined …show more content…
Parents selling their own children, that would never happen! Thats what most people might think. However, in third world countries it happens everyday in most villages. People usually think these parents are disgusting for doing such acts, because in the world we live in, this act is immoral and never heard of. However, these parents have a purpose for selling these kids in some situations. A reason why children are sold is because of the condition of poverty, desperation, and displacement that the families are in. Most of the time the decision to give up their child is a heartbreaking decision, but when a slave trader comes along to help these people with their debt just by giving their child a job. On the other hand, some parents will sale their child for greed. The slave traders connivence the parent to sell their children for money and they keep making more for more money. Siddharth Kara claimed that a young women named Bridget that he met claimed she was pressured in sex slavery for years because her parents sent her, she says, “We are like slot machines for our families.” (Kara, Siddharth. (2009) Sex …show more content…
Others go voluntarily, because they are tricked thinking they will have a better life, but they are really walking into a nightmare. There are many situations where a child was tricked into going into a job that end up being slavery. Msondo was one of those many boys who fell right into the trap of slavery. They showed him money and told him and his friend, while fishing, that they pay them for doing jobs with a good amount of money. Some of the kids backed out when they said that they could not tell their parents about the job. However, Msondo was one of the few that left with the men. He learned from the other children that got lured into the job offer that he would be fishing for 9 hours and only get 25 cents for his family a day. In these waters were crocodiles, he had became a slave for 10 months. During the time he was there he watch some children die from malnutrition or being killed by a crocodile. (Kiener, R. (2012, October 16). Human trafficking and
Professor Martinez
English 101
7 December 2012
Selling Children into Human Trafficking Every American knows and learned that when the Civil War ended slavery ended. Internationally there were several agreements and treaties to end the practice of slavery beginning from 1926. However, slavery for many in other countries has still not come to an end. Sex and human trafficking is finally being realized by many. There is an estimation of about 27 million people currently in slavery. Even though people are getting more knowledge on trafficking, perhaps they don’t know enough about it still. There are many articles about how millions of women and children are abducted a year into human trafficking. Trafficking can be defined …show more content…
Parents selling their own children, that would never happen! Thats what most people might think. However, in third world countries it happens everyday in most villages. People usually think these parents are disgusting for doing such acts, because in the world we live in, this act is immoral and never heard of. However, these parents have a purpose for selling these kids in some situations. A reason why children are sold is because of the condition of poverty, desperation, and displacement that the families are in. Most of the time the decision to give up their child is a heartbreaking decision, but when a slave trader comes along to help these people with their debt just by giving their child a job. On the other hand, some parents will sale their child for greed. The slave traders connivence the parent to sell their children for money and they keep making more for more money. Siddharth Kara claimed that a young women named Bridget that he met claimed she was pressured in sex slavery for years because her parents sent her, she says, “We are like slot machines for our families.” (Kara, Siddharth. (2009) Sex …show more content…
Others go voluntarily, because they are tricked thinking they will have a better life, but they are really walking into a nightmare. There are many situations where a child was tricked into going into a job that end up being slavery. Msondo was one of those many boys who fell right into the trap of slavery. They showed him money and told him and his friend, while fishing, that they pay them for doing jobs with a good amount of money. Some of the kids backed out when they said that they could not tell their parents about the job. However, Msondo was one of the few that left with the men. He learned from the other children that got lured into the job offer that he would be fishing for 9 hours and only get 25 cents for his family a day. In these waters were crocodiles, he had became a slave for 10 months. During the time he was there he watch some children die from malnutrition or being killed by a crocodile. (Kiener, R. (2012, October 16). Human trafficking and