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Posted on 12/29/2008 8:45:12 AM PST by nmh
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The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension of an illegal but common practice in Africa. Families in remote villages send their daughters to work in cities for extra money and the opportunity to escape a dead-end life. Some girls work for free on the understanding that they will at least be better fed in the home of their employer.
The custom has led to the spread of trafficking, as well-to-do Africans accustomed to employing children immigrate to the U.S. Around one-third of the estimated 10,000 forced laborers in the United States are servants trapped behind the curtains of suburban homes, according to a study by the National Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley and Free the Slaves, a nonprofit group. No one can say how many are children, especially since their work can so easily be masked as chores.
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Tens of thousands of children in Africa, some as young as 3, are recruited every year to work as domestic servants. They are on call 24 hours a day and are often beaten if they make a mistake. Children are in demand because they earn less than adults and are less likely to complain. In just one city ”Casablanca” a 2001 survey by the Moroccan government found more than 15,000 girls under 15 working as maids.
The U.S. State Department found that over the past year, children have been trafficked to work as servants in at least 33 of Africa's 53 countries. Children from at least 10 African countries were sent as maids to the U.S. and Europe. But the problem is so well hidden that authorities ” including the U.N., Interpol and the State Department” have no idea how many child maids now work in the West.
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Never accept that all "cultures are equal". They are not.
Does Obama know this?
What I find ironic is that Africans were taken as slaves and now as they become affluent, they use their own as slaves.
Your link has more information
Child maids now being exported to US
International Herald Tribune ^ | December 28, 2008 | Rukmini Callimachi
This is incredibly sad. It makes me ill. Kids need their parents. Kids aren't commodities. I can also imagine that more than “housework” is often required.
EDITOR’S NOTE — In Africa, children of the poor are commodities, often traded like cows or donkeys by adults who value their labor. This story on child maids is the third in an occasional series on the exploitation of African children. Each story stands on its own.
Millstone/neck/cliff.
Let the Lord have mercy on thier soul ( adults who exploit bambinos).
If justice doesn’t happen now ...
it will happen in eternity:
Mark.9:42
[42] And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
“The custom has led to the spread of trafficking, as well-to-do Africans accustomed to employing children immigrate to the U.S.”
So stop immigration from Africa.
In this case, it was her parents who sold her.
She may well have been better off being a slave in the USA than staying with her Egyptian parents and in the conditions they lived in.
She is certainly better off now.
I’m not supporting the slavery, but you have to look at the root causes, unimaginable poverty in Africa (and other places). Unimaginable corruption and green in Africa (and other countries).
The United States certainly has its problems, but compared to most everywhere else, this is paradise. She is lucky to have landed here.
I can’t agree that slavery anywhere is good for kids.
Even if they are BLACK, slavery is unacceptable.
If you want to ADOPT an overseas child, you’re looking at $10K-plus. If you want to buy one as a slave, sex or work, it’s $100 - $500, depending on what part of the world.
What’s ironic? A very large number, if not the majority, of African slaves were sold into slavery by Africans. Slavery was practiced in Africa before there were slave traders and continues to this day
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