SOURCE statedepartment.gov
STATE DEPT OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT SEX TRAFFICKING IN HAITI
HAITI: Tier 2 Watch List
TRAFFICKING PROFILE
As reported over the past five years, Haiti is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking.
Most of Haiti’s trafficking cases involve children in domestic servitude (restavek) who often are physically abused, receive no payment for services rendered, and have significantly lower school enrollment rates.
A December 2015 joint government and international organization report on restavek found one in four children do not live with their biological parents and estimated 286,000 children under age 15 work in domestic servitude.
The report recommended the government put measures in place to prevent exploitation, including domestic servitude; protect at-risk children and victims of neglect, abuse, violence, or exploitation, including sex trafficking and forced labor; and draft and enact a child protection law.
A May 2015 UN report documented members of its peacekeeping mission in Haiti sexually exploited more than 225 Haitian women in exchange for food, medication, and household items between 2008 and 2014. A significant number of children flee employers’ homes or abusive families and become street children.
Female foreign nationals, particularly citizens of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, are particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced labor in Haiti. Other vulnerable populations include children in private and NGO-sponsored residential care centers; Haitian children working in construction, agriculture, fisheries, domestic work, and street vending in Haiti and the Dominican Republic; internally displaced persons including those displaced by Hurricane Matthew and the 2010 earthquake; members of female-headed, single-parent families, and families with many children.
Haitians living near the border with the Dominican Republic; Haitian migrants, including those returning from the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, or The Bahamas; and LGBTI youth often left homeless and stigmatized by their families and society. Haitian adults and children are vulnerable to fraudulent labor recruitment and are subject to forced labor, primarily in the Dominican Republic, other Caribbean countries, South America, and the United States.
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NOTE: Trafficking, sexual exploitation of Haitian children in the Dominican Republic on the rise
After Epstein's First Arrest: Did Hillary Clinton Abuse Her Position to Aid a Child Kidnapper? SOURCE https://hubpages.com/politics/After-Epstein-Child-Trafficking-Arrest-What-Do-We-Know-About-Trump-the-Clintons-and-EpsteinGate
FR Posted on 7/9/2019, 3:47:46 PM by cringeworthy
In 2010, in response to a reporter's questions about a case in which 10 Americans were being held on child abduction charges in Haiti, a State Department spokesman said that the department would not get involved, CNN reported State Department rebuffs call for Clinton intervention in Haiti case":
Washington (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not get directly involved in the case of the 10 Americans detained in Haiti on child abduction charges, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday. "It would be highly unusual for the secretary of state to intervene in a case involving the judicial process of another country," spokesman P.J. Crowley said in an off-camera question-and-answer session."
In the case, an Idaho church worker, Laura Silsby, said she was in Haiti to rescue orphans found outside of collapsed orphanages, but it turned out most of the children had parents. Silsby claimed she planned to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, but a State Department diplomatic cable revealed that authorities in the country said she never submitted an application.
Silsby also contradicted herself by saying first that the children were going to a new orphanage, then saying they would be put up for adoption. Haiti has very strict laws and a long process for the removal of any child from the country without its parents.
Secretary Clinton intervened anyway, as reported in the Sunday Times, and sent Bill Clinton to negotiate the release of Silsby, whom Haitian prosecutors wanted to sentence to prison for the attempted kidnap of 33 children. Instead Silsby was convicted of a lesser charge and released for "time served." Hillary Clinton's interest in the case was further documented in a Wikileaks release of her emails.
Then-Secretary of State Clinton intervened and sent Bill Clinton to negotiate the release of Silsby, whom Haitian prosecutors wanted to imprison for the attempted kidnap of 33 children. Instead Silsby was convicted of a lesser charge and released for "time served." Hillary Clinton's interest in the case was further documented in a Wikileaks release of her emails.
Clinton, Haitian child and Canadian pal Giustra in Haiti.