The Observer newspaper quoted the children as saying they had been sold to the sweatshop by their families... Some...were not being paid.
Sarcasm escapes you.
And anti-population control dogmatists don’t seem to realize that this is the inevitable result of people having more babies than they can feed, educate, and find a decent place for in society. Parents who can’t feed their excess children sell them to the highest bidder. And when excess children are extremely plentiful, the bidding doesn’t go very high. Many little girls have been sold by their parents to Thai brothels for $50. They’d probably feel lucky to have been sold to a Gap subcontractor, where at least they’d stand a chance of not getting AIDS.