tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9185389581018439522024-03-13T00:08:25.762-04:00Slaves Today: 30 to 200 million; cost: $90 perGarbage girlUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-29591684261828693842012-03-28T13:17:00.000-04:002012-03-28T13:17:29.288-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Anti-Slavery Organizations </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><a href="http://www.ijm.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.ijm.org/</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://love146.org/">http://love146.org/</a></span></div><div><a href="http://www.afesip.org/"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.afesip.org/</span></a> </div><div><a href="http://www.hagarinternational.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.hagarinternational.org/</span></a></div><div><a href="http://ratanak.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://ratanak.ca/</span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.freetheslaves.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.freetheslaves.net/</span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.daughtersofcambodia.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.daughtersofcambodia.org/</span></a></div></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.polarisproject.org/" title="The Polaris Project"><span style="font-size: large;">The Polaris Project</span></a></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ex Porn Stars</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thepinkcross.org/page/testimonies">http://thepinkcross.org/page/testimonies</a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-28635532042501948202012-03-23T16:41:00.003-04:002012-03-27T11:52:49.238-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-indent: 0cm;">Original Dateline NBC Cambodia</b><br />
<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X21GjnOMqg" style="color: #6666cc; text-decoration: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X21GjnOMqg</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039095#4039095" style="color: #6666cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039095#4039095</span></a></div></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">"Not my life"</b><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"> dvd</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">Root Causes of Child Sex Trafficking</b></span><br />
<a href="http://www.inhope.org/gns/internet-concerns/overview-of-the-problem/child-pornography.aspx">http://www.inhope.org/gns/internet-concerns/overview-of-the-problem/child-pornography.aspx</a> </div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.timpaton.info/en/multimedia/video-gallery/" style="color: #6666cc; text-decoration: none;">http://www.timpaton.info/en/multimedia/video-gallery/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">NBC Dateline update</b></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFh8uQuFKg" style="color: #6666cc; text-decoration: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFh8uQuFKg</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">Michelle’s story</b></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/6908792" style="color: #6666cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://vimeo.com/6908792</span></a></div><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;">It's an exotic vacation destination, with ancient cities, bold colors, legendary temples, remarkable beauty — and horrendous crimes that go on behind closed doors. Children, some as young as 5 years old, are being sold as slaves for sex. It's a shameful secret that's now capturing the attention of the world and the White House, a secret that has been exposed by Dateline's hidden cameras. Dateline ventured into this dark place, where sexual predators can gain access to terrified children for a handful of cash. How could this be happening? And how can it be stopped?</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;">Inside the world of child sex trafficking, each year, by some estimates, hundreds of thousands of girls and boys are bought, sold or kidnapped and then forced to have sex with grown men. Dateline’s investigation leads to the troubled and distant land of Cambodia. We reveal what “tourists,” like one American doctor, may be up to, and we'll take you inside a dramatic operation to rescue the children.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;">The night clubs of Bangkok and the windows of Amsterdam are among the most well-known destinations in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry: sex tourism. But the business is not all about adult prostitution. There are some places you might never have heard about, notorious places, the kind of places a sexual predator would be willing to travel halfway around the world to reach — destinations like a dusty village in Southeast Asia, where the prey is plentiful and easy to stalk.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;">They are children born into poverty and sold for sex. And while the thousands of men who flock here each year — many of them Americans — may think that they're involved in nothing more than prostitution, by any definition it is rape.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;">The small Buddhist country of Cambodia has a rich cultural heritage, but it has become a magnet for people who prey on the young and innocent. To follow their trail, we'll have to infiltrate their perverted world and pretend we're predators ourselves. It’s the only way we'll be able to see first-hand how serious the problem really is — so serious that President Bush told the United Nations it has become a top priority for his administration.</span><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;">Secretary of State Colin Powell is leading the administration's efforts and has a special office dedicated to the problem.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Hansen: </strong><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;">“Why has child sex trafficking become such an important issue for you and the Bush administration?”</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colin Powell: </strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">“Because it's the worst kind of human exploitation imaginable. Can you imagine young children, learning their ABCs or whatever the equivalent is in their language, being used as sexual slaves for predators? It is a sin against humanity, and it is a horrendous crime.”</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the front lines</strong><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">To combat that crime, increasingly the administration has been turning to people like Gary Haugen, a former federal prosecutor who runs a human rights group called the International Justice Mission. Haugen's group uses tactics that are considered controversial by some in the human rights community. He sends his investigators undercover to gather evidence of sex slavery in other countries, then takes the evidence to local authorities to persuade them to take action. Their work helped rescue hundreds of women and children around the world.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This time the target is Cambodia, and a Dateline team is headed there undercover.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After an 11,000-mile journey, our producer and cameraman set up shop in a hotel in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, where they assemble our state-of-the-art equipment and rig themselves with hidden cameras.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cambodia still suffers from a traumatic past. In the 1970s and ’80s, an estimated 2 million Cambodians died because of war, famine and a brutal dictatorship. </span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now there are signs of recovery, thanks in part to the three-quarters-of-a-million foreign visitors who come to Cambodia each year. Our hidden cameras found that many tourists come not to visit the historic sites, but for another purpose. They go to a place like Martinis. It's a nightclub where young women outnumber men 10 to one, and many of the women are for sale.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though prostitution is illegal in Cambodia, finding a girlfriend for the night at Martinis takes just a few words, a few dollars, and a stroll out the door. But the action at Martinis pales compared with what else we're about to see in Cambodia.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Early one morning, our producer walks out the front door of the hotel and is greeted by a local motor bike taxi driver, who explains how easy it is to find girls for sale:</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span about="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039053" class="inline external tease" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://assets3z.msnbc.msn.com/rendering/img/story-chrome.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: -700px -85px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 18px;"></span> <a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039053" property="dc:title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video: Children for sale: Undercover in Cambodia </a></span>Twelve-year-olds for sale. As shocking as that sounds, we're about to find out in some places that's considered old. Children who should be in elementary school are being exploited by adults. </span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A human rights investigator we'll call Robert is acting as a sex tour guide for a Dateline producer and cameraman posing undercover. The investigator is a former police detective from New Zealand. We agreed not to show his face or use his real name, because of his ongoing undercover work.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robert has developed local contacts who know where to go and whom to see. All it takes is a quick phone call for this man to arrange a visit to a brothel in Phnom Penh.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The producers and investigators arrive across from what looks like a local café, but it's really a brothel. The owner is a woman who goes by the name Madam Lang. She's eager to do business. She leads the group through the café and up a back staircase to meet some girls for hire. And when she says they're girls, she means it literally: young girls, younger than we even imagined. And as an extra attraction, she says they're still virgins.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trapped in tragedy</strong><br />
Many sex tourists come to Cambodia for exactly that reason, and they're willing to pay a premium. Madam Lang tells us her virgins go for $600, and for that price she says we can take a girl back to the hotel and keep her there for up to three days. When she brings out the girl, the 15-year-old looks paralyzed with fear.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A child's tragic journey into the sex trade often begins in a family struggling for survival. This is a country where the average income is less than $300 a year. Some children are sold by their own parents. Others are lured by what they think are legitimate job offers like waitressing, but then are forced into prostitution. </span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">One 14-year-old, who was recently freed from a brothel, says she came from an extremely poor family in the country next door, Vietnam. She says when she was walking home from school one day, she was approached by a woman offering work in a café. But the café turned out to be a brothel. With no money and no way to get home, she didn't have much of a choice and was forced into sex with grown men, many of them American.</span></span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At best the girls' families get a few hundred dollars, a debt the girls then owe to the brothel owners. It can take years to work it off. It's a form of slavery. And when this girl refused to go along, she says she was beaten:</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Girl: </strong>“I thought, I am here to serve coffee, not be a prostitute. But the boss told me that I had to be a prostitute. She forced me, and I was scared. I did not want to go with those men, but being beaten was worse.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">So she tried to run away.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Girl:</strong> “I got captured. They forced me into a room for three days and three nights. They beat me. They did not let me have anything to eat or drink. And they sold me to a different brothel.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">All this comes as no secret to the Cambodian government. Mu Soc Hua is Cambodia’s minister of women's affairs.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hansen:</strong> "Cambodia has a lot of problems. Where do you rank the child sex trade?" </strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><br />
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outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></strong></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mu Soc Hua:</strong> "I rank sexual trade, sexual exploitation of our children as top — on the top of my list." </strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hansen:</strong> "Is there any way to even attach a number to this to say how many children?" </strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; 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outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; 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border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mu Soc Hua:</strong> "Around 30,000." </strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></strong></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hansen: </strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"That's a staggering number." </strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; 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outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></strong></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mu Soc Hua:</strong> "Yes. Yes."</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inside Phnom Phenh</strong> </strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She says it's happening all over the country, but there's one place that is notorious. Any taxi driver can tell you it's <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the</em> place to go if you're looking for the youngest girls. Svay Pak is a rundown village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. A 20-minute drive, and we're on a dirt road dotted with cafes and gated storefronts. It takes just a second for a pimp to approach.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"></div><br />
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<span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Everyone in Svay Pak assumes we are here for sex. When we sit down at one of the cafes, we're greeted by a young hustler named Po. He's only 15 but already a real operator. He tells us he's grown up in the village and introduces his mother — who knows exactly what he's up to and takes a cut of the money he brings in.</span></div></span><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">Po says he can get us girls who are even younger than the ones we saw at that brothel in the city. And despite all we've seen, we're stunned at just how young he says they are — 8-year-olds. It's hard to believe. He tells us to come see for ourselves. Along with a human rights investigator, we follow Po through some alleys into a ramshackle house. We think we've already seen it all, but who could be prepared for this?</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span about="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039097" class="inline external tease" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://assets3z.msnbc.msn.com/rendering/img/story-chrome.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: -700px -85px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 18px;"></span> <a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039097" property="dc:title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video: Children for sale: A rare view </a></span>Girls, some so young they could be in kindergarten, are all for sale. Throughout the village, we see the same scene at one brothel after another. Everyone here seems to know a little English. When they talk about sex, they use simple child-like terms anyone can understand. "Yum-yum" means oral sex. "Boom-boom" means intercourse.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">We meet dozens of children. One girl says she's nine. She's joined by another who says she's 10. Both say they know how to perform oral sex. And they even tell us how much it will cost: $60 for two girls.<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>A pimp says if two girls aren't enough, how about three?</div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">Our team then leaves saying we may come back later. In the car, the grim reality has set in for the International Justice Mission’s chief investigator, Bob Mosier. In 20 years as a cop, he says, he's never seen anything like this.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bob Mosier: </strong>“You<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>have an 8-year-old or 9-year-old little girl you know just looking at you smiling, realizing that you're going to in just a few moments possibly, probably going to engage in a sexual act they're going to get money for, and they're smiling about it. I mean I see a smile like that on my kids' face when they're finding out they're going to go to Disney World or something like that.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">But the tourists in Svay Pak are a far cry from the ones you see at Disney World, and they're not anxious to talk about why they're here. But last year, a human rights investigator with a hidden camera found a visitor who was willing to admit he was not visiting for the scenic beauty or the local cuisine.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The American 'tourist'</strong><br />
<span about="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039096" class="inline external tease" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://assets3z.msnbc.msn.com/rendering/img/story-chrome.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: -700px -85px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 18px;"></span> <a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039096" property="dc:title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video: Children for sale: American 'tourist' </a></span>When the camera was hidden, an American prowling Svay Pak was happy to brag about his exploits. He’s an American doctor, whom we saw repeatedly while we were in Cambodia. Dr. Jerry Albom is radiologist from Oklahoma, but on the streets of Svay Pak he offers pointers to a man he believes is a sex tourist. </div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">The International Justice Mission’s Gary Haugen says he'd like to see people like Dr. Albom and the pimps who supply him put out of action. Haugen has a plan. He wants to mount a daring operation, to bust the pimps and to rescue the children. Now the question is can he put his plan into action.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">What he can do, he hopes, is prompt the government there to join his cause.<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>But this is Cambodia, so chaotic it's hard to cross the street much less get the police to take action. If you really want results, what you need is the blessing of senior Cambodian government officials. But getting their attention requires help from someone with real clout. So Haugen has taken his evidence to the U.S. ambassador, who in turn has agreed to make the case.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Plan for raid takes shape</strong><br />
It takes a week, but finally, the Cambodians sign on to Haugen's plan. It involves tricking the pimps into bringing the girls to a supposed sex party at a house outside the village. There it will be easier for the police to arrest the pimps and rescue the children.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">To get the pimps on board, Robert, the investigator posing as a sex tour guide, has been telling them that his clients are reluctant to come into the village. Robert has discovered it really is dangerous.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">When he tried to sell the sex party idea to one of the pimps, the man asked if Robert had a hidden camera. Then he asked Robert to prove he was for real and have sex with a 5-year-old girl. And when Robert refused, the pimp got angry. Finally, the pimp threatened him.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert kept searching until he found other pimps willing to let some of the girls leave the village for the supposed "sex party." The pimps say they want to come along to keep an eye on the children, which plays right into the plan, because remember when they arrive at the house, they'll be arrested.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">These wouldn't be the first arrests in Svay Pak. The Cambodian police have set up a unit to deal with sex trafficking. But they've never been involved in anything like this. This time, sixty officers are being assigned to the raid.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">But the big question is: can they all be trusted? There are no guarantees because many of the cops are in the pimps’ pockets, like the one caught on Robert’s hidden camera. He thought Robert was really a sex tour operator and for $150 promised he could make sure neither Robert nor his clients would be arrested.</div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">One hundred fifty dollars - that's the equivalent of five months pay for the average Cambodian cop. If a cop like this finds out about the raid, he could alert the pimps.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">The operation begins with a ride on a bus which is also supposed to be used to rescue the girls from Svay Pak. The bus waits on the outskirts of the village. A half a dozen motor bike drivers take the producers and investigators to go get the girls. The drivers stop by a pathway that leads to the brothel, where the girls are supposed to be waiting.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">Initially, there’s no sign of the children. But after much discussion with the pimps, finally, two children, sisters are brought into the waiting area. The investigators have seen these girls twice before. The first time, they were brand new to Svay Pak and had not yet been sold for sex. But only a few weeks later, the girls apparently had lost their innocence. They'd been forced to perform oral sex.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span about="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039095" class="inline external tease" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://assets3z.msnbc.msn.com/rendering/img/story-chrome.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: -700px -85px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 18px;"></span> <a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039095" property="dc:title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video: Children for sale: The raid </a></span>Now, if they're lucky, these girls will never have to do that again. That's if<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em>everything goes according to plan.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">At first, everything seems on track, but then suddenly the pimps change their minds and won't let the girls leave the brothel. Investigator Bob Mosier suspects the operation has been compromised.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not clear how much the pimps know, but it seems they've picked up on rumors of an investigation. They may be suspicious, but they're not exactly chasing anyone away. In fact, they want the sex party to take place right here, right now, and there isn't much of a choice, so our producers and the investigators play along. There is a back-up plan -- a phone call to alert the police who are supposed to be standing by. Who knows when or even if they'll show up?</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">It hasn't all gone according to plan, but at the end of the day a dozen suspected pimps and madams are in custody, and 37 girls rescued, many under the age of 10. As they're loaded into a van, they're in shock and in tears and don't seems to understand that they're about to be taken to a safe place. Escorted by officers from the Cambodian Ministry of Interior, they pull away from this place where they lost so much, hopefully never to return.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">Gary Haugen, the head of the human rights group that made all this happen, is thankful, though he had hoped more children would be rescued.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span about="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039094" class="inline external tease" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://assets3z.msnbc.msn.com/rendering/img/story-chrome.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: -700px -85px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 18px;"></span> <a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039094" property="dc:title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video: Children for sale: The confrontation </a></span>And he says, while it's good to prosecute the people who sell children for sex, if you want to solve the problem; you also have to go after the tourists who buy them. But who is going to confront these sex tourists? In the case of that American doctor, we do.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why should the U.S. get involved?</strong><br />
This issue has become a top priority for the Bush administration. It’s for that reason Secretary of State Colin Powell agreed to look at what we found, including the videotape of Dr. Albom.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Powell</strong>: "He may be a doctor but he's a criminal. He's a criminal and if he can be brought to justice, he will be brought to justice. The law requires it. And he won't have to worry about being a doctor because he'll be doing time in jail and that's where he belongs. More than that, he probably needs to see several dozen psychiatrists if that's what turns him on."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hansen: </strong>"Why should Americans be concerned about the sex trade in Cambodia?"</div></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Powell: </strong>“How can we turn away? If we want to have friends in the world, if we want to have better relations with the countries of the world, we have to help them with this kind of problem.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Help them or pressure them – the U.S. government can impose sanctions on countries the State Department says aren't doing enough, which may be why the Cambodians recently arrested two American men accused of having sex with children, and sent them back to the U.S. for prosecution.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the end, at least seven of the suspects we saw, including a man who supplied little girls for the sex party, were recently found guilty by a Cambodian judge and sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. In mid-January, Madam Lang, the woman who offered us virgins for $600, was also convicted and sentenced to 20 years behind bars. That's believed to be the longest sentence of its kind ever in Cambodia.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Future for the children</strong><br />
As for the children we saw taken out of the brothels, they were brought to a safe house for a few days. Then they were placed in group homes: one for the younger girls and one for teens, which is run by a charity called AFESIP. The director of AFESIP, Pierre Legros, says getting the girls out of the brothels is tough, but keeping them in the group home is even tougher. He estimates that on average 40 percent of the rescued girls return to a life of prostitution.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In October, more than six months after our first visit, Dateline returned to Svay Pak. And despite whatever efforts the Cambodian government is making, we were offered children for sale. We showed our latest hidden camera tapes to Cambodia’s Minister for Women's Affairs, Mu Soc Hua. She was not surprised by our findings, she says, because it'll take years to overcome the extreme poverty and widespread corruption that cause the child sex trade to flourish. But she sees the current wave of prosecutions as a step forward.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mu Sochua:</strong> “Yes that is the little, little small ray of light I see at the end of this tunnel. That's why there is hope and we have to continue to fight. Prosecution is the key word, the message has to be very strong and forget about prosecuting the little fish prosecuting everybody who is involved in it.”<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Secretary of State Powell acknowledges it may not be possible to eliminate the problem totally, but he says putting pressure on countries like Cambodia is the right thing to do.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Powell: </strong>“Can you imagine the spread of disease that is taking place with this kind of activity? Can you imagine what will happen to these girls when they're 15 or 20? What will become of them? They'll have no education. They will be -- they will have been used and tossed away and ruined… And a nation such as ours, which says we are a moral nation, and that we have a value system, that we would allow our citizens to go over and fuel that trade, by their presence and by their money and by their rotten exploitation of these children, we wouldn't be living up to our values if we didn't do something about it.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. government is now giving the human rights group, International Justice Mission, a $1 million grant to help battle sex trafficking in Cambodia. Also, agents from the Department of Homeland Security who specialize in child sex crimes are now<span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span>investigating the activities of dozens of Americans -- including Dr. Jerry Albom -- suspected of traveling abroad to have sex with children.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-67624103988310536952012-03-23T16:13:00.002-04:002012-03-23T16:46:26.258-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-size: x-large; text-indent: 0cm;">Original Dateline NBC Cambodia</b><br />
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<a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039095#4039095"><span style="font-size: large;">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dateline/4039095#4039095</span></a></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">"Not my life"</b><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"> dvd</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">A Root Cause of Slavery</b></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.timpaton.info/en/multimedia/video-gallery/">http://www.timpaton.info/en/multimedia/video-gallery/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">NBC Dateline update</b></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFh8uQuFKg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFh8uQuFKg</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="text-indent: 0cm;">Michelle’s story</b></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/6908792"><span style="font-size: large;">http://vimeo.com/6908792</span></a><o:p></o:p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-67262652829221705162012-03-23T13:12:00.001-04:002012-03-30T16:35:16.877-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Movies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.thegirlsofphnompenh.com/">The Girls of Phnom Penh</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.mtvexit.org/multimedia/"> MTV Exit</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dyXxUS7Nk">Born into Brothels</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_AtgGNDzA">Holly</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTR2_Th150">Human Trafficking</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUxdQ4q-Lg">Taken</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm1osJ9Lgm0">Hardcore</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_803246724"> </a><b><a href="http://notmylife.org/">Not My Life</a><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Total Brokenness</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.notforsalefilm.com/nfs1.html">Not for Sale</a></span></b><br />
<b> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://smallvoicesmovie.com/">Small Voices</a></span></b><br />
<b> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/6669136">Awakening Cambodia</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Like-Us-Fighting-Memoir/dp/0061582069/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333139576&sr=8-1">Girls Like Us</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Next-Door-Trafficking-Slavery/dp/0520268660/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542998&sr=1-3">Disposable People</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Road-Lost-Innocence-Cambodian-Heroine/dp/0385526229/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542304&sr=1-2-fkmr0">The Road of Lost Innocence</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Monstrous-Face---Face-Modern-Day/dp/0743290089/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542906&sr=1-1">A Crime so Monstrous</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Natashas-Inside-New-Global-Trade/dp/1559707798/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542784&sr=1-1">Natashas</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Brothel-Undercover-Journey-Trafficking/dp/0830838066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325542625&sr=8-1">God in a Brothel</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Underworld/dp/1400095123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542713&sr=1-1">McMafia: A Journey Through the Criminal Underworld</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-About-Injustice-Updated-Anniversary/dp/0830837108/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542671&sr=1-1">Good News About Injustice</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Invisible-Chains-Canadas-Underground-Trafficking/dp/067006453X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b">Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking</a></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Not-Sale-Return-Global-Trade--/dp/0061998834/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325598323&sr=8-1">Not for Sale</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ngo’s:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.freetheslaves.net/">Free the Slaves: Kevin Bales</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.ijm.org/">International Justice Mission: Gary Haugen</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://agapewebsite.org/">Agape International: Don Brewster</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://love146.org/dr-glenn-miles">Love 146: Glenn Miles</a> <a href="file://localhost/javascript/main.compose('new',%20't=glenn@love146.org')"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: purple; font-family: Arial;">glenn@love146.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://worldhope.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=105">World Hope: Kristen Wiebe</a> <a href="file://localhost/javascript/addSender(%2522Kristin%20Wiebe%20%253Ckristinwiebe@worldhope.net%253E%2522)"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3a2eb5; font-family: Arial;">Kristin Wiebe <kristinwiebe@worldhope.net></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.chabdai.org/canada.html">Chab Dai: Toronto</a>: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Julia Smith-Brake </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: purple; font-family: Arial;"><a href="file://localhost/javascript/main.compose('new',%20't=julia.smithbrake@chabdai.org')">julia.smithbrake@chabdai.org</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.timpaton.info/">Bong Paoeun: Tim Paton</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.ratanak.org/">Ratanak: Brian McConaghey</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://hischild-international.com/">HIS Child: WEC: Robert and Judith</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.riverviewchildrensfoundation.com/index.php/projects/cambodia/teen-challenge-cambodia.html">Teen Challenge: Koy Chim</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.hagarinternational.org/">Hagar</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.daughtersofcambodia.org/">Daughters of Cambodia</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Gary and Bev Laing: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Arial;">Crosslands Church, Newmarket</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="mailto:glaing@paoc.org">glaing@paoc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.compassion.ca/"> Compassion International</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/6908792">Michelle Tolentino: a life transformed</a></span><br />
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</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-89959545166992388502012-03-05T17:05:00.003-05:002012-03-05T17:09:35.167-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img height="457" src="http://www.tillhecomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/human_trafficking.jpg" width="640" /> <br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I recently read <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Priceless-Novel-World-Tom-Davis/dp/158919103X?&camp=212361&linkCode=wey&tag=tiheco-20&creative=380729" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #317dc9; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Priceless</a> </em>by Tom Davis. It’s the story of man who find himself in a dangerous attempt to rescue helpless girls who are trapped in the Russian sex-slave industry. I could not put the book down, and several times, found myself brought to tears as I read about the hellish plight of these young girls.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t care what book you are reading right now; put it down and read this book.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The only complaint I have is that the book takes place in Russia. I found myself thinking at times, “Well, that’s Russia.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The tragic fact is that you could change some place names in the book, and the story could happen right here in the United States, or any other country. This is not a problem that happens on the other side of the world. It probably takes place in a city where you live. Check out these statistics (from <a class="broken_link" href="http://socyberty.com/activism/statistics-of-modern-day-slavery/#ixzz10qxhMSnw" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #317dc9; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">This website</a>):</span></div><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Human trafficking is the third most profitable criminal activity, second after drugs and arms trafficking</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked yearly across international borders, and the trade is growing (Department of State. 2004. “Trafficking in Persons Report.” Washington, D.C.; U.S. Department of State.)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of the 600,000-800,000 people trafficked, 70 percent are female and 50 percent are children; the majority of these victims are forced into commercial sex trade (ibid)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country each year is estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry (U.S. Department of Justice. 2004. Report to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Fiscal Year 2003.)</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seventy percent of Internet sex shows are in the United States, of which women and children are forced into sexual acts while being taped.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As many as 7,000 Nepali girls as young as 9 are sold annually into India’s red-light districts, 200,000 in the last decade.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Afghani women are sold into prostitution in Pakistan for around 600 rupees – less than $4 a pound, depending on their weight.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">About 50,000 Asian, Latin American and Eastern European women and children are trafficked into the United States for sexual exploitation, the going rate between $12,000 and $18,000 each.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ten thousand children between the ages of 6 and 14 are in Sri Lankan brothels.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have become the sex centers for Western Europe, featuring women from the former Soviet Union.<br />
About 1,000 women from the former Soviet Union became prostitutes in Israel in exchange for legal documentation.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m Jessa and I’m 17. I live in Ermita [the tourist hub of Manila]. I still have parents, but my father is in jail. My mum is a parking collector. I have four siblings – three are with my mum, but my youngest brother is living with me right now. Last Saturday my mother had a stroke, but it’s only a mild one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s difficult for me to bring back the memories because I grew up on the streets. It’s not something I had dreamt of; it was an accident. My father was taking drugs and when he was on a drugs low he’d beat me, even if I hadn’t sinned against him. Terrible beatings. You would be thrown into the sea or beaten with a two-by-two wooden plank or a steel pipe. You’d be tied up as if you were a doll and not a child. Sometimes my mother intervened if she knew I hadn’t done wrong. She would fight with my father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I felt my life was in danger. It’s my parents, see, so they can beat me at any time. Since they are my parents it’s OK for me to be beaten by them, especially if I have made mistakes. But whenever I felt that I’d been beaten too much, that’s the time I really felt bad. I wouldn’t beat my own little girl – I will explain to her the ugliness of the things that I have experienced.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I began to run away but would come back after three days or so. I was only ten when I ran away for good. I soon experienced how difficult it is to be on your own with no-one on your side. You don’t have any source of food. When it rains you don’t have a roof or a shelter to go to. That’s why I was forced to do things against my will; I did them in order to survive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I begged when I first ran away. I had family on the street from my mother’s side who helped me. I also have six cousins on the street. My mother didn’t know I was with them. They helped me. If someone passes by with food, you beg. Sometimes you go in the jeepney to beg. Foreigners give some things. ‘Don’t use this money for drugs, use it for food!’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friends got me involved in drugs – <em>rugby</em> [synthetic glue], solvent, <em>shabu</em> [an amphetamine], marijuana. My relatives didn’t react. They didn’t bother at all. They just let me be. When you have problems it’s like... use drugs to forget them and happiness will come if you’re high. Eventually I got into prostitution.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All things need to be experienced before one becomes aware of them. I felt the drugs were good things, up until the time that I made myself aware. If you don’t have money to buy them, you will prostitute yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first time I was in my friend’s home. Her mother is a <em>bugaw</em> [pimp]. All the girls in her room would be sold to the foreigners. All of us were virgins. I remember my friends were 10, 8 or 9... like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The foreigner and the bugao, they go to the hotel with us, then you go to the foreigner’s room. Then they tell me: ‘Play, sex, picture’ – the three kinds of jobs with the foreigner. Play – they only touch the parts of the lady. Sex, you know that. Picture – they take pictures without clothes with their camera or videos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first time I was a virgin; he paid 5,000 pesos [$92], but not all that money was given to me. Only 2,000 [$38] was for me. Sometimes my friends were just eight years old and she would sell them to foreigners. All of those friends now have babies. They are still selling themselves.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pimp was very kind to us. At first I didn’t know she was a pimp. She let us stay in a room to sleep, eat, take a bath. All the children in her room – plenty of girls there – they use marijuana, <em>shabu</em>, drugs like that. So even if you don’t, they encourage it. It’s good to take drugs before you sleep with foreigners, because if you’re high you don’t feel what you are doing to yourself. If you’re a virgin, it’s very painful. Afterwards the money they give you, you’re just staring at nothing. Empty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first time I was crying to the foreigner. He was Japanese, 60 years old. I was 13. Before I had to go to him, the <em>bugaw</em> had been my friend. I didn’t expect that she would do that to me. She used to say: ‘You want to go to Jollibee [Philippines fast-food chain], you want to eat something?’ I didn’t know she did such bad things, so I went with them. She saw me when I had run away from my mother. And she said: ‘Why are you crying?’ I said: ‘I’ve run away from my mother.’ ‘OK, you can come in with me. I will give you money, I will give you food, I will give what you want.’ She gave me earrings, clothes, everything. I slept in her bed, nothing was done to me. The days, weeks, months passed, before she sold my virginity. She took pictures of me having sex. The man who took my virginity was very bad, because he abused my kindness. I didn’t know that he would do that thing to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have a husband but we have been separated for nearly a year now [it is unclear whether Jessa means ‘husband’ in the legal sense or someone with whom she had a relationship]. I have a baby girl who is a year and three months old. He also takes care of my baby. One day he and one day I. He also buys the milk, because I have no job. But sometimes you know, because of my experience, sometimes if the guest [meaning client] comes to me, then OK for once, for the money. You need money, so why not?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I sleep in a park now [in reality a small square between congested streets] with my baby. There is a restaurant which closes at 10 pm and we sleep at its side – laying down some paper. Because of the vagrancy law [which puts street people at risk of being rounded up by local authorities at night], sometimes we sleep only at two in the morning. But my baby sleeps by seven or eight pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I live with my second husband. My mother lives in an abandoned building nearby on the third floor. They live in a small space, so how could I sleep there? There’s only room for four people. There is only water downstairs, so it’s very difficult to carry. My second husband brings illegal water. You can wake up at four in the morning to take water or a bath. There is a pipe which we replace with a hose and this is connected to the abandoned house. It’s closed by six o'clock because too many people pass by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I’m very tired in the morning. So after I fill water, I go to the park and sleep again for two or three hours. Sometimes my baby wakes me up. She beats me, babbling: ‘Mummy wake up.’ She says: ‘Milk, milk,’ because she’s hungry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes if we don’t eat all the rice at night, we use it in the morning. We fry it right there in the park. We have a kerosene stove. Every Saturday missionaries give out food in the church. So no need for me to cook. We only cook Monday to Friday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My second husband used to be a car-wash boy. Cleaning a car earns 50 pesos [about 90 cents]. The most he would earn in a day was 150 pesos. Now he sells cigarettes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don’t work as I have my child, but now and then someone comes to me with a pimp [Jessa says the pimps in the area know her]. My husband takes care of my baby when I have to go; he knows my job. He says: ‘It’s a job, it’s only money.’ It’s very difficult for him but it’s OK because there is no money sometimes, no food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The police also encourage us to be pimped. They get money. For example, the police will tell me: ‘We’ll catch that guest of yours. Because that foreigner has plenty of money.’ They try to trap and blackmail the foreigner; they will accuse him that he is a paedophile. I will also act as the victim and the police will extort money. I experienced that. The police tell me: ‘OK, you cry, you claim abuse.’ The police gave me only 2,000 pesos [$38] but the police asks the foreigner for 50,000 to 100,000 [$914 to $1,827]. I know their corruption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh yes, I have known many police people, they want me to go with them. I laugh. I say: ‘<em>Kuya</em> [literally ‘older brother’, a term of respect], please don’t joke like that.’ There are cases when the police have a desire for a certain girl in the area. They will catch the girl and put her in prison so that the girl will have no choice but to have sex with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was supported during my schooling by many agencies – MSF [Médecins Sans Frontières], Kaibigan Foundation, Childhope. Childhope has been helping us for a long time now, especially when you have a problem. I had a STD [sexually transmitted disease] when I was 13 years old. After I lost my virginity, I went with another guest, so I didn’t know who had given that disease to me. It’s very difficult if you have no partner or parents with you. That time I went to my mother; I was crying, I didn’t know what to do. It’s very painful [clutches abdomen]. My vagina was full of blood. <em>Nanay</em> [literally ‘mother’, her street educator] helped me. We went to the doctor to get medicine. I had a big one to put in the vagina and some drink. One month’s medicine and it was better. So I am very thankful to Childhope, because they helped me through that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They taught me about using condoms, but you know some guests they don’t like it, so we didn’t always use them. The situation is different now. Before it was me who invited the guests, now it is the guests who invite me and it’s not really very often that they call. I choose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The foreigner who sexually abused me the first time was apprehended. But he paid us 50,000 pesos [$914] to not file charges. Because we didn’t have money, we agreed. When that happened, we did not inform Childhope that we were negotiating with the foreigner. When they found out, they told me: ‘Why did you agree that the foreigner only paid you money?’ But I told them that it’s a long process and it’s tiring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For me these foreigners’ perception of women in the Philippines is that the women can be got easily because they [the foreigners] have money. As long they have money, they can buy, whatever the cost. Why do they view Filipinas like us like that? And they do not think that we are young. Why do they do that to us? It’s as if they are doing it to their own children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes a mother sells her own daughter. I experienced that because I have friends whose mothers sold them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve been to some seminars. A UNICEF funded Convention on Adolescent Sexuality – what is adolescence, how you grow up, how to be aware of abuse: sexual, physical, mental. Many agencies, many girls like us. We stayed for three days in a hotel. At a hotel you can eat in nice plates, nice food. To experience that makes you proud. At the hotel I was trying to cut a crab with my knife and it slipped and I picked it up from the floor [laughs]. It’s good that nobody saw it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is a celebration for girl children’s rights in March, coinciding with the women’s month’s celebrations. I was involved through Laguna [another agency working with children, Los Baños Laguna] on a committee that made a pamphlet on the rights of the child that was printed in both <em>Tagalog</em> and English – I didn’t expect that at all. I am happy because I’ve seen the result of what we’ve worked for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My new husband is good to me. You know boys usually easily get bored or fed up. Because before me there were two girls, then me. The first wife had two children, the second one none. He is OK but he is still young you know. If a person is still young, it’s difficult for that person to have a family. My husband is 21, going on 22. I live with his mother’s family on the street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am not going to school now. I don’t want my baby to imitate me, to do what I did. I will send her to school. I’ll give her what she likes to have which I did not experience from my parents. I will make her feel and experience the things which I did not experience from my parents. If I can, I will try my best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While the world is still moving, we should not lose hope. There is a need to make ourselves strong. Whenever I think of this or say this, I get emotional. I feel like crying. Always make yourself strong, because all problems, all that has happened, has happened already; you cannot do anything about it anymore. So just face the future.</span><br />
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</b><em style="font-weight: bold;">Paying Jessa a visit in the evening, she is keen for us to meet her family – her new ‘husband’ with his little tray of cigarettes and his mother. Her baby is with her previous partner that evening. We go across the street to get the family a meal – fried chicken from a fast food place, Jessa’s favourite ‘treat’. The door staff look us up and down in a decidedly unfriendly manner. Jessa explains that she and her family sometimes run up the stairs to use the toilets when no-one is looking. While we wait for our food, she shows some crude tattoos on her arm. They are related to her father’s gang in prison. It’s her way of remembering the man who drove her from home in the first place.</em></span><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-74470791864274233322012-01-08T19:29:00.000-05:002012-01-08T19:29:16.102-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-132932 aligncenter" height="300" src="http://pjmedia.com/files/2011/12/carina-saunders-269x300.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="269" /></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nineteen-year-old Carina Saunders of Mustang, Oklahoma, was reported missing on September 28 of 2011 though investigators found reports of people seeing her alive and well in early October. On October 13, <a href="http://crimeshadowsnews.com/main/2011/10/what-happened-to-carina-saunders/" style="font-weight: bold;">animal welfare workers looking for feral cats found the decapitated and mutilated body of Carina in a duffel bag behind a grocery store</a>. It is believed the corpse was there several days before the gruesome discovery. Police had to initially look at her tattoos to determine an identity.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities at first <a href="http://crimeshadowsnews.com/main/2011/10/poi-cody-perez-sought-in-carina-saunders-murder/" style="font-weight: bold;">focused on a young “Juggalo” named Cody Perez</a>, a violent ex-con who had recently pawned his set of chef’s knives and fled the area. After all, a brutal killing by a fan of the band Insane Clown Posse would just be another crime in a long list of sensational stories involving the group. But police cleared Perez after a nine week investigation with dozens of witnesses uncovered a crime that seemed to come straight out of a horror movie by a group of criminals most Americans thought were long extinct — slavers. We use the term “human traffickers” now, which sounds much more modern and urbane — as if the victims are willing cargo on some underground railroad. But the reality is that America’s modern day slave trade is as barbaric and brutal as slavery was before emancipation.</span></div><div id="inlineAdvertisement" style="float: left; height: 250px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; width: 300px;"><div id="div-gpt-ad-1322070853455-3" style="height: 250px; width: 300px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" id="google_ads_iframe_/1011927/PJM_300_by_250_middle_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/1011927/PJM_300_by_250_middle_0" scrolling="no" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="300"></iframe></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the investigation into Carina’s death, a 20-year-old woman — who by some accounts may be a prostitute or a madam — came forward to tell a tale so horrific that most would discount it as fantasy if not for the confessions that followed. She related how a drug dealer named Jimmy Lee Massey with ties to a gang that sold both drugs and slaves kidnapped her from a residence and took her to an abandoned building. There he restrained her while a still undisclosed number of people, including a man named Francisco Gomez, tortured and murdered Carina Saunders. The witness, who police are not naming because of what they perceive as very real threats to her life, reported that Massey forced her to watch the entire murder as a message to her and other women of what would happen to those who didn’t cooperate with the gang.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077059/Jimmy-Lee-Massey-forced-woman-watch-torture-dismember-Carina-Saunders.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Massey, sitting in jail for narcotics charges when confronted with this evidence, confessed to the whole thing</a>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pjmedia.com/files/2011/12/massey-gomez.jpg" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-132933 aligncenter" height="207" src="http://pjmedia.com/files/2011/12/massey-gomez-300x207.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.koco.com/r-video/30041289/detail.html" style="font-weight: bold;">A press conference held by Police Chief Phil Cole</a> revealed even more disturbing details. The criminal organization Massey and Gomez were involved with has several Mexican nationals as members, indicating a transnational connection. The investigation led to multiple arrests for various crimes, but police have yet to apprehend everyone they know is involved in the gang. But most disturbing of all was the fact that Carina was simply a victim of opportunity.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The witness didn’t know Carina, although both women knew Massey causally. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077059/Jimmy-Lee-Massey-forced-woman-watch-torture-dismember-Carina-Saunders.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Carina was known to be a drug user</a> – including hard drugs like meth and coke — but police say she wasn’t otherwise involved in any criminal activity. Since Massey was a dealer, it’s likely he kidnapped her while she was buying; she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is a story as horrific as it is common. These gangs lurk in the shadows of our cities, using the drug trade to help run the more lucrative and dangerous sex slave rings that are ubiquitous in any major metro area. Often the dealers recruit victims after hooking them on hard drugs, but it is far more common that known drug routes are used to transport illegal aliens into the country. Those illegals are billed exorbitant amounts for the trip which they can never hope to pay off and are given the option of “working” off their debts. <a href="http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=23676&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1010" style="font-weight: bold;">For women and children, this means forced prostitution; for men, it is sometimes literal slave labor</a>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Oklahoma, there are whispers that this gang is responsible for more than just Carina Saunders’ death. <a href="http://www.koco.com/r/29649018/detail.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Nineteen-year-old Kelsey Bransby was found murdered on October 27</a>. She had attended the same high school as Carina and had similar drug problems, but friends say she had gotten clean and was trying to leave that life behind. After that decision she was shot in the face in her own apartment.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pjmedia.com/files/2011/12/alina-fitzpatrick.jpg" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-132935 aligncenter" height="300" src="http://pjmedia.com/files/2011/12/alina-fitzpatrick-218x300.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="218" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2011/11/18/alina-fitzpatrick-case-who-killed-alina/" style="font-weight: bold;">Seventeen-year-old Alina Fitzpatrick’s nude body was found dumped on a rural Oklahoma City property</a>. Alina had been home schooled because of bullying, and had complained prior to her disappearance that a “suspicious” man had been following her and had somehow gotten her cell phone number. The last person to see her alive was a friend who had given her a ride to an apartment that Alina was vague about who lived there. Pretty and blonde, Alina looked much younger than she was and some speculate she was targeted by traffickers.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oklahoma, however, is not the only place where modern day slavers kidnap and pimp out women and children.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://craigscrimelist.org/2011/12/24/craigslist-child-trafficker-sentenced-in-san-diego/" style="font-weight: bold;">Forty-one-year-old Maurice Lerome Smith was just sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for pimping out a 17-year-old girl on Craigslist in the San Diego area</a>. Smith promised the girl a job at a window washing company but then forced her into prostitution and set her nightly quota at $1,200. He had previously spent time in prison for trying to kidnap and prostitute a 13-year-old girl.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Twenty-four-year-old <a href="http://craigscrimelist.org/2011/12/07/wa-man-accused-of-pimping-out-disabled-girl-on-backpage/" style="font-weight: bold;">Walter Woods forced a mentally disabled 18-year-old into prostitution in Kent, Washington</a>. He had a previous record of “luring children” and according to his victim, Woods had several girls that worked for him but <a href="http://www.kentreporter.com/news/134943468.html" style="font-weight: bold;">they were now “with another pimp,”</a> meaning he sold them.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/police-looking-for-serial-child-pimp-satoria-youngblood/" style="font-weight: bold;">A woman named Satoria Youngblood was found in Flint, Michigan, pimping out teens and in possession of child pornography</a>. She had been busted in Utah for the same charges just months before being caught in Michigan. She and her associates are believed to travel the country exploiting children for sex, using drugs and violence as leverage.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At Occupy New Hampshire, a woman named <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Justina-Jensen/100000894563863?sk=info" style="font-weight: bold;">Justina Jensen</a> picked up a 16-year-old runaway and began selling the girl online. When she was arrested it was announced that Jensen had faced <a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111028/NEWS03/710289961" style="font-weight: bold;">similar charges in her native New York</a>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In St. Louis, sex slavers used an <a href="http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/yes-we-can-obama-fan-club-raided-for-drugs-prostitution/" style="font-weight: bold;">Obama-themed social club as cover for a drugs and prostitution ring that included at least one 15-year-old girl</a>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/another-escort-robbed-by-suspected-gang-member/" style="font-weight: bold;">In Greenville, SC, a gang began terrorizing “independent” escorts in a bid to force the women to work for them</a>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One thing that’s missed in many of these lurid stories is that prior to being caught, many of these modern day slave traders have forced women and children to have sex with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of men. Men who know these women aren’t willing, men who know these children are being robbed of their innocence. But they purchase them, and rape them, and move on without a care in the world.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That cold indifference to the plight of these women and children — these modern day slaves — is what makes this exploitation possible. It is not just the depravity of Jimmy Massey, Francisco Gomez, and their gang that murdered Carina Saunders; the apathy of the American public was an accessory in this crime. Heedless of the brutality in our midst, we float aimlessly through our vices, gulping down the “terrific mouthfuls of poison” Rimbaud wrote of in Night in Hell. We condemn thousands to season after season in Hell lest we confront our own demons and be forced to answer for our sins.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div><div class="author-bio" style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><em><small>Rob Taylor blogs about crime, culture and politics at <a href="http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/">Greenville Dragnet</a>.</small></em></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-54628825120443168902012-01-03T13:00:00.001-05:002012-01-03T13:02:01.912-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<h2 align="left"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sex trafficking strikes closer to home than thought </span></h2><div align="left"><div style="background-color: white;">By S.M. Berg</div><div style="background-color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">A bed, a teddy bear, and a roll of paper towels are the only contents of a closet-sized room where a trafficked 13-year-old girl was sold for sex by pimps to 20-30 men a day.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Nov. 5, 2003, a woman taken from the Lloyd Center shopping mall was found to have been drugged awake for three straight days of sexual slavery by traffickers in <span style="color: blue;"><b>Vancouver, Canada</b></span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Traffickers forced three dozen Mexican men and boys recruited in Arizona to work 60 hours a week on farms near Buffalo, N.Y. for $30 a week.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are a small sampling of stories relayed Oct. 4 during an educational forum on human trafficking convened by The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] and The Protection Project of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. About 70 local social service, healthcare, law enforcement, and human rights professionals attended the daylong conference at the Benson Hotel to launch the new HHS Rescue and Restore anti-trafficking program.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 [TVPA] was the first comprehensive federal U.S. law addressing human trafficking with a plan for ending what is often referred to as modern slavery. Part of TVPA charged federal health service providers with finding victims and offering them benefits provided by the new law, but despite their outreach efforts it’s estimated less than one percent of victims came forward for assistance. In 2003, TVPA was reauthorized with more extensive amendments, and the Rescue and Restore program was created to increase public awareness about the horrors of human trafficking, a factor which posed a serious barrier to successfully identifying and assisting victims. With CIA estimates that 500,000 victims of trafficking are brought into the United States and the United Nations claiming 4 million people are trafficked worldwide annually, most of us have likely encountered a trafficked person at some point and not known it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">So where are these women, men and children who have been forced to endure slave-like conditions and where can we find them in Portland? Despite 33 percent of the opening anecdotes being about men and boys trafficked for labor, only 20 percent of trafficking is of males and less than half of all trafficking is for labor. Considering 75 percent of female victims are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation, a boom industry in Portland, it was rightly stated by speaker Mohamed Y. Mattar that, “too many people in this country do not understand the link between prostitution and crime, between prostitution and AIDS, between prostitution and trafficking.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mattar is an Adjunct Professor of Law and Co-Director of The Protection Project of the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and he is quick to implicate sexually oriented businesses in the multiple human rights offenses that surround human trafficking. “In fact, in most cases women are trafficked in this country to work in strip clubs, massage parlors and other sexually oriented establishments that are used as fronts for prostitution and rely on public misconceptions that such activities are harmless expressions of adult sexuality.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Mattar recounted that Portland’s Broadway Massage was closed for sexual exploitation and prostitution, Officer Greg Duvic of the Portland Police Vice Division offered, “Every escort agency, every massage business we have ever investigated has turned out to be a front for prostitution.” Duvic assisted with an undercover effort to expose the so-called “escort” ads in the back of Portland’s alternative weekly papers for the illegal prostitution they obviously are. The sting operation definitively identified at least 80 percent of escort ads were for prostitution, and as Duvic, a seven-year veteran of the vice division, added, “The other 20 percent just took the money and left.” He mentioned what it took to dislodge his own misconceptions about the harmlessness of sexual capitalism, “When I first started as a cop many years ago I thought prostitution was not a big deal, that the girls were making good money and chose to be there. Now I know it’s an evil, horrible crime, the worst destruction that can happen to a person.” He estimates there are at least 2,000 adult women currently being prostituted in Portland, a destination stop on an organized crime circuit that moves women and children up and down the west coast.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prevalence of interstate trafficking as evidenced by large networks of organized crime underscores that the term trafficking does not only apply to foreign citizens coerced, forced or frauded into prostitution but also to U.S. citizens similarly exploited. Most U.S. state prostitution laws treat prostituted people as criminals. They are arrested more often than the pimps and johns who demand sexual servitude from these vulnerable populations, despite the Department of Justice’s 2003 finding that the average age of entry into the U.S. sex industry is 13. New amendments in the reauthorized TVPA reclassify prostituted people as victims of sexual exploitation and provide an outline for administering assistance, but meeting the conditions for assistance can still let many sexually brutalized victims fall through the cracks.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Brian Willis of ECPAT-USA (Ending Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes-USA) gave the following example of how the best laws against sexual slavery are inadequate if public perception of prostitution doesn’t change. A brothel in Queens could be raided and a 10-year-old prostituted child from Honduras can be given federal assistance while a 10-year-old prostituted child from Brooklyn is sent to jail.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">It sounds too unbelievable to be true, but as New York Times writer Leslie Kaufman revealed in a Sept. 15 article, a 12-year-old prostituted child was sentenced to a secure juvenile detention center by a Bronx Family Court judge who said she needed to get “proper moral principles.’’ Well-intentioned laws are not enough, and changing pervasive public myths that maintain prostitution is a choice and is driven by willing sex workers is crucial to ending the abuses of sex trafficking. The sex industry deliberately hides the truth that the true cause of sex trafficking is not the free choice of prostitutes but men’s demand for and sense of entitlement to prostituted bodies, usually those of young girls and women.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Says Willis, “Decreasing men’s demand for bodies to sexually abuse needs to become a larger part of the Rescue and Restore strategy.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Focusing on demand reduction is a position Patricia Barrera feels adamant about. As an advocate for prostituted people for more than a decade and Director of Community Education for the Lola Greene Baldwin Foundation, a Portland nonprofit organization assisting survivors of the sex industry, Barrera couldn’t agree more. “For far too long, men have gotten away with believing they could buy women and children with impunity. Those days must come to a close. We need incarceration, certainly, and we also need intensive and extensive diversion programs and treatment programs for this population of sex offenders. And we better do it quick, because people are literally dying from their behavior.”</span></div><div><br />
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<h1 style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #564863; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Small Voices: The Story Behind the Film</span></h1><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #707070; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="font-size: 9px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #003366;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EDITOR'S NOTE:</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #003366;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Small Voices: The Stories of Cambodia's Children</span> is a documentary produced and directed by CCC member and volunteer, Heather Connell. Member-generated material that forwards pro-social action can be spotlighted in (it) magazine -- whether it is a PSA, a full-length documentary, an article or photo essay, we encourage you to submit story ideas that help fuel people's passion to make a difference. Please enjoy this background essay on Heather's own passion project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was well over 100 degrees with 100% humidity the morning I arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in early March of 2006. Despite the fact my photographer Theresa and I had just spent a VERY long 24 hours of travel time crammed into the most decrepit airplane ever -- I was feeling energized. After a year's worth of pre-production, I was finally ready to begin filming on my documentary <span style="font-style: italic;">Small Voices: The Stories Of Cambodia's Children</span>, an in depth examination of the struggles of the street and garbage dump children who live and work in a society that has largely forgotten them.<br />
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I couldn't wait to get started -- as we took a taxi to our hotel on the Tonle Sap River, I begin planning how I would find the street children. Where did they hang out? What part of the city did they live and beg? I decided I would spend that first day speaking to people and finding where these children were so I could begin my work. First, I decided to walk from our hotel to a nearby store to buy some bottled water. </span><img alt="" src="http://www.itmagazine.net/_images/Sleeping%20on%20Street%20SM.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; height: 132px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; width: 194px;" /><span style="font-size: large;">In those three dusty, grimy blocks, children and beggars besieged me. A sickly woman with a naked baby held her hand out from where she sat looking up at me from the curb. Poverty was everywhere and I'd only gone three blocks. I realized I didn't have to search for what I was looking for. All I had to do was open my eyes. I have since realized that this is a concept we should all pay more attention too. If we all take the time to just open our eyes to what is going on in the world around us and in our own backyard, what a difference we could make.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: 700;">FINDING MY WAY TO CAMBODIA</span><br />
How I found myself in Cambodia to begin with was a journey in itself that was much longer than a year in the making. I had moved to Los Angeles eight years ago with vague ideas of finding fame and fortune as a storyteller. Shortly after I arrived, the writer's guild went on strike and I began looking for other ways to stay creative. Without having the first clue about what I was doing, I decided to make a short film. While the film wasn't exactly a masterpiece, I become hooked on the idea of using visual media to raise awareness. Our collective attention span as a society is fairly short and the idea that film could be used a way to excite people about social issues and social awareness was very compelling. I founded Displaced Yankee Productions with that basic principal as a platform.<br />
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Several years later, I had grown quite a bit as a filmmaker and felt I was ready to expand my horizons beyond short film and branch into features. Documentary storytelling -- about real lives and events -- was a natural progression for me. There are literally thousands of stories just waiting to be told. I needed to find a niche that matched my passions. Children's issues have always been something that I have connected with on a personal level. </span><img alt="" src="http://www.itmagazine.net/_images/Look%20Closer%20SM.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; float: right; height: 189px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; width: 126px;" /><span style="font-size: large;">How the crises of poverty, health care, environment and education affect our children globally is of high importance to me. I was also interested in countries that had recently suffered genocides and how that had effected the subsequent generation of children. Cambodia was on a short list, but Darfur was top of my list. Then fate stepped in and planted me firmly on the path toward Cambodia.<br />
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I attended the premiere of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Hotel Rwanda</span> and found myself at the typical Hollywood after party face to face with Angelina Jolie. Anyone in the industry knows, you only get these kinds of opportunities once. I knew she was passionate about the issues in Cambodia, so the writer in me took over and I pitched her out of thin air on the Cambodian documentary I was already working on. The next morning, with her contact information in hand, I was frantically writing a proposal for my "current" project. While she ultimately did not become involved with the film, as soon as I really started to dive into the issues, I found my passion for it. I realized how off the map Cambodia was for most people. I would talk about my project with strangers and friends alike and many of them didn't even know Cambodia has suffered genocide or that is was in Southeast Asia. Often, people would tell me how wonderful it was I was going to Africa. In fact, most of them only knew that <span style="font-style: italic;">Tomb Raider</span> had been filmed there. I realized I had found a story that needed to be told.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: 700;">WHAT GOOD ARE MY GOOD INTENTIONS?</span><br />
A year later, I was wondering if I had taken on more than I could handle emotionally. I had been there less then a day and was already overwhelmed by the problems. Worn down and hungry, Theresa and I had collapsed into chairs at an outdoor restaurant to rest and refuel. The food was wonderful, but it was hard keeping our appetites and our composure when confronted by the scores of hungry children trying to catch our eye. What do you do? Guilt, sadness, and anger over the situation...then a boy of about eight appeared next to me. He didn't want to be seen by the police lingering near the entrance, so he squatted down between two large potted plants next to my chair and looked up at us with big sad eyes. He pointed to my plate and then to his mouth, pleading. I didn't know the words, but I understood the language. It was heartbreaking. I palmed some vegetables into his hand and he shoved them into his mouth and scampered off. Theresa and I looked at our plates of food and wanted none of it. We continued to pick away. I was distracted and frustrated. Faced with something like that, how much difference does all my good intentions make? How much change can I really effect and does it really help? Certainly that boy cared nothing for documentaries. All he wanted was a bite to eat. It gave me a lot to think about.<br />
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Several days later, I found myself at Stung Meanchy, the city's garbage dump. I thought I was prepared for this. I really did. After all, I have read about it, heard about it, even seen pictures of it. This is why I'm here. But I was utterly unprepared for the reality of the dump.<br />
</span><img alt="" src="http://www.itmagazine.net/_images/Dump%20Home%20SM.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; height: 179px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; width: 268px;" /><span style="font-size: large;">A heavy haze of smoke hung over acres upon acres of smoldering garbage. The landfill was enormous, stretching as far as the eye could see. Hundreds of people are picking through the refuse. The sting of the smoke in our eyes is nothing compared to the rotting, cloying smell. Standing in the dump are make-shift shelters <span style="font-style: italic;">-- homes --</span>for these desperately poor people. The conditions are not fit for any human being, let alone for children. Dozens and dozens and dozens of them. While some thankfully wore rubber boots, others were barefoot. Massive dump trucks and backhoes moved with surprising speed through the throngs of people, digging and dumping piles of fresh garbage. The children worked diligently and for the most part, silently. A new truck means new opportunity and as soon as one appears, everyone crowds for it -- so close it is easy to see how someone could be run over or buried in the rubble. I didn't know where to focus. The flies swarmed around me and the smoke filled my eyes. I tried not to breathe. There is another child picking through molded and rotten food. There is one wrapping himself in a piece of old carpet he has hooked out of the pile. An intelligent young man who spoke excellent English struck up a conversation with Theresa. He wanted to know if she knows why they are here, why they live and work here and where they come from. He was the picture of lost potential. Given just a fraction of an opportunity, imagine what these kids could accomplish or do.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: 700;">A CHILD DOES NOT KNOW THEY ARE A DROP IN THE BUCKET</span><br />
I knew in that moment that I would do whatever it took to see this project through and raise up the voices of children like that young man in the dump. Over the course of three years as I struggled with finding the resources and the emotional toll of making the project -- and the guilt of my own privilege, I would think of the children I had met, their quiet struggle and innate goodness while facing a bleak and uncertain future -- and I would be reinvigorated. The challenges I face would suddenly seem insignificant and trite when compared to the life of a boy in the dump who buries dead babies he finds to pay them respect. It really puts things in perspective.</span><img alt="" src="http://www.itmagazine.net/_images/Garbage%20Picks%20SM.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; height: 111px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; width: 166px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Cambodia continues to be one of the poorest countries in Asia, with nearly half of the population under the age of 18. Only 1.2% of the population goes on to achieve higher education. There is a growing health crisis, with Hepatitis A & B spreading at an alarming rate. With no access to education, clean water and health care, the situation for the street and garbage children of Cambodia can seem overwhelming and bleak. But in the course of this project, I have come to realize that it is impossible as an individual to change the big picture. However, the changes we can effect on an individual level will be the catalyst that turns the tide. </span><img alt="" src="http://www.itmagazine.net/_images/Dump%20Village%20Girl%20SM.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; float: right; height: 164px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; width: 110px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
It is often difficult to watch documentaries like Small Voices and <br style="color: #564863;" />walk away without wanting to do something. But often the problems <br style="color: #564863;" />seem so overpowering; it is an easy excuse for us to do nothing, <br style="color: #564863;" />thinking that it will not actually make a difference. But a child<br />
does not know they are a drop in the bucket. Whether that <br style="color: #564863;" />child in need is in Cambodia, Africa, or East Los Angeles - our <br style="color: #564863;" />obligation is the same. All we need to do is open our eyes.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="about-text" height="170" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 25px; text-decoration: none;" valign="top" width="721"><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: blue;">Robert Marcarelli</b>, an over twenty year award-winning filmmaker, has extensive experience in the film and television industries. This combined with his wide-ranging international relief work provides him with a unique skill set in bringing compelling stories to the screen. He has been awarded the highest honor, the Order of Merit and Grand Commander, for his humanitarian service by the Knights Templar.</span><br />
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</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">• 2011 “Knights of the Order” Director/Producer. Documentary. Filmed on location at WestPoint, NY and in Jerusalem, this film tells both ancient and modern tales of the Knights and Dames Templar.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">• 2010 “Not For Sale II: Join the Fight” Producer/Director Documentary. The Battle against human trafficking continues. This 30 minute, updated version of “Not For Sale…the Documentary” focuses on 5 heroes who are rescuing victims and fighting to see that the traffickers are prosecuted.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">• 2010 “Health Outreach to the Middle East” Producer/Director. Documentary. Filmed on location in Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Christian Arab-American doctors selflessly support medical clinics and hospitals in the Middle East and travel there to bring their much-needed expertise to the region.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">• 2009 “Awakening Cambodia” Producer/Director Documentary. Filmed on location in Cambodia. This exciting film chronicles the remarkable story of two missionaries, who in little over a decade have started more than 3000 churches and over 100 church orphan homes.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">• 2008 “Facing Extinction: Christians in Iraq” Director/Producer. Documentary. The heart wrenching story of the ancient community that is about to be wiped off the planet. Filmed on location in Iraq, Jordan, and Washington DC</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">• 2007 “Not For Sale…the Documentary” Director/Producer. Documentary. Compelling Worldwide Documentary on Slavery/Human Trafficking. Based on the book, Not For Sale by David Batstone</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">• 2002 “The Long Ride Home” Director/Producer Feature Film</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Starring: Randy Travis, Eric Roberts, Ernest Borgnine, and Garry Marshall</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• 1991 "An Empire Conquered" Director/ Exec. Producer Documentary</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Discovery Channel; Starring Joseph Campanella</span></blockquote></td></tr>
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</tbody></table></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918538958101843952.post-12293041493838876322012-01-03T09:39:00.000-05:002012-08-15T16:44:14.973-04:00BACKGROUND: SLAVERY IN THE U.S. TODAY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">It seems unbelievable. It conflicts with our deepest sense of what is possible in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">our country and our communities. Legal slavery was abolished in the United</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">States in 1865, yet now, once again, thousands of men, women and children</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">across the U.S. are held against their wills through brutal violence and threats. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They are forced to work and are paid nothing. This time, comprehensive laws are</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">already in place, but protection is simply not reaching many of those who need</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">assistance. The U.S. government estimates that between 15,000 and 18,000</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">people are trafficked into the country each year. Once inside the U.S., their slavery takes place out of sight, often in isolated farms, in red-light areas, inside</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">suburban homes and in concealed factories.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In Dreams Die Hard, Maria, “Miguel,” and Rose explain how they were trafficked</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">into slavery in America, what it took to get their freedom, and their hopes for the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">future. The film gives ideas about how law enforcement officers, social service</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">workers, and above all, citizens can reach out to trafficking victims to remove</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">them from slavery, give them access to justice, and restore their dignity and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rights.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">HOW DO PEOPLE END UP IN SLAVERY?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Although some of those in slavery are U.S. citizens, most have been trafficked</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">into the country from Asia, South and Central America, Russia, Eastern Europe,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and parts of Africa. They have often left regions that have collapsed economies,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and where there is a lack of opportunities for earning a living and education. </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They often come to the U.S. because someone approaches them and offers a better life; a chance at a steady job so they can send money home. </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Maria came as a legal resident with her family, and at 15, she wanted to contribute to the household income; “Miguel” came to do agricultural work, to pay for</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">treatment for his six year old son who had cancer; and Rose was promised an</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">American education in return for babysitting. But once separated from their</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">families and in a foreign country, the violence and coercion began. </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Some traffickers simply keep their victims under lock and key, but more often</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">they use a combination of techniques, including:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Debt bondage: “Miguel” faced beatings and death threats if he tried to leave</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the farm without paying back his “transportation costs.” On payday, the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">slaveholders subtracted inflated charges for rent and transportation, leaving</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">him just enough to buy food.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Dreams Die Hard </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Study Guide</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">February 2006</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Physical abuse:</b> Maria was terrorized: raped, beaten and abused. “Miguel”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">saw other farm workers with appalling injuries because they had attempted to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">escape. Starvation, confinement, and other forms of violence are used—especially in the early stages of victimization—to traumatize the individual and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">make them easier to control.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• <b>Psychological manipulation and threats to family:</b> The man who held Maria</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">captive said he was a 'brujo' or witch, who could read her mind and would kill</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">her family if she tried to leave the house. Other women in sexual slavery are</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">controlled through forced drug use and threats of being shamed in home</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">communities.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Other techniques include</span><br />
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</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">isolation from the public, </span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>confiscation of passports and </b><b>visas, and </b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">telling victims they will be put in prison if they contact the authorities.</span></b></li>
</ul>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT KINDS OF WORK ARE SLAVES DOING IN THE U.S.?</span></b><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Slaves are forced to work as domestic servants, as migrant agricultural laborers,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as prostitutes and in sex shows and pornography, as sweatshop workers, and in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">service industries such as food services and landscaping. Working whatever</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hours are demanded, many of these slaves are living in conditions unimaginable</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the U.S. today. “Miguel” was confined in a building that was hidden in plain</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sight between a holiday resort and a Florida highway and describes sleeping in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cramped living quarters, six men to a room.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Slavery in prostitution and sex services:</span></b> Forced prostitution and commercial</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sexual exploitation of children are part of the “sex markets” in the U.S., that are</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">often controlled by organized crime networks. Sex traffickers usually recruit victims of their own nationality or ethnic background. Migrant smuggling enterprises run by Asian, Mexican, and Eastern European organized crime networks feed victims into both sex slavery and other kinds of forced labor.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The man who held Maria was found to have a history of buying young girls from Mexico and </span><span style="font-size: large;">trading them in when they turned 20.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Domestic slavery:</span></b> Every year, U.S. citizens and foreign nationals bring thousands</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of domestic workers into the country, and some of them suffer abuse. Domestic</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">workers have few legal protections, and because their work goes on in private</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">homes, their conditions are rarely monitored. This makes it easy for domestic</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">workers to be turned into slaves.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Agricultural slavery:</span></b> Farm workers, especially migrant workers, are particularly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">vulnerable to forced labor. Legal protections for all agricultural workers are weak,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and there is little monitoring of work conditions. Remote locations and insulation</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of immigrant work crews from the wider community add to their precarious circumstance to create conditions in which slavery can thrive.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT HAPPENS TO SLAVES?</span></b><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The experience of being trafficked can end in many ways:</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Trafficking victims are known to have died: for example, when a fire sweeps</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the house where they are locked in, in accidents on building sites, of disease</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in rural work camps, and by being murdered by their exploiters.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Others are discarded when, through injury or illness, they become useless to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">their exploiter. For women forced into prostitution this may happen at the onset of HIV infection.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Some trafficking victims escape. When they run away their situation is very</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">unstable, like Rose who found herself alone in a parking lot with no jacket and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">no money. They are at the mercy of whomever they encounter. Fortunately in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Rose’s case she knew of just one person who could help her and she managed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to get in touch with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• When they turn to officials, trafficking victims may get harsh treatment if the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">police officer or immigration staff regards the escaped victim as an illegal immigrant. Although some law enforcement officials have immediately rescued</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and protected people in slavery, there have been tragic situations where police simply failed to recognize slavery. Proper training is crucial.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Many of those who escape slavery in the U.S. do so because a stranger takes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">an interest and notices that something is wrong. The concerned person may</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">call the police or a trafficking hotline or contact a local social service agency.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Social service organizations like those featured in this film are vital in the rescue of victims and in their struggle for justice. These included: Casa of Maryland, the Coalition for Immokalee Workers in Florida, and the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking in California.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT HELP ARE TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS ENTITLED TO?</span></b><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 enables survivors to apply for a special “T-visa,” to be able to stay in the U.S. while they rebuild their lives and seek</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">justice. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">First, trafficking victims need to be certified by the Department of Health</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and Human Services (DHHS) to say that they have been trafficked and are willing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to assist with prosecuting their traffickers. Then they can claim important federally funded services: housing assistance, food, income, employment assistance,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">English language training, health care, and counseling. (See DHHS website on</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">assistance available: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/about/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">victim_assist.html)</span><br />
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</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZATIONS WHO ASSISTED THE </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS IN THIS FILM:</span></b><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Crisis House:</b> The film mentions the coalition of over 40 agencies working in the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">San Diego area against cross-border trafficking. Crisis House, who partnered in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the making of this film, is an active member of that coalition. Crisis House is a</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">non-profit social service organization, which helps disenfranchised individuals and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">families overcome barriers to self-sufficiency. Their Project Safe Haven program</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">is designed to specifically address the needs of people who have been trafficked. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Website: www.crisishouse.org</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST):</b> Since 1998, CAST has assisted more than 200 victims of trafficking. As well as sheltering and assisting</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">trafficking victims, CAST partners with law enforcement and government agencies to prosecute traffickers. CAST provides training and outreach to other</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">groups working against trafficking, as well as affected communities and the general public. In 2005, they are conducting a nationwide training program in 23</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cities targeting non-profits, law enforcement, and government agencies. Website:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">www.castla.org</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Coalition for Immokalee Workers (CIW):</b> Begun in 1993, CIW is a communitybased organization whose members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout Florida. CIW organizes for fair</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">wages, stronger legal action against those violating workers' rights, and the right</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for workers to organize. CIW’s worker-led legal investigations have brought hundreds of people out of slavery. CIW trains law enforcement and social service</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">workers in assisting people in slavery. Its boycott of the fast food company Taco</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Bell led to better wages and conditions for workers supplying the company. Website: www.ciw-online.org</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Casa of Maryland: </b> Founded in 1985, CASA of Maryland serves immigrants from</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as U.S. citizens. CASA’s legal services</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">program represents day-laborers, domestic employees and other vulnerable</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">workers whose rights are violated, including those rescued from slavery. CASA</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">supports immigrant workers in crisis by assisting women to escape from abusive</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">situations, providing temporary shelter in private homes, and enabling them to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">access social services to which they are entitled. Website:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">www.casademaryland.org</span><br />
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</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM THE STORIES OF THESE </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">SURVIVORS?</span></b><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some ideas:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• In order to close down trafficking operations throughout the U.S., everyone</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">needs to be well informed about trafficking. Law enforcement officers need to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">know what to do when they confront slavery. At the same time slavery is so</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">concealed that it requires all of us to be alert and ready to respond.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Trafficking victims need all kinds of help to heal, rebuild their lives, and secure</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">justice. To help meet these needs, in many communities, concerned individuals and organizations are coming together to form anti-trafficking task forces</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">including law enforcement, immigration attorneys, shelters, translators, counselors, and faith communities. These task forces carefully plan their response</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to cases of slavery, as well as undertaking targeted outreach and publicity.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• The lack of basic legal protections for domestic workers, migrant agricultural</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">workers, and other vulnerable workers opens the door to abuses like slavery. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They need better laws and more active enforcement of these laws. Also, support groups of such workers can be a starting point for learning about their</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rights, taking action against exploitation, and reaching out to those in slavery.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Anti-trafficking organizations around the U.S. need more resources so they</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">can rescue more people and give greater assistance to trafficking survivors.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">USING THE FILM WITH A GROUP</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The following are some ideas on using the documentary with a group to generate</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">discussion:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• The documentary lasts approx. 36 minutes. Allow at least 30 minutes to discuss the documentary.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Encourage people to make notes as they watch about particular ideas that</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">strike them for discussion later.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• After the film, ask people what they learned. For example, why do people</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">end up in slavery? What can be done to help? Who might be vulnerable in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">your region?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Do members of your group want to respond in some practical way? What</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ideas do they have for making responses to slavery? Here are some ideas:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o show the film and raise awareness about modern slavery with other</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">groups;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o circulate the Community Member’s Guide among social service agencies,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">faith groups, and immigrant communities where you live;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o find out whether there is an anti-trafficking task force in your region, and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">whether effective training is taking place to prepare all the relevant organizations to work together to assist trafficking victims. If not, approach such organizations to discuss the need for such a task force and training.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o provide funds and other resources for anti-trafficking organizations like</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">those featured in the film and for Free the Slaves;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o continue to learn together about other forms of slavery around the world</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and in the U.S. (see resources below).</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Free the Slaves provides a range of resources and ideas for further involvement by groups and individuals in the anti-slavery movement (all available</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">through our website: www.freetheslaves.net). These include:</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o<b> Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. </b>Kevin Bales,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">President of Free the Slaves, describes modern slavery as a global phenomenon and investigates how it exists in five countries. This award winning book lifts the lid on slavery’s role in our lives.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o <b>Community Member's Guide.</b> This booklet explains slavery and trafficking</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the US and around the world. There are stories of survivors and of their</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rescuers, an overview of actions the government is taking, and a list of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">practical steps you can take to identify and assist trafficking victims in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">your region. Purchase copies or download from our website for free.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o <b>Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States.</b> This report, done in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">collaboration with the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley examines the numbers and origins of victims and perpetrators of forced labor, as well as the industries and locations where forced labor hasbeen found in the U.S. It also explores the adequacy of the U.S. response</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and makes recommendations.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o <b>Dreams Die Hard: 36-minute DVD.</b> This documentary profiles several individuals who were trapped in different forms of slavery in locations across</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the U.S. Individual stories show how they were enslaved, how they</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">gained their freedom and their hopes today. The stories also show how</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">organizations and individuals stepped in to assist them to freedom.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o <b>Modern Slavery: </b>10-minute video. This short video features stories from</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Slavery: A Global Investigation (see below), and is a tool for raising</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">awareness about modern slavery.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o <b>The Silent Revolution: </b>Sankalp and the quarry slaves: 18-minute DVD. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This inspirational film follows a group of stone-breakers held in slavery</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who finally win the right to run their own quarry. Explores how people in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">slavery can create their own path to freedom with support from grassroots</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">organizations.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o<b> Slavery: A Global Investigation. </b> 80-minute video. This documentary exposes cases of slavery in the rug-making sector of India, the cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, and the homes of diplomats in Washington, D.C. The documentary shows how slavery fits into the global economy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o <b>Education pack:</b> For use at schools and universities: Contains lesson plans</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">organized around the topics of modern slavery, slavery and human rights,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">slavery throughout history, and debt bondage. Downloadable from our</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">website.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Trafficking: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Department of Health and Human Services Trafficking hotline for reporting</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">possible trafficking cases, and referring victims for support by local nonprofits and social service organizations: 888-373-7888</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition: www.bsccoalition.org</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Freedom Network: www.freedomnetworkusa.org</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">• Protection Project: www.protectionproject.org</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Free the Slaves is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to ending</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">slavery worldwide. We have 501(c)3 registration as Anti-Slavery International,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Inc.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Free the Slaves</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1012 14th St NW, Suite 600</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Washington, DC 20005</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Phone: 202-638-1865</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Toll Free: 866-324-FREE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Fax: 202-638-0599</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">E-mail: info@freetheslaves.net</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Website: www.freetheslaves.net</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dreams Die Hard Study Guide</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Introduction to Slavery: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Free the Slaves—website<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disposable People—Chapter<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Kinds of slavery:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Domestic<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Bonded labor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Sexual<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Countries where slavery exists<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> China/North Korea<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Russia<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Latin America<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> USA/Canada<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Middle East<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Southeast Asia—Cambodia Laos Philippines Vietnam Thailand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> India/Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Nepal/Bangladesh<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Movies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.thegirlsofphnompenh.com/">The Girls of Phnom Penh</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.mtvexit.org/multimedia/"> MTV Exit</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dyXxUS7Nk">Born into Brothels</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_AtgGNDzA">Holly</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTR2_Th150">Human Trafficking</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUxdQ4q-Lg">Taken</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm1osJ9Lgm0">Hardcore</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_803246724"> </a><b><a href="http://notmylife.org/">Not My Life</a><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Total Brokenness</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.notforsalefilm.com/nfs1.html">Not for Sale</a></span></b><br />
<b> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://smallvoicesmovie.com/">Small Voices</a></span></b><br />
<b> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/6669136">Awakening Cambodia</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Books:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Next-Door-Trafficking-Slavery/dp/0520268660/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542998&sr=1-3">Disposable People</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Road-Lost-Innocence-Cambodian-Heroine/dp/0385526229/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542304&sr=1-2-fkmr0">The Road of Lost Innocence</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Monstrous-Face---Face-Modern-Day/dp/0743290089/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542906&sr=1-1">A Crime so Monstrous</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Natashas-Inside-New-Global-Trade/dp/1559707798/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542784&sr=1-1">Natashas</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Brothel-Undercover-Journey-Trafficking/dp/0830838066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325542625&sr=8-1">God in a Brothel</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Underworld/dp/1400095123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542713&sr=1-1">McMafia: A Journey Through the Criminal Underworld</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-About-Injustice-Updated-Anniversary/dp/0830837108/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325542671&sr=1-1">Good News About Injustice</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Invisible-Chains-Canadas-Underground-Trafficking/dp/067006453X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b">Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking</a></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Not-Sale-Return-Global-Trade--/dp/0061998834/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325598323&sr=8-1">Not for Sale</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ngo’s:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.freetheslaves.net/">Free the Slaves: Kevin Bales</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.ijm.org/">International Justice Mission: Gary Haugen</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://agapewebsite.org/">Agape International: Don Brewster</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://love146.org/dr-glenn-miles">Love 146: Glenn Miles</a> <a href="file://localhost/javascript/main.compose('new',%20't=glenn@love146.org')"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: purple; font-family: Arial;">glenn@love146.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://worldhope.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=105">World Hope: Kristen Wiebe</a> <a href="file://localhost/javascript/addSender(%2522Kristin%20Wiebe%20%253Ckristinwiebe@worldhope.net%253E%2522)"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3a2eb5; font-family: Arial;">Kristin Wiebe <kristinwiebe@worldhope.net></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.chabdai.org/canada.html">Chab Dai: Toronto</a>: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Julia Smith-Brake </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: purple; font-family: Arial;"><a href="file://localhost/javascript/main.compose('new',%20't=julia.smithbrake@chabdai.org')">julia.smithbrake@chabdai.org</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.timpaton.info/">Bong Paoeun: Tim Paton</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.ratanak.org/">Ratanak: Brian McConaghey</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://hischild-international.com/">HIS Child: WEC: Robert and Judith</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.riverviewchildrensfoundation.com/index.php/projects/cambodia/teen-challenge-cambodia.html">Teen Challenge: Koy Chim</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Jacob’s Well: Frank <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> International Christian Assembly<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.hagarinternational.org/">Hagar</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.daughtersofcambodia.org/">Daughters of Cambodia</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> Gary and Bev Laing: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Arial;">Crosslands Church, Newmarket</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="mailto:glaing@paoc.org">glaing@paoc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.compassion.ca/"> Compassion International</a></span><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/6908792"><span style="font-size: large;">Michelle Tolentino: a life transformed</span></a><br />
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