Child Torture

I recently wrote a paper on child trafficking to and from Latin America, Europe, and Asia. I was dismayed and appalled at the research I had to read to write the paper. Many of the children were taken from their homes and locked in cold, dark, damp cellars with little to no food for days before they were transported to new locations. These children were forced to walk late at night for miles at a time and pushed to keep going. When they couldn’t walk any more they were beaten until they agreed to walk. Many of the children were used in child pornographies, sold as sex slaves or general slaves without pay, and many were killed merely for their bodily organs. Parents in these third world countries will sell their children so they can afford to live and many parents believe their children will have better lives. This isn’t the case though. These children are tortured and mentally abused by the traffickers and by those who buy them. Many of the girls are sold into sex brothels and prostitution rings before they even reach their teens. I had a rough time trying to do the presentation that went along with the paper because I feel that children are our future and should be respected and allowed to grow up playing and laughing and having fun. It makes me mad that there are people out there who would hurt an innocent child for nothing more than money. They don’t care that they are hurting the child or that they are using the child to get money or drugs. I see this as a form of torture and maybe, I am stretching this here, but even a form of Scarry’s interrogation, especially during their transportation. These children were forced to walk miles and beaten or threatened if they didn’t walk fast enough or weren’t quiet enough. Their confession would be the act in which stops the beatings or threats. The betrayal is to their selves because their bodies are what need the rest, but they force their bodies to keep going. My heart goes out to all those children who have suffered at the hands of another.