Ok, I stumbled on this as I was surfing the net. There, I read multiple stories of each survivor’s story and suddenly I felt sadness for those people who had went through it. It’s about kids being sold as slaves in poor countries. I stumble on one, she said her parents always fought, she never felt loved. She was sold and served as a slave. Often she was beaten. She tried running away only to get capture again and then beaten even worse but she managed to eloped with a boy. Soon they were married but both were involved in a car accident. She injured her legs and came to realized that her husband had abandoned her, left her to fend for herself. She later found herself at a homeless shelter and there she still resides not fully recovered from the accident. She thinks she is priceless. It’s so heartbroken that someone can sell their own child just for a couple hundred dollars ($500 in her case). There are many similar stories like this one and there really isn’t anything that can be done about this. I just hate to think that these parents would sell their child just for a few bucks. I can’t fathom these thoughts. I know it happens everywhere. Why is the world so corrupted? There is another story of a disabled boy who got sold at the age of five by his mother and brother. The reason he was sold was because of his disability. He remembers that day as he saw the strange people handing his mother money and then found himself leaving with them. He was forced to beg for money on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand along with other kids that has been sold. He recalls being so hungry and weak that he couldn’t even crawl when he was out begging. Soon he got sick and used a stick to support him when walking as this disease affected his legs. He was retrieved by Thai polices and stayed in confinement for weeks. There he was beaten by older inmates because of his disability. Finally he was transferred to a shelter and there he shares his story. I only read a few because it got emotional for me. I only hope that these problems in the world don’t progress and decreases but I know it won’t. Poverty is too high everywhere, even in America. I only hope.
That is so sad!! Like you said, they are selling there children for a small amount of money that is virtually gone in an instance! WOW :(
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's messed up! It's amazing to think about the horrible things we as a people are able to do to each other.....hard to believe.
ReplyDeleteSuch disappointing stories. I think they should cause us to be better people in response and serve what Lincoln called, "the better angels of our nature".
ReplyDeleteWow! Those are some very sad stories. I hate hearing about such incidents where children are bought and sold like slaves. It is very heartbreaking! I agree with you that I would like to hope these types of situations would end, but we all know they won't. It is very sad how horrible this world and the people within it can be.
ReplyDeleteIt's horrible what people do to children. So many people would love to have a child and yet others cause harm to theirs. Which in a lot of cases death. We live in a sad sad place today. It's terrible that we see on the news weekly that a person has killed a child.
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