Prostitution, house girls, drug traffickers, combat fighting, child soldiers, and even sacrifices in rituals are just a few of the things child traffickers force young children to do. Many of these children become one of those horrible things listed because of their parents. Their parents are approached by child trafficker that feed the parent bogus stories about how they are going to take their children to the city or overseas to give them an education. Many parents go along with cause of their greed. They see there children as a way to get them wealth and riches.
Many of these children that are “harvested” are sold overseas. In traveling to these far away places the go through very harsh traveling conditions. They must travel by boat air, sea, or road and many of them lose their lives. Many of the teen aged girls that have are being trafficked have been forced into prostitution. One of the leading countries in the sex trade that trades with Nigeria is Italy. With Belgium and the Netherlands close behind.
People in Nigeria believe that the government should place laws to prevent child trafficking. The types of laws the feel that should be put into action is that people should not be allowed to have more than three children. They feel that having more than three children heightens the risk of these children being trafficked due to the fact that their parents would not be able to take care of them.
I think that many people are not aware at what some people will do to children for a dollar or how they would deceive their parents who only want a better life for their children and themselves. I also feel that the world needs to wakeup and realize that children lose their lives every day because a few people want to bring them pain and suffering.
http://www.tribune.com.ng/24082008/opinion2.html
4 comments:
This is such a harsh reality in our world. It breaks my heart to hear such practices, because children are very innocent. No child deserves to be put through the horror of rape. I could imagine the mental agony that a child would face going through such tragedies. I believe it is a tragedy because its a death of some sort, a death of their innocence.
The trafficking of humans, more specifically children, is devastating. I definitely agree with the Nigerian people when they ask for assistance from the government in protecting their children. While the limitation of families to only three children does seem to be a possible solution, I fear that so many other problems would arise from this "solution". The drowning of girl-children, as we saw in China with the limited birth laws, seems to be only one of many negative outcomes of this limitation.
I was drawn to this post because it had to do with my class topic. It shocked me that stuff like this goes on in the world. At times i forget that parents in other countries are not able to provide the same opportunities for their children that parents in America are and that because of this children are being mistreated.
All I can say is wow. It is crazy what goes on in this world for money. I think that the Nigerian government needs to stop these child traffickers. Also, by limiting child birth, internationally it would help, but would that really solve the problem of "selling kids for money?" It is horrible to see these kids go through so much tragedy, and just to think of the psychological damage they may suffer from everything is very heart breaking.
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