The International Organization of Migration is pushing for stiffer punishment for child traffickers to serve as a deterrent to others. A man by the name of David Terzi is trying to raise money to help the IOM help put the anti-trafficking unit at he Criminal Investigation Department at the police Headquarters in Ghana. He also said in his interview that the leaders of the government should take a field trip to the places that have the highest accounts of children being taken for trafficking. I feel that just trying to get anbti-traffiking police is not enough. How can they get the police if they don’t know the first thing about wear they are taking the children or how the traffickers are equipped. Even if they did know who they were dealing with, or what the traffickers are capable of. They could possibly harm one of the children to protect themselves or even worse. I feel as if a person is willing to buy and sell children as if they were property is sickening. But I also feel that if the anti-trafficking police were to find the traffickers I am afraid of what they might do to the children to save them selves. And I also believe that the first thing on the anti-traffickers police’s mind should be how to get the children out safely when ever they do find traffickers.
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I'm slighly confused, are the children traffickers being punished to set example, or are the people who purchase being more harshly punished?
I think the children in these situations need more help than anti-trafficking police, they need security in their life so they won't have to sell themselves.
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