Instead of going to a women’s battered shelter to feel safe and secure, women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico were getting the opposite. Soledad Griensen Porras, the director of the women’s shelter, was arrested on Tuesday night for making the women who stayed in the shelter perform sexual acts for strangers. It is also suspected that even children as young as five years were told to do have sex. “The children had been beaten and had ‘chile put on their private parts’". As someone who plans to work with domestic violence victims in the future this really saddens me; the women are going from one hell to another. It is a shame that this shelter was turned into a brothel.
I believe things like this cause further “feminization of poverty”. Women will not feel they have a safe place to go after they have been abused by their spouses or boyfriends and will just remain on the streets. What other choice do they really have? It states in our textbook that although women are being treated better than they were in the past they still are victims of many things such as violence, and sexual exploitation. This statistics show that one in three women will experience violence during her lifetime, most often at the hands of someone she knows, and two million girls under age fifteen are forced into the sex trade each year. One of the solutions of someone who is in an abusive relationship is to go to battered women’s shelter; and now for many Mexican women this option is no longer a solution.
October 21st, 2011 12:48am
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