A battered two year old girl was taken to a hospital in New Delhi by a 14 year old girl who claimed to be the mother of the child. Despite two months of medical treatment, the child died. The entire country was tuned in to this case. Upon investigation, the police discovered that the 14 year old was not the mother of the child. The teenager had been sold into a brothel and she began living with a man she met at the brothel. The man she met had sold his wife to another man. This woman was the real mother of the child. After being sold by her husband to another man, she was forced to leave the child along with her two other children with the 14 year old girl. This was declared to be a case of human trafficking. It also turned out to be one of the biggest sex rackets involving minor, child prostitution, and the sale of women for marriage. India is already listed by the U.S. State Department as a Tier 2 country. This means India is not doing nearly enough to combat the problem of human trafficking. Those from the lowest social economic strata are the ones targeted the most by traffickers. Ninety percent of the the human trafficking occurring in India is internal. The laws against trafficking in India are not being effectively enforced according to some critics.
This story is heartbreaking but it sheds a light on how human trafficking affects more than just the person who is trafficked. This innocent child, though not trafficked herself, became a victim of this senseless crime. How many other children are there that are suffering due to the positions their mothers have been put in by traffickers and pimps? How many unwanted pregnancies and abortions are occurring due to forced prostitution and sexual exploitation? How many of these children born due to rape and forced prostitution end up sexually abused and forced into the prostitution themselves? I dare say that the numbers are staggering regarding these questions. It is bad enough that the one being trafficked is a victim, but how often due we consider all of the other victims who are most times just unwanted products of this hideous crime of human trafficking?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-17/baby-death-shines-spotlight-on-trafficking/3894290/?site=newcastle
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