Heartbreaking story of a 12-year-old girl forced into prostitution

 

Read..This is the news for you ....peeps ...always come back for more ...culled from LIB

 

..click here only if you are using your phone  http://pin.bbm.com/C002329DA to join to our bbm channel, or just search bbmchannel  prettypeoplenaija

NOW THE NEWS IN FULL.....

Oct 27th 2015, 09:54

Article written by Nicholas Kristoff for The New York Times. Quite interesting! Read below...

When readers hear about 'modern slavery', they may roll their eyes & assume that's an exaggeration. Slavery? Really? Modern slavery?. If you're one of the doubters, then listen to Poonam Thapa, a teenage girl I met here in Nepal, where she is putting her life back together after being sold to a brothel'

Poonam Thapa was poor and uneducated when a woman offered an escape in the form of a well-paying job.

     "You can have a better life," Poonam remembers the woman saying. "And if you make good money, you will be respected by your father. You can help your family."

So Poonam, then age 12, ran off with the woman. When Poonam was eventually deposited in a brothel in Mumbai, India, she was puzzled. 

     "I didn't even know what a brothel was," she recalls.

The brothel owner, a woman, dolled her up in a skimpy dress, equipped her with falsies, and gave her heels. Then the owner sold Poonam's virginity to an older man.

     "The man raped me," Poonam says. "I didn't know what he was doing. But I was bleeding and hurting and crying."

 

The brothel owner sternly told Poonam to buck up — she had paid $1,700 for Poonam and needed to recover her investment. So Poonam was locked inside the brothel, forced to have sex with 20 to 25 men a day, and more on Sundays and holidays. There were no days off, no trips outside the brothel, and, of course, no pay.

 

One day Poonam was hurting and refused a customer. She says the brothel-owner beat her and burned her with cigarettes; she showed me the scars.

 

Poonam thus became one of 20.9 million people worldwide — a quarter of them children — subjected to forced labor, according to the U.N.'sInternational Labour Organization. In the United States, tens of thousands of children are trafficked into the sex trade each year.

 

Men visiting Poonam's brothel paid $2.50 for sex and were sometimes oblivious to the brutality, flattering themselves that the girls liked their work. They see girls who often smile; no one is holding a gun to their heads.

 

Poonam responded with what so many others have said: The smiles are on the outside, even as girls are crying inside.

 

     "We were told to smile, because a smile is money and will pull in customers," Poonam said. The girls were also ordered to say that they were over 18 and working voluntarily.

 

Then one day police raided the brothel. Warned by the brothel owner that the police would torture her if they found she was a child or trafficked, Poonam claimed that she was 23 and working voluntarily, but the police could see that she was a child and took her to a shelter.

 

Indian authorities returned Poonam to the care of Maiti Nepal, a leading anti-trafficking organization. Now Poonam is studying to be a social worker in hopes of helping other trafficked girls. A new study suggests that post-traumatic stress disorder is frequent among those who have been trafficked.

 

Anuradha Koilara, founder of Maiti Nepal, notes that there has been a bit of progress against sex trafficking of Nepali girls. A crucial step, whether in Nepal or the United States, is ending the impunity for pimps and traffickers, and Koirala says that Maiti Nepal has helped prosecute 800 people for involvement in trafficking. In America as well, we need to prosecute traffickers rather than their victims.

KEEP SCROLLING TO THE END ...WE STILL GOT LOTS MORE .......

Revenge is a Poison meant for others, which we end up swallowing ourselves. Vengence is a Dark Light that blinds all who seek it. Don’t argue with Idiots.. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Source : http://www.coolnsmart.com/wise_quotes/

                                                     

YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...

A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.

"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".

Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"

The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life.

What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.

Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.

Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)

LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.

Have a beautiful Week !

 

 

..click here only if you are using your phone  http://pin.bbm.com/C002329DA to join to our bbm channel, or just search bbmchannel  prettypeoplenaija

unsubscribe from this feed,

..click here only if you are using your phone  http://pin.bbm.com/C002329DA to join to our bbm channel, or just search bbmchannel  prettypeoplenaija

Related Posts:

Tweet