It
was pretty bleak.
The gist was 2 girls who were best friends,
one 15 years old and one 17 years old, were
orphaned and both looking for work.
A neighbor told them she knew of a job across
town. She gave them a ride to the Really Bad
Sex Slave Nigerian Guy, was paid $120 and some
crack, and they were enslaved in sex trafficking.
Sex slaves are “broken in” by
gang rape, drugs and sleep deprivation. These
children are forced to pimp themselves out 12
hours a night, are given little time for sleep,
and are subject to forced abortions.
All pretty bad stuff. After reading the article
"South
Africa's Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop
It", all I could do was ball my eyes
out.
In the article,
a local pastor (born-again Christian, formerly
in the South African special forces) had bought
bus tickets for about two dozen women, but with
the forced drug-addiction and no rehabilitation,
many of them return to their captors.
I’ve been thinking…wouldn’t
it be cool to create a “home for girls”
– some kind of nice, large house where
they could get cleaned up and start over? I
envision a safe place with…
