As many of you know, I am a fan of True Crime books. Just yesterday, I was browsing www.Amazon.com for new true crime books to buy. While I was browsing, I happen to see a book about a rescue of 37 girls, ages 5 to 14 from Cambodia whom were being held in a brothel against their will for money making purposes. The name of the book is,”Terrify No More” by Gary Haugen.
Here is a picture of the cover of the book:
I quickly decided to buy it but as you know, Amazon encourages people to buy more things to get free shipping and handling. So, I browsed all books in this topic and ordered a total of three books on this subject. I was pleased to get an email today telling me that my order had already shipped and was eagerly awaiting the arrival of these books. I was also thinking that while Human Trafficking does occur in the US every once in a while, it was a problem that did not involve children as young as five years old.
Therefore, you can imagine my shock and horror when I saw the headline shown here: “Did North Carolina mom hand over five-year-old daughter for prostitution?
At first I was in denial hoping that this was a tabloid type website. I quickly did another search for this story and found out that it was really an actual case happening right here in the US. Some of the reports are also stating that she might have been sold to a Pedophile ring.
Omg, what is wrong with some people? I just cannot understand how a mother can turn over a precious 5 year old little girl for this purpose especially here in the land of the free and the brave. I also do not understand why this case is not getting more media attention. In my opinion, Google show have this case featured as one of their top stories.
I will pray that the police find this little girl soon and arrest everyone involved in her disappearance. I am hoping that my readers will join me in prayer.
Here is a video on this case which is available for free embedding from this site; http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/6422092/
Update: 11-16-2009 Police are now looking for the girl’s body and I am just so heartbroken:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/16/north.carolina.missing.girl/
2nd update: 11-16-2009 Girl found dead:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33945506/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
This is so incredibly sad. Please keep this little girl’s family in your thoughts and prayers.
3rd update: Nov. 18th, 2009
Today I decided to do yet another search on the topic of human trafficking in the US. I quickly got another shock when I came across this article:
North Carolina is the Prime Destination for Human Trafficking in the US ??
Wow, what an education I seemed to have acquired quickly. The story also states that around 200,000 children in the US are at risk of getting trafficked into the sex industry every year.
Here is a video that is freely available for embedding on this same site:
I would have say that the information in this video is just so so shocking and that this is a real wake-up call for me. Human Trafficking is not just mostly a third world country problem as I originally thought. I hope to get more educated on this subject so I can become more aware of my surroundings and hopefully someday I can make a difference in someone’s life.