Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Children: UN & OAS claim 30,000 Haitian children are illegally smuggled into the Dominican Republic

UN and Organization of American States (OAS) officials have claimed that approximately 30,000 Haitian children are illegally smuggled into the Dominican Republic every year.

Once there, they are forced to work as child prostitutes or be forced into other degrading occupations.

The children do not fare much better in Haiti itself, where many are recruited as gang members, tortured, kidnapped, sexually and physically abused, abandoned and traded.

Once again I find my saying, "suffer little children".