Atrocities With Children: Documentary Analysis

On June 10, 1991 an innocent eleven year old girl, Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped and wouldn’t be able to reunite with her family for a long and brutal eighteen years. While being confined in the backyard of her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, she would be fed endless lies, raped repeatedly, and eventually become impregnated twice. During the time she was held against her own will, she had documented her story about the loneliness, depression, and fear she had to face while growing up in the disturbing circumstances she was put under. The trauma she went through and still has to deal with to this day, is immeasurable. Being stripped of her innocence at a young age, she had to learn quickly to deal with the evilness and find hope in an

As we speak right now, someone across the world is being forced into labor or sexual interactions. Men are the minority in this case and not forced into this as much as women and children. Most of those children are girls of ages from eight to fourteen starting in this business. I highly doubt any of you know that human trafficking, the modern day slavery is worse today than it was during the Atlantic Slave Trade in the 1500’s. Human Trafficking is where traffickers forcefully control victims to make them engage in sex or labor against their will (Bales 1). There are about 21 million people trafficked around the world. Children trafficking; 5.5 million of that (UNICEF USA 1). Trafficking isn’t just prostitution as most believe. It’s pornography,

"Sex trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally. Sex trafficker use violence, threats, lies, debt and other forms of coercion to force women, men and children to engage in commercial sex against their will." Slavery has negative effects. The quote is giving an example of slavery, sex trafficking. It's forcing people to have commercial sex against their will. Victims are lied to, threatened, and abused. Victims can be men, boys, women or girls of all ages. According to this quote slavery is horrible. Sex trafficking is horrible because slavery is considered abuse, assault and is against human rights.

Human trafficking produces billions of dollars in profit every year, it is right behind drug trafficking as the most lucrative form of crime throughout the world. (DHS website). Victims of human trafficking rarely come forward due to the threats of murder, threats of killing their loved ones/friends, as well as having nowhere else to go because they have been ostracized from their own family and their “pimp” is their family. Another issue of why victims do not come forward is that they are afraid of law enforcement so they may go to jail, etc. (DHS website)

Child labor is something people in the United States might think of as awful, but for families in countries like China it is a way of life. Name brand companies, for example Nike, have their products made overseas often using children to do the work. The use of child labor in other countries for Nike brings up the debate on whether or not the United States should buy products that have been produced by children. The United States should not buy products manufactured with the use of child labor because of the unfair wages they get paid and bad working conditions. Some may argue that by putting children to work it is lowering the unemployment rates in countries, the morals of buying products produced by young teenagers is just flat out wrong.

There are many different forms of slavery still happening today, like workers on farms being enslaved, children and even young adults being forced into unconsenting marriage, and human and sex trafficking being a huge problem in the United States and even the world. Slavery is a such large part of America, even today. It’s the past, and the past cannot be completely forgotten. As an example of the claws that slavery still has on America today, here’s a tidbit of information. “The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally. 68% of them are trapped in forced labor. 26% of them are children. 55% are women and girls.”(Polaris) 20.9 million victims, all over the world, mostly female, and portion of them children. All these people, these humans, innocent people just like everybody else, are steadily being forced into slavery, some right now. Is anybody aware that 3,827 people per day are being sold or kidnapped into slavery?

Since the beginning of time all human beings have had a basic desire for freedom and equal rights. When we think of slavery many things come to mind such as the civil war to put an end to slavery and also in more modern times leaders like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and Frederick Douglass dedicated their lives to equal rights for everyone. Because of them, there was a change in the way people viewed each other and laws were changed eradicating slavery in the United States.

Human trafficking has become more visible by the help of the media. The media shows everything about this clandestine crime, that are hidden from view. It visualizes the issue to get support because people don’t take action if they don’t see the problem. So, the possibility of saving lives, preventing the wrongdoings increases with the more visibility the issue gets. 4 years ago, the image on the top was published like a pop-up ad. Approximately, 24.000 people clicked on it and found out the ugly truth about human trafficking.

Bridgette points out that “TVPA has always recognized that the failure of one size-fits all approach for victims of trafficking, and the needs of child victims can be quite different than the needs of adult victims.” In these three cases professor Carr explains that when these child trafficking raids occur, the child victim must be able to state that they were the product of child slavery and identify the traffickers in question. In order for these children to receive help or financial assistance they must testify against the traffickers. The process takes time and most of these victims end up back in their home country, which is West Africa. As we know human traffickers prey on the vulnerabilities of other people, who are poverty stricken, lack of education, and language barriers are keys that human traffickers use. The children coming out of West Africa believe that coming to America would allow them to be free, get a good education, or work to make money. This is what human

More children are exposed to sexual assault and rape than you probably think. According to d2l.org (Darkness to Light), “About 1 in 10 children will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday.” Melinda Sordino is the one out of ten. In Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino shows us the thoughts and feelings experienced by many of these young victims. Melinda was raped by Andy Evans while attending an end-of-summer party before her freshman year of high school. This assault impacted Melinda in various ways and many symptoms remained with her throughout the school year. As a result of the sexual abuse, Melinda begins to showcase the various psychological effects of rape; physical and mental instability, feelings of guilt and worthlessness

Human trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the entire world and is considered modern day slavery. Almost 80% of trafficking is through sexual exploitation, which means that it primarily affects women and girls (UNODC, 2009). Victims are often tricked into the business through promise of work or a better life and sometimes just randomly stolen right from their homes. However, this is not just an issue overseas. Michigan is listed as the state with the second highest rates of human trafficking.

Every year, millions of people are trafficked in countries around the world, including the United States. Most of this people are immigrants from developing communities, who are transported to developed communities that are more prosperous. Traffickers use immigrant’s workers unfamiliarity with the language, laws and customs as an advantage to manipulate or exploit them in their new environment . Traffickers sells them into involuntary servitude, where immigrants are force to work against their will in harsh working conditions. Labor trafficking has become an important issue to the U.S. presidencial race because illegal immigration has result in an increase of involuntary servitude in the United States. Also labor trafficking violates the

In the documentary, Children for Sale: The fight to end sex trafficking, Jada Pinket-Smith explores sex trafficking in Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. Pinket-Smith took to Atlanta with her T.V. crew from CNN to speak with underage children that was exploited and took advantage of by human traffickers. She conducted interviews along with CNN Projects with Sergeant Torrey Kennedy a supervisor at Dekalb County Police Department Special Victims, and Internet Crimes Against Children, and Lisa Williams the Founder and executive director of Living Water for Girls and the Learning Resource Center. In addition, they interviewed two young ladies named Sacharay and Rachel McCool, former sex slaves, Kasey McClure a motivator, and Dalie Racine, the assistance district attorney in Dekalb County. This documentary discussed the terms used in the sex slave trade industry. However, realizing that they are not considered human traffickers, but as a child rapists and pedophiles.

Child trafficking has been a serious problem plaguing the world and it is still ongoing today. This essay, however, will be focusing on forced child labour. Child labour explained by the ILO’s (International Labour Organization) Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, is the exploitation and “enslavement of anyone under the age of 18. Any work deemed to be harmful to the health, safety or morals of the child is considered to be child labour” (Child Labor, 2014).

Child labor is work that children should not be doing, work that may harm their health and keeps them without education. While working children have no time for attending schools and get education that is the most important thing for their future life and success. But not all work done by children should be accepted as child labor. In other words, if a work doesn’t harm child’s health or personal development (educational issues), it is generally accepted as something positive and useful. Such activities develop children’s skills, provide experience and formulate them to be part of society. The term “Child Labor” is when children do work that damages their health or hamper mental or physical