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October 09 - TRAFFIC
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Cambodia/Vietnam Child Trafficking Prevention
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My husband and I work for Touch A Life Foundation(www.touchalifekids.org)--focusing on Cambodia and Vietnam. We partner with Place of Rescue, Cambodia (www.placeofrescue.com) where "prevention" is our primary focus. I am devastated and heartbroken at the injustice toward our children and furious over the fact that predators are lurking around to rob innocent children of their childhood.
Brian, I have listened over and over to your "Traffic" talk and some things hit home for me. While we fight against human trafficking abroad, we also have the sad realization that children in our own "safe" communities and neighborhoods are never safe.
This week, in my little town, it was discovered that our band instructor had been molesting little boys for over 13 years. Parents unknowingly sent their kids with this man on weekend band trips. 10 years later, a young man was brave enough to report it when he began counseling for substance abuse. And why do you suppose this wounded soul had been driven to substance abuse? The band teacher is now in jail and has confessed his crime, yet the damage he's done is irreversible! I am heartbroken as I think our precious children and how the enemy is roaming about seeking whom he can devour.
Brian, I think of how you described the "desensitizing" of the children. I know this to be a fact in the Cambodian brothels. I also saw the movie you spoke of and wept over what I saw as I knew it to be on target. But I also weep over the young women today who "willingly" work in the sex industry or simply give themselves away to men over and over and over. The judgement towards them is most often, "Well, that is the path they chose". NO. God created us all in His image and he didn't create any woman to give themselves in that way. Those women have been desensitized, as you said. Abused as children, or taken advantage of as young women--some searching for love, some searching for acceptance. They have no idea what they are doing to their souls...and to their spirits.
Today in the news, there was a house fire in OK City which killed three beautiful girls. They were workers at a place called the BunnyRanch (or something like that). A "legal" brothel in Nevada? REALLY???? I looked at these beautiful girl who looked like girls you'd see at the mall. I wondered...what desensitized you, you beautiful, sweet little girls? Who did that to you?
As my heart is heavy today, I pray that somehow...we will all get on board to fight against human trafficking and the injustice toward our children.
God bless the children....
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Penny L Sullivan 11/13/2009 14:39 |
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. TonyN09
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11/14/2009 04:09 |
Penny, your heart is int he right place here. I think about this everyday now and just want the whole world to know... to know that this is disgusting and heart wrenching. My heart, as well as your's I'm sure, has been extremely softened to this issue as of late. And yes, this has certainly hit home for a lot of us. I see that while reading your post.
My step daughter (undoubtedly just my daughter now) was forced to watch pornography and perform sexual acts with and on her biological "father" for some time. She finally, thank the Lord, came out and told us (with some thanks to her 7yr. old brother). It was so hard to hear and my wife and I were so angry becasue we had been allowing her to go visit him for some time without any warning signs. For a while my wife blamed herself but through counceling she realised her it wasn't her fault. Eventually the law's arm came within reach of that man and he is now in jail and other children are safer too (our daughter wasn't the only child he did this too). So yes, the trafficing issue rings in our hearts today as well.
Thanks for being compassionate about this issue.
God Bless,
Tony
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. TonyN09
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11/14/2009 04:10 |
Note: First sentence above - *"IS in the....."
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Penny L Sullivan
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11/14/2009 09:10 |
Tony, thanks for you input. I am so sorry for what your little girl has gone through and I cannot imagine the pain of what your wife is feeling. And that is exactly the "desensitizing" spoken of. The miraculous power of Jesus is by your sides as you pray for HIS power to heal and restore your precious little one. His power is above anything we can imagine and He is able to bring good out of something horrible. He will be faithful.
I will pray for your family.
You brought another idea to my mind...an idea I will post about someday...a situation where adopting older children who have been "desensitized" and the need for us to have our minds and spirits open and aware. We must use wisdom and the power of prayer to guard our children...to protect them from a fallen generation.
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