Human trafficking of children is very much alive in Jamaica. This practice can be blamed mostly on poverty, but poverty is never an excuse to sell children or anyone else as sex slaves.
I wonder if parents who partake in this despicable act consider the future of their children. Do they really sit down and mentally examine the dangers that they are exposing their children to. The young girls and now increasingly young boys will for obvious reasons be scared for life. Most of them will probably have their futures ruined permanently by the haunting of this present reality in which their parents sent them away to have their underage bodies abused to cover a responsibility that parents should do. Children should never be used as a means of supporting the family.
While growing up in a single- parent household life was challenging at times. But forcing me to become a sex slave was something that my mother would have NEVER considered. She is a hard-worker and my mother worked day and night to ensure that my family was well taken care of. I applaud Jamaican mothers who are like my own, mothers who would go without food to ensure that their children are fed.
If Jamaica is to take a positive step forward we need to have more positive interventions from the Government and the religious institutions. After-all this country holds in the Guinness book of records, the title of ‘Most Churches per square-mile of any country in the world’ More than 1,600 churches can be found across the country’s 4,500 square miles, and the number continues to grow. How can we then be such such a Godless nation?
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