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Kamlika Pillay: The Horror Of Human Trafficking

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Sell candy not people…Hello everyone my name is Kamlika Pillay from Stop the Traffick and I am here to speak to you about the horror of human trafficking. Human trafficking is whereby people are kidnapped by traffickers, violently mutilated, sold as slaves and have their lives permanently stripped away and altered forever.

Human trafficking usually takes place in poor countries. Traffickers go to these countries and take people with the promise of a better life. These people go and are sold into the sex trade and work as slaves. They often report monetary or housing problems to officials but because they are uneducated they fail to see that they are victims of a much larger crime, human trafficking. Another cause of human trafficking is trusting the wrong people. Many youth are trafficked because they do not understand the true dangers of society. Under the influence of peers many youth end up getting into cars with strangers and going to a so called party, instead they are trafficked, sold, raped and left for dead. A man named Coby Persin does …show more content…

The victims are often physically harmed, they are raped or sold and forced to work in a never ending debt to a person. Physically you can never have a normal life some woman are raped up to 30 times a day and some aren’t able to ever have children of their own or contract various cancers and STDs. They are never able to fully continue with life because the memories will always haunt them. For slaves they usually never escape the cycle of debt and end up dying a slave constantly contemplating a life that could have been. The traffickers have to live with the fact that they have sold away people like cattle and have disregarded the pureness of human life. As they get older and have children they will always fear what they have done, and that it’s what someone could do to their own children. They will be mentally scarred for the rest of their

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