Help for trafficked and abused children
by Fr Shay Cullen
Children at Preda
There are millions of Filipino families that are secure and whole and live out family values by giving love, care and protection and a life of dignity and education to their children. They are the vast majority and are blessed and to be admired and imitated.
There are however thousands of vulnerable and neglected children in the Filipino population of 100 million and they are at grave risk and need special protection, help,emotional recovery from abuse and the rule of law to bring their abusers to justice and have them convicted of horrid and heinous crimes.
Trained dedicated : Investigators prosecutors and judges of integrity with unshakable moral values are urgently needed. Government ,Church leaders and the public must act to save these children and not be part of the problem. International women’s day is celebrated this month and we have to stand with these young women who are so cruelly exploited abused and sold into sexual slavery.
They say it takes a village to bring up a child but it also takes a village to bring them down. The apathy and turning away of the authorities, and duty bearers and many in the church and the communality are failing these abused children and they are brought down to the pit of despair and suicide.
According to the International Labor Organization there are 5.2 million children in some kind of slavery in the world. Hundreds of thousands are sold into sex slavery.
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