Child Slavery

When we think of slavery we think of black men and women, this is a perception we have been brought up on and is how we believe slavery to be. But on actual fact slavery extends far beyond this. Over half the victims of slavery in the world are in fact children, they have been sold into slavery for many different reasons. Sometimes parents will sale their children to a master so that they will become an apprentice to a certain trade, parents do this to avoid their child being sold into slavery. This does not always work out and children are treated really badly.
Young girls are often sold as young as the age of 10 to become sex slaves, they are trafficked to where ever in the world the person that is buying them is from and are usually never allowed out or to see anyone in the outside world except for the clients that are going to abuse them.

While searching for information on child slavery i came across this article written for ABC news it is about a reporter who took on the task of seeing how easy it would be to buy a child he goes to Haiti to meet with men who will sell him a child, his mission is not to buy a child but to see how long it would take a person who is going out to a country like Haiti to purchase a child, he wanted to get a better understanding of how the deals are done.
The link below will take you to the article, it is a very worthwhile read and i think you will find it very interesting to read as it shows how real child slavery is.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/buy-child-10-hours/story?id=5326508