{"id":851,"date":"2011-01-19T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T10:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2011\/01\/2000-haiti-orphan-sold-as-sex-slaves.html"},"modified":"2011-01-19T10:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T10:05:50","slug":"2000-haiti-orphan-sold-as-sex-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2011\/01\/2000-haiti-orphan-sold-as-sex-slaves.html","title":{"rendered":"2,000 Haitian Orphans Sold as Sex Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the talk about the return of Jean Claude Duvalier<\/a>, Haiti’s former dictator, to his former country, Haiti is back in the news. The country is still devastated from the earthquake and only 5% of the buildings have been rebuilt.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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But the story that is often told is the one of Haiti’s orphans. Because of early death and disease In 2007, UNICEF estimated there were 380,000 orphans in Haiti.<\/a>. Since the earthquake, the number of orphans in Haiti may have doubled.<\/a> <\/div>\n

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The most heartbreaking report to come out says that over 2000 orphans in Haiti have been sold into the sex trade by child traffickers.<\/a> A  “babies and toddlers have also been taken from makeshift camps in the capital Port-au-Prince and sold for as little as 30 pounds a child, the Daily Express reported. <\/span>British news agency reports:<\/a> The UN also reported an upsurge in child trafficking and most have ended up in neighbouring Dominican Republic or sold in the Caribbean and Latin America.”<\/div>\n
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Pray for the orphans of Haiti. To find out how to help the orphans in Haiti, Please click here.<\/a><\/div>\n
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