Children Trafficking Is Wrong
"The Day My God Died" is a heart broken documentary narrated by Tim Robbins which exposes the real human suffering of a handful of young South Asian girls who were trafficked over the border into India and sold into Bombay brothels.
Recruiters captured them, smugglers transported them, brothel owners enslaved them, corrupted police financially profited from them and men rape and infected 80% of them with HIV.
These girls were eventually rescued after enduring years of sex slavery which included rape, beatings and being forced to have sex with an excessive number of men each day.
Many of these survivors refer to the day they were trafficked into slavery as the day their god died.
The movie tells the stories of Gina, sold into sexual slavery at age seven, beaten with sticks and aluminum rods the first day she arrived at the brothel when she refused to have sex, and eventually raped by numerous men until she stopped resisting; Anita, lured by a friend, then drugged and sold to a brothel at age 12, where she was beaten and threatened with being buried alive; Maili, trafficked at age 19 along with her two year old daughter who was seized in order to keep Maili from fleeing; and Jyoti, sold at age 12, raped, choked and forced to drink alcohol to break down her resistance.
There were several other girls who received cigarette burns and or beaten for not wanting to have sex with the corrupted customers.
And also, many girls carried out pregnancies from their rapists and endured numerous abortions during their captivity.
They were not given the time to recuperate after those abortions before they start working again.
The film shows the brutality and desolation of those unfortunate girls who were captured without their will and sold onto sex slavery.
Jyoti, returns to the brothel where she was held after her rescue, in order to help find and rescue other girls.
Jyoti shows the secret hiding rooms where the brothel owners keep the girls, and says, "Once the door closes behind you, no one ever knows you're there.
" Jyoti's words who translate the hopelessness that those girls face once captured.
On the other hand, the film offers a ray of hope in the darkness considering that some devoted activists are working to save those girls and women from the life of captivity and they are helping the rescued sex slaves back into society.
There is a growing movement from both within and outside of the brothels to put an end to this insidious crime.
The film introduces some of the heroes of the movement to abolish child sex slavery, including Gary Haugen of the International Justice Mission, Harleen Walia of Sanlaap and Anuradha Koirala, the founder of Maiti Nepal.
Each of them has risked his or her life to save girls and dismantle the web that enslaves them.
The film documents one alliance with local officials, showing footage of a raid that exposed a system of secret passageways used to hide the girls.
Seven girls were liberated in this raid, and the two brothel owners that are now in jail awaiting trial may be among the first abusers in Bombay to be sentenced for this crime.
Some of the rescued girls are fortunate enough to find shelter at Maiti Nepal, a healing center where they learn skills and participate in arts programs that rebuild their spirits.
A hospice has been established where AIDS infected girls can die with dignity.
These non-profit centers are under-funded and dwarfed by the size of the child sex trafficking trade.
But this small group of heroes continues to fight for one life at a time.
Some of the most courageous advocates are former sex slaves who risk their lives to save other girls.
I have to say that this film is truly hearth- wrenching.
Human trafficking became real to me after watching this documentary.
It really sadden me to know that people can be so evil and so corrupted.
You could sometimes think that you live in the United States and that you are therefore immune from those type of corruptions.
However, the sad story is that we need to remind ourselves that over one million women and girls are sold, transported and forced into sexual slavery each year and 50,000 of those girls are from the United States.
THE DAY MY GOD DIED exposes crimes that not only occur far away, but also closer to home than we may have imagined.
It is really depressing to think that some girls have been taken away from their homes against their will, transported to a new world in which they have no family, no friends, no one to help them.
They do not even speak the language in some instances.
They are at the mercy of their abductors, who frequently abuse them sexually and sometimes with severe beatings and withholding food to ensure their cooperation.
It is upsetting to think of a room, hidden, cramped and dirty where the bidding and sale of humans take place.
Those who desire slaves to live in human bondage and be forced to do their bidding, can make an offer.
For an agreed amount of money, typically only a few hundred dollars, the buyer can leave with his new purchase: a human being, a child, a girl.
Human trafficking is truly a horrible crime.
It is a shame to know that human trafficking is the reality for far too many children and young adults in the world today and that it has surpassed drug trafficking to become the second biggest illegal trade in the world.
After watching this documentary I asked how a person can have the courage to kidnap an innocent girl for the purpose of human trafficking? I asked why some human have become so insensitive so down with moral that they do not value a human life, a child's innocence? The men who pay to have sex with the children, I wonder what devil possess them? They know very well that those girls are children held in sexual slavery.
How do they have the courage to have sex with them.
The other sad fact is that men which are HIV positive believe that having sex with a young girl or a virgin will cure them so many of those girls in Bombay are contracting a deadly or incurable disease based on that myth.
They are paying the price of their lives for having been keep as slaves without their will.
They are paying a double price: slavery and their lives.
Everyone should take this documentary seriously because the story of any of those girls could be the story of a daughter, a niece, a best friend's daughter, a cousin.
This could be our story.
We are living a world where many people are being less and less sensitive.
This is true that only God will be able to bring lasting changes to this world but in the mean time we need to do what ever is to our ability to make the life of a children and especially of young girls safer.
Parents need to take action to protect their children from becoming victims of child slavery.
The first step to protecting your kids is education.
Parents should learn more about various tactics and warning signs that are being used in order to make their child more aware of the potential dangers they face.
Informing kids about potential warning signs will help them to make better decisions if they ever face a situation that is potentially dangerous.
We know that only God's kingdom will totally put an end to all the negative things on earth.
However, in the mean time, Let us all keep on working towards safeguarding children innocence, human dignity by fighting so that human trafficking stops because it is wrong.
The story of those girls forced into sex slavery in Bombay cannot keep on repeating itself in India or in any order part of the world.
let us all do our part to make the world better and safer for girls and young woman.
Recruiters captured them, smugglers transported them, brothel owners enslaved them, corrupted police financially profited from them and men rape and infected 80% of them with HIV.
These girls were eventually rescued after enduring years of sex slavery which included rape, beatings and being forced to have sex with an excessive number of men each day.
Many of these survivors refer to the day they were trafficked into slavery as the day their god died.
The movie tells the stories of Gina, sold into sexual slavery at age seven, beaten with sticks and aluminum rods the first day she arrived at the brothel when she refused to have sex, and eventually raped by numerous men until she stopped resisting; Anita, lured by a friend, then drugged and sold to a brothel at age 12, where she was beaten and threatened with being buried alive; Maili, trafficked at age 19 along with her two year old daughter who was seized in order to keep Maili from fleeing; and Jyoti, sold at age 12, raped, choked and forced to drink alcohol to break down her resistance.
There were several other girls who received cigarette burns and or beaten for not wanting to have sex with the corrupted customers.
And also, many girls carried out pregnancies from their rapists and endured numerous abortions during their captivity.
They were not given the time to recuperate after those abortions before they start working again.
The film shows the brutality and desolation of those unfortunate girls who were captured without their will and sold onto sex slavery.
Jyoti, returns to the brothel where she was held after her rescue, in order to help find and rescue other girls.
Jyoti shows the secret hiding rooms where the brothel owners keep the girls, and says, "Once the door closes behind you, no one ever knows you're there.
" Jyoti's words who translate the hopelessness that those girls face once captured.
On the other hand, the film offers a ray of hope in the darkness considering that some devoted activists are working to save those girls and women from the life of captivity and they are helping the rescued sex slaves back into society.
There is a growing movement from both within and outside of the brothels to put an end to this insidious crime.
The film introduces some of the heroes of the movement to abolish child sex slavery, including Gary Haugen of the International Justice Mission, Harleen Walia of Sanlaap and Anuradha Koirala, the founder of Maiti Nepal.
Each of them has risked his or her life to save girls and dismantle the web that enslaves them.
The film documents one alliance with local officials, showing footage of a raid that exposed a system of secret passageways used to hide the girls.
Seven girls were liberated in this raid, and the two brothel owners that are now in jail awaiting trial may be among the first abusers in Bombay to be sentenced for this crime.
Some of the rescued girls are fortunate enough to find shelter at Maiti Nepal, a healing center where they learn skills and participate in arts programs that rebuild their spirits.
A hospice has been established where AIDS infected girls can die with dignity.
These non-profit centers are under-funded and dwarfed by the size of the child sex trafficking trade.
But this small group of heroes continues to fight for one life at a time.
Some of the most courageous advocates are former sex slaves who risk their lives to save other girls.
I have to say that this film is truly hearth- wrenching.
Human trafficking became real to me after watching this documentary.
It really sadden me to know that people can be so evil and so corrupted.
You could sometimes think that you live in the United States and that you are therefore immune from those type of corruptions.
However, the sad story is that we need to remind ourselves that over one million women and girls are sold, transported and forced into sexual slavery each year and 50,000 of those girls are from the United States.
THE DAY MY GOD DIED exposes crimes that not only occur far away, but also closer to home than we may have imagined.
It is really depressing to think that some girls have been taken away from their homes against their will, transported to a new world in which they have no family, no friends, no one to help them.
They do not even speak the language in some instances.
They are at the mercy of their abductors, who frequently abuse them sexually and sometimes with severe beatings and withholding food to ensure their cooperation.
It is upsetting to think of a room, hidden, cramped and dirty where the bidding and sale of humans take place.
Those who desire slaves to live in human bondage and be forced to do their bidding, can make an offer.
For an agreed amount of money, typically only a few hundred dollars, the buyer can leave with his new purchase: a human being, a child, a girl.
Human trafficking is truly a horrible crime.
It is a shame to know that human trafficking is the reality for far too many children and young adults in the world today and that it has surpassed drug trafficking to become the second biggest illegal trade in the world.
After watching this documentary I asked how a person can have the courage to kidnap an innocent girl for the purpose of human trafficking? I asked why some human have become so insensitive so down with moral that they do not value a human life, a child's innocence? The men who pay to have sex with the children, I wonder what devil possess them? They know very well that those girls are children held in sexual slavery.
How do they have the courage to have sex with them.
The other sad fact is that men which are HIV positive believe that having sex with a young girl or a virgin will cure them so many of those girls in Bombay are contracting a deadly or incurable disease based on that myth.
They are paying the price of their lives for having been keep as slaves without their will.
They are paying a double price: slavery and their lives.
Everyone should take this documentary seriously because the story of any of those girls could be the story of a daughter, a niece, a best friend's daughter, a cousin.
This could be our story.
We are living a world where many people are being less and less sensitive.
This is true that only God will be able to bring lasting changes to this world but in the mean time we need to do what ever is to our ability to make the life of a children and especially of young girls safer.
Parents need to take action to protect their children from becoming victims of child slavery.
The first step to protecting your kids is education.
Parents should learn more about various tactics and warning signs that are being used in order to make their child more aware of the potential dangers they face.
Informing kids about potential warning signs will help them to make better decisions if they ever face a situation that is potentially dangerous.
We know that only God's kingdom will totally put an end to all the negative things on earth.
However, in the mean time, Let us all keep on working towards safeguarding children innocence, human dignity by fighting so that human trafficking stops because it is wrong.
The story of those girls forced into sex slavery in Bombay cannot keep on repeating itself in India or in any order part of the world.
let us all do our part to make the world better and safer for girls and young woman.