Slavery

“Worker was stabbed 4 times, tasered and robbed. Took her to a park [detail omitted]… Suspects went to jail, worker was very badly injured.”— taken from a recent, and very real, report.

What if you, or the woman in your life became that victim simply by answering an innocuous help-wanted ad for someone seeking a nanny, or extra summer office help in a resort town? What if it were a child, lured by promises of a wonderful life?

For too many, a promised opportunity has turned into a nightmare of slavery. Confinement, physical abuses of the worst kind, forced addiction, and then, broken, being offered for sale, the final freedoms – sense of self – all but gone.

Modern day slavery is very big business. Women and children are captured and sold, forced to work to pay back their captors for their purchase price – often by working in the sex trade.

It is a life characterized by daily danger and a feeling of hopelessness.

But there is hope… the hope that comes with understanding of victims. The hope that comes as we all rise up against this evil and demand strict punishments. Find out what you can do. Then do it.