Traffickers Offering Flight, Hotel, World Cup — and Sex Slave — for $12,000
Heather Sells and Efrem
Graham/CBN News
Brazil hopes to
attract more than half a million fans for this summer's World Cup and take in
billions of tourism dollars.
"You can go
online and see $12,000, $10,000 for the flight, the hotel, the game—and the
girl," Diego Traverso, Latin America anti-trafficking programs manager for
Operation Blessing, told CBN News.
Many believe
that showing just how trafficking affects children to both tourists and
Brazilians before the games even start is the best way to fight it.
That's the idea
behind a documentary that CBN’s Operation Blessing will release next month in
Brazil.
"We're
trying to raise the stigma against this and educate the people coming in for
the World Cup that this isn't just a service you can buy without consequences,
that these are children trapped in a hell," David Darg, vice president of
International Operations for Operation Blessing, explained.
"We see
kids, talking 12 or 11 if you haven't lost your virginity at 11 you're
wrong—something's wrong with you," he continued. "I see many, many
cases of mothers selling their daughters like to neighbors, on the street,
taking them to the street, teaching them kind of the business, to
survive."
Operation
Blessing hopes to air its documentary on Brazilian national television, and
will also produce a short video for airlines bringing World Cup fans to the
games.
The aid group is
also working with other ministries to reach fans directly at the venues and
speak out against the tragedy of trafficking.
Source: Charisma
Via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
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