January 11th marks National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Each year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked and sold into bondage. Tens of millions are currently enslaved globally. Seventy percent of them are women. Fifty percent of them are under 18.
When I was at inner city missions in the ghetto of kensington, Philadelphia, I met a young 14 year old black girl named Destiny. She was with am older white man named Rob and they were both addicted to heroin. I remember how cold she was to me when I met her that first night. But she still looked utterly hopeless.
I prayed that I’d meet her again and the following week, I saw Rob… But without her. When I asked him about her, he mumbled that she had been thrown in jail for prostitution.
I reeled at the news. I immediately understood that Rob was her pimp. And in the following weeks I saw him with different girlfriends who he would sell to other men for some quick cash.
It’s hard not to mourn at the evil of human trafficking when it stares smugly at you. How many girls did Rob sell to other men to get a quick fix? And how come only the girls get caught and thrown in jail?
God has a heart for the oppressed. Where are our hearts?
(via humantrafficwatch)
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