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The following information was taken from the As Our Own website.
India has the highest orphan population in the world. The orphan epidemic has robbed 25.7 million children2 threefold:
Without parental protection and care, vulnerable children fall prey to predators who are always on the lookout for child sex slaves or forced laborers.
Surviving on the streets is no carefree childhood—orphans must scavenge daily for a bite to eat to survive.
The future is grim. With no education or training, there is little hope for escaping the brokenness.
Both boys and girls are orphaned, but girls have it especially rough. Although it is officially outlawed, many mothers abort female babies before birth.5 And girls who survive the womb are often without protection and are targeted, exploited, and enslaved more so than males.
Without intervention, generation after generation will be robbed and girls will continue to be victimized.
The unthinkable is happening each day in the red-light districts of India.
Little girls—some as young as 7 or 8 years old—are being forced into the sex trade.3
The hopelessness of extreme poverty spurs on destructive, treacherous situations that put children, and especially girls, at great risk.
Many girls are kidnapped and abducted . . . others are deceived and mislead by promises for a better life . . . and some are victims of second-generation enslavement because their mothers are also enslaved.
Life as a sex slave is horrific, full of terror, abuse, and neglect. We’re told from inside sources that most sex slaves die between 35 and 40 years of age.
Any way you look at it, life in the sex trade is not much of a life.
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