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Friday, June 3, 2011

She is Ten. She is going to be Sold!

She's ten. She's won a scholarship to a top school. She dreams of becoming a doctor. The world should be hers.
Her mother is a prostitute. Prostitution is the family trade. She is going to be sold into prostitution.

Poverty is why women are forced to enter the sex trade- voluntarily or otherwise- I always thought. If women could earn a livelihood elsewhere, why would they have to sell their bodies? Education should be the key to their salvation.

But apparently even that is not enough. Selling a girl today seems worth more than what a doctor can earn tomorrow.
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A drabble is a story told in exactly 100 words.

Read Nick Kristoff's article on the girl here

9 comments:

  1. Deb and BarbaraJune 3, 2011 at 8:56 PM

    It's always shocking to be reminded that this still happens all over the world. It's heartbreaking.
    B

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  2. UnknownJune 3, 2011 at 9:09 PM

    It is a scary world we live in. Great drabble.

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  3. GrammyJune 3, 2011 at 9:21 PM

    Dear Rayna,
    What a tragedy...so sad..Hard to imagine...
    Ruby

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  4. AnonymousJune 4, 2011 at 1:32 AM

    Natasha - Such a tragic, tragic loss! No thought at all to what that girl could have been had she been allowed to live a healthy life...

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  5. Alex J. CavanaughJune 4, 2011 at 6:43 AM

    That is just so wrong.

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  6. Theres just lifeJune 4, 2011 at 9:46 AM

    I agree with everyone else this is so wrong and such a tragic lose.

    Pamela JO

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  7. SueannJune 4, 2011 at 8:53 PM

    This is so hard for me to wrap my mind around. Sold???!! So tragic!!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  8. ChuckJune 5, 2011 at 3:20 AM

    That is sad commentary on her life. Why even earn the scholarship? Has the riing of hopelessness to it. Very powerful drabble.

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  9. Laurie Peel, CRA-RPJune 5, 2011 at 7:51 AM

    I'm always so impressed how you get right to the heart of things in only 100 words. And this one's a heart-breaker.

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