'We were sold as sex slaves by our brother' - SA

[dArKeR]

Two young brothers - on the run for months after being sold as sex slaves by their elder brother - have finally been returned to safety.

On Thursday night, Izanne Dalle Ave found the nine- and 10-year-old brothers, and another 12-year-old child, hiding behind the gate of her Randburg house. They were cold, unkempt and tired. They told her they had been hiding behind a KFC outlet for a week.

She said they were very scared, but did not want to tell her why.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=vn20030818041726862C427553&set_id=1

I've personally seen girl children who were sold by their parents knowing they would become sex slaves and prostitutes.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. yo darker you have enough tabliod threads here to kill real news threads

what's up with you?...lay off the damn coffee....your threads frivilious tabliod posts are bumping serious news off the front page
take a breather! 12 on front page is TOO MANY! ...sorry to be so blunt, but please, have some consideration of your fellow DUers?

[dArKeR]

2. One sick person who calls this tabloid news. Hope you never end up like

these poor children of the world. And if you survive, I'm sure you wouldn't call it tabloid!

[Logansquare]

4. Please lay off of the Fox/CNN news approach

Please DO publish articles about the state of children's rights in South Africa, but individual cases of dead babies...it is disruptive to the original intent of this forum.

[zekeson]

5. I appreciate Darker's updates

If they are truly bother DUer's perhaps a solution would be to take a series of links/stories and paste them into one email, maybe a couple a day. Personally, I might kinda like that, then I could focus on the human rights violations issues all at once. This info IS too important to be missed and Darker, your research and presentation of these stories is invaluable. thanks.

[phgnome]

7. That's why

When you see a big puppy and the headline containing the words "ABUSE!" on the cover, you have to read the paper through entirely to make sure something really big isn't happening in the real news.

[gully]

3. What a tragic story.

So very sad.

[lumpy]

6. Sept. 2003 National Geographic has an

excellent article re. the slave trade throughout the world (including the US) if anyone is interested.