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25 February 2018

Animals don’t do to their offspring, what we as humans do to our children’

No crime exposes a darker side of humanity more than cyber-sex trafficking. The child in the drawing hides her face in her hands. “Help me!” she cries. As I study the picture, in the offices of the Catholic anti-trafficking organization Talitha Kum, Sister Gabriella Bottani tells me about the children who drew it for her at a shelter in the Philippines. They were sexually abused while online buyers from the United States and other western countries paid to watch. One girl was 2 years old.

https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/tim-swarens/2018/02/22/exploited-cyber-sex-trafficking-darker-side-humanity/950251001/