tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post9077320142753057760..comments2007-02-11T19:13:36.569-08:00Wesley J. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652wjs@wesleyjsmith.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-76897021349194820622007-02-11T19:15:00.000-08:002007-02-11T19:15:00.000-08:00Does schooling cost in Haiti? They don't have public school systems, places where you can report abuse? What kind of punishment is there for anyone caught sexually molesting or beating on kids that they're taking in as domestics?<BR/><BR/>This is sick. I can understand being poor and working to move ahead - my own grandmother, at age 16, had one baby and was living on her own, working for a family she wasn't related to in order to provide for my aunt - but she was never mistreated, beaten, abused or otherwise molested. <BR/><BR/>It should NOT be this way, in Haiti or anywhere in the world. Small people don't have the ability to fight back against their abusers the way they ought to be allowed to - they don't have the physical strength and they haven't developed the mentality to protect themselves.<BR/><BR/>They're small people. They should be given ever respect due to them just because they're people. <BR/><BR/>This is sick.T E Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02145212330537906750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-81661570094221193012007-02-11T19:13:00.000-08:002007-02-11T19:13:00.000-08:00Wow! I knew things in Haiti were bad, but I didn't know anything about this. That's just amazing.<BR/><BR/>The group it named at the end that gives camps and schools to the child slaves. How does that work? I wonder how they ever get the "employers" to let the children go. Or do they just rescue them somehow from the situation entirely? It would be really interesting to know more.<BR/><BR/>What a horrific mess.Lydia McGrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15317227715474813082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-66121196906683124842007-02-11T15:52:00.000-08:002007-02-11T15:52:00.000-08:00A friend of mine has done some great photos of restaveks in Haiti. Her photo-essay is here, with a link also to an NPR story about her work.<BR/><BR/>http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/cohen.htmlGregory L. Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15614707701876833091noreply@blogger.com