JAISHREE AJMERA

  “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say that you did not know”   Sex Trafficking can sound like a crime which is not a part of this world, because how can humanity betrays someone like that. A lot of us ordinary people might have heard a case or two but we never came across to a situation in reality and thus we live in denial that such a barbaric activity is happening among us and is done by some monsters who still have the nerve to call themselves humans. When I first came across the idea of writing about this topic, I was clueless, not academically because we all have at some point of time heard about it, but rather emotionally. I admit that no amount of research or factual knowledge can help me feel the pain of the victims. However, I still read a bunch of blogs and articles and I was speechless of the figures that I came across to. Those never-ending figures made me shiver, the geographical locations mentioned made me realize that just how close...

  In today's world where children are supposed to be the foundation of the future world, their own foundation has been shaken up because of the abuses they face in those very years when they were suppose to be carefree and friendly and loving. Child abuse is not just a crime at that moment, its a permanent scar that is given to them at such a tender age, where it complicates their beliefs and make them live with a burden, which is not their fault, for the rest of their life. Well the technical definition of child abuse is "When a parent or a caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child. There are many forms of child maltreatment, including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse." To give you all just an example of how cruel it could be let me take you to 1860, when a key paper gathered together a series of 32 such cases, of which 18 were fatal, the children wer...