Human Trafficking – Tragedy and Hope
“Brian McConaghy of the Ratanak Foundation speaks with a young girl in a brothel district in Cambodia.”
Christian activists are calling for help in the fight to stop the exploitation of the vulnerable. Especially with the Olympics coming soon, concern is high.
He thought he had seen it all. As a firearms expert with the RCMP, Brian McConaghy had investigated the ugliest of murder scenes, including convicted killer Robert William Pickton’s pig farm on the outskirts of Vancouver. But then a police task force asked him to help in a case involving child sex tapes originating from Asia.
“This file changed everything for me,” he says. “I was confronted with seven tiny little girls, and they’re staring back at me through the camera as they’re being raped.”
The task force consulted McConaghy because he operated a small Vancouver-based foundation called Ratanak, which he started to ship medical supplies and provide other help to the postwar victims of Cambodia’s killing fields.
When he saw the tapes, he instantly confirmed that these girls were ethnic Vietnamese and that the crimes were taking place in Cambodia. Within 72 hours he was able, with the help of GPS, to locate the “rape cubicles” where the little girls were being mutilated by a Canadian predator. He has since quit the RCMP to work full time with Ratanak, which has expanded its mandate to work with child exploitation.
“victims of human trafficking have to perform as they are told or risk being beaten; a Nepalese mother holds a photo of her missing daughter who was trafficked”
A global scourge
Human trafficking – the buying and selling of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labour – takes place in many forms and it happens throughout the world, including Canada. In India, International Justice Mission (IJM) works with victims who have been trafficked for labour as they desperately try to repay debts incurred by their grandparents in the 1920s.
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