Earthquake orphans sold into sex trade

The Sunday Times ^ | 10/23/5 | Dean Nelson

[Crackingham]

Six-year-old Aisha loves the orange blouse and jeans given to her by the kind woman who rescued her from the chaos of the Kashmir earthquake. She snuggles up to her, trying to forget the devastation of her village home and the deaths of her parents 15 days ago. What Aisha does not know is that the woman, Kausar, is a prostitute who has bought her from relatives for 50,000 rupees (£500) and plans to put her to work in the sex trade as soon as she reaches puberty.

Aisha is not alone. According to welfare agencies, many of the hundreds of girls and boys orphaned by the earthquake are being targeted by gangs intent on turning them into prostitutes or street beggars. Other children are being sold for adoption by their parents in acts of desperation prompted by the destruction of homes and livelihoods. The Pakistani government is so alarmed by the threat to vulnerable children that it has placed armed guards at all hospitals and ordered that no child is released to anyone until proof of kinship has been verified.

A complete ban on adoption was announced after hospitals and emergency shelters were besieged by people offering to take Kashmiri orphans. Staff at the PIMS hospital in Islamabad say a number of people posing as relatives were caught trying to abduct children. But according to Manan Rana, a child protection officer working for Unicef, the United Nations children’s fund, in Muzaffarabad, near the epicentre of the earthquake, local government in Kashmir has collapsed and officials are unable to provide protection.

No official appears to have noticed when Aisha disappeared. After her home in a village called Arja was wrecked, she was taken to her grandmother’s house in the nearby city of Bagh. Kausar, her new “carer”, who claims the little girl is a distant relative, heard about her plight from family members.

“Her grandmother was too old to look after the girl. I went to Bagh on October 12 and I got her very cheap. A pimp from Lahore might have paid 100,000 rupees,” she said.

“I will provide a good education for her. I would not like her to be a cheap, third-class prostitute. I do care about the girl. I will take good care of her, and then reap the benefit. I’m providing for her protection and I don’t care what Allah thinks.”

Kausar said she was earning £200 a month from prostitution, but could earn thousands more from Aisha. She will sell the girl’s virginity to the highest bidder when she reaches puberty and expects to get up to £2,000 for that alone. “She could start work as soon as she has her first period,” Kausar said.

If Aisha refuses to work as a prostitute, she will be sold to a pimp, Kausar said. She may sell Aisha sooner if she is offered £1,000, but she would not pass her on to whites or non-Muslims, she said, and she would not consider any intervention by this newspaper.

By contrast the family of Summaya, 7, managed to escape the destruction of their house in Muzaffarabad, but her parents now plan to sell her for adoption so that they can buy a new one.

Her mother, Rafia, 38, said they were hoping a good family would pay £2,500 for her and would allow them to visit her.

“My husband is a daily wage labourer and he’s been selling blood for 400 rupees (£4) a pint,” said Rafia. “If our problems are resolved, we will not sell the girl. I love her. I know another family will never be able to give the love a real mother can, but we have to compromise.”

[staytrue]

She may sell Aisha sooner if she is offered £1,000, but she would not pass her on to whites or non-Muslims, she said

Oh yeah, white people and/or christians are dirtier and a lower life form than Muslim prostitutes.

[ncountylee]

Slavery is an honored Islamic tradition. Just another example of why this cult has to be exterminated.

[vrwc0915]

Isn't islam grand?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

May their judgment be quick and soon -- soon enough to spare these children.

[ValerieUSA]

It's difficult to know what to believe.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Well, I guess quick and soon are the same thing in this context. LOL!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I don’t care what Allah thinks ... She may sell Aisha sooner if she is offered £1,000, but she would not pass her on to whites or non-Muslims

[mmercier]

In poor Asian cultures it is preferable to be sold into slavery than be left to starve to death.

The sex trade is just a hook to get the westerner's attention, most end up being housemaids.

[mmercier]

In Africa the orphaned children of disaster are generally abandoned and allowed to starve. Same was true for many European children in past centuries.

Extermination of all Arab peoples based on a cultural specific humanitarian practice that has gone on for millenna is a little extreme.

[LA Conservative]

Since when do Muslims wait for the girl to reach puberty. Didn't the mighty Mo take a bride of 8 years of age?

[Tzimisce]

Do they still consider the West Decadent? I wonder how many slaves Osama owns (to support Earthquake victims of course.)

[Petey139]

This is disgusting, Repunents and somewhat disturbing. The girl would be around 12 years old, What sick person would do her...Oh wait I forgot, The "packages"

[Xenophon450]

Well its a religion of peace, the girls would have been a bother but now they can earn they're keep, thank you Islam for showing us the error of our Western Ways *thumbs* /extreme sarcasm off

[AD from SpringBay]

More heartwarming news from the turd world. King Koffi needs to get back in the pulpit and demand more money from the evil rich western nations to help pay for this problem - and fast - his blue helmets are probably aching under the strain of the situation. If something isn't done for them the pressure will become too great and some of them will blow. We've got to send those peacekeepers to the region ASAP!

[DTogo]

Who was interviewing this "Kausar" lady and why did that reporter not intervene - put a bullet in her perhaps? I guess it's their journalistic "objectivity" in not giving a damn about anything but the story and themselves.

[bethelgrad]

"A pimp from Lahore..."


I wonder where "Lahore" is. It sounds French.

[gcruse]

white people and/or christians are dirtier and a lower life form than Muslim prostitutes

Our prostitutes are holier than their prostitutes?

[bad company]

Didn't the mighty Mo take a bride of 8 years of age?

This guy? OOps! this photo is offensive isn't it?

[Itzlzha]

If Aisha refuses to work as a prostitute, she will be sold to a pimp, Kausar said. She may sell Aisha sooner if she is offered £1,000, but she would not pass her on to whites or non-Muslims, she said, and she would not consider any intervention by this newspaper.

Ah yes...such is the will of Allah (MHNBC!)! Aisha must never be allowed to actually have a real life, her slavery and prostitution for the Islamazi Masters is all she has to look forward to!

Ok...tell me again just WHY Islamazis and Koranimals are allowed to deplete oxygen?

I see NO redeeming value in their being alive, and a Global Threat to all human life if they are allowed to live!

Time to take off the kid gloves, and take it to the enemy...wherever they are!

If the choice is between the Aishas of the world, and the Islamazi ba$tards...."Cry Havok, and let slip the Dogs of War!"

No more child sacrifices to their demon Moon God, or their perverted Death Cult!

We need someone like Seal Team 6 to go in and grab this little girl, and to take care of the damn whore that bought her "with extreme prejudice"!

[The_Reader_David]

Ok...tell me again just WHY Islamazis and Koranimals are allowed to deplete oxygen?

Because God, the real one, Our Father in Heaven, makes the sun to shine upon the just and the unjust. And if He permits the tares to grow with the wheat in the Church, how much more in the world.

[IonImplantGuru]

I wonder where "Lahore" is. It sounds French.

Middle right on the Indian border, in the lowlands of the Indus River:

Second largest city in Pakistan and its 'cultural capital', according to this travel guide.

[muir_redwoods]

The ROP hits a new moral high point. Well mohammad (may he drown daily in pig feces in the deep part of hell he inhabits) "married" a 9 year-old so what can one expect

[Yaelle]

She may sell Aisha sooner if she is offered £1,000, but she would not pass her on to whites or non-Muslims

Thank goodness she has scruples. At least the child will be safe with her, getting raped at 12, maybe nightly for years. Whew. So glad she would not let a Western white family adopt and love her.

[Itzlzha]

Thanks for your thoughts here, but I have a reply to your answer...

To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under the sun.
A time to be born and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is
planted;
a time to kill and a time to heal ...
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance ...
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to lose and a time to seek;
a time to rend and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.

It is long past the time of war on a vile and unjust foe that does the devil's work!

[Dallas59]

By contrast the family of Summaya, 7, managed to escape the destruction of their house in Muzaffarabad, but her parents now plan to sell her for adoption so that they can buy a new one.

Islam is the Devil.

[staytrue]

You wrote "Our prostitutes are holier than their prostitutes?"

I guess I should have included this from the story.

and she would not consider any intervention by this newspaper.

And I will finish by saying that it seems "ANY white people and/or christians are dirtier and a lower life form than Muslim prostitutes"

[F15Eagle]

Six-year-old Aisha

Wow, that's kinda spooky. Not an unusual name over there but an interesting way to open the article for those who know a little history.

[Smedley]

Actually, the Holy Prophet married Aisha when she was 6-years-old, but waited to consummated his marriage with her when she was 9.

[newsgatherer]

By contrast the family of Summaya, 7, managed to escape the destruction of their house in Muzaffarabad, but her parents now plan to sell her for adoption so that they can buy a new one. Her mother, Rafia, 38, said they were hoping a good family would pay £2,500 for her and would allow them to visit her. “My husband is a daily wage labourer and he’s been selling blood for 400 rupees (£4) a pint,” said Rafia. “If our problems are resolved, we will not sell the girl. I love her. I know another family will never be able to give the love a real mother can, but we have to compromise.”

Sell the girl to buy a house, Guess they won't be home schooling any time soon. While we are appalled by statements like this, are those who put their children into the public schools in the USA any less careless? Are they not putting their kids into public kiddie kennels instead of homeschooling for money?

The only reason I can think of why anyone would put their kids into a public school in the USA or Canada is because they put things the second income can buy ahead of the welfare and love of their kids.

My bet would be that if kids could be sold here in the USA, there would be a huge market for them.

Jake