Behind The Walls
October 8th, 2008Behind The Walls
Sara
With great fear, she insists to keep her identity hidden.
I decide to call her Sara, and quote her saying the shocking statement: “I’ve been beaten up, forced to have unprotected sex, thrown out in the middle of the night without getting paid”.
Sara is just one of the many cases where a child is forced into prostitution in Lebanon because of financial needs. Sent by her parents to work as a house cleaner at the age of 12, the young child has been working as a sex trade for four years now, behind the walls. The walls of laws, dignity, respect and social justice that are expected to protect, but instead need protection themselves.
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To a great extent, every child is born with a clean slate. What we say or do to that child will color who that child becomes. The good and bad that we have in us will naturally be reflected in who that child is, and who he is likely to become. Therefore, we owe it to ourselves to think straight, to make the right c hoices, and to make of ourselves the best that we can be, so that we can instill in our children the values that would make them the best that they can be. Most of us know what we have to do. But doing it is quite a different matter. And yet our future and theirs hangs in the balance.