Children for sale

It's an exotic vacation destination, with ancient cities, bold colors, legendary temples, remarkable beauty — and horrendous crimes that go on behind closed doors. Children, some as young as 5 years old, are being sold as slaves for sex. It's a shameful secret that's now capturing the attention of the world and the White House, a secret that has been exposed by Dateline's hidden cameras. Dateline ventured into this dark place, where sexual predators can gain access to terrified children for a handful of cash. How could this be happening? And how can it be stopped?

Inside the world of child sex trafficking, each year, by some estimates, hundreds of thousands of girls and boys are bought, sold or kidnapped and then forced to have sex with grown men. Dateline’s investigation leads to the troubled and distant land of Cambodia. We reveal what “tourists,” like one American doctor, may be up to, and we'll take you inside a dramatic operation to rescue the children.

The night clubs of Bangkok and the windows of Amsterdam are among the most well-known destinations in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry: sex tourism. But the business is not all about adult prostitution. There are some places you might never have heard about, notorious places, the kind of places a sexual predator would be willing to travel halfway around the world to reach — destinations like a dusty village in Southeast Asia, where the prey is plentiful and easy to stalk.

They are children born into poverty and sold for sex. And while the thousands of men who flock here each year — many of them Americans — may think that they're involved in nothing more than prostitution, by any definition it is rape.The small Buddhist country of Cambodia has a rich cultural heritage, but it has become a magnet for people who prey on the young and innocent. To follow their trail, we'll have to infiltrate their perverted world and pretend we're predators ourselves. It’s the only way we'll be able to see first-hand how serious the problem really is — so serious that President Bush told the United Nations it has become a top priority for his administration. Secretary of State Colin Powell is leading the administration's efforts and has a special office dedicated to the problem...

Read on... Here's an article below:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038249/

Is our life worth living if we don't do something about this? We as women for these womderful children who need a home and a parent? Is there something that we could do? Send a prayer, a thought to protect these children... and MORE... Could we do something for the children of the future?

Here's an article that was published 2005, but the problem still exists. It's almost 2007 now.
Children for sale in Cambodia:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038249/ We are merry living in our own luxurious worlds not doing a thing toward making this planet a better place for the generations to come... When on one end of the planet, in this very modern 21st century, children younger than 9 years of age are sold for prostitution, for a few pennies by their poor parents or most of them are kidnapped for this one purpose... Sold for prostitution. We do nothing about it... how cool is that? We are so cool and hip!

Is 'being asleep' the place where the youth of this planet need to spend most of their time and energy? What about the blood that boils with courage and compassion that runs through every vein? Why are we sleeping? Why have we become so afraid and dormant? Is this the most that we can do?