I deeply and sincerely appreciate any help that you could possibly offer to assist the children we are trying to rescue and save from the sex trade in Cambodia.
If you aren’t familiar with the problems that face Cambodia, they are numerous. The long civil war and genocide has left the country’s infrastructure decades behind the west. The police are earning $27/ month and corruptible beyond most third world countries. 68.2% of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Until recently you were able to buy hand grenades and rifles at the street markets in the capital city. Today, the estimated 9 million mines left over from the genocide are still harming the population.
The problem that myself and many others are focused on addressing today is the child sex trade.
Cambodia is the #1 destination in the world for child sex tourism. An estimated 110,000 men from America, Australia, and Europe, flock to Cambodia to pay for children to perform sexual acts with. When we say “children” we are discussing those boys and girls whom are under 12.
These estimated 30.000 children who are slaves of sex houses, are bought for only a few dollars from their parents or are ‘conned’ into it. They become slaves to the traffickers, and to the pedophiles who oftentimes buy them for sex and torture them by piercing their body parts or infecting them with their disease.
Children are oftentimes forced to ‘service’ 15 clients per day, and they aren’t allowed to leave the sex industry until they are found too unattractive, or are infected with AIDS.
While living in Cambodia, I formed a group of interested and courageous people who wish to help these children by locating and filming the pedophiles to prove to their country’s representatives what they were doing in Southeast Asia.
International law legislation has been put in place to protect our efforts. My acquaintances and friends at UNICEF in Phnom Penh assure me that they are willing to help us if we can provide accurate and reliable evidence.
We have already seen many pedophiles walking around with the children they’d purchased, and we have already located specific streets within the capital city of Phnom Penh. The eyewitness accounts that I and several others can give are shocking and disturbing.
Some missionaries and NGO’s working in Cambodia are using tactics to help catch the pedophiles who are exploiting these children by utilizing technology, (high end, reliable, cameras that are inconspicuous and can record audio.)
By using these cameras, we are able to have proof of predators, and can report them to the authorities at their embassies, as well as showing proof of various locations that are known for housing the child slaves.
Due to the amount of corruption that has been found in NGO’s operating in Cambodia (some are pedophiles and predators themselves, others are just stealing,) we have decided to begin our own, and are searching for funding with the costs of cameras and legal fees.
Below are links that will help you to better understand the history, and more importantly what the children and we are up against in Cambodia.
Please watch the links below for the you tube videos, and share this information with your family and friends.
Thank you for your attention,
Jessica Engerman
(312) 399-2047
(please call me if you’re interested in helping our efforts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrzVxO9CHgo&feature=related
Cambodian Sex trade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ieL2PezjE&feature=channel
Cambodian Sex trade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Xf_PjaMOY&feature=related
Feature 60 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrzVxO9CHgo&feature=related
MSNBC special report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqfywtjBjIM
Land mine
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/90520/Cambodia/52488/Civil-war
More information on Cambodia’s Civil War
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/mines.htm
More information on Land Mines and the lingering affects
http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/globalissues-stp
Information on sex tourism initiatives at world vision
