Remember Me? Forum Open General stuff Child slavery in Barahona. Results 1 to 7 of 7. Thread: Child slavery in Barahona. Thread Tools Show Printable Version. This is really sad, the government should do much more, Recently I read in the nacional about a 7-year-old Haitian girl found mutilated after being raped, with stab wounds in her vagina, her eyes where taken out also. This was so disturbing. Did anyone click on the link at the foot of the article?
Media in the Dominican Republic Re. Poor families send their children to work for less poor families. They are told the child will be sent to school but this rarely happens. In reality the children are exploited and often abused. The only political aspect of the Haiti-DR cases is that the border authorities allow it to happen.
Do any of the people who actually live in the DR know of any child domestic to provide home chores Haitian slaves within Dominican houses? It would NOT be socially acceptable in Dominican society. Rather, I know of Dominican children being assigned to family houses to do chores in exchange for room and board. These children may or may not receive an education and may or may not be well treated - though all within the perview of the neighbors.
Young women being coerced into prostitution? Sure, it happens everywhere, including among Eastern Europeans brought to the UK. Teenage boys working illegally at the sugar mills? You bet. How many young asians were killed in the UK last year while hunting for cockles see story?
Hordes of pre-teen Haitian slaves working as domestic labor in Dominican houses? Hell no! Not hordes, it stated thousands. I personally have come across just one case where a middle class family in the capital had a Haitian domestic servant who was not a child, but she was definitely under-age. From what I know from Haiti, this is an arrangement that is often made between the very poor and the not-so-poor, so this could be the case in the DR as well.
