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SpikyAube ago

In Molly Hightower's blog, in November 2009 she says this:

Devastation (sic) when I went to the hospital to discover my Jolene girl had been transferred to an unknown orphanage the evening before. I don't know where she is, but I'm trying to find her to force her caregivers to bring her in for physical therapy. She was so close to walking on her own, and they left her orthopedic shoe behind. They ended up doing a complete overworking of the tap tap room, with all my abandoned babies being sent out (including Carmella and Cassandra). Annabelle is the only one still there.

I don't know if that's a normal thing that happens, with kids being transferred to other, unknown, orphanages, but it seems suspicious that Molly couldn't find out where they had been taken to - you'd think what with knowing how much child trafficking goes on in Haiti even before the earthquake, there would be strict rules about where kids could be taken, and by whom, if the organisation is a legitimate one?

EndThePizza ago

Idk, there has to be a lot of chaos following an earthquake. For any random charity, it's possible that kids would be lost track of or there wouldn't be enough organization for proper documentation.

However, it's also widely recognized that the same chaos makes trafficking incredibly easy. So, we still need to treat it as suspicious to some degree when kids are shuffled around unexpectedly or miscounted.

https://www.ijm.org/news/breakdown-rule-law-puts-haitis-vulnerable-children-increased-risk-human-trafficking

SpikyAube ago

This was before the earthquake though, in November 2009.