How many children were taken from Haiti and what happened to them? (pizzagate)

submitted ago by tyfdt

This seems to be a hot topic now. I've read as many as 500,000 are missing. I can only find things like this... http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1957160,00.html Worse, says Pean, many of them are exploiting the rush to get Haitian children out of the quake-ravaged country. She recalls the man in the Toyota pickup telling her that "Senators in Washington want us to expedite getting the kids to the U.S." But, she adds, "the Senators are talking about kids who already have adoption papers ready. These guys are trying to exploit all that confusion." The situation for Haitian youths was difficult enough before the earthquake. Now, in addition to losing their families, many are under the threat of losing their childhoods as well.

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Vindicator ago

Great question, @tyfdt. I found this 2016 report from CNN that said Haiti was getting worse, not better. It references this 2016 Obama State Department report on Trafficking in Human Persons.

According to the U.S. State Department, the report is "the world's most comprehensive resource of governmental anti-human trafficking efforts." It rates 190 nations -- up from last year's 188 with the addition of Libya and Yemen -- on how effectively governments are tackling the human trafficking industry on a scale from the worst on Tier 3 to best on Tier 1.

Myanmar, Sudan and Haiti are currently among the worst offenders for human trafficking, according to a new report published today by the U.S. State Department. The three nations were among 27 to be downgraded in this year's annual Trafficking in Persons -- or TIP -- report).

Maybe the data is buried in the report? There's a 2017 report as well, although I'm not sure the bureaucrats who create it would be different yet, even though it was published after Trump was elected. Might be interesting to compare. I wonder how much of these reports are disinfo?

tyfdt ago

https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/271339.pdf Haiti is on page 195, not very encouraging, little to no money to support investigations, it sounds like most stolen children end up as domestics in the country and in the Dominion Republic next door. You know, blah blah blah. Very dry reading. Haiti is such a poor country. I do like the work Compassion Intl is doing, history proves, societies that take up Christianity, slavery falls by the wayside.

urbanmoving ago

https://www.smh.com.au/world/children-go-missing-from-haiti-hospitals-20100123-mr69.html The "loudest voices" are the ones doing it always at the forefront to avoid suscpicion UNICEF which has scandals going back decades icnluding a child porn dungeon in Europe was first to belch out "outrage"...The numbers are at least in the THOUSANDS...