The real DAMAGE done to these children - is physical, pyschological, spiritual. It is beyond horrifying, but must be faced. According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine
All the girls I spoke to said that their captors were both psychologically and physically abusive. Andrea told me that she and the other children she was held with were frequently beaten to keep them off-balance and obedient. Sometimes they were videotaped while being forced to have sex with adults or one another. Often, she said, she was asked to play roles: the therapist's patient or the obedient daughter. Her cell of sex traffickers offered three age ranges of sex partners -- toddler to age 4, 5 to 12 and teens -- as well as what she called a ''damage group.''''In the damage group they can hit you or do anything they wanted,'' she explained. ''Though sex always hurts when you are little, so it's always violent, everything was much more painful once you were placed in the damage group.
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The real DAMAGE done to these children - is physical, pyschological, spiritual. It is beyond horrifying, but must be faced. According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine