Shaniya Davis Never Had a Chance: What Shocking Thing is happening to Our Children in America?
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009
by Fran Larson
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Poor little Shaniya. Her small 5 year-old body was found in the woods next to a deer carcass. She was actually found lying beside a deer carcass. Think about it. That means whoever did this discarded her next to a dead animal. No one cared enough to even wrap up her little body.
Shaniya was reported missing Tuesday.
Her mother, Antoinette Davis, 25 is charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse. An accomplice, Andrette McNeill, 29, will face kidnapping charges. He was seen on surveillance footage carrying Shaniya at a Sanford hotel. As a result, another man who was arrested last week has been freed. (USA Today)
Mark Logan, executive and director of the Polaris Project and the former U.S. ambassador to combat human trafficking, called the cases of parents pimping or selling their own children "extreme," especially when they are very young.
"It's frightening to learn about the age of entry into prostitution being 12 to 14," he told ABCNews.com today.
In general when parents traffic their own children, the fathers tend to be violent and abusive, while the mothers are typically desperate.
"But no poverty or economic desperation can along explain the prostitution of a child," he said.
While there are no numbers on how many young children are trafficked by their own parents, there are about 100,000 minors trafficked in the United States each year, Logan said.
"Most of them are runaways or throwaways," he said. (ABC News)
Again, I am still asking myself what kind of mother/father could care so little about their child that they would sell their child's body for sex and also that they would be with a partner who is also abusive?
Research tells us that usually an abusive parent comes from an abusive home. The other possibility is that the abusive parent could have mental illness, such as bi-polar.(Some children that have abusive childhoods react the opposite way. They are determined that their child will never be abused; they are loving parents.)
Shaniya may as well have been thrown in a lion's den; even if she had lived, what chance did you have for a decent life and for being loved?
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)It's doubly tragic that the people who are thinking of the welfare of precious children are not the parents themselves. Those poor kids don't stand a chance without intervention.
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