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Demi's Sex Slave Crusade
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are taking up the cause of modern day slavery. Read incredible stories from former sex slaves and activists celebrated at the Freedom Awards this week.
Sina Vann was kidnapped at the age of 13 and sold into slavery in Cambodia. She was taken to a brothel where dozens of men raped her nearly every day, and where she was tortured with electric shocks in a dungeon if she refused to smile and act seductive. She was often locked into a coffin full of biting ants as punishment, and endured this horrific life for two years, until a police raid organized by anti-sex slavery activist Somaly Mam freed her. "When I stepped into Cambodia, my childhood ended," Vann has said, "and the dark side of my life started."
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On Wednesday night, the smiling and beautiful Vann was honored with a Frederick Douglass Freedom Award for her fight to end sex slavery, which she’s taken on as a crusade since being freed. She is an integral part of Mam’s anti-sex slavery foundation. Actress Demi Moore, who recently launched the The Demi & Ashton Foundation to help end slavery, presented Vann with the award, bringing the entire audience at the Free the Slaves Freedom Awards ceremony to its feet.
Moore, dressed in a draping, slate gray gown, which one observer described as “very Grecian,” told the audience that “the moment we were made aware of this issue, we realized we couldn’t live in a world where slavery existed.”
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Slavery is an abhorent thing, and something everyone should be against. It is good to see a Hollywood Elite couple doing something more than frivilous self promotable events. Most of Hollywood spends time as a "armchair Monday morning quarterback" in things that promote their careers. This is something that will be with us, and won't go away overnight. Good for you Demi and Aston!!!! It is great to see, and you have my support.
These are horrific stories. The words written to detail the plight of the victims do not bear witness to the depth of the tragedy they have endured.
Bone chilling; heinous, abhorrent, barbaric, brutal these words we hear and understand and still we remain unaffected.
It is a noble and worthwhile effort.
It happens here in the U.S. too. I met a woman who as a young teen runaway was abducted and turned into a sex slave all over the Western U.S. Her captor wasn't arrested for holding her but for an unrelated charge. After the police left the house, she walked away forever. They didn't even ask where she came from.
she should go get somemore cosmetic surgery, bend over so her husband can twitter more pictures of her ass.
please check out this film about an organization in India and rescues young girls from the sex trade.
http://explore.org/explore/india/films/65
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