After watching a documentary on India, I learned of sad stories suffered by the India women and young girls. Nyati, one woman who was interviewed, was dedicated to the “goddess” at nine years old, meaning she was owned by the man of the village and anyone could sleep with her. When she was fourteen, she was married by a man so that she could be a slave to his family. “I was a sex slave as well as a house slave”, she said. She ended up having twelve children, seven of which died from disease and lack of medicine, two of which became blind, one who became paralyzed, and none of which she knew of their fathers. Nyati isn’t the only young girl in India who is involved in prostitution or is sexually abused. There was another young girl interviewed who was gang raped at only ten years old by her father, uncle, and their friends. It is quite common for girls and women to be abused and raped due to their inferior position in society in India. The problem with this situation, other than the obvious, is that many lower class children (Dalits or Untouchables as they are referred to) are constantly segregated and oppressed, and will therefore fall easily for any promise to better their lives, making them vulnerable and easy targets for false promises made by traffickers and child laborers. The sad, statistical truth about this is that every day three Dalit women are raped, two are murdered, and eight children (under fourteen years of age) commit suicide per day. India is an underdeveloped country, years of progress behind the United States. But one is led to believe that there is a correlation between the rates of female sex trafficking and the rates of suicide. This is not okay.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j6LR7JBIKU