This story was in our paper today, but some of it was left out. LKeft out was the part of how that couple's kids finally let the cat out of the bag. So, now that witch has another child slave, now that she's out of jail? Will someone turn her in??
this is just disgusting to me. How anyone could possibly treat a child like a common house servant is beyond me. I just don't understand the mindset of people like this, I can't for a single moment imagine my children or any child for that matter as anything but a child to nurture, educate, and help grow.....and to make her sleep in the garage and wash her clothes in a bucket...I'm so glad the poor child now has a normal life. I wish her the best of luck in life.
how very very sad. I believe in chores, but I also believe in children being children. They should play more than they should work. How very awful, but I am happy for her that she found a foster family that loves her. May many more of these children be so very lucky.
These people REALY believe they are helping these kids, and at the same time, they do not see them as a "Person" until they are adults... This is nothing new, I have been reading this for years.. They used to call it White slavery. I have two new neighbors (New in the last 7 months) They do not know each other but they are both from Nigeria. They don't even speak the same language. Their homes were paid for with cash, but their children have nothing. We can't ride our bikes or scooters without them constantly on us to let them use all of our stuff. And our problem is that they are not exactly respectful with the stuff. Anyway.... They leave their kids home all the time, they do not respect th elaw. (One neighbor gets a new paper plate on her minivan every two weeks, so that she does not have to register her vehicle , which means she does not have to pay the taxes.) Appreantly they have a car dealer in the extended family. Leaving their 1 year old in the house ALONE while the mom goes off to work at wendy's ans the 7 and 9 year old brothers are outside, supposedly responsible for the infant is OK. They do not teach their children their mothers name, nor her work phone number, NOR her work place, NOR what to do in an emmergency.. OR even the name of their suppsed UNCLE who is suppsed to come stay with them that evening... A little girl of one neighbor, named "Princess", does not have clothes that fit. She wears dresses that show the curve of her but. Because she has outgrown it, not because it is meant to wear that way. One dress is super short, made for a younger girl, and she cannot zip the back up because it is too tight, so she leaves it open. She is 7. Why am I going on about them? Because the parents are dressed VERY WELL, they drive BEAUTIFUL cars and seem to have everything a person could want, but their own children? They are NOT real people./ And.... Because of this final comment at the end of that original posted article, that I read in my local paper that says..... EPILOGUE: On a recent afternoon in Cairo, Madame Amal walked into the lobby of her apartment complex wearing designer sunglasses and a chic scarf. After nearly two years in a U.S. prison cell, she's living once more in the spacious apartment where Shyima first worked as her maid. The apartment is adorned in the style of a Louis XIV palace, with ornately carved settees, gold-leaf vases and life-sized portraits of her and her husband. She did not agree to be interviewed for this story. Before the door closed behind her, a little girl slipped in carrying grocery bags. She wore a shabby T-shirt. Her small feet slapped the floor in loose flip-flops. Her eyes were trained on the ground. She looked to be around 9 years old. They people REALLY don['t get it! And I have NO IDEA what to do about it., but they freak me out. I spoke to the mother who left her kids home alone, after I had called the sherrif because the infant nearly fell out of the second story window onto the concrete driveway below..... She couldn't fathom why anyone would care about the kids being home alone. Her comment was........... "Their just kids, who cares." My mouth fell open and I ask her do you care about their safety? And she replied babies die you need tough sons to take care of you. ?????????????????
Jen I'm so glad I don't have yoru neighbors......I'm afraid I would be in big trouble living next to them. I'm one of those people who will not sit by and watch a child suffer....I will say something to the parents, police, cps...anyone who can and will help the children. I know I should probably mind my own business but I don't because I believe that children HAVE to be protected and if their parents can't or won't then I will somehow protect them....those same children are the very future of our nation and I will not let them suffer if I can help it!
Well, I forgot to mention, in my haste.. These are some really good kids, deep down. Yea, I could argue that they are not the kids I wish we had for neighbors, but that is jut because of what they are steeped in, how they are raised.. But deep down they are good kids.... Like yesterday... We're cleaning out our garage and DH is making a basic shelf unit for storage on the driveway. My twins are helping their dad. Their dad is never around, sadly and whenever my DH is ever doing something, they are facinated.. They come over and DH lets them help build it and hammer and so forth.. They even helped to clean up afterwards with no asking, just jump right in... At the same time, they have ben banned from the house for periods of time for stealing from us... like snacks out of the pantry, caught red handed and of course the fact that we have to supply the street with all the outside toys... ugh. So we have to ballance our time with them to be lights unto their feet for God and yet maintain our own home standards.. it is a ballance act that bytes sometimes... Today, Princess and my DD played outside together on my front yard, (I can watch them from my upstairs classroom computer desk) and they had a great time. They played ponies (My little pony). My DD had given her some ponies to take home and that is what she brings to play with. In Texas, I think it is that kids just need to be educated fed and clothed and housed... That the state can't say anything if your kids are never taken to the toy store or wearing fashionable clothes.. but today Princess wore simple pants. At least she was covered. Again, I called the sherrif when I had something to report, but most of it is not something I think you can call the cops on.
I think it is a cultural thing, which makes it so much more frustrating. I agree that these people REALLY THINK they are helping these children. And I doubt they can fathom why people here were so upset about it. It seems "everyone" does it where they're from! (I'm amazed that neither parent seemed to work, and yet they had this incredibly expensive place to live!) I guess it's a lot like the South before the Civil War. Many of them could not understand what all the fuss was about when "Uncle Tom's Cabin" came out. They felt they were actually "helping" the slaves, that the slaves were "happy" and "productive". The women, especially, I think were living in La-La-Land. But it was they way they were brought up, and they didn't give it a second thought.
Its not that they are just kids. Its that they are just GIRLS! THis story never mentioned a young boy being treated this way. While I am glad that your country is made up of folks from diverse ethnicities, I wonder sometimes if the rapid increase in immigration from non-Western cultures will eventually become sort of overwhelming in terms of cultural change.
That is just awful what those people have done. I am so glad that the US punished them. I think they should have had to pay more.
How about making them provide for the girl's education/college? Or how about providing for something that might have meaning in THEIR culture...DOWRY!
what I think is so telling is the reaction of the girls mother. How the garage was a very nice place. I met a man from India who said, "you do not even know how rich you are here...you bathe in DRINKING water." That has really stayed with me. On another simmilar idea...I know you military wives will get this. On the idea of "locally aquired wives" especially in the Phillipines, and many wives were disgusted by it. (entrapping our poor boys) But my thoughts were, If I were in thier situation...I would do the same thing. I know that many take horrid advantage of the situation and divorce as soon as possible in the states...but they are surviving. However "culturally diverse" we get, we have to hold our immigrants and visitors to OUR standards, not thier own. It is a moral issue HERE. and maybe we can change something THERE one child at a time.
"you bathe in drinking water" Wow. That one will haunt me the next time I complain about our country.
I really do agree with that. However, due to being white with blonde hair I am all but banned from voicing that opinion because it is racist for me to say so. Not trying to be controversial, it is just that people, in the past used to whoooop our rears in education, when they came here. WHy? Because they had NO bilingual classes, no secondary text books in their native languages, they waxed our tails at spelling, math and science, just by jumping in and getting it done. That was amazing! We used to hate them for it, jelausy... Now we wish that immigrants would start doing it again, because we now (We being the collective of our country) realize they were, in fact, IMPROVING our country with their beautiful cultures, and by raising the standards of educations and citizenship. Now that the culture is, "Make a Mini-China, or Mini-Mexico or Mini-Iran", they do not seem (Note the word SEEM) as interested in contributing to the melting pot, because they brought their own pot and they are cooking their own stew. Problem is, it has a lot of rotten ingredients in that stew that was the main reasons they LEFT their country to begin with. I do not have an answer but I do wish they were waxing our tails again.
