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Mon, February 18, 2008 - 4:54 PMWarning the information is disturbing
www.freetheslaves.net/NETCOMM...age.aspx
When Helia LaJeunesse was five years old, her mother died. She went to live with her grandmother until she too passed away. A neighbor took Helia in until she was about twelve years old. The woman of the house made Helia do all the cleaning and all of the chores around the house. Helia was verbally and physically abused, and she wasn’t allowed to go to school. Even the neighbors would tell the woman that she was mistreating Helia. The woman would reply that since she didn’t have a family, Helia was an animal, and should be treated like an animal. Not until the community threatened to burn down the woman’s house did she let Helia go to communion class.
the rest of her story is @
www.freetheslaves.net/NETCOMM...age.aspx
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Tue, February 19, 2008 - 9:51 AM
Thank you for posting this Wyld, our church has been working on the human trafficking/slave issue.
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Mon, March 24, 2008 - 10:31 AM
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea. No idea at all. I've signed up on the website and hope to find out what I can do.
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