"The Sinful Injection."

The past few days have been a whirlwind of plans, ideas, meetings, relationships, and more, as I have been learning to balance the incredible potential, the heartwrenching suffering, the need for Hope, the fleeting spottings of joy, the beauty of this place, and the strange paradoxical feelings i have towards it. Today marks the third week I have been in India, and I am noticing a clashing in my spirit--I feel a deep sense of compassion for the people I meet and see, a genuine sense of amazement at the beauty of the land of this country, yet an inner anger and frustration and nauseau for the bondage and oppression that is forced upon women and children.

One of our last nights in Goa, Steph and I were eating dinner watching the evening news, and a special on "The Sinful Injection" ran across the bottom of the screen. Taken aback yet interested, we watched on.
A group of people raided a village called Alwar and discovered a horrifying reality. Young girls that had been stolen from Dehli were taken to Alwar, a small village a few hours away, where they were injected with Oxytocin, a growth hormone meant for vegetables and animals. The injection made the girls hit puberty faster, so they could be forced into prostitution. Oxytocin has other aspects, affecting the central nervous system and potentially causing seizures, affecting the thyroid gland which causes a hormone imbalance, increasing sexual appetite, and more. The drug is usually meant to increase milk production in cattle.

Girls as young as 6 years old are being pumped with growth hormones, forced into puberty and prostitution. As I stared at the screen, my stomach lurched in my throat, my eyes burned with tears, my fists clenched my chair with fury, and my mind glared in utter disbelief, especially at the state government's claim that "they had no idea" this has been happening. What sick person had the gall to inject girls with dangerous drugs so that they could sell them into prostitution FASTER??? And an ENTIRE VILLAGE literally being used as a breeding ground for sex-trafficking???? WHAT???? And who knows how long this has been going on--years maybe, and there is no doubt in my mind that there are likely other villages with the same industry and purpose.

The image of these young girls who are kidnapped, imprisoned, drugged, traded, and sold into the sex industry has been plaguing my mind and my heart for the past several days... I have shed many tears and struggled to understand how and why and what can be done to stop injustices like this. Will we as a world just sit and watch as girls are sold for sex across the globe? Will feelings of anger and frustration just disappear into nothing but passing thoughts? When will we take action and stand up for those who are helpless and hopeless?

Read more at : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/99132/120/Drugged+into+puberty,+sold+for+sex.html
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/296084_converting-baby-girls-into-adult-women-with-oxytocin