Some individuals have a difficult time freeing themselves from there abuser.
Victims become trapped as bonded laborers when their work is commanded as a settlement for a loan, these agreements are normally settled verbally, there are no written agreements to the labor performed and the offender takes advantage of the victims services, which are not applied toward the debt. Therefore the victim are being imprisoned and ends up doing more work while enslaved than what was put toward the original sum of money borrowed. The second, and more severe kind of labor trafficking is forced labor. Forced labor is when victims are forced to work against their own will, under the threat of violence or any other forms of punishment. (Office of Refugee Resettlement) Their freedom is stripped from them, much like the slavery that occurred in America in the 1800s. These immoral acts of forced labor can include domestic enslavement, agricultural labor, sweatshop factory labor and other service industry labor. There is also the injustice of child labor. Child labor is not only a hazard to the mental and physical health of a child it also effects the mental and spiritual health. The International Labor Organization estimates worldwide that there are 246 million exploited children between the ages of 5 and 17 involved in debt bondage, the children's innocents are taken they're forced into prostitution, and pornographic photos are being sold to pedophiles. Child exploitation is one of the most vicious immoral acts that a person can do.
An example of a child soldier who suffered from the effects of child labor is Emmanuel Jal. he was born in Southern Sudan, a village of Taj. He was a child when the Second Sudanese Civil War erupted. After the war Emmanuel's mother was killed by soldiers that were soldiers for the government. his father Simon became a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan, Jal was recruited into that army, one of ten thousand child soldiers.
