I am moving this up to show today, because I got a lot of comments, mostly correcting the girl's name. Unfortunately, there were several different "corrections". Since this is just one example of a well-verified pattern of human trafficking and abuse of the victims, I haven't spent the time to look any deeper into this specific case, so I make no claims one way or another about the accuracy. I find the comments to be very interesting and informative in their own right. I'm glad to see so many people who are concerned about truth.
Some years ago, I read a comment from someone who said that laws against slavery should be removed from the criminal code because they were obsolete.
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/23/she-was-a-modern-day-slave-in-the-u-s-at-9/
June 23rd, 2011
She was brought to the United States at the age of 9. She was forced into servitude and she was abused. Evelyn Chumbow was 17 years old before she was actually able to escape her captors. She is now 25 and a college student.
Evelyn shares with CNN's Kiran Chetry what it was like at the beginning, her eventual escape and how she feels about her captor now.
CHETRY: Tell us a little bit about how you first came to the United States. You were promised an education, a place to stay, a better situation than the one that you had. And what ended up happening?
CHUMBOW: Like you said, modern-day slavery. I was promised a better education. I came here at the age of nine. I was forced to take care of two kids, cleaning and cooking, no schooling, and not even being able to get in contact with my parents or any of my family members.
I had no knowledge of the outside world, except the one I was living in. Getting up in the morning, cleaning and cooking, taking care of two kids, changing diapers.
CHETRY: No, I mean, it was unbelievable what you described that you were abuse - that the person, who is holding you who is now in trouble by the way, who is now serving a jail sentence for what happened.
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This woman who did this to you, your captor, Theresa Moombang was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison and she was sentenced for involuntary servitude, for harboring a juvenile for financial gain.
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Why is it that the only reference to "the trafficker" is CNN related? There is no evidence by search that this person exists.
I'm not sure what you are getting at. I don't have first hand knowledge of this case, but there have been numerous documented similar incidents, with people acting as human traffickers for foreigners held as virtual slaves. Sometimes for jobs, including nurses, sometimes as prostitutes, including children.
From the DOJ: http://www.justice.gov/usao/md/Public-Affairs/press_releases/press05/MubangSent.pdf
It is real, these cases are real, they shouldn't be taken lightly.
Theresa Moombang looks like not exists.???
This story is partly true. CNN has the comments closed, what is going on? This girl was brought over at age nine and escaped at age 11. Why is she saying this occurred until age 17? Her captor was Theresa Mubang and this occurred in Silver Springs MD. He captor was sentenced in 2005 and had to be extradited CNN did not fact check or if they were complacent in the fabrications, please post!
If this had been a white captor there would have been pictures and a strong tie to rascism, yet when it is black on black, or minority on minority it is down played. This can lead people to believe that human trafficking is a white vs minority crime.
"Theresa Moombang"
doesn't exist apparently.
Not taken lightly, Anonymous@4:58PM, and I'm sure Anonymous@11:50AM isn't taking it lightly either-but it is(was) a dang good point...and I was wondering the same thing.
I also searched "Theresa Moombang" and found nothing but CNN related pages, and this blog, which is merely reposting the CNN stuff. (In fact, googling "Theresa Moombang" is the only reason I found this web page.) I even searched the deep web for "Theresa Moombang" on pipl.com-and there is nothing to be found but the same handful of pages. This was fishy to say the least. (Try it, btw: "pipl" yourself and look at what comes up.)
Luckily, the link you supplied uncovers the discrepancy-CNN apparently misspelled the name. The .gov page spells it "Mubang". Searches on "Theresa Mubang" reveal all kinds of stuff. Anonymous@11:50AM was just posing a fair question after doing some sleuthing on the internet; and I'm certainly not going to assume they take these cases lightly, or consider human slavery a myth because they asked a question.
The interviewer got the last name incorrect, its not Moonbang its Mubang, like the previous commenter's link.
This was an older story but the interview is, I guess, recent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1619-2005Mar2.html
Not taken lightly, Anonymous@4:58PM, and I'm sure Anonymous@11:50AM isn't taking it lightly either-but it is(was) a dang good point...and I was wondering the same thing.
I also searched "Theresa Moombang" and found nothing but CNN related pages, and this blog, which is merely reposting the CNN stuff. (In fact, googling "Theresa Moombang" is the only reason I found this web page.) I even searched the deep web for "Theresa Moombang" on pipl.com-and there is nothing to be found but the same handful of pages. This was fishy to say the least. (Try it, btw: "pipl" yourself and look at what comes up.)
Luckily, the link you supplied uncovers the discrepancy-CNN apparently misspelled the name. The .gov page spells it "Mubang". Searches on "Theresa Mubang" reveal all kinds of stuff. Anonymous@11:50AM was just posing a fair question after doing some sleuthing on the internet; and I'm certainly not going to assume they take these cases lightly, or consider human slavery a myth because they asked a question.
her name is Theresia Mubang. it is incorrectly spelled on cnn and quite a few other sources. actually a story from 2005.
They misspelled her name. It's Theresa Mubang.
I don't believe the first anonymous was saying it was not real. I too wanted to look up more information and could only find that everything was lifted from the original CNN story.
The second anonymous poster should have at least commented on the misspelling of the surname of the trafficker "a native from Cameroon." In the day of the internet I am wary of single stories as well, not that it makes them untrue on its own, but they should be more closely scrutinized.
I have a cousin who works in World bank. Bring another cousin here and pay her $100 a month. She works part time somewhere but the cousin from world bank is taking the money.
Some of my relatives i spoke about this don't want to get involve and it seems i am the bad relatives. ( all they can say i should mine my own business)
The sad thing is The World Bank try to preach in 3rd world country to stop slavery. They should stop they're employee first. I can't believe they don't even look into the problem they have right in Washington DC.
I did not allow a comment thru because of offensive language. If you want to re-post it w/o that kind of language, please do so.
For the person who has a cousin who is being mis-used by another relative, thank you for being a good person. If we "mind our own business" when other people are being mis-treated, we are helping to create a world where no one will help us when we are mis-treated.
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