After the 2011 Manitoba Prayer Breakfast wrapped up at the Canad-Inn Polo Park Saturday morning, Conservative candidate for the St. Paul/Kildonan riding, Joy Smith, hosted a press conference on human trafficking, which was also the theme of this year’s Prayer Breakfast.
“Human trafficking is a global issue; it happens every day, but it also happens in our country every day, where children are bought and sold,” Smith said.
Smith called on Manitobans, Canadians and all levels of government to work together to stop this “horrendous” crime.
Brian McConaghy, a 22-year RCMP forensic scientist who was instrumental in the investigations of Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton, was on-hand to discuss his experiences, which have led him to start Ratanak International, a humanitarian organization that provides aid to help trafficked and sexually-exploited children in Cambodia.
“The whole issue of human trafficking is under the table and people don’t realize it’s very real; these are real lives, real young people that will disappear, and even the ones that don’t disappear are horribly abused,” McConaghy said.
Unlike “one-off” sexual assaults, McConaghy added that human trafficking is a “slow way of murdering them from the inside-out.”
By raising awareness of the human trafficking with Canadians, Smith and McConaghy hope citizens will pressure government to allocate more resources to fighting the crime.
Uniting against human traffickingSource: globalwinnipeg.com
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