Ok, so let me preface this blog with the fact that I didn’t follow the Casey Anthony case at all. But with my passion of ministry for females of all ages, it’s hard for some thoughts to leave my head and I want to share them with you. My thoughts really have nothing at all to do with the case, yet everything to do with it.
Now, as I said, I don’t know much about this case except for my Googling efforts after my Facebook “news feed” was exploding with newly updated statuses about the Casey Anthony verdict. There were so many comments in outrage about the injustice of the situation, fighting on behalf of a cute little girl named Caylee Anthony, whose life was so sadly taken from her way too early.
Now please do not read me wrong when I say this, but I was kind of in shock that everyone was so wrapped up in the story of one little girl. Not shock in a bad way, I actually thought it was beautiful. I have been traveling the world for the last 11 months and seeing snapshots of the injustice all over this world. I’ve been traveling the world fighting on behalf of all the little girls in this world where justice is not served on a pretty silver platter for them. I’ve been able to see the little girls who want and need (even if they don’t even see it for themselves) people to fight for justice on behalf of them.
So what about them? Why don’t they each get any of our updated Facebook statuses??
Maybe because we don’t wrap up our emotions in stories about them because we don’t hear stories of them. Because I’m quite sure that Caylee Anthony is not the only case like this. She was just lucky to have her story on the national news in America.
But still, what about the others? What about all the other little girls that need people to fill their Facebook statuses with comments outraged in anger about the injustice served everyday for them?
What about the beautiful little girls in India?
Did you know…
More than 50% of India’s children are malnourished.
Of the 12 millions girls born in India, 1 million do not see their first birthday.
Every sixth girl child’s death is due to gender discrimination.
Amongst married women in India today, 75% were under age at the time of their marriages.
1 out of 4 girls is sexually abused before the age of 4.
Children form 40% of the total population of commercial sex workers in India.
500,000 children are forced into this trade every year.
(statistics found here)
a private Christian school in Bangalore, India
What about the little girls who grow up in Thailand?
Most of which grow up and are sold into prostitution in order to provide for their families? Sometimes, and actually most of the time, they don’t even know that this is the “job” they signed up for.
Walking Street in Pattaya City, Thailand… known around the world at Thailand’s number one sun, sea and sex destination. It is home to at least 20,000 male, female & child prostitutes.
What about the little girls in Africa?
What about the ones who have to grow up living in the world’s largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya?
Did you know that there are more than 100,000 orphaned children living there…the majority orphaned by the AIDS virus?
Most will die early in life due to lack of nutrition, clean water, adequate shelter, etc.
a young girl in Kibera slum
Or perhaps the ones who do make it, will be sold into prostitution in order to provide for their families.
…Or just raped by some drunk, HIV-infected man who will in turn infect this little girl who will now have to grow up living with the possibility of AIDS.
a young girl in Kibera slum
Can we seriously let this happen? Can we seriously go about our everyday life without one thought (or an emotional Facebook comment) about the injustice that is going on with the little girls all over the world?
What about them???
