ANDRE: Trafficking in Persons?

The question has been asked many times: is there a relationship between the "casual" and arrogant abduction of children on the part of the Children's Aid Society and where those children end-up? We live in a scary world...

We understand the CAS does have legitimacy in many cases of family abuse. What is blurred is the important number of families broken apart unecessarily. Now, we do know that not all CAS personel are evil. That the CAS does good as well as bad. But in this case, and because of the many stories we heard, we have to ask:

What really happens to babies and children that are taken away from their families without any valid reasons? Many parents don't know how to fight and just resign themselves to the fact that they lost their loved treasures. And that is very sad. The abuse of power can go a long way without seeming evident...

But why would the CAS need to make up stories to get children away from their families? Why work so hard at breaking up families? Can this be one of the answers? Is this what could be going on? We didn't want to believe the Butter Box Babies story. Are we going to let this one go uncheck? We want to know where Mona-Clare Finck is today...

Whistle-blowers wanted!

CAS workers should come forward too in order to help clean-up this mess and restore the reputation and original mandate of the CAS to an efficiency that will not be compromised by corruption. Make sure you seek the protection of trusted authorities before coming out, and contact the media as well. That way, you stand a better chance not to be silenced through intimidation.


Read on and while you pray this is not happening in Canada... accept it: it is... That's why we need to ask more questions to our elected officials for them to order a public inquiry in the actions of the CAS in the case of Mona-Clare Finck, and by extension, into other children's as well.

Trafficking in Persons

Definitions
Trafficking in persons is a serious crime that involves:

- the movement of people across or within borders;
- threats or use of force, coercion and deception;
- and exploitation, whether forced labour, forced prostitution, or other forms of servitude.


Trafficking in persons is not migrant smuggling. Smuggled migrants are usually free once they arrive at their destination; trafficking victims are not.

Trafficking in persons has been described as a modern form of slavery. It is a serious human rights violation and is reported by the United Nations to be the fastest growing form of transnational organized crime.

The Government of Canada is working to combat trafficking in persons both domestically and internationally.

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

Article 3
Use of terms

For the purposes of this Protocol:

(a) “Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;

(b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;

(c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered “trafficking in persons” even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article;

(d) “Child” shall mean any person under eighteen years of age.

SOURCE: Department of Justice Canada