Amirified - The Abused - blog 4

If you’ve read my previous “blog” you’d know that I work with a charity institution. Today I talk about the difficulty of working abused children. I have the least two brutal pictures we have because this is not a guilt competition.

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Rescuing children from abusive parents is one of the hardest things you can do in Iraq. I mean we currently deal with a case of a man literally holding his son like a hostage in our faces and saying he won’t let us take care of him and asking for at least 5 million Dinar ( 4K dollars) to let us help the child. The child was found originally by Hisham (The brains of the charity) all beaten up and begging him for money on the streets. What made this kid special to Hisham was according to him the way he wanted money as a mean not a goal. Which didn’t make sense to me till later when talked with the father. The kid was beaten up every time he brings less than 50,000 dinars (40 dollars) a day. To put this in prospective: that kid is required to earn 3 times my salary each month and I am a working recently turned 22 years old man. The reason we try to help the kid so much harder than the rest is because we’re afraid that it might get much worse. I know what you’re thinking what’s worse for that kid than an abusive father such as that? The answer is in the following story.

The kids you see here aren’t playing, they’re not hanging out after school but are merely a collection of runaway from home professional beggars. These kids sleep where they’re sitting at the moment. To the right of the picture not shown in the frame not shown in the picture stands a 7 years old who hangs out with the rest from far, they buy him the occasional food in exchange of beating him up. When I talked to that kid he told me their stories. While I don’t want to bore anyone by the redundancy of their stories I will need to state the follow up stories of two other people who aren’t shown in the photo (sorry for being terrible at decomunting but police here don’t want these cases documented and we were investigated couple of times after Hisham posts these kinda photos) the two people are two girls aged 9 and 13. The 9 years old is what the two kids on the left in the picture looking at. She was changing in plain sight behind the trees. According to the kid she’s the group’s small “whore” a word no sever years old should be using so freely or the meanings of it. But yeah the boys don’t allow her to beg or wash cars or do anything and each night they’d take turns having sex with her in exchange for food. Sometimes they just flat out rape her. The 13 years old or the “big whore” according to the kid is a slightly better paid prostitute except she’s paid by local workers around to have sex with, her old sweaty men who spent 10 hours a day working on greesy cars and smell like gas, I m know that as that’s what I saw, I saw the girl coming with a clear look for anger and self hatred and behind her came out a 56 years old fat hairy and sweaty man who gave what equals 2 dollars and told her to comeback later that night. It’s a disgusting reality all over.

Child abuse when not stopped can quickly turn an innocent kid to a mixture of victims and criminals. It kills the sympathy and empathy out of them. Poor needful people can’t afford morals, and poor needful kids can’t afford to learn them.

P.S the pictures posted here have been posted by Hisham almost a year ago. But the same exact people and couple new ones were added are filling to the streets of Iraq.