A sickening piece in the Miami Herald:

It’s heartbreaking to see how easy it is to buy a child
Jacqueline Charles and Gerardo Reyes arrived at the river crossing that divides Haiti and the Dominican Republic and started asking one question: How can we get a child? A half hour later, a man returned with an offer.
“He told us about a 15-year-old girl that he had at home that he was willing to sell,” said Charles, The Herald’s bureau chief in Haiti. “He said, ‘She is a good cook. She’s a very nice girl. She can clean. She’s very good.’ ”
The price was negotiable. How about $80?
“I wish I could say it was difficult,” said Reyes, investigative reporter for El Nuevo Herald. “But within 30 minutes, we had two guys offering us children.”
In a joint project between El Nuevo Herald and The Miami Herald, Charles and Reyes spent several weeks in both countries tracking the burgeoning child-smuggling trade fueled by the post-quake desperation in Haiti.

The rest here.

I understand a cholera outbreak on the island is a bad thing, but it seems the media is focusing on the cholera issue over others. Why more isn’t being done to prevent child slavery is beyond me. There is certainly much more pressure that could be put on the Dominican Republic to control its side of the border. And from this report, it’s clear the Dominican Republic can control its border when its worried about cholera spreading to its country. Child sex slaves, not so much.