In Cambodia, children in an orphanage run by Australian ‘evangelists’ were forced to crawl as they were beaten with sticks and had to eat rice from the floor as punishment for failing to recite Bible psalms, as reported by SISHA, an anti-trafficking organisation connected with government agencies in Phnom Penh.
Australians are heavily involved in Cambodia’s 600 orphanages, where most children are marketed as parentless, in defiance of fact. Half of these ‘orphanages’operate illegally. One such was linked to the ‘Christian Outreach Centre of Australia’, and organised ‘orphan tourism’, in which unchecked perverts could take a child out of an orphanage for a night, in return for a ‘donation’. It can be imagined that the purpose of such outings was not to hear the child recite psalms. SISHA have compiled a list of centres they plan to close.
Fat chance where bribery rules. One destitute family gave their two young daughters, aged 5 and 6, to a ‘support of care centre’, a euphemism for an orphanage run by Australian evangelists of the Citiepoint Church, who ‘washed their hands’, in Pontius Pilot fashion, when asked why they did not return these children to their parents, whose economic position had improved .
‘That is a decision for the Cambodia Ministry of Social Affairs’, they cravenly explained, ‘who are the legal custodians of the children’. When this family approached officials to tell them that they were now both working, the officials wanted money. That this is nothing to do with Citiepoint is like saying a prostitute must abide by the rules of their pimp.
In India, Ramesh Babu reported, in the Hindustan Times, 2014, that: ‘There are 1,000-odd orphanages in Kerala. During investigations, some told police that they had been enrolling children from other states for the past eight years. Shakeel Ahmed, one of the agents who was arrested, told the police he had brought in 500 children in two years. “It seems in India, human lives really are cheaper than cattle,” says a district official who was part of the rescue team.
Most of the papers seized from people accompanying the children were fudged. All the 50 kids from West Bengal had the same date of birth and village officers’ affidavits showed the same handwriting. Police say at least a dozen agents are active in taking children to Kerala and Bangalore. Their modus operandi is simple – they show parents photos of these institutions and say their children will get education and care. Often, they take money from both, parents and orphanage officials. Sometimes, they give parents money in exchange for their children’.