Iraqi Orphanage Nightmare (Warning: VERY GRAPHIC)
Exclusive: U.S. Troops Discover And Rescue Orphan Boys Left Starving, Chained To Beds http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/ ... 6007.shtml Quote: They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility," Staff Sgt. Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. "They thought they were all dead, so they threw a basketball (to) try and get some attention, and actually one of the kids lifted up their head, tilted it over and just looked and then went back down. And they said, 'oh, they're alive' and so they went into the building."
...... When CBS News visited the orphanage with the soldiers, it was clear the boys had been starved of human contact as much as anything else, Logan said. Some still had marks on their ankles from where they were tied. Since only one boy can talk, it's impossible to know what terrible memories they might have locked away. The memory of what he saw when he helped rescue the boys that night haunts Ali Soheil, the local council head, who wept during the interview. Later at the hospital, Lt. Jason Smith brushed teeth and helped clean up the boys. He and his wife are both special education teachers, and he was proud to tell her what the soldiers had done. "She said that one day was worth my entire deployment," Smith said. "It makes the whole thing worthwhile." WARNING: If you choose to view images, they are pretty graphic: http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2007/06 ... 2940.shtml |
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That is just so horrific and sad... I'm so glad those soldiers found them  |
| That is horrible.
They actually look clean and the area clean - which is almost worse than if they were dirty. Someone was actually there with them, looking at them, moving around them, and still left them there. I can't even begin to imagine how psychologically scarred these boys are. It makes me sick. |
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| OMG, that is just horrific! |
| A locked room full of food and clothing was found nearby?!?!?!
How absolutely horrible. This makes me want to rush home and hug my kids and cover them in kisses and never let go. I think about rescue dogs and all the residual baggage they carry, and I can't imagine the baggage these poor innocent rescue kids will have. My only hope is that they will have futures full of love and kindness now that their story has been made known. What makes me even sadder though is all those in similar situations that we never hear about. It reminds me of my foster kids
I had two Iraqi girls who were 13 and 15 when I first got them. Their family was a refugee family in Lincoln, Nebraska. The father of the girls did not like to work, and was a very shady character, and he also did not like the fact that the girls were becoming like "American girls", and were interested in boys, so he "married" his daughters off to friends of theirs (grown Iraqi men in their 30's), for $5,000.00 each. Then their mother stood outside the door to be sure the marriages were "consumated". By the time I received those girls, they were extremely traumatized to say the least. The girls told me stories of their experiences in Iraq that kept me up so many nights just crying for all the kids that were still there in that environment. I know child abuse happens everywhere, but at least here, if the story gets out, there is some sort of attempt at fixing it... but in places like this, it's as if no one even cares. I see these poor boys in this story and can't help but wonder.... what happened to the girl orphans? |
Quote: A locked room full of food and clothing was found nearby?!?!?!
One of the captions for a photo says they think they sold the food at the market instead of giving it to the kids. |
| I don't understand -- these kids are immaculately groomed and the "orphanage" is just spotless.
How can people take such good care of the kids and yet tie them to beds for so long they become atrophied, and then continue to groom them? How come the captions repeat over and over the word "abused?" I just don't understand. I wonder if they were transferred to this orphanage already atrophied. Very sad, but very odd. |
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