"When I hear of girls working in London who swallow acid, I know it could have been me"


	"When I hear of girls working in London who swallow acid, I know it could have been me"

JackieDel

5-31-2009 2:13 AM

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5-31-2009 11:51 AM

disenchantedcitizen

This is a well hidden tragedy. Even though we keep hearing reports talking around it, no one seems to be able to stop it.

The need to make money can allow some people to do and put up with the most humiliating treatment.

The perpetrators of this atrocity should be strung up.

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