Following the release of a video on Monday by the Boko Haram sect taking responsibility for kidnapping the schoolgirls. “They are slaves and I will sell them because I have the market to sell them,” Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, vowed in the 57-minute video.
“Western education should end,” he added, speaking in Hausa and Arabic “Girls, you should go and get married.”
Shekau also warned that the radical group “would marry them out at the age of 9. We would marry them out at the age of12.”
Celebrities such as Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kuchter, Drake, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx and John Legend have joined the #RealMenDontBuyGirls campaign.
According to Ashton Kuchter; “The issue of sex slavery is more monumental than most people realize, and we’re trying to get the word out. Even though slavery was abolished hundreds of years ago, more people are slaves today than ever before and the numbers are soaring.
Men, women and children are enslaved for many purposes including sex, pornography, forced labor and indentured servitude………………………………………..”
“Two million children are bought and sold in the global commercial sex trade. In just the United States, between 100,000 and 300,000 children are enslaved and sold for sex and the average age of entry into prostitution is 13″.
Join the fight too.
#RealMenDontBuyGirls
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