It is one thing to say, and one thing to prove. Police initially said there were arrest warrants out for the Etireno's captain, crew and owners, but on Tuesday refused to confirm that. Aid workers, however, said it was too soon to conclude the Etireno was not involved in child trafficking. Men of the Earth delegate Alfonso Gonzalez Jaggli asked Associated Press Television News. My main concern is that the kids are here and safe, and we will hear if that is the case.
Girls often end up as domestic workers or prostitutes.
Passengers and crew members said the ferry left Benin on March 27 and arrived in Gabon's capital, Libreville, April 2. Authorities there detained the boat and its passengers, who were taken onshore by canoe, apparently because they did not have proper documents. The boat left Gabon on April 6 for Douala in Cameroon, where it arrived April 12, they said. Benin, a small country of 6 million people, has a history of slave trading. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was known as the Slave Coast for its role as a center of the trans-Atlantic trade.