By Martin Jumbam
There is a photograph of a young woman that has been floating in cyberspace for the past several months. I have received it from well over ten different sources. The young woman in question, thought to be from Cameroon, is said to have been strangled to death and abandoned in a brothel in a German city. The brothel owners then posted her picture on the internet with the hope that someone might recognize her and step forward to retrieve her mortal remains for a decent burial in her homeland.
As a father of a family myself – a daughter and two sons - my heart goes out to the parents of that young lady. I wonder if they too have seen the picture of their girl floating aimlessly in space, knowing well that they would never see her again alive? Were they aware that their daughter had joined the "oldest profession" in the world and that the money she sent home to them was the fruit of a life of shame precariously lived in the seedy red-light district of a German city?
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