There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers in the world- some abducted, illegally recruited, and volunteering to avenge their family. These children, some as young as seven or eight, are used as minesweepers, sex slavers, porters, human shields, extra judicial executors, and other dehumanizing tasks. These children are often drugged and forced to rape or witness the rape of families and destroy and ransack villages.
Well, the US Congress is finally able to hear the cries of the over 300,000 child soldiers dehumanized throughout the world.
The Child Soldier Prevention Act 2007 was bi-partisanly introduced into the Senate at the end of Ap