Undercover Reporter

"Afrol News - Reporter Offered Child Slaves." Afrol News - African News Agency. 17 Mar. 2010. Web. 22 Mar. 2010. .

Miki Mistrati, a Danish reporter working undercover in Ivory Coast, to reveal the extent of forced child labor in the cocoa industry. He claimed himself to owning a cocoa plantation to investigate if there had been any progress in the reduction of child and forced labor in the cocoa industry. He was shocked to find out how openly the trafficking of children was in the region. He came in contact with people that were willing to sell him children for his imaginary cocoa plantation. The reporter was assisted by a Danish television crew to film a documentary on how children where being smuggled across the borders of Ivory Coast to work for people in cocoa plantations.

I think that these people don’t have there heads screwed on right. I know they make good and a lot of money, but why little children? They could rather be in school or helping their parents with their own work. I have seen these pictures of children working in theses cocoa plantations; it gives a horrible feeling to my stomach. To me this isn’t right in any way, shape, or form.