"Nightline" Investigates: How To Buy A Child In 10 Hours

Special Edition of "Nightline" Explores Modern Day Slavery Tuesday, July 8th

In early June, ABC News correspondent Dan Harris took a three-and-a-half hour flight from New York City to Port Au Prince, Haiti to buy a child slave. Within ten hours of leaving ABC News headquarters in New York City, "Nightline's" hidden cameras captured three separate offers made to Harris for the sale of a ten-year-old child slave. Prices ranged from $150 to $10,000. One broker promised to personally train the child. Another promised a "pretty" girl and offered to provide false adoption documents to allow the child to be taken out of the country. Harris then met and interviewed child slaves and their masters, and explored the dire conditions that drive many rural families to send their children to live in urban households with the often unfulfilled promise of a better life and an education. Finally, he followed the heroic efforts of one mother to retrieve her child from slavery.

Harris' journey is part of a five-month long investigation into child slavery in Haiti to air as a special edition of ABC News "Nightline" on Tuesday, July 8.         source:http://www.wsoctv.com/station/16767869/detail.html