Iraq: Suffer the Little Children

I have seen a lot of awful things over a long career in journalism and learned a long time ago to compartmentalize them. But there are times when the sights, sounds and smells of inhumanity are too big for the little box I put this stuff in and it comes vomiting out. When that happens, it usually is because children are the victims.

Well, it happened again.

Take a close look at the photograph above. These are young Iraqi boys, some tied to their cribs, lying on the floor at a government-run Baghdad orphanage after they were discovered earlier this month by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers. A total of 24 naked and abused boys, ages 3 to 15 years old, were found in a darkened room without any windows. Many of the children were too weak to stand once released. A locked room full of food and clothing was found nearby.

The Ministry of Health is said to run the orphanage, which allegedly doubled as a brothel.

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