literally, the creole words for stay with. were you a restovik, a child slave? translator: and your sister? translator: the same. reporter: he was 9. his sister was 6. and estimated 300,000 haitian children live legally as slaves. how much money did the woman who paid your parents how much did she pay for you? me and my sister? $120. 120 haitian dollars? right. which is like 10 or $12 u.s.?
live here. child slavery, traffic in the street selling our kids reporter: each day he followed children into the streets to beg. he s come so far. but sharing his past is painful. you d run out into traffic, basically? yeah. and ask someone, do you want me to wipe your car down? yeah. reporter: the life he once lived passes by in a flash. child slave. street beggar. his life of destitution ended
the auntie who kept mackenson is gone. this woman and her husband still live here. child slavery, traffic in the street selling our kids reporter: each day he followed children into the streets to beg. he s come so far. but sharing his past is painful. you d run out into traffic, basically? yeah. and ask someone, do you want me to wipe your car down? yeah. reporter: the life he once lived passes by in a flash. child slave. street beggar. his life of destitution ended when he approached a missionary who took him to the lighthouse.
village with wrenching poverty. life was so desperate there that his father sold mcenson and his sister to a stranger. they became child slaves. literally, the creole words for stay with. were you a restovik, a child slave? translator: and your sister? translator: the same. reporter: he was 9. his sister was 6. and estimated 300,000 haitian children live legally as slaves. how much money did the woman who paid your parents how much did she pay for you? me and my sister? $120.
child slavery traffickers in the street selling our kids reporter: each day marc kenson followed a trail of children from la saline into the streets to beg. he s come so far. but sharing his past is painful. so you d run out into traffic, basically? yeah. reporter: and ask someone, do you want am toe wipe your car down? yeah. reporter: the life he once lived passes by in a flash. child slave. street beggar. his life of destitution ended when he approached a missionary who took him to the lighthouse.