Mummified and Forgotten

Last week in Santa Fe, New Mexico the mummified remains of a Chicana teacher, activist, and author; Barbara Salinas-Norman, were discovered in a what appears to be a "trash-dump" of a home. Authorities and family of the woman believe the body has been inside the home for over a year. Over a year ago Barbara was a children's author, writing and publishing stories through Pinata Publications. A publishing company that she founded and designed "to help Mexican American children identify with their culture." Within recent times she became financially broke, according to her friends, at times homeless.
Her body was uncovered by her brother-in-law, Louis Ponce. Ponce stated "that he'd visited the home determined to find her, because it'd been such a long time- over two years- since he had last heard from her." Upon entering he had scented a very strong odor, and shortly after spotted her mummified remains covered in a red cloth, next to a poster. There were debris everywhere in the house, it appeared to look like Salina had been a hoarder.
 In conclusion autopsy's revealed she had died of natural causes.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/14/mummified-body-chicana-author-found-in-new-mexico-home/

Child Exploitation On The Rise In India

Recently in New Delhi, India, police arrested a grandfather that reportedly sold his infant grandson on Facebook. However it goes much deeper than that. Around 90,000 children go missing per year on average in India. After police received news of the infant they acted fast in search of him. The mother of the child had contacted police and stated that her father-in-law told her the baby had died and was taken away by the hospital staff. The truth behind the incident was that the grandfather made a deal with a man that planned to smuggle the baby out of the nursing home. The economic status of the families that have missing children often plays a disturbing role in the treatment of the cases. There are many suspicions that members of the families could have sold out their children in order to get money, as desperate as they were or are. The use of children for labor, slavery, sex or adoption is on the rise. However recently a law has past prohibiting any and all forms of human trafficking.
Child protection experts call this the norm. "Out of 10 children who are going missing every hour, only one case is being investigated", "These children are all being put into various kinds of exploitation. And a child who is being sold on Facebook is not even part of this figure."

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/05/child_trafficking_in_india_on_the_rise_partner/