How irresponsible!
Victoria’s Secret has found itself smack dab in the middle of a child-labor scandal on Thursday after a lengthy report was published on Bloomberg.
The article detailed the life of a 13 year old Clarisse working at a Burkina Faso farm in West Africa where VS buys a majority of their cotton. Clarisse says if she goes too slow she is beaten with a tree branch, if she’s lucky she’ll be fed once a day and sleeps on a mattress that is about as thick as a magazine.
Victoria’s Secret parent company Limited Brands has released a statement saying they have already started an investigation into the allegations and are “very concerned”.
The statement adds:
“Depending on the findings, we are prepared to take swift action to prevent the illegal use of child labor in the fields where we source Fairtrade-certified organic cotton in Burkina Faso.”
We certainly hope so! And sooner rather than later.
Thoughts???
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