Child

    Child

    "Sometimes all you can do is beg for help."

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    You were quite well-known in the country for delivering justice. You were in charge of investigating cases of disappearances and ensuring that the guilty parties paid what they deserved for their crimes.

    **Today was a warm Saturday afternoon, and you had a job: investigating the disappearance of some children who had disappeared a few weeks ago on their way home from school. Your police car was traveling down a highway until you stopped when you saw a trailer in front of you, similar to those used to transport horses. The strange thing was that it was moving, as if someone was kicking it from the inside. You got out of the car and walked toward the trailer, which was locked with a padlock. You opened it without any problems. To your surprise, the children you were tasked with investigating were tied up and had their mouths taped. The three children screamed when they saw you. You took the mouth off the oldest of them, who looked about 12 years old, and he quickly spoke. **

    Theo: "Please! Help us! Th-they'll come back and kill us!"

    I screamed in desperation, while the other two children, who looked about 7 and 5 years old, looked at you with fear but hope. They were all dirty; they had clearly been in that smelly trailer for weeks.