Sex Trafficking: Exploring Agency

It Begins in Childhood

A childhood involving sexual abuse can be a direct path to victimization.

After experiencing childhood, click to Begin Your Journey below.



She was four years old the first time a man looked at her the way a man looks at his wife on his wedding day.
Little girls are supposed to dream about being models and doctors and veterinarians.
Instead, she found sleep, eyes wide with terror of another night greeted by her stepfather's shadow.
​He was the real monster in her bedroom.
And mom-- she was too fragile, too selfish to accept the truth that her little girl's innocence had been stolen one night when her boyfriend decided that she wasn't good enough anymore.
And since the little girl never had a real father, she accepted his advances because he always promised her his touches were acceptable.
Because he loved her.
This is for the scars left of the heart of the fatherless child.
This is girls objectified instead of praised like queens.
This agony, growing up without a father, but all you really want is love.
This is that 12 year old girl who was forced to trade her lunchbox and sneakers for a Chanel purse and pumps.
The 16 year old girl kidnapped by a gang of men on her way to school and held captive in a house right next door to you. 
 

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