The basic cycle of abuse and the cycle of human sex trafficking are interchangeable except for the financial gain part. Force, fraud, and coercion can be present in any abusive relationship, just like love, hope and fear can. It becomes human trafficking when there's financial gain or something of value involved.
I am just a child, why is everyone so critical? I’m being treated like a criminal. Can anybody hear me? Is anybody listening? Please explain to me what is happening. No one is interested; I’m all on my own I still have questions, but now I’m grown I’m being held responsible for what I was taught. I’m just trying to survive, but that’s not what they thought The stigma and stereotype kept me in my place. To society, I was a disgrace Is there any hope for me? What will I become? I’m such a bad...
If you'd like to see my testimony to a legislative committee in Michigan, here is the link. Its an hour and 20 minutes. The first 30 minutes is me and the 2nd half is the assistant attorney general Kelly Carter. http://www.house.mi.gov/SharedVideo/PlayVideoArchive.html?video=HEAL-010920.mp4&jwsource=cl
https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/human-trafficking-bills-proposed-amid-awareness-month/
FYI im speaking to legislative committee Jan 9, 2020 on human trafficking and ACEs
A. C. E. - Adverse Childhood Experiences In 2013, just before I retired, was when I first heard of the words “Human Trafficking” (HT) and I knew right away I was a victim. My trafficking victimization started when I met my trafficker at age 15; but after reading an article written by Dr. Vincent Felitti , I had a lot of questions about the adversities of my childhood. Dr. Vincent Felitti and Dr. Robert Anda are the co-researchers of the A.C.E. study that started in the late 1990s. I was...
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Victims of human trafficking are subjected to ongoing trauma and they have such a hard time embracing their survival because they get stuck focusing only on the traumas. They carry a much heavier load of shame that no one person can carry alone. So they try to forget it and bury it. They keep it all tucked away in the past and try to pretend it never happened. Revisiting the past for the purpose of examining it and healing from it is too painful for them. So the traumas keep haunting them,...
Victims of human trafficking are subjected to ongoing trauma. Because trauma escapes language and causes memory loss they can carry an untold story inside them that even they can't make sense of or put into words. The more victims/survivors we empower to tell their stories, the more perpetrators will be sent running.
