Lured Off the Streets, a Look at How Young Women Become Sex Trafficking Victims
Childhoods marred by broken homes, abuse, drug use and a desperate need for love link their stories, and often their pasts deeply warp their sense of right and wrong.
“I was molested … and one thing, I didn’t know that it was wrong,” said one woman at Magdalene House, a women’s shelter in Nashville.
Another woman named Shelia said she was taught how to perform oral sex at age 6 by her own mother. “It happened so much that it seemed natural, like it was supposed to happen,” she said.
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