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At the age of 12, Karla Jacinto thought that she had met her
dream man.
He was older than her and from a faraway village called
Tenancingo, but he bought her clothes and shoes and told her she
was going to be a princess. It all seemed like a fairy tale,
until one day, it turned into a nightmare.
Jacinto's boyfriend turned out to be a pimp working as part of
an international organized crime ring, and he forced her into a
life of prostitution and violence.
"He started punching me with his fists, kicking me, pulling my
hair," she said, according to CNN. "He would spit in my face.
That day he even burned me with the iron."
For the next four years, Jacinto was pimped out across Mexico –
without a day's respite – and was told by her pimp that she had
to service 30 men a day and keep a log of her clients. By the
time she was 16, she said she was raped more than 43,200 times.
"There were men who would go just to laugh at me," said Jacinto,
now a human trafficking activist. "They laughed when I cried."
Jacinto's story is horrible, but it is not uncommon, activists
say, especially in Tenancingo – a town whose main industry is
churning out pimps to exploit young women from across Mexico.
"We've been told by the traffickers themselves and by the girls
that this town raises pimps," said Susan Coppedge, the U.S.
State Department's ambassador-at-large to combat human
trafficking. "That's what they've done for generations. That's
what the town does. That is their industry. And yet in smaller,
rural communities around there, the young girls don't have any
idea that this is what the town's reputation is."
The town's infamy has even spread to the United States, where
pimps living in New York and New Jersey have set-up makeshift
brothels in vinyl-sided houses and rundown farmhouses.
The sex-trafficking pipeline began in Tenancingo and flowed to
the New York City neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens.
From there young girls and women are moved to ramshackle
bordellos in places like Yonkers and Poughkeepsie.
'It is dangerous when they are trafficked out of town — we've
had clients beaten up by buyers, raped by buyers — and they are
in an unknown location. So they are isolated," Lori Cohen, a
lawyer with the nonprofit Sanctuary for Families, told the New
York Daily News.
In a six month period between Otober 2012 and May 2013,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 33 people on
sex trafficking charges from the Tenancingo area.
Coppedge, who previously worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office in
Atlanta, said that Tenancingo's trafficking tentacles have also
reached that city as well.
Globally two million children are exploited in the sex
trafficking trade, with a mixture violence, corruption, fear and
shame are major factors in preventing them from trying to escape.
"You see me now with a smile on my face, but when I think about
that, it still hurts a lot," Jacinto told CNN. "I'm going to
fight against this until the very end. Every day when I wake up,
I wonder if I'm going to be alive at the end of the day because
of what we do. And what we do makes me a target. Death is
lurking."
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/11/12/girl-raped-more- than-43000-times-in-4-years-recalls-horror-life-in-sex- trade/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
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