• Girl raped 30 times a day over 4 years recalls horror of human traffick

    From Tuck And Roll Time@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 26 09:16:50 2016
    XPost: alt.politics.clinton, sac.politics, alt.abortion
    XPost: alt.politics.usa.republican

    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
     

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)