Survivor Quote
Published September 16, 2008 @ 02:42PM PT
"What they (general public) don't understand is the girls that were on the street- that wasn't the problem, that was just a symptom of the problem. The biggest problem was what we went through when we were kids, what we went through that drove us to think that we needed to be out there and what drove us to keep us out there...that was the root of it."
-Sabrina*, Survivor of sex trafficking in the U.S.
The Barnaba Institute
*Name altered to protect her identity.
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