Like Crawford and Stevens, Phillips said the crime is more common than people think.
“People should be aware this is happening in our community,” Phillips said.
呢個NGO入邊仲有曾經淪為性奴的受害者出黎作證
從12歲就開始被阿媽賣出去
為左換毒品
做左五年性奴先識自救
Her self worth was cemented when mother traded her as a 12-year-old to a 34-year-old man for drugs. “I didn’t know I was my own person. I didn’t think I had a right to say, ‘no’ and I didn’t have a right to myself,” she explains, adding, “I thought I was supposed to be for sexual gratification. I didn’t know there was anything wrong.”
When she turned 17, she, like other survivors, realized she could become part of the legal sex trade. Over the years, she was an exotic dancer at night, attended college to study social work during the day, and raised her children in the afternoon. “I lived my life in darkness,” she says.
