Monday, April 5, 2021

CASANDRA DIAMOND : I WAS SEX TRAFFICKED FOR YEARS

CASANDRA DIAMOND is the Founding Director of BridgeNorth.

In a YouTube video I watched, TEDToronto talk, we learn that brothels are hidden in plain sight in the form of massage parlors.  She was for nine years part of a "stable" of prostitutes working as "masseuses. " There there were 40 to 60 women working there around the clock.  She was a child in a family that was mentally ill and abusive which lead to neglect and the streets.  She played outside all day long in summer and was raped by a stranger and degraded by neighborhood boys. She became paralyzed with shame.

She learned to be hyper-alert to avoid being attacked.  She says pedophiles will say things like "If you tell your parents, they won't love you any more."

BRIDGE NORTH is unique because it is SEX TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR LEAD.

EXCERPT from BRIDGENORTH:

Modern-day sex trafficking affects girls and women from all economic backgrounds. Homelessness and poverty are certainly risk factors, but individuals from safe homes and neighborhoods can also be targeted.  They are lured in from schoolyards, shopping malls, and social media channels, then forced into prostitution.  Predators pose as friends and boyfriends, promising a glamorous life of love and wealth. In reality their victims live a horrific nightmare from which is very difficult to escape.

IS PIMPING GOING ON IN YOUR SCHOOL?

Addition to post.  I've published the below comment.  I would suggest a person report to a hotline rather than local police.  I've heard of corrupt police before.  Another alternative is to go higher, perhaps the FBI.  Keep reading!

1 comment:

M said...

Witness to sex-trafficking. Police harassed me for reporting. Victims haven't been found. This happened in San Francisco and Oakland. Kidnapping and rape (possibly murder) also happened. Not much you can do. I was lucky to escape.