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What Ruhama Sex Traffic victim said didn't add up!

  • 28-11-2019 5:03pm
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    I happened to hear what some of this lady had to say on the radio yesterday when interviewed by Sean O'Rourke, and I instantly found myself reaching for a pen. I know it's terrible that someone would be kidnapped and put into the sex trade, but not everything she was saying added up! She said she was captured at age twelve and used to sell sex until the age of 17.

    She said she was first locked in a closet by her pimp for 'months'. I don't know exactly what she meant by this? How often did he leave her out? She said that at one point when she was working on the streets that she saw a 'missing' sign up for herself. O'Rourke then asked if she'd have been able to ask a stranger or a police officer to help her at such a point in time. She answered by saying "the only strangers you come across when working in the sex industry are either clients or pimps.

    Another thing she said was "there was a time when I was no longer with my pimp when I was working in prostitution alone, that I thought I was making money for myself, but it came with a lot of other consequences". As soon as she said this I thought to myself "hang on, you mean you escaped your pimp and you didn't seek out your family?" O'Rouke then asked "[consequences] such as?". She answered by saying "well the PTSD that I still suffer with to this day, and sex buyers are just as harmful as pimps are". I was thinking consequences meaning that her pimp found her again and punished her for it.

    She went on to say, that in the end the only way she was able to get out of prostitution was by being arrested. She said there was a (and I quote) "missing person's warrant out for my arrest", and the police ended up finding her in this abandoned house and locked her up by putting her in juvenile detention and later transferred her over to the foster care system. It was a tricky one for O'Rourke as I'd imagine he didn't want to pry, and come across as insensitive, even if he did want to ask more.


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