"I was forced to labor with a 12 hours straight work, seven days a week, paid only by 30 cent per hour. I have to clean, cook, took care of two infants and an elderly then prepared meals for tons of guests. I was force to sleep at the kitchen by only using a mattress, she was not allowed to be out of the house. I received threats, verbal abuse and intimidation. Being reported by the family friend to the Anti Trafficking Program and being rehabilitate there was the beginning of light in my life."
ANGELA
ELLE
"I experience years of physical and sexual abuse through my own foster care. I got another physical and sexual abuse from my mother's boyfriend. After tired being abuse, I fall into the drugs, street violence and prostitution world. By the age of 13, I was sentenced to prison. Coming out from prison, I comes back to the prostitution world. I realized she needed to move on from my past through working at the house of Emmanuel."
BARBARA
"I was abused by my own family and able to ran away from home at the age of 12. I was being found by a couple that turns out selling me to another man. I was taken to New York and trafficked for 8 years. I have been abused, shot, stabbed, raped, kidnapped, trafficked, beaten, drugs addicted, jailed and etc before I was even. Until one day a woman help me found my sister and I got back with her. I detoxifies myself and slowly gaining my life back. I got married, and now I have a grandson."
KARLA JACINTO
"I was raped 43,200 times."