2. This 15-year-old who was abducted with her cousin while getting Frostys at Wendy’s
U.S. Highways and Interstates are full of traveler from near and far. Some commuting to work, some to other states, and some are 18-wheelers carrying something so much more valuable and vulnerable than cargo — sex slaves, who are dying to break free.
This 15-year-old from Toledo, Ohio was one of them. While heading to Wendy’s to get Frostys with her 14-year-old cousin, the young girls were snatched by a man in a Lincoln.
“I didn’t want to end up dead. I didn’t want her dead and it be my fault. It’s like they had us wrapped, completely controlled to where we were brainwashed.”
The girls were forced to “work the truck stop,” until one day when one God-sent trucker made a life-changing phone call.
It led to the formation of an entire advocate organization called Truckers Against Trafficking.
3. This teen who was trafficked for three years by her own FATHER
Rebekah’s story is the one that makes you say, “WHAT?! That happened HERE?! IN AMERICA?!”
At 15 years old, her father took her on a drive.
“We showed up at one of his friends’ house and they had me go into the other room and I happened to see…they were giving my dad money for me. I didn’t know exactly what was going to happen and that’s when they all turned on me. My dad held me down and they all raped me. That was the first time I guess that my dad trafficked me.”
It went on for three years. Coerced by her father and sold for sex, Rebekah had nowhere to turn.
Thanks to an intuitive high school basketball coach though, and her intentional relationship-building, Rebekah was able to escape.
