The girl in the motel room is 17. She says she’s been “in the life” since she was 13. But she is not ready to leave the only life she knows — that of a child trafficked for sex.
Sasha Ray was pimped out of the back of a barbershop. She was luckier. She was able to leave. She reached out to an advocate for sex trafficking victims, Lisa C. Williams, and ended up getting the love that everyone deserves.
These girls, Lisa Williams, and many others, are featured in the CNN documentary Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking. The CNN Special Report takes a close look at today’s modern day slavery — the sex-trafficking of children in America.
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