Karla
Jacinto, a human trafficking victim, has revealed how she was forced to
sleep with at least, 30 men daily for over four years as a teenager.
She estimated that she was raped 43, 000 times at the age of 16.
The
24-year-old Mexican told Mirro UK she was eventually rescued in 2008 as
part of an anti-trafficking operation in Mexico City.
She
recounted her past, showing photos of herself at the age of 12, saying,
“I was first targeted at the age of 12 by a trafficker who prized me
away from my dysfunctional family with gifts and money.
“I was eventually taken to Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s biggest cities, and forced to work as a prostitute.
“They would beat me with sticks, they would beat me with cables, they would beat me with chains.
“They forced me into prostitution at age 12.
“There
were people who would laugh at me because I was crying. I had to close
my eyes so I wouldn’t see what they were doing to me.
“Some of my attackers were uniformed police officers as well as judges, priests and pastors.
“I thought they were disgusting.
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“They knew we were minors; we were not even developed. We had sad faces.”
Speaking further, she said her life has been turned around to help others.
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