Thousands of people watched Carla Jacinto for many years in displeasure, hatred or simply because be one sexual objectOnly one of them saw her as a person, daring to be able to escape a life of exploitation that began as a girl from the age of 12, but only a few manage to leave.
Carla’s story is about the struggle to survive, she was succumb to human trafficking in its form Sexual Exploitationnever imagined that the man who seemed like her charming prince and he promised get married with him he only recruited her whoreLike dozens more.
It all started in high school. Carla came from a low-income household, her father’s They worked as hard as they could and they were never homeSo she started hanging out with all kinds of friends. With them she felt accepted and valued, which she didn’t have at home, as they were only reproaches and outcry.
by the age of five he was sexually abused too much for someone close to family And to escape, he took refuge with his friends or in the street, but he would soon find that this was not the best option.
One day when her friends didn’t come, she was in Pino Suárez, a business area in Mexico City, when a boy sent her candy given to her by a stranger, it was a 22-year-old who began to win over her. Mob Mentality. At that time he had not imagined that this subject was a gonna getDespite prostitution in that area.
he spoke well and slowly convinced him that he wanted a serious relationship With him, he took her to Puebla to visit her family, when he returned at dawn he kicked her out of the house and she agreed to live with this 22-year-old subject when she was only 12.
He took her to live in Tlaxcala and traveled a lot on the pretext that he was a car dealer. She stayed to be with her family but realized that her cousins took different young women every week until he told her the truth that they had prostituted her but not because she loved him. .
However, three months later she demanded that she work, she naively admitted, she thought selling something, working in the kitchen or cleaning, but her lover already knew her destiny.
“Shortly after they started telling me everything I had to do (to practice prostitution). They told me the position, how much I should charge, what I had to do with clients and for how long, I would How should I treat them and how should I talk to them so that they can give me more money,” he told me. remembered.
It was the beginning of a dramatic story that lasted four difficult years, in which she was exploited by pimps who began to dictate her life down to the smallest details, even when can i go to the bathroom or how many customers Always between 20 and 30 per dayin the season till 7 days a week,
At first she was taken to a hotel in Puebla, but since she was not yet grown and looked like a girl, they did not let her work, the next day they took pictures of her and a voter ID card was found to be false. Proved that she was 18 years old. ,
They took her to Guadalajara and there, even though she was a girl, she cried and begged, the customers “laughed at me too.”
He also told that he had to suffer police misbehaviorThat Extortion Along with recording them showing them to their families if they don’t even offer them sexual services.
She was beaten and jealous of her captives, and at the age of 15 she became pregnant. She had a daughter, but this was taken from the time she was born., and only a year later saw him again. With that they persuaded him not to run out, that if he tried they would kill him.
At the age of 16, she was encouraged to run away and change her life for a client whom she believed to be her true friend because he asked her to talk instead of just having sex.
To do this, he had to gain the trust of his captors, which included recruiting a young woman She also got him to do prostitution, but luckily she managed to escape. One day when they took her daughter to them, he took advantage of the help of his client-friend, his landlady, who, hearing the blows given to him, went to the bus station to never return to that slave life. was able to.
Currently Carla Jacinto is an activistCompleted his high school and high school studies, gave many lectures around the world, including Pope Francisco Heard his story, which he also related to the United States Congress.
Today she is a proud mother of her life and despite being abused more than 43,000 times, Ask parents to pay close attentiondedication and love to our children so that they do not run away from home, as well as Alert teens to danger Which go along with social networks and online video games.
With the aim of making people aware of the condition of victims of human trafficking as well as promoting and protecting their rights, the United Nations General Assembly declared 30 July as the World Day Against Human Trafficking.
The United Nations Organization (UN) states that all countries around the world are affected once victims are in the region of origin, transit or destination. Data published in the World Report on Trafficking in Persons, prepared by the United Nations Organization Against Drugs and Crime, shows that there are currently more than 12 million people trafficked around the world, about 70% of whom are women and girls.
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