8. 42,300
This is the approximate number of times Karla Jacinto was raped during the period of four years. One of the worst human trafficking stories in 2017.
This sex trafficking story starts with the line “she fell in love with the wrong man”, but this does not sum things up well enough. Karla was abused in her own family from a very young age, and she was only 12 when she met a 22-year-old man who started wooing her and claimed he was also abused as a child. With some kind words that she so long wanted to hear and the fact that he seemed to be well-off, it didn’t take much time for him to lure her into running away from home. After a couple of weeks living together, she was forced into prostitution and trafficked in different cities, suffering abuse daily (and even gave birth to a child) until she turned 16 and an anti-trafficking operation in Mexico City set her free.
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