I Was Trafficked For 3 Years As A Teenage Girl

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Today on Unfiltered Stories, we bring you the story of Monroe Sweets who escaped from her home leading her into the clutches of a groomer. She endured a harrowing 3-year trafficking experience as a teenage girl. After this period of her life, Monroe ultimately rose to become one of the top-earning actresses in the adult film industry.   #truecrime #trafficking #survivor   Thank you for watching Unfiltered Stories! We offer a platform for our guests to speak openly about their life stories and journeys, shedding light on the challenges they faced and the resilience they've shown.  Our mission is to raise awareness about survivors by delving into their stories, exploring the impact of their experiences, and how they've managed to heal and rebuild their lives.  By sharing these stories, we aim to break the silence surrounding those challenging memories and create a compassionate environment.    🌅 FOLLOW US 🌅  Facebook ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredFB  Tiktok ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredTT  Snapchat ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredSN

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00:00My name is Monroe. I am from Nashville, Tennessee. My story is I'm telling how I survived human sex trafficking.

00:09My mom was like, do you want to go to your god aunt's house? And I was like, yes.

00:15And I would get so excited because I love my god aunt.

00:18When I got there, they were going to be running some errands.

00:21Her son at the time was 13. I was eight.

00:25We were left alone and he asked me if I wanted to play a game.

00:29And I was like, okay, sure.

00:31He had pulled his private part out and he said, I want you to give me.

00:35I didn't want to because I've never experienced that, but he made me.

00:40That was the first time that I felt bad about myself.

00:43And he told me if I told my mom, he was going to kill me.

00:47And me being eight, I believe him.

00:49It made me feel dirty and I didn't want to tell my mom that because I felt like she was

00:56going to be disappointed.

00:57And I didn't know that it was wrong at the time.

00:59That went on every time I went over there.

01:02I didn't even tell my mama, but I felt like I lost myself each time he made me do it.

01:08You know, a 13-year-old grooming me to be a professional giver and stuff like that.

01:13He did it multiple times every time I went over there.

01:16And I got tired.

01:17We got tired of doing it.

01:19And I never told my mom about it until I was grown.

01:23She couldn't believe it or she couldn't stand it.

01:26I thought I was nasty.

01:27I thought I was going to hell.

01:29Because of what was going on, I got tired of doing it.

01:32I was going to a place where I thought was my peace.

01:35And it turned out to be my nightmare.

01:38Each time she dropped me off, it ruined me.

01:41And I'm scared to have kids because of that because you can't trust people, especially your people that you consider

01:49your family or your friends and stuff like that.

01:52But take that away from me.

01:54After that, I hated him.

01:55I wished death on him at the time.

01:58No matter how many times I went to church and stuff, I thought about it in the mind of me

02:03doing that act.

02:04Growing up in church is totally different.

02:06It's like, you're more harder on yourself than I was.

02:08I was disgusting.

02:10I started to think that, like, when I started growing up older, I was just real hesitant to be around

02:16people's sons.

02:17Because I thought they were all abusers.

02:20When I went to school, it damaged me.

02:23I didn't want to be around nobody.

02:25Plus, I was bullied.

02:26And I just, I was hermited.

02:28I shut down.

02:29I shut down, keeping that secret.

02:31And growing up, it just, I just stayed to myself.

02:34Love makes you do, you know, silly things.

02:37And I just feel like my mom was a workaholic.

02:40Her boyfriend would give us whoopings.

02:42Sometimes I felt like it was unnecessary.

02:45And I hated that.

02:47Because my mom was my best friend.

02:48And that was one thing that violated trust because she let that man hit us.

02:53But that became her husband.

02:55But at the same time, I didn't agree with it.

02:57I just felt like he was, you know, angry sometimes.

03:00I found myself more confused with my sexuality.

03:03So I started talking to women.

03:06I'm not knowing that this was going to change my, change my output and everything.

03:12And that's how my life messed up.

03:14Because I talked to a grown woman.

03:16And that's when my nightmare started.

03:18When I was 15, my life changed.

03:21Going into the campaign, the woman was well kept.

03:25And she had a nice car.

03:27And I thought she was one of the campaign people.

03:30So it was easy for me to talk to her.

03:32Because I felt she was an adult and I should listen.

03:36So she made me comfortable sitting outside talking to me.

03:39I felt like this woman was so well put.

03:42It made me comfortable to tell her I was not okay.

03:46That's when she told me she can help me be okay.

03:48Well, basically, I don't want to be with my grandparents no more.

03:53I said, I don't feel like I make them happy.

03:56That was my mindset.

03:57I said, I don't think I make my mom happy.

04:00I said, I think my mom don't like me.

04:02And I said, I don't want to be here.

04:03She told me, she was like, well, I could take you to a place that will make you happy.

04:08And you don't have to worry about anything.

04:11I wanted to escape.

04:12So I didn't, I didn't think nothing else of it.

04:15And she had gave me her phone number.

04:17And she said whenever I was ready to leave to contact her.

04:21The woman, we met up four times total.

04:24Once she gave me her number, she told me to contact her when I was ready to leave.

04:29On the fifth day of me being at home at my mother's house, I was convinced I was ready

04:36to go.

04:37So I waited till my mother went to work.

04:40She had told me to hide in a neighbor's car and she'll come get me.

04:45I did that, not knowing it was going to become my nightmare.

04:50Honestly, that's what I thought.

04:53I was like, this is my way out.

04:55Like, I wish I knew now what I did.

04:57But no, I was just, I was ready to go.

05:00Within the hour, she came and got me and she was just letting me know.

05:04She was like, I'm so glad that you chose to call me.

05:07She was, you know, telling me my life is going to change.

05:11And she was like, we're going to take a drive.

05:14So around midnight, she's talking to me.

05:16She brought me snacks again.

05:17I didn't think nothing of it.

05:19It was a sigh of relief.

05:20Like, I'm thinking, oh, my life is going to change.

05:23It's going to be for the better.

05:25Later, we went to a house in North Nashville.

05:28She took me to see a man and she said, this is my husband.

05:32And he had me get out of the car.

05:33He said, you're real pretty.

05:35He was like, me and you are going to take a drive.

05:37And she was like, I was okay to go.

05:39She was like, this is, you know, what they do.

05:42So I got in the car with him and he took me to White House, Tennessee.

05:46It was a big old mansion.

05:48He was like, we're going to go in here.

05:50We're going to have a conversation.

05:51When I went in there, he told me to take off my clothes.

05:55I was confused.

05:57I didn't know what was going on.

05:59I was like, why do I have to take off my clothes?

06:02And he said, because you belong to me now, I have to break you in.

06:06I was a virgin.

06:07And he took my virginity.

06:09He was probably in his 30s when I was 15.

06:13After he took my virginity, he was like, I'm going to give you some clothes.

06:17He gave me a little schoolgirl outfit to put on with some long stockings.

06:23He said, now you're going to work for me.

06:26It's hard.

06:27He gave me my first pill.

06:30He said to ease this process.

06:32I didn't say nothing to him.

06:34The whole car ride, the first stop we made was in Murphy's, off of Murfreesboro Road.

06:41We went to go meet his Caucasian girl.

06:45She was his bottom, bottom.

06:47He wanted her to show me the ropes.

06:50So, one, I'm on for the first time.

06:53I'm freaking out.

06:54I lost my virginity.

06:55And we went to some apartments in Murphy's, off of Murfreesboro Road.

06:59Some Mexican apartments, and she was telling me it's $25 for a quickie, $50 for a longer session, and $100

07:11for a man.

07:14I didn't know how to feel.

07:15And she was like, and if you don't make money, she was like, you got to make daddy happy so

07:20he doesn't put his hands on you.

07:22It was 2000, 2008, August the 14th, and I lost everything.

07:29I lost myself.

07:30I had to sleep with 14 people that day for low amounts of money.

07:35It ruined me.

07:36After the 14th, it was every day of my life, sleeping with 14 to 30 men every day, going to

07:43different parts of Tennessee, walking the streets, being forced to do them and make that money every time.

07:51Every hour, he would come to collect or send someone to collect the money, and that's how it was every

07:58day.

07:58What kept me there was the fact that he scared me, and this is what happened in mid-October.

08:06We had got pulled over by the police.

08:09I didn't know who I called them, and they told me I should have never called them.

08:14He told the white woman to bring me back to the house.

08:18When I went in there, he said, you f***ed up with me, and he had his wife beat me.

08:23She blacked both of my eyes, and she broke my nose.

08:25She stopped on me several times, and it was like, you don't never call us.

08:30You don't never incriminate us or none of that.

08:34After getting beat up like that, it made me scared to leave, because I didn't want that to happen to

08:41my family.

08:42And they still made me go to work like that, so I stayed, because I was scared.

08:47And after being beat up like that, I didn't want that to happen to anybody else.

08:53And people will tell you, you never know what you're going to do, but I was a child, and I

08:58didn't know how I was going to be.

09:00And I haven't talked about this so long, so we ever hear us to talk about it, because I wish

09:07I could have changed.

09:09Being in that situation, having them to make sure that you do everything they say, just so you don't get

09:15your a** beat.

09:16And take, take whatever they gave you, what you want.

09:21Every time, I had to eat.

09:24When they told me to eat, I had to get up.

09:26When they told me to get up, I worked from 6 a.m. to 6 a.m.

09:31We had one hour, and that was every, that was every damn day.

09:35Going into the second year, I caught on to where I was working.

09:41I didn't say nothing.

09:43I didn't speak.

09:43I always had to have my head down.

09:46You never look up unless you was told I was programmed.

09:49When they felt like I made enough money on the streets, I was promoted.

09:54This was 2009 in the summertime.

09:57I was promoted to work at the truck stop, the TA.

10:00The TA truck stop.

10:02That's when I became a lot lizard.

10:05That's what they call them.

10:06The goal was to walk around the truck stop in a circle,

10:10and whatever truck driver wants to see, they'll flash the lights.

10:14I worked there for a year.

10:16I was raped at the truck stop several times.

10:18I was beat up.

10:19I had to recruit women.

10:21I don't know if you know the term of choosing up,

10:23but my job was to take another woman from their p***y

10:28by telling lies about my p***y, saying he's a good daddy.

10:34You get off days, and they'll choose up.

10:37I take their money.

10:38I give it to him, and then they'll come to the house,

10:41and those are his women now.

10:43That's what you call choosing up, and working at the truck stop

10:47caused more trauma for me, because if you got robbed,

10:52don't help you feel safe.

10:54Get my money, or I'll f*** you.

10:56I had to do a lot of figuring out being at the truck stop.

11:00I had a lot of growing up to do.

11:01No, and I couldn't tell them, man, my age.

11:05They didn't care, I don't think, anyway,

11:07because they knew I was young.

11:08I wasn't even fully developed like I am now.

11:10Working at the truck stop for a year

11:13caused me to be more into a point where I'm just shutting down.

11:18The d***s have already took over me.

11:20I didn't want to live no more.

11:22I was up here just hoping someone killed me.

11:24I was used.

11:25I said, nobody gonna want me.

11:28Nobody's gonna love nobody like me, I asked.

11:31I prayed.

11:32I was hoping for an escape, and I thought, God abandoned me.

11:36So I lost myself.

11:37And one, on 2009, November, I'm gonna remember this for the rest of my life,

11:43his woman, the white woman, his bottom, fell in love with a trick at the truck stop.

11:49She abandoned me.

11:50I was looking for her for an hour.

11:52The d***s was calling me.

11:53He said, where the f*** y'all at?

11:55She's planning her escape.

11:56She has his keys.

11:58She has everything.

12:00I go to the truck.

12:02The truck driver chases me with a knife, and they proceed to take off.

12:06I'm telling him, they about to leave.

12:08He said, b***h, if you don't get my f*** keys, I'm gonna slit your f*** throat.

12:12So you know what I did?

12:14I hopped on.

12:15Once he got in the car, there's a little compartment where you can hold on to where they shut the

12:21truck.

12:21I rode on the back of that hanging off, because we was at exit 42.

12:27He went up to, I think, La Verne.

12:29The people at Waffle House, two guys followed me, and they called the police, because I was hanging on.

12:36My whole objective was to get the keys.

12:39That's it.

12:40So once he stopped, they didn't even know I was hanging on the back of the truck.

12:44We rode for about a mile and a half.

12:46It was cold, and I held on.

12:48As soon as it opened up, I punched her in the face.

12:51I got the keys.

12:52The police was there.

12:54It was a whole bunch of s*** going down.

12:57I hurried up.

12:58The p*** met me there, and he congratulated me for getting his keys, the money.

13:03He said he didn't even want the s***.

13:05He was like, I can't believe you rode on a truck.

13:07He was like, I'm gonna give you an hour off to work.

13:10So me risking my life on an A-2 wheeler did absolutely s*** nothing, but it made my job more

13:15harder.

13:15The ending part of me coming to the end, let me go back for a minute.

13:22Once that one white woman left and didn't come back, they took me to an underground bunny ranch in Dallas,

13:30Texas.

13:31Believe it or not, an underground bunny ranch.

13:33A lot of people are not familiar with that, but it's where a group of girls, about 15 girls is

13:40in there.

13:40They line up, powerful people, people of power line up and come sleep with us.

13:47Because I was new, I stayed there for six months.

13:51I made them a lot of money.

13:53I paid my house fee.

13:54I was the top booked girl because they knew I was underage, and they paid more for me.

14:00Our rewards was a phone call to our daddies and let them know the progress.

14:06That was our reward.

14:07And he had to follow the rules.

14:10You couldn't step on nobody's money or anything.

14:13And I graduated, so to say.

14:16I was the highly ranked book.

14:18I probably made them over $2 million.

14:20I didn't see a dime.

14:22My job was to just get dressed, wash my body.

14:25Everything was protected.

14:27Sometimes the clients will pay to tie me up, and that's when I got concerned to be tied up and

14:34hogtied.

14:34I never knew if it was going to be my last time.

14:38The final straw was December in 2009.

14:44I was coming back from being there.

14:48I'm back at the truck stop again.

14:51And this is where the hellish nightmare became.

14:54A client that I've seen before, he said, I want to see you.

14:59It was $1,000 on the line, so I was like, wow, $1,000?

15:04I'm going to go ahead and do it.

15:06He paid me, and then he had five other people come in the truck, and I got raped, and I

15:12got beat up.

15:13Nobody used protection.

15:16They had beat me up so bad, they took my body, lifeless, and tied me to a pole behind one

15:24of the trucks, and they took off.

15:27It was wintertime.

15:29A white woman found me and called the police.

15:32That was the final straw for me.

15:34The problem is the healing aspect.

15:37When you've been stuck on drugs for so long, and I didn't see no value in myself.

15:43I didn't want to live no more.

15:45I didn't want to see the value.

15:47I didn't have a value.

15:48I was ran through.

15:49I felt like the scum of the earth, and I can honestly say that to you.

15:53It changes your life, and I think people need to be more understanding about their surroundings

15:58and who they allow to be around them, because you never know, this is the darkest day of my life.

16:05After I got out of the hospital, I went to the house where they would keep the girls at.

16:11No one was there.

16:12I grabbed some clothes.

16:14I hid some money inside my, like, a couple of hundred.

16:18I called one of my friends, and I told her, I said, I can't explain to you.

16:23I said, but can you pick me up?

16:26I'm in danger.

16:27I hid behind a trash can of lit in apartments.

16:30She came and picked me up.

16:32I was this skinny.

16:33I was all bone.

16:36It took exactly one year for me to get clean off of detox.

16:44I didn't know how to live.

16:45Honestly, I tried to get a job.

16:48I had no high school education.

16:51I'm recovering.

16:53And I didn't know what I was going to do.

16:56So I went to Craigslist and Backpage.

16:59I became my own, my own person.

17:02My person that manages my money, not giving it to nobody.

17:07And when that fell, when that was over and stuff, and it was shut down, I went to dancing.

17:13I danced for two years.

17:15And I was like, it has to be more out here.

17:18I tried to do the regular job.

17:20I couldn't, you know, it was just stuck in me.

17:22I was making millions of dollars for somebody.

17:25So why can't I make millions of dollars for myself?

17:28So I was groomed to have with older men.

17:33So this stuck to me.

17:35I said, well, I got the power.

17:37I can make this pay for me.

17:39It's my body.

17:40So I had to change up.

17:42But when I felt like that did not suffice, I went to dance.

17:47And I was a stripper in Clarksville, Tennessee.

17:50And it still wasn't enough money for me because I was addicted to the money.

17:55So in 2012, I met up with a famous porn star.

18:01And I wanted to get into the game.

18:03And I did my research.

18:05I only hit up the top people.

18:07That's how I became Monroe Sweets.

18:10And that's how my porn star life happened.

18:13Okay, so breaking down into it, me being in the adult film star life, I do have the power.

18:21Many men lust over me.

18:23There's nobody making me give them money, beating my ass or anything.

18:28I run my life.

18:30I don't answer to nobody.

18:32You know, my life is not perfect because I try at the regular jobs.

18:36But this is just in me.

18:38It's always in me.

18:39Yeah, I'm great at sex.

18:41But that's not a brag.

18:43I just, I am.

18:44But I wanted to capitalize off of it.

18:47So now forwarding into 2023, I've made enough money.

18:52I've opened up my private kitchen in Atlanta, Georgia.

18:55I am a full-time content creator, brand ambassador, and film producer.

19:01I have used my platform to help women who are like me.

19:06And I help them find jobs, help them rebuild themselves like it's not over.

19:12And on the ending of that, I use my platform to teach ignorant people about the sex workers in the

19:20industry.

19:20We were all once people.

19:22And you never know why we are doing what we do.

19:26So I have gravitated to wanting to tell people it's not too late for them.

19:32And I went to hella therapy.

19:35Therapy has helped me become, I know what I do is not good for people, but it's good for me.

19:41And if I can help people understand, you can't judge a book by its cover.

19:45You just got to learn from them.

19:47You just got to learn from them.

19:52You just got to learn from them.

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