00:00I never dealt with any of the trauma from my childhood. I was 29 years old. I was a general
00:06manager for a restaurant. I was feeling extremely overwhelmed, and that's probably an understatement.
00:12So I did the one thing that I knew how to do very, very well, and I ran. I left
00:19my kids. I left my
00:20husband. And looking back, my life wasn't bad. During the separation from my family, I got into
00:26a lot. And somebody I knew that I thought I could trust told me one day, hey, I can introduce
00:35you to
00:35somebody that can help you out of this situation. Pulled up at a hotel where he had a room, and
00:41he
00:41placed an ad on a known website, and he told me I needed to dye my hair blonde. I tried
00:48to leave,
00:49but he stopped me and ended up convincing me that I only needed to do it just one time. He
00:55gave me a
00:56quota of $1,500 a day. If I didn't meet that quota each day, there was punishment in the form
01:01of
01:02physical abuse. I was recovered by law enforcement a few days later, walking out of his hotel. He
01:11took a plea offer in 2019 for a total of 60 years in prison, and I am grateful. My biggest
01:19accomplishment
01:20accomplishment is that I have now become a woman that would have protected me as a child. I encourage
01:27survivors, don't be silent.
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