Wednesday, 11 November 2015
I was raped 43,200 times
Karla Jacinto is the name of this beautiful lady who suffered at the hands of human traffickers.
According to reports from Mexico City (CNN) ''Karla
Jacinto is sitting in a serene garden. She looks at the ordinary sights
of flowers and can hear people beyond the garden walls, walking and
talking in Mexico City.
She looks straight into my eyes, her voice cracking slightly, as she tells me the number she wants me to remember -- 43,200.
By her own estimate, 43,200 is the number of times she was raped after falling into the hands of human traffickers.
She says up to 30 men a day, seven days a week, for the best part of four years -- 43,200.
Her story highlights the brutal realities
of human trafficking in Mexico and the United States, an underworld that
has destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of Mexican girls like
Karla.
Human
trafficking has become a trade so lucrative and prevalent, that it
knows no borders and links towns in central Mexico with cities like
Atlanta and New York.
U.S. and Mexican
officials both point to a town in central Mexico that for years has
been a major source of human trafficking rings and a place where victims
are taken before being eventually forced into prostitution. The town is
called Tenancingo.
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