Solution to human trafficking is as difficult as the problem - PostBulletin.com: Local

Solution to human trafficking is as difficult as the problem - PostBulletin.com: Local


"We've got songs like 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp' that win Oscars (from the movie 'Hustle & Flow') and movies that portray victims as strong, bold people that love this line of work," said Stacy Jewell Lewis, one of two survivors of human trafficking that traveled from Washington, D.C., to give presentations in Rochester. Both she and Shamere McKenzie were forced into prostitution.
Part of the issue is combating a society that promotes sex trafficking as positive, Lewis said. There's also a need to overcome the lies and misconceptions that prostitution is a choice and that victims are only children, not the 53-year-old woman that was trafficked since she was 15, she said.


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