Sex-trafficking survivors use new ink to reclaim their lives: https://t.co/pr8SWSRpui #mondaymotivation #cnnfreedom http://pic.twitter.com/FXKxTchBJk
— CNN Freedom Project (@CNNFreedom) February 8, 2016
It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, sex slavery is still alive and thriving in the United States. Thousands of vulnerable women are made prisoners by pimps, who force them to prostitute themselves. They are left penniless, dependent on their captors financially and for the drugs with which they are forcibly addicted.</p>
These women are hopeless and terrified, rarely daring to escape for fear that they will be killed. These monsters who make their lives a living hell, actually brand the women like cattle, with tattoos that may say: “Property of…” or a crown with the pimps name.
In the video you are about to watch below, you will hear a CNN interview with a victim and survivor of sexual slavery and addiction, Jennifer Kempton. In telling her story she talks about these tattoos which became a constant reminder of her former tortured life.
The crown was used to symbolize one of the pimps that owned her, “King Munch”. As Jennifer began to recover and try to build a new life, she found her tattoos that branded her the property of her pimps, an unbearable reminder of her slavery. After covering the pimp tattoos which she said were “a psychological form of bondage”, she began to feel less shackled by her past. Her relief inspired her to start an organization, “Survivor’s Ink” to raise money for other women to cover the visible scars of their slavery. Their new tattoos are now symbols of their freedom from sexual slavery.
Many people are not as lucky as Jennifer. If you ever see someone with a crown tattoo they are probably suffering in a dark world, and need help. The fact that women are being bought and sold daily in the United States, is a horrifying fact that needs to be brought to light.
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