Human Trafficking Survivor Karla Jacinto Shares Story as a Mexican Sex Slave for 4 years
Karla Jacinto, the women who was lured into sex slavery at an early age of 12, shared how she was raped 43,200 times during the 4 years of being a slave.
Karla Jacinto's story begins in the small town of Tlaxcala in Mexico City as she dreamt of her own fairy tale. She came from a dysfunctional family and also been physically abused by one of her family members, that's why she became desperate to find someone who can show her how it feels to be love.
As posted by the New York Daily News, she was so vulnerable that when she met her would-be pimp while waiting for a subway in Mexico City, she was easily deceived. He asked for her number and started courting her. After a few weeks, she was convinced to move in with him.
The first three months of her stay was like a dream come true. The pimp treated Jacinto really well. Aside from giving her all the things she wanted, he also gave her the attention she had been seeking for so long. She felt the love she needed and she thought everything was beautiful.
But it was not until Jacinto learned the truth about her lover when he started treating her differently.
"He started telling me everything I had to do; the positions, how much I need to charge, the things I had to do with the client and for how long, how I was to treat them and how I had to talk to them so that they would give me more money," Jacinto shared.
After her sickening "lessons," her nightmare started. The pimp took her to different cities forcing her to sell her body to about 30 men a day. For four years straight she wasn't allowed to rest even just for a day.
"Some men would laugh at me because I was crying. I had to close my eyes so that I wouldn't see what they were doing to me, so that I wouldn't feel anything," she shared.
Jacinto is only one of the thousands Mexican girls who have been forced into sex slavery. Experts say that many of them were abducted, yanked and lured away from their families and taken to the town of Tenancingo before sending them across the nation. In fact, according to a Mexican charity, there is an estimated 1,000 traffickers in Tenancingo for every 10,000 people.
In 2008, Jacinto has been given a second chance to enjoy life after she was freed from the prostitution ring during an anti-human trafficking operation. She is now using her story to campaign against sexual slavery, as stated by the website, Telegraph.
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