"Kat was a former trafficking victim; she had been trafficked in Florida multiple times throughout her teenage years. Right there in sunny Miami, not even a four hour drive from where I sat."
Human trafficking is one of those things that is easy to put off into the I-can't-do-anything-about-that pile. We've all seen it on the news, but it happens in places like Thailand or Romania. What we don't see so often is that it happens in cities in the US.
And, it happens. All. The. Time.
Runaways average 72 hours on the streets before they are contacted by a trafficker.
Runaways are blatantly vulnerable, but even children with the perceived "safety" of a home and a family can be vulnerable to trafficking. Kat was living with her mother the first time that she was trafficked.
Do one thing. Read her story. Internalize it. Allow yourself to become angry on her behalf. Ask God what he would have you do with that anger.
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