Source: CNN(CNN) - Elle Snow, a human trafficking survivor, is devoting her life to ending 'the game'. Thinking she was in a committed relationship, Snow was unknowingly being deceived into human trafficking. After multiple failed attempts, she was able to escape with the help of a friend. With her second chance at life, Snow has pledged to fight back. "What happened to me was called 'the game'. This monstrous beast that is this world of sex trafficking." Today, she spends much of her time monitoring sex ads on online classified sites. There, she looks for trends and potential victims.
"If you're putting posters everywhere and everybody's talking about it and they're saying, 'Hey, I know what a pimp is. I know those books.' Then all of a sudden the traffickers don't feel comfortable anymore," Snow says. Hoping to protect others from the suffering she went through, Snow founded the anti-trafficking non-profit Game Over. "I met my trafficker the same way a lot of us do," says Snow. She hopes her story will educate potential victims, making them aware of how easy it is to get enslaved into trafficking. She thought she was in an exciting, new relationship. Snow made the trip to Sacramento from northern California to stay with her boyfriend. However, the whirlwind of a fresh romance soon ended.
Confused, Snow thought he was joking. "I told him 'I'm on vacation, what are you talking about?' And he's telling me, 'you're not you anymore. This is not your name. Your name is now Angel,'" Snow recalls.
She wanted to leave, but the trafficker threatened to hurt her 14-year old sister. Before she knows it, Snow is being taken to a brothel. She was trafficked through the San Francisco Bay Area for eight months. She tried to escape multiple times, but her trafficker would laugh at her. Snow says one time she tried to leave, but her trafficker became so physical that she feared for her life. "I punched him and knocked his tooth out and he got up; I ran into the bathroom. And then for the next few hours I was beat bloody," Snow recounts. "I was strangled. He was dragging my body to a car when I woke up. My throat was so swollen and black and blue." Snow still has busted capillaries from the beating. Snow gives her days by going to war with 'the game' so that others hopefully don't have to endure the same misery she lives to tell about. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/world/elle-snow-trafficking/index.html
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Erin
9/19/2017 02:12:55 pm
Great read
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Golda Reynolds
9/19/2017 02:42:01 pm
Sarah
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Mayda Gonzalez
9/19/2017 03:03:58 pm
Great testimony and great post. Human trafficking isn't talked about as much as it should be so it's good to get the awareness more out there.
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Jackie Romine
9/19/2017 04:37:48 pm
Good job, Sarah.
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