Justice committee  Yes, for sure. I did hear that some people have regular clientele because they have been doing sex work for a long time, but I actually had the same experience. It was continually the same people who I was seeing, but they weren't reporting anything. I don't know if it was becau

Justice committee  No, it was....

Justice committee  I was 14 and I was no longer going to high school, so at some point social services stepped in. I would say it took about eight months for them to realize that I had dropped out of high school as a 14-year-old girl and that was reported to social services and then they did a litt

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I think that it's important, especially for girls who.... It did take me about five years to even recognize the patterns of trafficking in my own life, so I was trafficked even before this law was passed. It would have just given me an option to even just hold anyone accountable

Justice committee  That's a very hard question because I do agree in some respects with what people were saying before about how some people aren't willing to come forward as much if they're criminalized or, when they see something that obviously shouldn't be happening, they would be less likely to

Justice committee  Thank you for having me today. I'm here to talk to you about my lived experience with human trafficking. I was born to teenage parents, and growing up with parents who are still growing up themselves comes with its own form of challenges. Up until my parents divorced, I was a g