The men and women who exploited me were involved in organized crime. It comes hand in hand.
I think it's a boldfaced lie for someone who is involved in prostitution to sit up here and say they've never encountered a child. In my time working across Canada, do you know how many times I used to drag little girls home to their mothers, because I knew they were getting set up for what I had already endured? I never wanted any little girl to experience pain like that. But it's a boldfaced lie for people to say they've never seen a child involved in prostitution.
Actually it mortifies me when I hear the term “child sex worker” and it devalues that child. That is an abused and exploited child. When is it differentiated, when a $100 bill is thrown in that child's hands whether it's a little boy or a little girl?