Thank you, Mario.
I think we were all a bit shocked when you shared the story of your own attack. I looked around the room, and there was some shock and awe that you too were at risk.
One thing we've been hearing across the board when we've been studying this is on the cost of living.
One person who works in this industry said this to me, and it really stuck: What we need to provide to victims is to replace the core need that the trafficker is providing. That is not always money; that is sometimes intimacy. It can be a whole host of things.
From a police perspective, what do you have in terms of working with another organization to help that victim go into the support mode?
As I said earlier in the other round of witnesses, I believe this is a three-pronged approach. You have prevention and intervention and then support. It's the aftermath of not getting them recirculated back into that lifestyle. It's replacing that core need that the trafficker is giving.
What do you think needs to be done there?