Thank you. I love your question
We've been saying for many years that we also need an equal amount of research and work done on the traffickers. Again, funding wasn't provided, so we ended up getting private funding. It took me eight years, but I visited a jail to interview Canada's most dangerous offender and the most famous pimp in our history. I sat down and had a two-day interview with him to find out his side of the story. When I listened to his story, I realized he was sexually exploited. He was raped. He fell under the radar. His father was an abusive human being. Of course, under those traumatized childhood circumstances, he, instead of becoming a victim, turned out to be a perpetrator.
In his testimony in jail he talks to the young pimps who are coming into jail and traffickers. In his opinion 70% to 80% of those traffickers who are traffickers today have a very similar childhood story. When I keep saying we need prevention, I don't just talk about the need to prevent little girls from being trafficked. I'm talking about little boys needing to have this conversation about being a pimp and being a trafficker not being an answer to their childhood trauma.