A human trafficking victim who was ‘ raped 43,000 times’ by the age of 16 – after being groomed at age 12 – has turned her life around to help others.
Karla Jacinto, from Mexico, estimates she was forced to sleep with at least 30 men a day over four years as a young teenager.
She says she was first targeted at the age of 12 by a trafficker who prized her away from her dysfunctional family with gifts and money.
Karla was eventually taken to Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s biggest cities, and forced to work as a
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She was eventually rescued in 2008 as part of an anti-trafficking operation in Mexico City.
Now aged 24 – after years spent recovering from the deep emotional wounds and harrowing memories of S3@.x:’ual abuse – she has become a human rights activist.
Karla now travels the world giving help and advice to other victims of S3@.x:’ual slavery – even meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss the issue.
CNN reports that Karla is now in fact “not just surviving, she’s thriving” as a human rights activist speaking out against modern-day slavery.
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