A Seattle group passed out electronic candles to attendees at Westlake Park Saturday evening in an attempt to shine a light on a growing problem on the streets and online: child sex trafficking.
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Stolen Youth, a non-profit that aims to raise awareness and money to help survivors and stop trafficking, held a vigil to honor sex trafficking victims.–
“I was 18 when I got into the life. I thought I would do it for two weeks, as a means of survival,” Marin Stewart, a survivor who is from Seattle and whose journey of sexual exploitation started in a strip club. “My intention was to do it for two weeks just to pick myself up, and it turned into 22 years.”
During that time, Stewart was trafficked in Taiwan, Japan, Hawaii and here in the Pacific Northwest before she felt she could leave at age 41…..more here
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