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I was searching for something but I didn't know what I was searching for I just wanted to be free
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I don't remember being popular when I was growing up but I always got good grades I was really nice and sweet as a
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child but we had problems at home there has to be something else something better than living like this
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[Music] I'm just gonna run away the first couple of times Alyssa's run away you know we
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would get in the car we would drive around I have no idea where she is I was terrified
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is she in the dumpster or is she in that trash bag on the side of the road and will I ever see her again I was a naive
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fifteen-year-old I didn't know the streets so I didn't know the bad things that came with it
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I just thought that it would be fun you know maybe party maybe drink but I never
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would have been prepared for what really happened I would describe a list of when I first
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met her as afraid as cautious her experiences were some of the most violent the most traumatic that I've
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seen my everyday life was laying there naked beaten and allowing guys to come and pay 10 20 dollars to do whatever
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they wanted to me she was being forced to do it we're talking about buying and selling the children for sex acts
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how many men 50 over the course of two weeks [Music] it never crossed my mind of my wildest
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dreams that my child was involved in human trafficking our first witness today is mr. Ashton Kutcher as part of
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my anti-trafficking work I've met victims in Russia and India victims in New York and New Jersey and all across
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our country I have a hard time talking about this issue without being emotional I've been on FB I rates where I've seen
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things that no person should ever see why this cause I was just so appalled if you don't do something about it
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then who are you it can happen to anyone traffickers prey on people and they know
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exactly what's gonna turn their trigger these traffickers made me feel like I was loved you know I was running from
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something and I was running to love and acceptance she believed these men until they were
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actively hurting her I didn't want to die you know I saw some light at the end of the tunnel and I just knew like I had
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to get out of the situation I I had to live through this and that's when I got real
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