Sandra, 30, is one former sex slave helped by Sanctuary for Families. Kidnapped from her hardscrabble hometown in central Mexico and forced into the sex trade at age 19, she escaped her pimp-captor in 2011 and has received counseling, legal aid and health care from the group ever since. Wanting to protect her family, Sandra declined to provide her last name.
Here she tells her story:
On a good day, I’d only have to sleep with 30 men.
I always wore a tight, short skirt and stilettos. Alfredo was my “padrote” (pimp), and he arranged for different drivers to take me through Corona, Jackson Heights and sometimes Brooklyn. I would nod off in the car. I had a different driver every week.
On a bad day, when we left New York and went to Long Island or Connecticut, I couldn’t rest. One day, over the span of 16 consecutive hours in Boston, there were 80 men.
Alfredo beat me, refused to give me food or even water. The drivers he worked with advertised women on a “chica card” that they handed out to potential clients as they stumbled out of cheap nightclubs in Queens and Brooklyn.
I was also forced to hand out the cards to potential customers. Sometimes the cards had pictures of nude women. Other times they advertised children’s birthday parties. Everyone knew what the cards really meant; that the number on the back was to arrange deliveries of women.
We were delivered like pizzas.
Most of the men were day laborers. But some were well dressed, in suits. If they spoke Spanish, they paid $35 for 15 minutes, but if they spoke in English, the price went up to $45. For that price, the men could do whatever they wanted with me.
People think that prostitutes somehow enjoy what they do, but I can tell you that’s not true.
I had never been a prostitute. I did nothing wrong, but I was raped every day for the four years that I was a prisoner.
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> People think that prostitutes somehow enjoy what they do, but I can tell you that’s not true.
Not all prostitutes are trafficing victims.
She even correctly says immediately after that she's "never been a prostitute". Prostitutes choose their profession. She's a serial rape victim.
On a bad day, when we left New York and went to Long Island or Connecticut, I couldn’t rest. One day, over the span of 16 consecutive hours in Boston, there were 80 men.
Long island is a part of new york! They should have said "New york city" not just "New York".
Anyway, I do not really believe she was kidnapped but I believe her parents probably paid some guy to smuggle her in over the border and did not know that he was going to make her do such acts. Although I feel sorry for her, I still think she should be put back into her rightful home country and the piece of trash who was her pimp should just be given the death penalty and have that be that.
Secure the border, and get the "WALL" built!
I read this in the NY Post when it came out.
A sad story.
My question: Her kidnapping and forcing into the sex trade was done by other Mexicans. She was brought here illegally by Mexicans. She was kept in bondage by other illegal aliens. Most of her 'clients' were illegal aliens.
Why does she stay in this country now that she is free? Shouldn't she be repatriated?
And the bigger question: why was her mother (read the article) brought to this country? They are poor farmers. They are uneducated and unskilled labor. They don't work or pay taxes. Why do US taxpayers have to pay for this woman and her family?
It is a shame what happened to her, but why is it our responsibility?
Send her and her family home.
That doesn't stop all the European and Asian sex workers. Make smart comments not dumb ones.
This country needs to follow New Zealand's example a legalize sex work so that it is not done in the shadows. People can hire a sex worker legally and the life of sex workers can be safer.
There is a demand for sex. Nothing is going to stop sex work.
>>Secure the border, and get the "WALL" built!
It is a shame what happened to her, but why is it our responsibility?
It's not our "responsibility" but it could be in our "interest", because she took a hell of a brave measure to go to the cops. To quote: "I am helping American authorities track him down". Part of the arrangement for that cooperation might have been the family visa, because as she explains, he [the pimp] had been terrorizing her family back in Mexico as leverage and/or revenge.
Why does she stay in this country now that she is free? Shouldn't she be repatriated?
Maybe she fears that the traffickers (or their associates) in Mexico would come after her and her family if she went home?
Still don't buy the fact that she was kidnapped. I still think her parents paid someone to take her across the border illegally.
Why does she stay in this country now that she is free? Shouldn't she be repatriated?
Maybe she fears that the traffickers (or their associates) in Mexico would come after her and her family if she went home?
duh.
I don't buy the fact that she was kidnapped also, its a BS story to get medicaid and asylum.
If anything apples. In that culture famales start having sex as young as 12 and if the mother feels the father was no good then the child is no good also. --She was likely sold by her mother.
Ask any school teacher who has had to deal with a bad students and single mother parents from these country's. Its the WORST !! Like clockwork through a translator "her father was no good so shes no good" "you the teacher do you job to be proffess'ana and teach"
I cant believe all these illegals in NY can check the "seeking asylum box" at social services and get automatically get medicaid cards as our own get kicked out of insurance thanks to Obama and assholes like DeBlasio. 30 million middle class made uninsured will soon die from lack of healthcare and early detection of things that could have been caught in time.
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