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“I swung the door open, thinking it was him,” she said, “and it was my dad. A few seconds later, Brittany heard a knock on the door. The next morning, he said he was going to do laundry and left the room. It’s about to get really bad.' But I wasn't going to go to the police, because he had made me think the police were against me.”īack at the hotel room, she apologized to her trafficker for upsetting him. “During all that, I heard a voice tell me, ‘It’s about to get bad. A guy had never hit me like that before,” Brittany said said. Her illusions shattered one day when her pimp got angry over a comment she had made against him wanting to "get more girls." She said there had been instances of abuse in their relationship along the way but he had never punched her. That night, he punched her in the face. "I kept thinking that this relationship was going to turn into a normal one, that eventually we would turn into a normal family." Shattered illusions “I thought this would make it stop faster, that I wouldn't have to do these things if I was pregnant," she said. She was elated. She had talked to her trafficker about wanting to be a mom and having a family with him, and he had said they could when the time was right.
Soon after they returned to Dallas, Brittany found out she was pregnant. "It never even dawned on me that I was a victim," Dee Dee said. Hearing the stories of other women helped her find the courage to share her own, and during that process she first realized she had been trafficked. At the end of that relationship, she sought therapy for codependency. Finding courageĭee Dee didn't realize the toll her childhood trafficking took on her until later in life.īut growing up, she looked to men for affirmation, developed an eating disorder and fell into an abusive relationship.
"What I learned at an early age was that even if you tell, even if your mom does the right things, it doesn't stop," she said. The abuse continued until Dee Dee turned 18. Her mother told Dee Dee's father, not realizing his involvement.ĭee Dee's father tipped off his customer, who fled the country. Those encounters started with "talking" and then progressed into trafficking.Įventually, Dee Dee's mother found out about one particular man and reported it to police. He was protecting me, but he was exploiting me," Dee Dee said.Īs she got older, Dee Dee's father encouraged her to accept gifts and spend time with certain older men.
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Many people in the United States think of sex trafficking as the portrayal in the movie "Taken": A young woman on an overseas trip kidnapped by a gang and forced into sexual servitude.īut the reality in Louisiana is more complex. I thought I was going to be with him for the rest of my life.” I never wanted to leave him,” Brittany said. She had no idea the "instant connection" she felt would lead to months of brainwashing - or how long it would take for her to realize the man prostituting her out of hotel rooms wasn't really her "boyfriend." Click here to read more stories in the Modern Day Slavery series.īrittany was 18 years old when she boarded a Greyhound bus and met the man who would become her trafficker - and the father of her child.
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Full names only appear for those who've publicly identified themselves as a trafficking victim through books or documentaries.
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Editor's note: The full names of the victims in this series are withheld to protect their identity.
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