Posted on 05/03/2017 9:28:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"Theresa" told NBC 7 that the promise of financial independence led her into the sex trade -- a promise made to her by a female friend who lured her into the lifestyle
Theresa said she was desperate.
"I was so hesitant at first because it's just not the type of person I am," she said. Theresa was a young single mom, emotionally vulnerable and financially in crisis when a close friend started suggesting prostitution as a way out.
Theresa is not her real name. In order to protect her identity, NBC 7 is calling her “Theresa” as she explains how she was lured into the sex trade by another woman.
According to San Diego officials, the situation is more common than you'd expect.
Theresa said her friend told her she had experience in the business and the promise of financial independence won out.
“I felt like if I didn't, I was giving up the opportunity to even try to provide the right way for my daughter," she said.
According to Theresa, her trusted friend made the arrangements, finding customers online and setting up meetings at local hotels. She says it was a lucrative game of manipulation and prostitution. The female friend expected to be paid half of Theresa’s earnings.
Marisa Ugarte, Founder and Executive Director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (BSCC), said Theresa’s situation is not uncommon.
"We have seen it more often,” she said. “It's happening in schools too with best friends. Sometimes there is a pimp involved and sometimes they are the pimps."
BSCC’s mission is to preserve the dignity of trafficked and commercially exploited people. The organization has been helping people for two decades.
San Diego Deputy District Attorney Summer Stephan says a 2016 study about sex trafficking in San Diego County found the use of female recruiters is one of the top three methods used to lure new victims.
Theresa said her friend knew what she wanted to hear and was able to manipulate her. She said eventually, the woman she thought was her friend, controlled her and the illicit lifestyle quickly took its toll.
"I felt dirty,” Theresa said. “I could take a shower five, 10 times a day and I wasn't me. I didn't feel like it was me in my own skin anymore.”
Ugarte said it's happening in all parts of San Diego County.
"Don't think that just because you come from a middle-class family or a higher class family it can't happen to you,” Ugarte said. “I got news for you. It happens everywhere."
After nearly a year of being sex trafficked, Theresa said she was able to break free from the woman who was pimping her. Theresa has now strengthened her resolve to turn her life around and said she is determined not to let her past define her future. She’s hopeful sharing her story will increase awareness about this dangerous situation.
“I look at it as, you know what, I'm still here and there's a reason why I'm still here and I have to keep moving forward," she said.
Ugarte said it's critical for parents to be present in their child's life and get to know who their child's best friends are. For information on how to get help for yourself or a suspected victim of human trafficking or to learn more about sex trafficking in San Diego click here.
Madams are a new thing?
BFD. How about we lock up the islam filth and other rapist scum?
Just as I thought.
No one here is appalled. Because it’s women doing it to women. Should it not even be worse because women are doing it to other women?
A story where men do it to women, and we get the macho death comments.
Good little betas.
There are way worse crimes then consensual trades for sex that resources could go to. But they aren’t. They are arresting consenting adults. It’s a touchy subject for sure. The only ones that I personally believe should be arrested are people that pimp out minors, and the johns that knowingly go for minors.
The adults I think can be left alone to destroy themselves, or save themselves. There should be no LE involved.
That’s just my humble opinion.
It must be sweeps week. Got to crank up the salacious content to bump the ratings.
Notice that the woman did not force her friend into it.
She gave her a choice.
She chose poorly.
Who says every woman is forced into porn or prostitution by a man? Bunny ranch for example. Legal brothels.
You would love Iran.
>just my humble opinion.
I humbly agree. And islam and its evil must be destroyed.
No I don’t think so. Not much liberty in personal choices there, and I couldn’t stand seeing women treated the way they are.
I believe in personal liberty. If people want to sell their bodies and people want to pay them then that is a personal choice. As long as the seller is not being forced into it, then I have zero problem with that.
I didn’t.
You called us good little betas for not coming out being appalled. Prostitution has been going on since I’m assuming Eve realized how much Adam wanted to.....copulate.
I’m not appalled in the least. It’s human nature. Supply and demand.
Is it prostitution when your wife doesn’t want to have sex, but agrees if you “take out the trash”, “give me money for X”, “watch the kids tomorrow while I go out with my friends?” Or any other innumerable compromises people make in every type of relationship involving sex?
Technically it is.
So. Whatever.
I was listening to this interview of a French Call Girl. The low down is
do not do it if you are desperate for money or you will lower your standards quick without doing propped vetting and get in big trouble quick.
Dates back from the neolithic supposedly. The woman needed food and negociated with sex. Soft prostitution of gold diggers and sugar daddies is an everyday thing
Indeed, modern women out west are seldom forced into prostitution. It is a bunch of BS and typical of
the feminine nature to avoid responsibility or bad looks, always putting on that make up
What happened to the “sisterhood?” I thought the women were kind and nurturing to one another. It is only men who abuse women.
I had a neighbor who worked as an exotic dancer. Ms Exotic Dancer worked parties. Like bachelor parties. One time unknown to her it was a bachelor party of cops. It turned out that she also had “assistants” who were in fact selling themselves. So the assistants were busted for prostitution but Ms Exotic Dancer was popped for pimping, a more serious crime.
After serving her jail time the reformed Ms Exotic Dancer became a school teacher in another state.
Iran is rife with prostitution etc.
Marx and Engels said the same thing.
Wow, that is a wild story. Amazing weird.
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