One day, over the span of 16 consecutive hours in Boston, there were 80 men.Īlfredo beat me, refused to give me food or even water. On a bad day, when we left New York and went to Long Island or Connecticut, I couldn’t rest.
Alfredo was my “padrote” (pimp), and he arranged for different drivers to take me through Corona, Jackson Heights and sometimes Brooklyn.
I always wore a tight, short skirt and stilettos. On a good day, I’d only have to sleep with 30 men. Wanting to protect her family, Sandra declined to provide her last name. 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. Sandra, 30, is one former sex slave helped by Sanctuary for Families. The Anti-Trafficking Initiative at Sanctuary for Families interviewed 356 suspected victims of sex trafficking in Queens and Brooklyn last year, according to Lori Cohen, a crusading lawyer and the initiative’s director. Each member of the Rendon-Reyes gang - a family enterprise that terrorized and trafficked girls and women for a decade - faces life in prison. Last month, eight members of a gang of pimps pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court to racketeering, sex trafficking of minors and human smuggling.
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