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Please update your browser. A list of the most popular browsers can be found below. She was 13 and sitting on a park bench in central Mexico when a handsome stranger approached and began to flirt. He was a few years older and seemed charming. They soon began dating and after a few months she moved in with his family in a tiny town called Tenancingo that is notorious for sex trafficking. All she knew was that she had problems with her parents and her boyfriend promised a happier future.
Vaguely offering marriage, he suggested they sneak across the border into Arizona and make money for their new life together. For the next three and a half years he forced Maria to service men, sometimes as many as 30 a day, in commercial gang bangs in suburban homes.
When she protested, he beat her so severely that she later needed reconstructive surgery. He forced her to swallow multiple forms of contraception so that menstruation would never cause her to lose a day of work. Her private parts grew so torn and infected that she had to apply anesthetics. Meanwhile, Maria's pimp threatened to kill her sister back in Mexico if Maria went to the police.
This is the most terrible thing. I had no money. Eventually, the pain became so unbearable that Maria could no longer take it. During a rare moment alone she fled the apartment and hobbled to the police station. Officers rushed her to a hospital and to a lawyer who handles sex trafficking cases. Lori Cohen of Sanctuary for Families , a center for battered and trafficked women, arranged a safe house, therapy and English lessons for Maria. Other young Mexican women filled the waiting room, a sign reminding them to keep the address confidential.
