To truly understand the evils of human trafficking I needed a first hand perspective. Laura Abasi, a fake name made to protect the real victim, at age 15 was tricked into the business that is trafficking. Laura was brought up in a middle-class home and her father was a doctor. She was fortunate to have riches and royalties all her life. Quinn, at age 20, played the role of a boyfriend and manipulated Laura into falling head over heels in love with him. Quinn was Laura's first pimp, she soon developed another alias named Amber. A trick is when the pimps trade women, Laura was tricked to a man named DJ. "Bitch, you mines now." Since Laura had been in the industry for a while she knew the drill. DJ made Laura fall in love with him, then he took …show more content…
If Laura did not meet her quota she and the other girls would turn themselves into the police to avoid a beating when they returned home short handed. DJ was known as a "Gorilla Pimp", this means he would beat his women until they were almost dead. The women could only visit the hospital if the under-the-table-paid doctor said they would die from their injuries. At age 21, Laura escaped DJ's grip when she ran away to live on her friend's couch. Laura thought her previous life was over and she could now live in normalcy, until 4 years later that all changed for her. Laura went home to Africa to go to her grandmother's funeral, but when she returned to the States she was fingerprinted going through customs. When the fingerprints went into the system her alias Amber showed up, she was arrested immediately because of several outstanding criminal charges. After several months in jail, she was miraculously released with instructions to take the bus to a specific location to meet with her lawyer. Laura spoke to several panels of judges and law firms about her struggle through life for months. "Laura had graduated from survivor to