009 - Callie
Grooming is the process of luring a targeted victim into trafficking. We've touched on grooming in previous episodes, but we haven’t focused on it in detail. Today’s guest, Callie, wanted to get specific about grooming, this part of human trafficking that’s often overlooked.
Getting a new perspective on this issue will help us all have a better understanding of how complex human trafficking is. Callie's experience was a little different. She wasn’t trafficked as a teenager or young adult. She was 33. When she and her ex-fiance broke up that she was financially vulnerable. In this moment of vulnerability a trafficker found her and began readying Callie for his purposes.
Please note that this conversation contains explicit content related to domestic abuse, violence, sexual assault, rape, and human trafficking.
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Executive Producer: Derri Smith
Producer and Editor: Gregory Byerline
Host: Leslie Eiler Thompson
Original Music: Kurt Goebel