”Jake watched her walk up the stairs toward the podium, she was small for age, but filled with energy. She had long dark curls and big brown eyes. He lowered the microphone for her and stepped back.
“When I was six years old, I was walking home from school. I lived only three blocks from the school. I had begged my mom to let me do it on my own. She usually came out of the house and would stand at the end of the block and watch me walk home. One day she was watching and a van stopped, grabbed me, and drove off. They took me to a motel room where there were several other girls my age. They dressed us in pretty dresses and videoed us. Later I found out they used those videos to auction us off. They sold me to a family. It was weird because their kids were just a little younger tha
