Thirty-FiveTrina in Paris
On a blustery March morning in 1854, the ship Golconda from northern Europe landed at New Orleans port. On a fervent mission, child protection worker Morgana Hughes boarded the vessel to investigate the horrific accusations told to her by an emotionally-scarred teenager.
While crossing the sea, the Captain married young girls, many of them as young as 13, to the oldest men from a new secret religious cult. If a girl resisted, two elders took hold of her and restrained her in bed with the one who desired her the most. The Captain then declared them joined together “in love.” For this the Captain was paid handsomely, as was the girl's family who traveled in steerage in the most primitive of conditions. Their reward was a fresh start in America - without their daug
