One woman's story

Human trafficking takes on many  forms, and all of them are evil.  A woman from Kamloops who made a new life for herself  is brave enough to tell her story.

“Looking back now, even though I wasn’t prostituting, it’s sexual favours for drugs is how it started,” Cameron said. At 18, the former A-student married a man who made her work the streets of Vancouver as a prostitute.

Cameron said she had no idea what she was getting into. “When you hear human trafficking, you think it will be upfront or you’ll know the warning signals,” she said. “It’s a slow, progressive, subtle process. All of the sudden, you’re in it and you’re trapped......

In many cases, girls are lured to cities like Vancouver or across the border by lavish promises from a “boyfriend”. They’ll offer drugs or gifts, such as a free airline ticket to a vacation destination. But, in the end, the victim — often through the threat of violence — ends up being sold for sex.
“Kamloops has come up in our research as an area where traffickers have engaged in efforts to recruit Canadian victims,” Perrin told KTW.

Social-media websites like Facebook and MySpace have made it easier for traffickers to operate across vast geographical areas with the push of a button........