Aged only 19, Sarah Forsyth travelled to Amsterdam on the promise of a job as a nursery nurse — and instead was abducted at gunpoint and sold as a sex slave. Every night when Sarah closes her eyes the memories of those days in the notorious red light district play out like scenes in a horror film. And she always sees the same face first — that of a trembling young girl from Thailand. I wanted to scream but although my mouth opened my throat was constricted with terror. I see again the look of uncomprehending panic in her eyes as the man raises the gun and the sticky, warm bit of flesh and bone explode from her shoulders as the bullet tears into her head.

Dating them was fun, the balance between a mans personality and my own feminine one was electric , it kept things interesting. But for whatever reason it never lasted very long. When I met Paul online I expected the same cycle to occur. We met up at the corner dive bar where I prefer to meet all my first dates. I told him that was too bad, the idea of a guy being associated with something somewhat dangerous was exciting.

It may seem like it couldn't take place in America, but sex trafficking is in fact happening throughout the country. Rebecca Bender says she was an all-American teenager growing up in a middle-class family in southern Oregon. At 17, Bender got pregnant and at 18, gave birth to a daughter and started community college. Life, thought Bender, was going according to plan — until she met a young man at a party. And made me feel not alone, that I could have stuff to do and someone to go do stuff with and not feel like a burden.

About five of them did the same thing to me until one of the commanders who knew my father came and stopped them, but also took me to his house to make me his wife. I just accepted him because of fear and didn't want to say no because he might do the same thing to me too. This story shows how vulnerable girls are in armed conflict. Actually, they can be affected by war in five different ways.