In Shared Hope’s 22 years of fighting against the sex trafficking of minors in the USA, we have watched the sexualization of children change with the culture. The 1950’s Coppertone billboard of the tan little girl with her dog pulling down her swimsuit, is now a tame discussion as we’ve watched ads for all sorts of products slowly slide towards the exposure of more […]
How a Baby Shower Changed a Life – Lacy Part 2
Lacy: As a young teen, I didn’t get to go to a real school, and I didn’t get to have a prom or any of the stuff that normal kids do. I didn’t get any of that, because of what happened to me. So, there was so much anger and bitterness inside and there was […]
Why I Was Mad at God – Lacy Part 1
Share this story with others to better understand what happens to children caught in child sex trafficking. Lacy is one of the survivors featured in the Chosen film, who was thirteen years old at the time she was trafficked. Sharing today from an interview when she was nineteen years of age. Asking the question: How […]
Brianna’s Story Part 2 – a Grateful Survivor
Click here to receive your free download copy of the Chosen film . The story is chilling in its content, but the end brings relief. If only every kid could have loving parents like Gordy and Robyn, who would’ve done anything for anyone of their children, especially their ‘baby’ Brianna, the youngest of five. Every kid deserves a friend like Evan who knew to […]
Brianna’s Story Part 1 – a Grateful Survivor
Many of you responded to the voice of a grateful survivor this week, over 3,400 of you viewed the post and more than 50 shared it. Today we want to introduce you to Brianna and the police officer who orchestrated her escape. He had learned about trafficking after spending time with Linda Smith, founder of Shared Hope. “Without […]
