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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Dawn Schiller, a former trafficking victim, discussed her experience being groomed by a 32-year-old porn actor and then sold multiple times. She described the process of being groomed and how difficult it is for people to see teenagers as children. She highlighted the importance of recognizing the signs of trafficking and protecting vulnerable youth.
Well in my case, I was a 15 year old neighbor in the same apartment complex as the manager and he was he also happened to be a 32 year old porn actor Who immediately saw me and started grooming me and...
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Episode: GIRL, 14, SEX TRAFFICKED FROM MUSEUM TOUR?
Dawn Schiller, a former trafficking victim, discussed her experience being groomed by a 32-year-old porn actor and then sold multiple times. She described the process of being groomed and how difficult it is for people to see teenagers as children. She highlighted the importance of recognizing the signs of trafficking and protecting vulnerable youth.
Well in my case, I was a 15 year old neighbor in the same apartment complex as the manager and he was he also happened to be a 32 year old porn actor Who immediately saw me and started grooming me and that's the process for a lot of these youth is that you start you get groomed
He saw that I wasn't being protected by my father. My father was disabled My father was a drug user and so he stepped in and kind of took the place of my dad in a way that I built trust and
Then slowly, but surely he groomed me into being his Possession and very soon after that ended up selling me over and over again in multiple different ways How old were you dog when this happened?
And I would like to point out too that it's really difficult for people to see a teenager 14 15 16 years old as a child Still and very clearly after years of therapy and not blaming myself for my own abuse and Trafficking experience. I was I
Finally understood that yes, I was the child. He was a 32 year old experienced in seduction pornstar who Took it who could have had anybody he wanted but what he did was he laid his eyes on me a 15 year old girl
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Dawn Schiller, a training director for the LA County Project with Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, is the best-selling author of the book, "The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes". She spoke about the recruitment and grooming of victims, emphasizing that it is a common tactic used in human trafficking cases.
Grooming is recruitment under the umbrella of what is human trafficking.
And luring somebody in on their vulnerabilities based off of needs for love and attention, whatever that is because they didn't have it at home is really a classic form of recruitment into where the victim is then now kept in by force, fraud and coercion.
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Dawn Schiller's book, which detailed her experience as a survivor of human trafficking, was mentioned, and her personal account of the trauma she endured was shared to emphasize the severity of the situation in the Andrew Tate case.
I went through that with John Holmes, I went through that with almost six years of being hidden, being beaten, being addicted to drugs, being forced into prostitution, being forced into crime. I did all of that.
I know that trauma is a life sentence so I feel you and I hear you on that on a big level and I do care about these women and I understand what they are going through.
What he is doing, I agree with you 100% is absolutely egregious that he is just throwing it in people's faces.
It is even more insulting to survivors and the victims who are still out and are scared to death to speak up. I want to speak for them and I do speak for them. I lived that.
I know exactly what it feels like. You don't know you are a victim when you are coming out of that. You have been brainwashed and to believe in that you did it to yourself if you consented to all of that.