No woman ever prays to be raped. But for a young girl of 16 to be forced to have sex with 30 men a day, is record breaking.
As a young girl of 12, Karla Jacinto thought she had met the man of her dreams. The man who swept her away was ten years older and showered her with gifts and took her on fancy rides and treated her like a princess for three months.
And then her nightmare began for in reality, her boyfriend was a pimp.
For four years Karla was forced to have sex with up to 30 men a day. She was trapped in a life of sexual servitude that tens of thousands of girls in Mexico and millions around the world call their reality.
“I started at 10am and finished at midnight. We were in Guadalajara for a week. Do the math. Twenty per day for a week,” she told CNN.
She was soon forced to accomodate up to 30 customers per day, seven days a week.
Karla Jacinto also told CNN that she belonged to a dysfunctional family and she had been ‘mistreated’ since the age of five by a relative.
Karla was finally rescued from her dismal life in 2008 during an anti-trafficking operation in Mexico City. She was aged 16.
Now, she is an advocate against human trafficking and often shared her horrific story of survival at public events and conferences.