Human Trafficking Persuasive Essay

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You wake up in a corner. You can’t speak, it’s like your mouth is glued shut. You’re paralyzed. You look around and see needles lying on the floor, slowly realizing that you’ve been drugged. You still have your sense of sight so you try to recognize where you are. The second you realize that you aren’t at home, but in a strangers apartment you try to scream. You look at an old man wake up from a bed and slowly walk toward you. He starts to touch you in places you don’t want to be touched, yet you can’t do anything about it. You are being trafficked. Karla Jacinto is a human trafficking survivor who claims to have been raped 43,200 times. “30 men a day, seven days a week – 43,200” says Karla Jacinto. She has been in human trafficking for four

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