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Why, What, Will, YOU - Large Events and Trafficking


This Campaign is about YOU. It is about US. About the simple fact that coming soon many will get tired of hearing the issue of "Human Trafficking" and just as the movement of HIV/AIDS, many will begin to think that for the most part  - enough awareness and enough healing has taken place.

However, thousands are still dying of AIDS and thousands still contracting the decease of HIV and living in fear, shame and depression.

The recent story below is a sign that all around us, girls and even boys, have been taken, maligned, held captive around us, with no one doing anything about it because some of us don't care and most don't notice nor understands the various nuances of victim identification in the first place, nor do they care to learn. I realize,  with all of the many emails I received regarding the SUPERBOWL it really is about anything and everything we can do to stop for just one... and then another.    It is not about one sporting event but all events, (conference, medical conventions, insurance conventions) and many other events where a large number of individuals come from around the nation, or world to gather. Where this takes place  you will see at least some increase in pimping/trafficking and purchasing of human beings on many levels, rape/sex, farm, domestic, organs and so on.

The idea that Amnesty Int or any group would desire to legalize a crime where behind closed doors 99% of the women state depression, addiction and self loathing is ludicrous. The idea that people still don't see that because of absent fathers, broken mothers and the likes children grow up not knowing who they are and oftentimes the one that appears to come to the rescue is the trafficker and abuser dressed in angelic colors and smiles, the father or mother or friend never known, only to be the demise of that child's/persons life and that of our communities and others around the world.

Oh did I also say that many so-called adult prostitutes, are really children dressed to seem older, and if legalized who will rightly divide this ill?  Did I also say that many adult prostitutes were also broken children who have now grown and are lost with an identity developed all the way down the rabbit hole?  Not one that they dreamed or imagined, but the ill of it, developed over time, in the deep recesses of their mind, with the beatific natural origin of who they could have become and once dreamed, now lost...along with so much more down that very same, rabbit hole?

"Love is as love does" after all. So what will we do? What will YOU do?

East Bay girl escapes sexual slavery after more than decade; man guilty of her abuse

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Posted:   01/30/2014 05:58:43 AM PST | Updated:   3 days ago



Raul Ochoa, 52, of Richmond, Calif. (Contra Costa County District Attorney)
Raul Ochoa, 52, of Richmond, Calif. (Contra Costa County District Attorney)


RICHMOND -- In the end, Raul Ochoa was tricked by the relative he had physically controlled and sexually assaulted for more than a decade.
On Aug. 16, 2012, the victim of his emotional and sexual abuse -- who had helped build a plywood shed in their Richmond backyard where he repeatedly raped her -- told him she was using the restroom, and when Ochoa left the room, ran to a waiting car that whisked her to the Richmond police station.
The woman, who this newspaper is not naming because she's the victim of sexual abuse, told police she was a runaway and needed help, initially confusing officers. They do not often come across 27-year-old runaways, said Contra Costa deputy district attorney Ryan Wagner.
"Basically, her entire childhood was more or less stolen from her," Wagner said of the case with striking resemblances to the tragic tale of Jaycee Dugard, the abducted girl who was held captive as a sex slave near Antioch for 18 years. "From 1998 when she was 12 until 2012 she was under his control the entire time."
On Wednesday morning in a Martinez courtroom, Ochoa, 52, pleaded guilty to one count of forced lewd acts on a child and two counts of forcible rape. As part of the deal, he will receive 22 years in state prison. His formal sentencing is Feb. 11.
Years before the abuse started, Ochoa asked his wife if he could have sex with the girl. Confused, the wife refused and Ochoa told her, "I was just joking," Wagner said.
By age 12, however, Ochoa started to force intercourse with the girl, he said. It's unclear whether the wife and other children in the house knew the extent of the abuse, Wagner said.
"The wife was scared to death of him," he said. The girl and Ochoa's wife endured "significant violence" from him, the prosecutor said.
Over the years, Ochoa forced the victim to work for his landscaping business and home-schooled her. She rarely was allowed to leave the house by herself and he constantly checked her cellphone, Wagner said.
"She felt she couldn't leave, and he would threaten that he would harm her or harm himself if she left," Wagner said.
As she got older, Ochoa would not let her date other men. She went to one dance, and when she returned, he threw her dress away and said she could never go again.
In recorded phone calls, Wagner said, Ochoa told her, "We're like husband and wife." Ochoa also made comments in recorded phone calls set up by police that implicated himself in the abuse.
"What this guy did to her for that long of a period of time was as horrific as I've seen," Wagner said.
In the years before his arrest, Ochoa had her help build a backyard shed.
"He convinced her it was going to be a place to watch movies together and a place for the family to hang out, but it turned into something much worse," Wagner said.
In 2012, the girl's siblings convinced her to escape.
"She's an extremely courageous and strong woman," Wagner said. "She was basically under emotional, physical and psychological abuse her entire childhood."
The Richmond girl's plight had similarities to the case of Dugard, who was abducted at age 11 and forced to have sex with her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, for more than 18 years, fathering two children. Garrido also constructed a den in the backyard where Dugard was kept and hidden from authorities.

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