She thought she was about to die. Lying on the hotel room floor, her face was red and swollen from an hour-long beating, and the man responsible was now strangling her. “God, please let me live through this,” she pleaded. “And I promise I won’t be a prostitute anymore.”
She broke her promise.
Like thousands of Americans, Lacy (not her real name) had sunk into the cesspool of the sex industry.
Growing Up
Lacy grew up in a high-income family in West Coast suburbia. She was a bright girl, but with a short attention span. Her first problems emerged in high school when she struggled with anxiety and started skipping school a lot.
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