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'I was raped 43,200 times': Mexican human trafficking survivor reveals horrific story

A human trafficking victim from Mexico was raped by 43,200 men over four years. 23-year-old Karla Jacinto was abducted from her home as a 12-year-old.

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FP Staff|Nov 13, 2015, 13:45:09 IST
In an extremely shocking revelation, a human trafficking victim from Mexico has said she was raped by 43,200 men over a span of four years. 23-year-old Karla Jacinto was abducted from her home when she was 12 years old by a trafficker who first gave her gifts, before forcing her into prostitution.The 22-year-old trafficker convinced Jacinto to go with him to Tenancingo, a Mexican town notoriously known as a major centre for human trafficking rings and for forcing girls into prostitution.She was later taken to Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s largest cities, where she was forced to work as a prostitute.Speaking to CNN, Jacinto revealed that she has been raped roughly around 43,200 times and was forced to sleep with at least 30 men everyday, seven days a week, for four years."I started at 10am and finished at midnight. Some men would laugh at me because I was crying. I had to close my eyes so that that I wouldn't see what they were doing to me, so that I wouldn't feel anything," she told CNN.
What is even more disgusting is that a police operation to rescue her and a group of girls being held at a hotel went wrong after the same officer they thought would rescue them started filming the girls in compromising positions.She has previously spoken with Pope Francis at a conference on modern slavery in July and has shared her story in Congress. She said she had “no other identity” beyond that of a sex object and urged the Congress to do more to stop the criminal enterprise, the Washington Times reported.According to a 2010 University of Tlaxcala study, one in five children in the town aspires to be a pimp, while two-thirds know at least one relative or friend working as a pimp or trafficker, The Guardian reported.
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First Published:Nov 13, 2015, 13:45:09 IST
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