 I went to school just like every other kid. I had a okay family, okay, I guess, life. But unfortunately behind closed doors I had a very abusive father. I have 57 scars on my body that until today I can tell you a story about each of them. So at the age of 12 I was working in a market helping people and telling stuff in the streets and stuff like that. Unfortunately that is the first time that I was sexually assaulted. Once that happened to me I decided to stop working on the streets and working for a company and then two men came into a restaurant about three months after I started working there and came in and sat down and ate whatever and then it was time for me to go home. They had left and all of a sudden they approached me as I was walking to the bus stop and the last thing I remember of the night was a wet tissue with my mouth and nose and next thing I know I found myself in San Diego California where I was sold into the commercial sex transportation of children. I was basically a sex slave for six months. I was trafficked through six different states. After six months I was helped out of my situation by the police and placed in the foster care system in California. It saddens me that unfortunately we live in the 21st century and to see slavery throughout the world still happening and still happening in forms that really breaks individuals down to the bare minimum who they are. It scares me but at the same time it begrates me. Being here today at the UN and sharing my message of hope is that understanding that we have 21 million people living in slavery-like conditions throughout the world but understanding that those 21 million people if they're taken out of the human trafficking situation there's still hope that they will reintegrate back to society and become productive members of society who has overcome what happened to them. Our countries have to provide funding, have a moral duty to help individuals throughout the world who have been victims of slavery.