A review by mugsandmanuscripts
Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Escaping, and Transcending Abduction into Prostitution by Sophie Hayes

4.0

Gripping, raw, and very graphic. Hard to read. That said, having worked with trafficked women, I know Sophie's story is one that needs to be heard. Unfortunately, it is not an isolated story—15,000-50,000 women (hard to pin down an exact number for obvious reasons) in the USA alone are trafficked every YEAR, and there are more than 4 million victims of sex trafficking worldwide. I think this story illustrates the mindset of someone who is in so deep and is so mistrustful that she can't even escape it when she theoretically has the chance to. Those who don't understand what trauma does to people could take a lesson from Sophie's story.

ETA: The number of reviewers trashing this book because they think Sophie had a "choice" and wasn't "really" trafficked because she wasn't shipped off to some place like Africa is astounding to me. Clearly our society as a whole needs more education on the psychology of trauma, reality of trafficking, and, as we all know, how to stop (expletive) victim-blaming.