Human trafficking `survivor' to speak at Miami summit
``You're 13 years old and you see $400, $600, $800 in your hand,'' she said in an interview. ``I'm seeing all this money and I'm like, I could get somewhere, I could make it on my own. I don't need my parents for nothing.''
Mia, who did not want to disclose her last name, would end up far from her Arizona home, trafficked by pimps to California, and later traveling to New York. She estimates she was arrested more than 50 times.
Now, five years later, she lives in Miami and is trying to rebuild her life.
via miamiherald.com