Tampa-based 'Zola' movie worrisome to sex-trafficking survivors
Haley Hinds reports
TAMPA, Fla. - The story started out as a viral tweet thread, almost too shocking to be true – and some details are not. It's a tale of strip clubs, violence, and eventual sex trafficking that allegedly took place right here in Tampa.
Wednesday, ‘Zola’ hit movie theaters nationwide. Though the movie is portrayed as comedic, some local sex trafficking survivors find the storyline to be incredibly dangerous.
"You want to hear a story about how me and this b---- fell out? It's kind of long but it's full of suspense," the character Zola says in the movie's trailer. Those words are the first of 148 tweets by @_zolarmoon that sparked a social media frenzy in 2015.