A local Mauritanian advocate hopes awareness for the Temporary Protected Status bill will also raise awareness about a Cincinnati community that is "totally unknown to the general population."
Goal: Grant leniency to child sex trafficking survivors charged with serious crimes.
A young girl is reportedly raped multiple times before she even reaches her teen years. One of these alleged crimes results in a pregnancy, a miscarriage, and a suicide attempt. A home life with addicted and neglectful parents compounds this child’s mounting troubles. She soon meets a man decades older, who at first builds her trust with gifts and caring. Over time, by the girl’s account this man grooms her for sexual exploitation, feeds her drug habit, beats her, and threatens the lives of her family if she steps out of line. Desperate, the girl later agrees to participate in a robbery of this man’s home while he is allegedly in the midst of another act of sexual abuse. The man is shot and killed in the course of the robbery, to the girl’s apparent shock. She is seemingly not even in the room when the crime takes place. Despite these circumstances and despite the girl’s age (15), she like