life in prison for enslaving five foreign women. at the sentencing, while the other victims lacked the strength to speak, nicole tynen did. she said she and others like her were serving their own life sentences. we have to live every day with those memories. and if i want to live a good life and a trustworthy life, i have to be honest with people that i want to share my life with, which means having to tell this story to them over and over and over again. that was not something that i just get to go and forget. it s not something i can forget. probably about 70% of the trafficking tattoos i ve seen have been bar codes. the youngest victim i ve seen was 13.
their body so that they lived his rules, his submission, every single day of their lives. in october 2011, a federal judge sentenced alex campbell to life in prison for enslaving five foreign women. at the sentencing, while the other victims lacked the strength to speak, nicole tynen did. she said she and others like her were serving their own life sentences. we have to live every day with those memories. and if i want to live a good life and a trustworthy life, i have to be honest with people that i want to share my life with, which means having to tell this story to them over and over and over again. that was not something that i just get to go and forget. it s not something i can forget. probably about 70% of the trafficking tattoos i ve seen have been bar codes. the youngest victim i ve seen was 13.
case in point, the new trend by traffickers of bar coding women. probably about 70% of the trafficking tattoos i ve seen have been bar codes. the youngest victim i ve seen was 13. tattoo artist chris baker of ink 180, a nonprofit dedicated to erasing tattoos, explains. they look just like a bar code on a product that you buy in a store, a upc bar code, but they ll have both numbers and letters usually below the tattoo, sometimes above and below. if a pimp sees a girl they don t know with a bar code they ll look up that reference number on an underground website and track her back to whoever owns her and contact that pimp and ask what they want to do. usually it s, she ran away. we ll send somebody, or make her disappear. ink 180, which originally served former gang members, has removed tattoos from over 100 trafficking victims.
if anybody has any doubt as to why we have to go after human trafficking and sexual exploitation, hammer and tong, these tattoos leave no reasonable doubt. it s one thing to have tattoos that you chose to put there. it s another to have another human being impose their will on you and to make you acknowledge it in the form of a tattoo that covers your entire back. director morton says the public needs to understand that the branding of women by pimps has reached a new level of criminality. it is a particular depravity to tattoo somebody, to mark them as your property. and that is what is going on. case in point, the new trend by traffickers of bar coding women. probably about 70% of the trafficking tattoos i ve seen
and that is what is going on. case in point, the new trend by traffickers of bar coding women. probably about 70% of the trafficking tattoos i ve seen have been bar codes. the youngest victim i ve seen was 13. tattoo artist chris baker of ink 180, a nonprofit dedicated to erasing tattoos, explains. they look just like a bar code on a product that you buy in a store, a upc bar code, but they ll have both numbers and letters usually below the tattoo, sometimes above and below. if a pimp sees a girl they don t know with a bar code they ll look up that reference number on an underground website and track her back to whoever owns her and contact that pimp and ask what they want to do. usually it s, she ran away. we ll send somebody, or make her disappear. ink 180, which originally served former gang members, has removed tattoos from over 100 trafficking victims. what we see are gang symbols,