Survivor speaks out on National Trafficking Awareness Day
Human trafficking survivor shares story
and last updated 2021-01-11 10:17:44-05
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. â Monday is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and right now there are adults and children being victimized in our region.
There are different types of trafficking to include forced labor, domestic servitude and the sex trade.
At 18-years-old Tanya Gould was graduating high school. She said she she met a man on her senior class trip who started to traffic her.
She said when he came into her life, she was vulnerable. âI wasn t feeling like I belonged to my community. I was sexually abused as a child that was unchecked trauma,â said Gould.