January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and advocates tell Denver7 large events that summon big crowds to Denver, such as the National Western Stock Show, provide even more opportunities for traffickers. via robharristv
DENVER — Natalee Skye Bingham and Angela Williams met in September 2017, and they marked the start of their friendship with a Snapchat filter selfie. That selfie would be the first of many in a long friendship built not only on an affinity for each other, but also on deeper pain.Just months before that selfie was snapped, Williams had fled a life of human trafficking.
Bingham’s trafficker wasn’t a stranger. It was her partner, who she was in love with and who started selling her to other men. “He beat me savagely. He assaulted me, robbed me, beat me with a nightstick all throughout that condo, fracturing my skull. My bone popped out of my arm. I’m permanently disfigured — my finger was broken because I was told to hold my hands out for using social media,” Williams described, saying she experienced a spiritual moment of clarity as she fought for her life. “I began to just pray, because I didn’t want to die.
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