In fact, Snohomish County and its suburban cities keep busy with dozens of sex trafficking cases. A recent Everett Herald story caught my attention. A husband and wife were arrested for allegedly selling three girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, for sex at an Everett motel.
Detectives swooped in and saved the girls, and the husband and wife are facing long prison sentences. In the same story, the Herald reported that the county is currently investigating 45 sex trafficking cases.
It sounds like a lot for the county in which I grew up. What did I miss? Charlotte spent years fighting for her life in the streets of California as a sex slave, but calls Snohomish County the worst. She says she was locked in a cab in Everett once and propositioned by the driver. Charlotte is tired of seeing girls get sucked in to the life she lived for more than a decade. She wants to help and for you to be aware because pimps work quickly. She converted her California house into a sort of brothel.
It was as simple as needing to make rent, she says, which was a problematic method that took a drastic turn for the worse when she met a pimp who wanted her as his product.
A week later, he smashed my head into a wall and told me I was his. You look for the ones who are really hurting or needing something. That gave me chills. He found me walking down the street and came up right behind me and scared me. I let them know that he had found me and they made me leave. I was right back out there again. It proved difficult to recover, but ultimately, she persevered and just recently graduated from drug court.
