by awkolaw2 | Aug 12, 2019 | Chelsie Warner, Human Trafficking, Mary Liu, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
Sex trafficking takes place in the seediest of motel rooms and in the most extravagant mansions of the rich and famous. Traffickers come from a diverse range of socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups. Yet, when a wealthy, powerful individual is implicated in sex...
by awkolaw2 | Aug 9, 2019 | Chelsie Warner, Mary Liu, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
When someone we love hurts, we want to help. We offer comfort, band-aids, food, words of encouragement – anything we can think of to help promote healing. We tend think of healing as a linear process: at the start is suffering and at the end is the return to a...
by awkolaw2 | Aug 2, 2019 | Chelsie Warner, Human Trafficking, Mary Liu, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
A woman is raped when she is seventeen. Twenty years later, she smells the cologne her rapist wore the night of the attack on the person she is currently dating. Her heart begins to race and she cannot follow the thread of conversation she was participating in moments...
by awkolaw2 | Jul 31, 2019 | Chelsie Warner, Human Trafficking, Mary Liu, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
Human traffickers use force, fraud or coercion to trap their victims into lives of labor or sexual servitude. In order to maintain control, traffickers subject their victims to physical and psychological abuse in order to foster dependency, isolation and fear....
by awkolaw2 | Jul 27, 2019 | Chelsie Warner, Mary Liu, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a response to experiencing, witnessing or hearing about a horrifying or life-threatening event. In some people, these events – which can include natural disasters, war, death of a loved one, and rape – trigger cognitive and...