    [Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018)]
    [House]
    [Pages H92-H93]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                         ABOLISH HUMAN TRAFFICKING DAY

      (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House
    for 1 minute.)
      Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Keisha was 16 years old when she ran
    away from a foster family to avoid being sexually assaulted by that
    family. She thought she was finally safe from abuse when she met a man
    named Mastur D.
      Mastur D promised her that he would return her to her biological
    family. But he lied. He forced her to have sex with other men for
    money. Now she found herself to be a trafficked victim of the sex slave
    trade.
      Mr. Speaker, she was arrested for prostitution. After her second
    arrest, authorities finally rescued her from the trafficking scourge
    and provided her a way out of that situation.
      My legislation, the Abolish Human Trafficking Act, will increase
    prosecutions for perpetrators of human trafficking, like Mastur D, and
    hold those accountable for their crimes of sex slavery.
      We must support victims of human trafficking and put their predators
    where they belong: behind bars. Tomorrow is Abolish Human Trafficking
    Day, our society must prosecute the traffickers and rescue victims of
    this scourge on America.
      And that is just the way it is.

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