[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 18, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H6475]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       LOWYAL'S TRAFFICKING STORY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Lowyal was just like any other 
teenager across America. When she was 13 years of age and in school, 
daily bullying started. Then her relationship with her mother became 
worse. So she dropped out of school, took drugs, and eventually joined 
a gang.
  Eventually, her newfound ``friends'' introduced her to a ``game'' 
where she walked up and down the streets, under the constant watch of 
her owners. She was the victim of human trafficking, modern-day 
slavery. These older men manipulated her youth and stole her innocence 
on the marketplace of sex slavery.
  My legislation, the Abolish Human Trafficking Act, will increase 
prosecutions for perpetrators like the slave traders who trafficked 
Lowyal and hold them accountable for their crimes of sex slavery.
  America must support victims of human traffickers and put their 
predators where they belong: in the jailhouse. We as a community must 
rescue victims from this scourge of slavery that is taking place in our 
country.
  And that is just the way it is.

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