[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 153 (Thursday, September 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H8250]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 THE ONE-MINUTE STORY OF A ONE-YEAR-OLD

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this is the 1-minute story of Kelly 
Dore.
  Kelly's biological father began trafficking her for sex in the first 
year of her life. The evildoer continued to do so for 14 years. Kelly 
spent her childhood in a living hell most of us cannot even 
contemplate.
  Her kindergarten memories are not of playtime and story time; 
instead, they consisted of hiding in the bathroom because the repeated 
trauma caused uncontrollable bleeding.
  The evildoer threatened to kill Kelly's mother if Kelly ever told.
  At 14 years, Kelly liberated herself from this depravity by 
testifying against her father in a courtroom. Miraculously, she not 
only survived the ordeal, but she became an advocate.
  Today, Kelly works to strengthen trafficking laws, giving an 
inspirational voice for victims of human trafficking like her.
  No child should ever have to go through what Kelly went through. 
Congress must join Kelly in the fight against the buying and selling of 
our children on the marketplace of sex trafficking.
  And that is just the way it is.

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