The problem exists in the Midwest too.
So when they finished, it was like my salvation.
As soon as she arrived in Charlotte, Janet knew there would be johns waiting for her at the brothel.
Reluctantly, Janet agreed, and in June 2000 they made their way across the border and to Queens.
At year-round livestock farms, workers live in cheap houses or trailers.
That's when the abuse began.
Every couple of weeks, a van would take her and other women and girls—some as young as 12—to Charlotte, where she would spend a week or more, forced to have sex with strangers at a brothel by night and at farm labor camps by day.
She tried to make them wear condoms, but sometimes the condoms would break or the men would take them off.