TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV)— Human trafficking is a $199 billion industry worldwide and its victims can be found in the Wabash Valley.
Indiana ranks 22nd in cases involving human trafficking. Monday night, Patrece Dayton began a 3-part Special Report by speaking to a local woman who survived.
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For most of her life, April Inman never felt important. Inman is a survivor of human trafficking.She said, since she the age of 14 she was sold to be raped, beaten, and drugged. Sold she said, by her own parents.
“First time I was raped, I was 14. My sister’s boyfriend. My dad orchestrated it with him. After I was raped at 14, my mom had a guy living with her and when I would go for visitation I would be in this man’s bed until I was 17 being beaten, raped, drugged, starved with my mom there.”…