NEW ORLEANS — Fourteen years ago, Myisha Growe was trapped in a dangerous and controlling situation in Washington, D.C. She says she was being held against her will by a trafficker, watched constantly, with little hope of escape.
That changed one day in 2010, when a stranger approached her on the street and asked a simple question: “Are you okay?”
Growe says she’d asked strangers for help before and been ignored, but this time was different…