Exploited victims seek a clean slate
The 47-year-old
"I couldn't find a job. Everywhere, they did background checks," the woman told the Herald.
She said that she was just 14 the first time she was exploited by a sex trafficker -- a man who owned a pizza place up the street from her childhood home.
"It was the only thing that I knew. I didn't know how to work a regular job and I had never been taught," she said.
Sen.
"Human trafficking is a horrific crime that has ruined the lives of countless innocent people," Montigny (D-
Montigny's updated proposal aids victims in their ability to vacate their conviction through the completion of a first offender prevention program and lets them to sue their pimps up to 10 years after a crime.
The measure also would establish a board to regulate so-called "bodywork" parlors, unlicensed massage-style establishments that the senator says serve "as a facade" for perpetrators' "atrocious crimes."
In March, a
Montigny's bill also calls for human trafficking awareness signs to be posted in every transportation station, rest area, and welcome center statewide.
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