An 8-year-old girl sits in the sixth row of the ornate theater, sharing popcorn and soda with her mom, Jenny Gaines, behind her. Behind Jenny sits her mother, and as the lights dim, the three generations settle in for the show: a documentary produced by Breaking Free, a Twin Cities organization that helps women trying to leave prostitution. As the film begins, Jenny whispers with her friends, other women who work at Breaking Free, as they see faces they recognize. Just a couple minutes in, a friend points at the screen and leans over to Jenny. “She just died,” the woman whispers. Soon, they see another one -- a woman alive on-screen but dead now. But not Jenny. She is now three years out of a life of prostitution that took her to rough places near and far, including the oil boom counties of western North Dakota. She uses her story today to help others still caught in dangerous, demeaning situations she knows well. wctrib/news/state/3652673-trafficked-part-7-jenny-prostitution-literally-ate-me-inside-out
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:45:01 +0000
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