Sex Trafficked Survivor is Offered Hope

1.2 MILLION CHILDREN ARE TRAFFICKED EVERY YEAR.

Candice Shepard is a survivor of human trafficking and said she didn't think she was ever going to get out. Shepard, grew up in Ridgecrest but found herself in cities such as Reno, San Francisco and San Jose trafficked by an individual she says she trusted.

When Shepard first met her pimp, she wasn't aware of what he did for a living. All she knew is he promised her a comfortable life with food and shelter and a supply of meth, the drug she had been addicted to since she was 11 years old; however, he tricked her. When they moved to Reno together, he made her pay him for everything he gave her and forced her into prostitution. And she stayed because she was fearful of never seeing her daughter again. Shephard constantly felt her pimp's eyes on her.

She worked every night and was ordered not to come back with no less than $120 and all that money was taken from her by her trafficker. One day Shephard jumped out of a two-story San Jose hotel window. Carrying the few items she owned in a grocery bag, she ran barefoot for her life. Shepard had a chance to escape a life of abuse when her pimp left the hotel. Candice Shepard is ONLY ONE example of what is happening in United States every day. Candice was rescued by Pastor Doug Bennett, founder of Magdalene Hope, who rescues, restores, and reintegrates survivors from the sex trade in Bakersfield, California.

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For victim assistance, call the CSP Victim Assistance program at 949-250-4058 or call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888.

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Directed and Produced by: Kelly Galindo
Supervising Editors: Mark Wilcken, Three-time Emmy Award Winner
& Scott Arundale, Lead Editor for 26 Seconds Documentary Short
Editor: Sara Nell & Ariel Becker
Cinematographer: Alberto De Coste Calla
Music by: Shanti Re' and Kelly Galindo

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