Reader discretion is advised. Virginia Beach Police were called when a maintenance worker heard screaming coming from a hotel room at the Oceanfront back in March, according to the survivor. Court records reveal details of a human trafficking case that ended in Virginia Beach but started miles away in Florida. She said back in January she called a family friend because she needed a place to stay after fighting with relatives she was living with.
She kind of acted as a mother figure. She was close with me. I could call and talk to on the phone about what I was going through.
She said despite knowing that the woman was involved in drugs and prostitution she went to the house. She said she fell asleep and then woke up to a gun in her face and was told she was going to work as a prostitute. She said she was held against her will, shot up with drugs to keep her otherwise spunky personality sedated, and forced to have sex with about men over the course of several months while they traveled up and down the East Coast.
He was buying himself weed, buying himself alcohol every day. She was paying her car payments from the money that she made off me, hotel rooms. Watch related: A closer look at Virginia's new protections for human trafficking victims. We previously interviewed the woman from jail back in May. Samaritan House is a nonprofit that helps survivors of human trafficking. Experts say it is happening in local hotels and motels, and victims are frequently moved around to avoid detection by law enforcement.
It kind of makes you look at yourself like you're not human. She said she is grateful to the maintenance worker who called police at the Oceanfront and encourages others to do the same. According to Samaritan House, Virginia ranks 15th in the U. Local News. Actions Facebook Tweet Email. Survivor who was sex trafficked in Virginia says she was sedated, forced to have sex with men 'He would say that we are a team,' year-old survivor recalled.
