• Ann-Weiner
    Jhinna

    A Survivor of Sex Trafficking

    Jhinna Pinchi was a teenager in 2007, in Tarapoto Peru when a neighbor offered to drive her to the restaurant where she had been falsely promised a job as a waitress. Two days later she found herself in a distant town with no contacts and no money, locked up in the La Noche Hotel. She had been deceived, imprisoned and sold to a nightclub where she was held for three years before escaping in spite of security guards in the halls and bars on the windows. During her enslavement Jhinna was drugged, forced into prostitution and raped repeatedly. Reputable citizens in the town, including a judge and a prosecutor, were among the clients who frequented the hotel where she and other underage girls were kept as sex slaves.

    Jhinna became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter while being held captive. She has since taken extraordinary risks and faced threats of death, harm to her child, and repeated social and legal obstacles in attempts to bring her captors to justice.

    Jhinna was the first sex trafficking victim to face her abusers in court in Peru. In spite of the suspicious deaths of two witnesses and four years of petitioning the courts, three of her abusers were convicted for trafficking in persons. A third defendant remains at large.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry recognized Jhinna as a 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Hero, and her story has been made into a documentary to raise awareness about global human trafficking. The United Nations 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons found that exploitation for profit is a far-reaching and deep-rooted crime, prevalent virtually everywhere.

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  • Ann-Weiner
    Jhinna

    A Survivor of Sex Trafficking

    Jhinna Pinchi was a teenager in 2007, in Tarapoto Peru when a neighbor offered to drive her to the restaurant where she had been falsely promised a job as a waitress. Two days later she found herself in a distant town with no contacts and no money, locked up in the La Noche Hotel. She had been deceived, imprisoned and sold to a nightclub where she was held for three years before escaping in spite of security guards in the halls and bars on the windows. During her enslavement Jhinna was drugged, forced into prostitution and raped repeatedly. Reputable citizens in the town, including a judge and a prosecutor, were among the clients who frequented the hotel where she and other underage girls were kept as sex slaves.

    Jhinna became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter while being held captive. She has since taken extraordinary risks and faced threats of death, harm to her child, and repeated social and legal obstacles in attempts to bring her captors to justice.

    Jhinna was the first sex trafficking victim to face her abusers in court in Peru. In spite of the suspicious deaths of two witnesses and four years of petitioning the courts, three of her abusers were convicted for trafficking in persons. A third defendant remains at large.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry recognized Jhinna as a 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Hero, and her story has been made into a documentary to raise awareness about global human trafficking. The United Nations 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons found that exploitation for profit is a far-reaching and deep-rooted crime, prevalent virtually everywhere.

    (click to continue)

  • Ann-Weiner
    Jhinna

    A Survivor of Sex Trafficking

    Jhinna Pinchi was a teenager in 2007, in Tarapoto Peru when a neighbor offered to drive her to the restaurant where she had been falsely promised a job as a waitress. Two days later she found herself in a distant town with no contacts and no money, locked up in the La Noche Hotel. She had been deceived, imprisoned and sold to a nightclub where she was held for three years before escaping in spite of security guards in the halls and bars on the windows. During her enslavement Jhinna was drugged, forced into prostitution and raped repeatedly. Reputable citizens in the town, including a judge and a prosecutor, were among the clients who frequented the hotel where she and other underage girls were kept as sex slaves.

    Jhinna became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter while being held captive. She has since taken extraordinary risks and faced threats of death, harm to her child, and repeated social and legal obstacles in attempts to bring her captors to justice.

    Jhinna was the first sex trafficking victim to face her abusers in court in Peru. In spite of the suspicious deaths of two witnesses and four years of petitioning the courts, three of her abusers were convicted for trafficking in persons. A third defendant remains at large.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry recognized Jhinna as a 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Hero, and her story has been made into a documentary to raise awareness about global human trafficking. The United Nations 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons found that exploitation for profit is a far-reaching and deep-rooted crime, prevalent virtually everywhere.

  • Ann-Weiner
    Jhinna

    A Survivor of Sex Trafficking

    Jhinna Pinchi was a teenager in 2007, in Tarapoto Peru when a neighbor offered to drive her to the restaurant where she had been falsely promised a job as a waitress. Two days later she found herself in a distant town with no contacts and no money, locked up in the La Noche Hotel. She had been deceived, imprisoned and sold to a nightclub where she was held for three years before escaping in spite of security guards in the halls and bars on the windows. During her enslavement Jhinna was drugged, forced into prostitution and raped repeatedly. Reputable citizens in the town, including a judge and a prosecutor, were among the clients who frequented the hotel where she and other underage girls were kept as sex slaves.

    Jhinna became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter while being held captive. She has since taken extraordinary risks and faced threats of death, harm to her child, and repeated social and legal obstacles in attempts to bring her captors to justice.

    Jhinna was the first sex trafficking victim to face her abusers in court in Peru. In spite of the suspicious deaths of two witnesses and four years of petitioning the courts, three of her abusers were convicted for trafficking in persons. A third defendant remains at large.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry recognized Jhinna as a 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Hero, and her story has been made into a documentary to raise awareness about global human trafficking. The United Nations 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons found that exploitation for profit is a far-reaching and deep-rooted crime, prevalent virtually everywhere.

  • Ann-Weiner
    Jhinna

    A Survivor of Sex Trafficking

    Jhinna Pinchi was a teenager in 2007, in Tarapoto Peru when a neighbor offered to drive her to the restaurant where she had been falsely promised a job as a waitress. Two days later she found herself in a distant town with no contacts and no money, locked up in the La Noche Hotel. She had been deceived, imprisoned and sold to a nightclub where she was held for three years before escaping in spite of security guards in the halls and bars on the windows. During her enslavement Jhinna was drugged, forced into prostitution and raped repeatedly. Reputable citizens in the town, including a judge and a prosecutor, were among the clients who frequented the hotel where she and other underage girls were kept as sex slaves.

    Jhinna became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter while being held captive. She has since taken extraordinary risks and faced threats of death, harm to her child, and repeated social and legal obstacles in attempts to bring her captors to justice.

    Jhinna was the first sex trafficking victim to face her abusers in court in Peru. In spite of the suspicious deaths of two witnesses and four years of petitioning the courts, three of her abusers were convicted for trafficking in persons. A third defendant remains at large.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry recognized Jhinna as a 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Hero, and her story has been made into a documentary to raise awareness about global human trafficking. The United Nations 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons found that exploitation for profit is a far-reaching and deep-rooted crime, prevalent virtually everywhere.