Friday, August 12, 2011
Human traffickers took my daughter
Dear Editor,
My daughter, Jessie Foster, is Canada's best-known human trafficking victim. She was taken to the United States from Canada in May 2005. She was kept there for 10 months. We thought she was enjoying life, in love and happy. In March 2006, Jessie was planning on coming home for a family wedding reception; she disappeared the day after making arrangements with her older sister. Jessie has been missing for more than five years. We hired a private investigator and found out Jessie had been beaten and hospitalized in the United States, where she had been forced to work for an escort agency and even arrested for solicitation of prostitution. She had never been in trouble before this. She was a great teenager and a law-abiding adult. Since Jessie has been missing, I have been volunteering my time educating students about human trafficking. I am also working with Tara Teng, Miss Canada 2011, on her Ignite the Road to Justice Tour this month.
I am the only mother in Canada who talks publicly about my still missing daughter - a human trafficking victim.
Glendene Grant, Kamloops, B.C. (former resident of Lillooet)
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My daughter, Jessie Foster, is Canada's best-known human trafficking victim. She was taken to the United States from Canada in May 2005. She was kept there for 10 months. We thought she was enjoying life, in love and happy. In March 2006, Jessie was planning on coming home for a family wedding reception; she disappeared the day after making arrangements with her older sister. Jessie has been missing for more than five years. We hired a private investigator and found out Jessie had been beaten and hospitalized in the United States, where she had been forced to work for an escort agency and even arrested for solicitation of prostitution. She had never been in trouble before this. She was a great teenager and a law-abiding adult. Since Jessie has been missing, I have been volunteering my time educating students about human trafficking. I am also working with Tara Teng, Miss Canada 2011, on her Ignite the Road to Justice Tour this month.
I am the only mother in Canada who talks publicly about my still missing daughter - a human trafficking victim.
Glendene Grant, Kamloops, B.C. (former resident of Lillooet)
Source
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