When Shyima Hall was eight years old her poverty-stricken Egyptian parents, overwhelmed with close to a dozen children, sold her into slavery. The price? Less than thirty dollars a month.
Now twenty-four, Hall speaks to groups across the country about combating human trafficking, and has briefed ICE agents about the emotional and physical trauma that victims endure.
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