Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Victims of Human Sex Trafficking: A Perpetuation of Chronic Indignity

Authors

Angela A. Jones

First Page

317

Abstract

As a child, my parents taught me that Communism was the great threat to the world. They told me that people who lived under a Communist government could not travel outside their country, and they had to obey the government's decisions about their life- where they lived, what jobs they could work, and even what they could and could not believe in spiritually. My mother showed me where the U.S.S.R. was located on the globe, and all of the countries around it that were also Communist. Visually, I saw that Communism encompassed what looked like half of the globe, and the sight impressed on me the reality that half of the people living in the world did not know what it was like to go outside of the doors of their home and be free. This weighed greatly on my little mind, and I wanted those people to escape Communism and to find freedom. Yet, for millions of people, the fall of Communism did not bring freedom; it brought a trap of mental and physical suffering barely rivaled by the atrocities of dictators.

Recommended Citation

Angela A. Jones, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Victims of Human Sex Trafficking: A Perpetuation of Chronic Indignity, 4 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 317 (2009).
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