Trafficked is the memoir of Sophie Hayes, a young British woman who was a victim of sex trafficking in Italy. Sophie travels to Italy to spend a vacation with a man she considers her best friend, he beats her, takes her passport, and forces her to work as a prostitute on the streets of Italy. The transition from her normal life to prostitution is terrifyingly sudden, basically overnight, and its unbelievable that this is done to her by a man she's been close friends with, albeit mainly over the phone, for four years.
Equally frightening are all the book reviewers who claim that Sophie must have enjoyed the abuse and sex work because she didn't run away when she had a chance.
I can't really find much about Sophie Hayes online that doesn't relate to the book or the Sophie Hayes Foundation, but there is this interview: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/10/17/exp-freedom-project-sophie-hayes-human-trafficking.cnn.html.
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