Article 6CW79 My trafficker is behind bars, but if the UK's new migration bill passes, my story would have ended very differently | Anonymous

My trafficker is behind bars, but if the UK's new migration bill passes, my story would have ended very differently | Anonymous

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from US news | The Guardian on (#6CW79)

The legislation is designed to remove those arriving by irregular routes - this will be devastating for survivors of modern slavery

I remember the day I decided I was finally ready to report my trafficker's abuse after the false promise of a job turned into sexual exploitation. It was September 2018, and a woman from the organisation Women at the Well, which provides support to people affected by trafficking, came out to meet me at Starbucks with a notepad.

I told her going to the police was the last thing I wanted to do. I worried about what he would do if he found out, if his other victims would be OK, whether I had broken the law and would be deported. But mostly I just wondered if anyone would believe me. My ability to trust people was almost nil: after all, my trafficker had proven to me that I shouldn't trust anyone.

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