Standing in the hospital entryway, she announced that various rumors had been circulating regarding her departure from primetime television, none of them true. “On July fourth of this year, my little sister was taken by human traffickers, forever changing the course of her life, that of my mother, and even my own. Her abduction woke me up to the fact that slavery not only exists in our modern age;, it is a thriving industry. Like so many others, I shook my head in dismay at the stories circulating the media. I said it was sad. I said it was scary. I never expected it to show up at my back door. “Unlike the majority of children who are trafficked, Julia is now safe. We were able to recover her. Though her physical scars will heal, she bears permanent emotional scars. She was taken as a young girl, full of innocence, with her entire life ahead of her. She was returned to us with a shattered soul, having lived through more than any woman should have to.
