Dr. John A. King describes being sexually abused and trafficked by his caregivers for fourteen years, ending at sixteen. Both men and women were perpetrators. He locked away these memories, unsure what a normal childhood looked like or who he was.
In 2008, I had recall of being sexually abused by the people who raised me. It was the women who— they're the ones who sexually abused me, and we would call that trafficking now. It wasn't just women who abused me. I was an equal opportunity victim, for want of a better term. It was both male and female. And so that happened for about 14 years until I was at the age of 16. And I sort of locked that away and locked it down and didn't really know who I was. And, you know, it's funny, when you grow up in an environment like that, you don't have anything to compare it with. So that's your normal.
