Hey, quick warning before we start the show.

This is an episode about sex trafficking.

So if that is something you want to skip, you should skip it.

I'm PJ Bove.

In January 2017, a Senate subcommittee

met to hear testimony from a woman named Nicole S.

Good morning, Mr. Chairman and esteemed members of the subcommittee.

My name is Nicole S.

And I want to thank you for the opportunity to be here today

and represent myself and my family.

Nicole was swiveling in her seat.

She told them she was nervous to be there.

She wasn't a lawyer or a politician.

But she spent years just fighting for the opportunity

to sit down and make these people listen to her.

Because in 2010, something had happened to her family

that to her felt inconceivable.

In just a few short months, our American dream

would be exchanged for a third-world nightmare.

And lead us to question everything.

One day, she'd gone to pick up her daughter from track practice.

She uses a student in her daughter, Natalie.

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