45. Rebecca Bender spent six years as a victim of sex trafficking

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Rebecca Bender grew up as an all-American, small town kid skipping rocks on the river in Southern Oregon. At 18, her boyfriend convinced her to move with him to Las Vegas and the emotional abuse and physical violence began. For six years she was traded and sold between different traffickers, living in a constant state of fear for her life and the life of her young daughter. Her eventual escape and path to healing has brought her to start a non-profit to help victims of sex trafficking, train hundreds of thousands of law enforcement on tactics of traffickers, and help people everywhere see and idenitfy human trafficking occuring in their communities across the country.

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1:10.1	Have you ever been in that situation where you see someone, like a man and a woman or a young
1:18.9	girl, and something just feels off?
1:22.6	You have that weird sense that's like a gut feeling and a red flag all at once.
1:29.8	When I think about it, I have had these moments on many occasions, you know, walking past
1:36.1	somebody on the street or at the airport. I even remember sitting at a stoplight and looking
1:42.8	to the right of me at the car next to me.
1:46.0	After the conversation I'm about to share with you, I will never think of these moments the same.
1:53.4	Our guest is Rebecca Bender, a survivor of sex trafficking, and she painted a picture for me of what human trafficking really
2:03.7	looks like. Not what we see in the movies, not what we think we know. Trafficking is actually all
2:10.8	around us. She would say in almost all communities, whether it's the men who are buying sex or the women and young girls
2:20.1	who become the product. Today's interview is about sex, power, money, control, and what it means
2:29.8	to be a young, vulnerable, and fragile girl.
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