In other ways, sometimes grooming can look like a job promise that doesn’t exist, especially the immigrant folks that immigrate here from other countries. He knew that I thought that being homeschooled was super lame and that I just wanted to get off the farm. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in. But in grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. I take grooming, child sexual exploitation and human trafficking very seriously. I saw some posts today, you know the SPLC… Sorry, I’m going off on a full tangent. In fact this event was called racist and bigoted transphobic. And then when real racism or real bigotry comes about. They’ve been used so many times, overused. I would prefer folks don’t overuse the word and only use it when it’s specifically about grooming, mainly because we’ve seen what has happened to words like racism, bigotry. Grooming can take on many different forms. It looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities and preying off of those vulnerabilities over a prolonged period of time. What I know is my experience and what it looked like for me in my life. I’m sure it has a definition, like an Oxford definition. Like everything’s grooming, not everything, but what does that really mean? Just spell it out for us. … Because that word is just thrown around right now. I want to talk a little bit about this concept of grooming before we continue. She’s also a close personal friend of mine and you did a fabulous interview with her and it just means a lot. That was Theresa J Helm for anyone that’s watching that doesn’t know is a survivor of Epstein, Maxwell. And thank you so much for interviewing her. At least I only know a little bit of the story actually from our mutual friend Theressa Helm. I want to talk about that journey, because to me, that’s the really powerful part. I was also in domestic violence, marriage as well, multiple sexual assaults. So it’s been a pattern for me, unfortunately, abusive relationships. Fortunately, because that trauma was there, I ended up being trafficked again, another time in my life. ![]() So I went to the hospital and I was able to get out of that specific, scary situation. Unfortunately because that initial trauma was there, even though I was able to get out of that specific situation because I had a drug overdose. And it was just as horrible as I think anyone would think it would be. So I moved to Los Angeles when I was a minor, and almost right away I was sex trafficked. He told me I’d be a model and a rock star, and I believed him. I graduated early because I was homeschooled and moved out to Los Angeles. But this individual groomed me for two years. Nowadays, things work much more quickly through the use of social media and modern technology. This individual spent two years grooming me over the phone and through actual letter mail. And at the time, there was no real social media or internet. I like to be very clear when I’m speaking about this and let folks know that I’m 41 years old now. I met an abuser who was a photographer when I was 15 years old. I thought that everyone was perfect and good like the family that I came from. ![]() So to cut out a little bit of time, because it would take a long time for me to explain the entire story. Let’s just start with your story, because frankly, a very important and powerful one. ![]() You’re a survivor of sex trafficking, to put it really bluntly. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “ My List“.Įliza Bleu, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. Subscribe to the American Thought Leaders newsletter so you never miss an episode. “Children are either being blackmailed, groomed… or extorted, sextorted to making this content, and it is probably by far the biggest threat right now when we’re talking about the sexual exploitation of children,” Bleu says. Now she’s advocating for the many children being exploited for profit online. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.”Īt the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, I sat down with Eliza Bleu, a child sex trafficking survivor. “Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities.
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