{"id":170,"date":"2020-01-04T19:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2020-09-22T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:06:53","slug":"story-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/timeline\/old-out-of-the-shadows\/story-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Story 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"prpl-homepage-hero mlt-background-cover\"><div class=\"image-wrapper\" style=\"background-image: url(\/responsive-media\/cache\/human-trafficking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2020\/01\/W2_blue.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg);\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-background\" data-original-image=\"\/human-trafficking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2020\/01\/W2_blue.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/human-trafficking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2020\/01\/W2_blue.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Three shadows\"\/><h1 id=\"content-start\">The Global Center on Human Trafficking<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"hero-footer\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 5%\">\n<p><strong>MELINDA \u2013 VENEZUELA\/SPAIN\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wanting to flee the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, Melinda accepted a man\u2019s offer to pay for her to travel to Spain so she could pursue a better life. When they arrived in Spain, the man forced Melinda into sex trafficking to pay back her debt. Threatened by potential harm to her family back home and worried that her daughter and mother in Venezuela would have no money for food if she tried to leave, Melinda stayed. Melinda was finally identified as a victim of sex trafficking in a police raid on a brothel. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-Trafficking-in-Persons-Report.pdf\">Source<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/unodc\/en\/human-trafficking\/faqs-migrant-smuggling.html#Overlaps_and_differences\">Learn more &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/out-of-the-shadows\"><span class=\"s1\">More stories<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Home<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELINDA \u2013 VENEZUELA\/SPAIN\u00a0 Wanting to flee the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, Melinda accepted a man\u2019s offer to pay for her to travel to Spain so she could pursue a better life. When they arrived in Spain, the man forced Melinda into sex trafficking to pay back her debt. Threatened by potential harm to her family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":249,"parent":138,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"advanced-page.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}