Mexico City —
Karla Jacinto was only 12 when she was forced to work in a Mexican brothel.
She remembers how powerless she felt the first day she was sold to “clients” in Guadalajara.
“I cried, I screamed, I begged for help, and nobody listened to me until it got to the point where my feelings started to shut down,” she said. “And all I did at that moment was close my eyes after seeing the first client, the second, the third, until they became tens.”
Three months earlier, she had been lured by a 22-year-old who promised her love, marriage and the fairy-tale life she never thought possible as…