How Traffickers Brainwashed Me Into Selling Myself—Courtney Litvak [Sex Trafficking Part 2]

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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November 22, 2019Updated: December 15, 2019

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How does a teenager become a target for trafficking at her upscale suburban high school in Katy, Texas?

How does a pimp brainwash someone to the point they leave home and then sell themselves for the pimp?

How does a victim escape and rebuild their life?

This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

Today, our guest host, Epoch Times senior reporter Charlotte Cuthbertson, sits down with Courtney Litvak, to hear her exclusive firsthand account of surviving the horrors of sex trafficking.

This is the second part of a special episode on sex trafficking. In part one, Charlotte sits down with Courtney’s mom Kelly Litvak, to hear her perspective and how parents can recognize the red flags of sex trafficking.

Note: To protect both her safety and the possibility of getting justice, Courtney was careful not to reveal specific details about the people who groomed and trafficked her.

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