John Meekins graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the International Association of Human Trafficking Investigators and is an Ambassador of Hope for Shared Hope International. Meekins has almost 10 years working with female inmates in one of the largest female prisons in the nation. He has also advised three state departments of corrections on the issue of sex trafficking in their facilities. He also speaks at international conferences on the issue of human / sex trafficking in jails and correctional institutions. You can contact him at: jomeekins@comcast.net, or you can follow him on Twitter @johnomeekins
September 30, 2014 John Meekins Opinion
Her trafficker told her to tell the buyers she was 18 if asked. She said she could always tell they were sexually aroused by how young she appeared. When they asked her how old she really was, she replied she was “11 years-old.”
