I was at a talk the other day, the lady giving the talk looked like an ordinary middle aged lady, the type you would see manning the till at Tesco, or picking up the grand kids from school, she might be the same age as your mum or nan just an ordinary lady that most people wouldn't give a second glance to.
She was giving a talk about modern day slavery, she told us about a 14 year old girl who met a 70 year old man, he had a dog that she liked, he would walk her to school, then she started going to his for tea, eventually they had sex, one day she went round and he had some friends with him, she was forced to have sex with all of them and of course was introduced to drugs, one day she made a phone call and got help, she is now at college and wants to be a social worker.
The lady told us that the UK is ranked 10th out of the whole world for slavery, so who was she this nondescript middle aged lady, she wasn't a social worker, she wasn't a political activist blaming the evil Tory government or on an anti immigration soap box blaming Muslims this lady wore the uniform of a Salvation Army Captain, and her job or mission was to work in the Anti slavery arm of the Sally , the young girl she spoke about was one of the hundreds of girls she and the corps help, she made a throw away comment about accompanying the police on raids as if it was an every day occurrence (well I would imagine to her it probably was but I would be scared out of my mind if I had to do that)
I didn't know how bad the situation is, I didn't know how easy it is for predators to enslave and destroy innocent young girls, now I do, she asked us to give her our email addresses if we wanted to get involved, to help, or just to understand, of course I gave her mine because I want to know more and I want to get involved.