Night after night and bar after bar, Tonya would go out with Eddie while he advertised her to potential “suitors.” Tonya thought she loved him. What she thought would be a one-time thing became an everyday routine for the next few weeks. Just try it.’”Īfter nearly 30 more minutes of constant pressure, Tonya agreed to have sex with the man. He kept telling me, ‘If you love me, you’ll do this. “I was very uncomfortable and I kept saying no, I didn’t want to do it. “He approached me and told me in so many words, ‘I want you to have sex with this guy for money,’” Tonya said. However, it was when the two were at a party filled with alcohol and drugs that the relationship took a turn. Tonya would cook, clean and look after Eddie’s kids from time to time. Tonya was a runaway at the time, so she eventually moved in with Eddie and the two began a relationship. The two reconnected, the flirting picked up where it left off and Tonya went home with Eddie that night. Things began to change one night when Tonya ran into Eddie at a bar. We would talk and flirt a lot, but it was not much more than that until we met again when I was 15.”
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“I could tell he was really flirtatious with me. You could see there was a mutual connection. It was there that the two first exchanged numbers. Tonya was classmates with Eddie’s stepdaughter, so the two would often see each other at the apartment and in the local grocery store.
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His estranged wife was the property manager.
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When Tonya was 13, she met Eddie (a pseudonym) at the apartment she was living in with her mother in the Dallas, Texas, area. “He made me feel like I was doing it because I loved him, and in the end, we’d have a really good reward,” Tonya said. Tonya (a pseudonym) was a victim of human trafficking. She thought maybe she was just stuck in a bad place in her life.