Set the Captives Free: The Samaritan Women Fights for Sex Trafficking Victims

Sex trafficking victims often carry deep wounds from their childhood. Jeanne Allert, founder of The Samaritan Women, a nonprofit organization serving trafficking victims, shares in this episode that divorce, financial difficulties and fatherlessness are stress factors that can wound and lay the groundwork for a person to become a sex trafficking victim. Allert and Calvin Fanning, director of shelter mentoring at The Institute for Shelter Care, address these wounds in their work with trafficking survivors. Learn more in this interview with host Chris Johnson about how a person becomes a trafficking victim and how the church is rising up to help victims get free of the sex trade.