Sex Trafficking Victim Slams Katie Britt

In a new interview with CNN, the sex trafficking victim mentioned in Alabama Senator Katie Britt's response to the State of the Union address is speaking out, claiming that Britt's use of her story was unfair and done for political purposes. Previously, during the State of the Union response, Britt claimed that she met with a woman during a trip to the Southern Border who was sex trafficked as a young 12-year-old girl. The woman she met with, Karla Jacinto, told CNN that it was unfair for Britt to use her story because it seemed to be akin to a photo-op. 

Specifically, Jacinto said that Mexican officials previously used her story to push their political objectives, and now Britt was doing the same. In a quote released by CNN, Jacinto stated: 

“I work as a spokesperson for many victims who have no voice, and I really would like them to be empathetic: all the governors, all the senators, to be empathetic with the issue of human trafficking because there are millions of girls and boys who disappear all the time. People who are really trafficked and abused, as she [Britt] mentioned. And I think she [Britt] should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude.”

During the interview, Jacinto further disputed much of Britt's account. First, contrary to Britt's assertion, Jacinto stated that she was not trafficked by Mexican drug cartels and was instead trafficked by a pimp in a prostitution ring that entrapped vulnerable girls and forced them into prostitution. 

In addition, Jacinto noted that she held in captivity between 2004 and 2008, during the George W. Bush Administration. Not only did Britt originally state that Jacinto was trafficked by cartels, but Britt also attempted to use Jacinto's story to attack the Biden Administration's immigration policies. Both were misleading.