25 years ago

  Once upon a time, there was girls chaplain who worked with juvenile delinquent girls.  She loved those girls very much and called them her "Angels".  The male chaplains all thought she was a bit off and out of touch with reality.
  One day, this girls chaplain sat with a girl and listened to her.  This precious girl was what we would now call a victim of sex trafficking.  This girl spoke of the horrors of her life as casually as you would tell me about getting a cup of coffee from Starbucks.  
  Because 25 years ago, we didn't talk about child sex trafficking victims.  We arrested them and put them in jail.  One day, sweet angel girl told said girls chaplain about her day in court as the witness to a murder.  The chaplain listened to the terror, fear and horror.  She held the sweet angel girl while she cried.  The chaplain held those horrible things in her heart for years and wondered about the angel girl.  
  The chaplain remembered the angel girl's name and as time and the internet progressed, she would put the angel girls name in google.  Because she wondered:  how she was.  Where she was. 
  About 2 weeks ago.  
http://truthbetoldcommunity.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/daras-journey-back-inside-to-share-her-story/
  She is alive and well.  She is doing awesomely well.  

Rejoice with me:  This child who I loved is alive and well!