FR. SHAY CULLEN, SSC
JESSICA was a lost child wandering the streets of a Philippine city, picked up by a human trafficker and brought to different places where she was sold as a commodity to foreign sex tourists to be abused. She didn’t know what was happening to her at 14 years of age. She was raped, exploited, and robbed of her virginity. She became angry at the world and felt she was nothing and had nothing. She felt she had no future, no present, and no past life. All was hopeless and, when rescued and placed in government shelters, she escaped several times and rebelled as an aggressive and angry young, uneducated teenager filled with hatred and pain.