Wisconsin Woman Held as Sex Slave in Brooklyn

A 27-year old Wisconsin woman was rescued in Brooklyn yesterday, after being held for eight days as a sex slave. She initially responded to a Craigslist advertisement from a man who was seeking someone to cook and clean for him in exchange for free rent.

She had wanted to move to New York, but couldn’t afford the costs. When she found the advertisement on Craigslist, it sounded like a good opportunity. The man, John Hopkins, age 45, allegedly paid for her plane ticket, and when she arrived at the airport, he picked her up and took her to his apartment, where he handcuffed her to a radiator, and over the next eight days, repeatedly beat and raped her.

Apparently, she was allowed to leave the apartment one time, when she was able to call her mother, before returning to the apartment. There is no explanation yet for why she returned to the apartment, or why she never called 911.

The saddest part of this story for me is the comments that people are making about it. Here is one website that reported this story: New York CBS Local News. If you go there, scroll through some of the comments. People are saying she deserved it for being so dumb to respond to such a Craigslist ad, that she must have liked it because after being let go she returned to the apartment, or that she must be ugly to have responded to such an ad, etc., etc., etc.

As I have been learning more and more about sex slavery, it has increasingly appalled me that far too often, the women are the ones who get most of the blame, rather than the ones who capture and rape them. People say, “If she hadn’t run away from home this wouldn’t have happened” or “If she hadn’t dressed like that and been in that neighborhood” or “He was probably her boyfriend, but now that they broke up, she is accusing him of rape.”

I say, “Stop making excuses for the Johns!” I don’t care what she says, where she was, what she was wearing, or if he really was her boyfriend. Nobody has the right to tie up a girl, beat her, and then rape her. Nobody.

Sex slavery really is happening in our country, and someone needs to stand up for these girls. If our entire society is defending the men who beat and rape them, we need some voices to stand up for the girls, who are the true victims.

To learn more about Human Trafficking and sex slavery, check out some of these posts:

Human Trafficking Posts

1. Sex Slaves
2. Would You Fight Slavery?
3. Rescue Russian Sex Slaves
4. Rescue Russian Girls from Sex Slavery
5. Stop Her Nightmare
6. Another Girl Rescued Today
7. Girls for Sale
8. Goal Reached!
9. I Want to be a Prostitute
10. $52,000 raised!
11. 31 Million Sex Slaves
12. Renting Lacy
13. More Than Rice
14. Human Trafficking Ring Busted
15. The Other Big Game
16. Sex Slavery, Planned Parenthood, and Your Tax Dollars
17. How to Minister to Prostitutes
18. Wisconsin Woman Held as Sex Slave in Brooklyn
19. Coked-Up Whore
20. Human Trafficking has Many Faces
21. Into an India Brothel
22. You Need a Girl?
23. Human Trafficking Media
24. The Son of God is Selling Children
25. My Girls Raised $300 to help stop Human Trafficking
26. Rape for Profit
27. Human Trafficking Statistics
28. Help Rescue Girls from Forced Prostitution

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