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New Play “7 Layers Captive” by Stacy Jewell Lewis
Writer & Director of Stolen: From Playgrounds to Streetlights new one woman play 7 Layers Captive. A remarkable depiction of her personal journey through the dark world of sex trafficking and street prostitution.
7 Layers Captive is a descriptive real life story about Stacy’s horrific experience in what she and other experts call “The Life”. Through poetry, music and powerful storytelling, Stacy describes the fear, shame and eventual acceptance that kept her locked in the chains of her captor’s manipulative seduction.
If you’ve ever heard the questions asked “was it a choice?” or “Why didn’t she run?” 7 Layers Captive reveals the psychological and often emotional chains of torment that truly sheds new light on the term “Modern Day Slavery”.
To Buy TICKETS visit http://www.7layerscaptive.com
March 1, 2013 · 1:10 pm
New study looks at child sex trafficking in America
SAN ANTONIO -Stacy Jewell Lewis knows firsthand about child sex trafficking.
She’s now an advocate for child sex trafficking laws, but 10 years ago, she was a victim, forced into prostitution by strangers who tracked her down in her neighborhood.
“They had followed me for quite some time and knew my pattern so they knew where I lived and threatened my family if I did not go,” she said. “When I was told they knew what street I lived on and had a child, it felt more real to me than ever before.”
Lewis now helps others through Shared Hope International. The group analyzes and pushes for strengthening of sex trade laws.
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Stacy Jewell Lewis speaks out at Salt Lake symposium
SALT LAKE CITY — It took Stacy Lewis 10 years after leaving “the life” to realize and understand that she had been a victim of sex trafficking.
But when she found her voice, it was powerful and it was strong.
Friday she performed a monologue she wrote titled “10 Years and One Day” with fierceness and tenderness. Her voice raising and then lowering, she spoke of the children she saw working in the streets and of the sun that taunted her while she was forced to work only in darkness.
“While it took 10 years to fully understand that I was a victim, it only took me one day to believe in the sun,” she said. “God was in the light all along. … I escaped my prison while all the vampires were asleep.”
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Child Sex Trafficking Victims Speak Out (with video of Stacy Jewell Lewis)
Stacy Jewell Lewis is another survivor who said she finally escaped her pimp after she became pregnant by a man who paid to have sex with her.
She said until now, victims have not spoken out because it is a shameful experience.
She said survivors are now talking and they hope to shed light on an awful problem where American girls and boys are abducted or forced into prostitution by pimps who use fear, violence and drugs to control them.
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Survivors of sex trafficking hoping for awareness (video of Stacy Jewell Lewis)
Survivors of sexual slavery shared their stories this week at a symposium in Salt Lake City. They say the problem is more widespread than people realize and the victims are often young children.
The three-day symposium brought together experts, law enforcement and survivors to help educate Utahns on a slave trade that is happening in their own backyards.
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Survivors of Slavery 