Story highlightsMore than half of all sex trafficking victims in Canada are indigenous people The reasons are rooted in a legacy of poverty, racism and abuse”A whole society is targeting indigenous women and girls,” says an indigenous rights advocate”I used to blame myself for everything. But, like I, I would say I let them do that to me. I am dirty. It’s my fault,” says Chopek through tears. But Chopek is finally speaking out, determined to shake the guilt and shame that she knows should stalk her perpetrators instead of her. “Now I see that I was just a child,” says Chopek, now sitting serenely in a safe house, a healing lodge in rural Manitoba that cradled her in the love and protection she so needed when she escaped her life on the streets. Now 19, Lauren was just 14 when she was sexually exploited and trafficked for sex in …
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