Fifteen-year-old Marlene Carson stood on a street corner in Columbus, Ohio, as a man haggled with her handler over the price to pay for sex with her. The man finally agreed to $200.
To her astonishment, what she expected to happen next, didn’t happen. Instead, once they were alone, the man read the Bible to her and told her how much God loved her.
Carson knew the Bible. She was “raised in church” and came from a stable home. Those who hear her story say it “should not have happened to you,” she told The Epoch Times.
Her path to that street corner had started innocently with neighbors who wormed their way into her teenage life with cookouts, amusement park trips, and attention. When they offered to take the teenager and three of her friends to New York for a weekend of fun, Carson begged her mom to let her go. But instead of Broadway shows, the trip turned into a nightmare of forced sex….