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Mon Apr 22, 2024, 01:14 PM Apr 2024

Genesis Project: A Path Out of Sex Trafficking

In the shadows of the Emerald City, every night young girls, often coerced and manipulated, find themselves ensnared in a harrowing cycle of sexual exploitation. This isn’t happening in distant lands; it’s a chilling reality right here in the United States, thriving in the heart of Seattle as a multi-million-dollar industry.

Among the broken, bruised, and beaten, the Seattle Police Department labels it as an egregious abuse of human rights, one that shatters families and communities.

Enter The Genesis Project, a local non-profit that serves the Sea-Tac area. Their mission is to offer hope for a new life to girls and women leaving commercial prostitution. Andy Conner, a King County Sheriff Deputy Officer, founded the Genesis Project in 2009 after he encountered many young girls in “the life” on his nightly patrols and didn’t have an answer for the girl who said to him, “I don’t want to be here. Will you help me get out of this life?”

Conner’s journey began with a transformation of perspective that shook him. “My entire perspective on prostitution had changed,” he reflects in a public statement. As a man of faith, he recognized the limitations of his own efforts.

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https://www.postalley.org/2024/04/17/genesis-project-a-path-out-of-sex-trafficking/?mc_cid=b141b6338e&mc_eid=a0c4847065

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