7:00 p.m.
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
4501 Walnut, KCMO
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlawed slavery in America, yet it exists today, with modern day bondage consisting of isolation, threats and coercion. There are 15,000 victims in the United States alone who generate three billion dollars of profit for their captors. Yet most Americans are unaware of the extent or even the existence of the form of modern day slavery called Human Trafficking. It has been an unseen, unheard and unreported crime. The victims are all around us, unknown to most; they are, paradoxically, hidden in plain sight.
Jeff Lanza, retired FBI agent who investigated human trafficking in Kansas City, and Timea Eva Nagy, sex slave survivor, speaker and social advocate from Toronto, Canada, will speak on the same stage to raise public awareness of this crime epidemic. Lanza was an FBI Agent for over 20 years. During his tenure at the FBI, he investigated corruption, corporate fraud, money laundering, computer crime and organized crime. He served as head of internal security of the Kansas City FBI and a regional spokesman. Timea was a sex slave in Toronto, Canada beginning in 1998 after she arrived from Budapest, Hungary in the hopes of fulfilling a summer position. She was kidnapped, controlled, and kept under horrible conditions and forced to work in the sex trade in Toronto and surrounding areas. Her new book, Walk With Me, a Memoir of a Sex Slave Worker, is a full accounting of her story and her road to wholeness and is set to be released fall of 2009.
$10 members/$15 non-members
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