Jessica Wesley's Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Jessica Wesley is a survivor of human trafficking. This is her story.
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AHHHH THATS MY MAMA!!!! GOD IS GOOD! 💖💖 Im so proud that God allowed me to be her daughter! LOVE YOU MAMA!✨✨💖💖💖
Awesome!!!! 💕💕💕💕
Your mom is awesome!!
I’ve been binge watching this channel & once I got to the Trafficking stories my heart & stomach dropped! I kept passing up the videos because I am a rape & dv Survivor 💜. Hi my name is Sara. From 5 to 11 years old I was groomed, raped, tortured, sold, & brainwashed by my uncle. He programmed me to be his little ‘princess’ or ‘kitten’. I learned to disassociate when horrible things were happening to me. I still have chunks of memories missing & get flashbacks. Certain things , smells, or even sounds make me want to go into fight or flight mode. I have CPTSD, anxiety, flashbacks, & OCD. It has taken me along time to somewhat heal. The trauma I endured will always be with me. I can finally say it was NOT my fault, I did not deserve it, I didn’t ask for it, & I love myself. I used to have so much anger & hatred in my heart. I didn’t get any type of justice all because of the people my uncle knew. It was like what happened to me didn’t happen. There was no ‘proof’ even though I remember being recorded 😢. I am glad I decided to watch these videos because these women are absolutely AMAZING, BRAVE, STRONG, & SURVIVORS! Y’all are enough & deserve so much better. Thank you for telling your stories! I promise you it will help so many people. I tell my story to help others & let them know they’re not alone. Sending you so much love & prayers ❤.
Girl, I didn't even realize I was trafficked until recently I'm 59. To this day I am broken. I guess now I realize why.
❤❤❤🫶🏾😇 Hugs your way
@@neetaj3598 Thank you!!
@@texasgirl6450 I’m so sorry 😢!
Thank you and it feels like words are not enough to be able to express how grateful, angry, proud, and so thankful that you and the strong, brave women that have shared their stories and journeys on this channel. I wish there was a button to push and you all could feel the overwhelming feeling in my heart and how I can also relate to having been abused by an uncle as well along with another person that was a friend and not being able to remember everything, which for me at this point in my journey is not something I need to have in order to continue to heal.
These evil people will reap what they have sown, and I have faith that while I may never be able to witness the legal, and spiritual debt being collected, I know that I know it most definitely 💯 will be exacted upon these evil monsters. We only further hurt ourselves when we are not able to get to the point where the healing can begin.
Wow, Wow, WOWWW! Her testimony is incredible and she speaks so eloquently. She articulated what she went through so well, I’m speechless. As someone who has a story of destruction as well and Jesus taking me out of that life, this testimony meant so much. Does she have a TH-cam channel? You can tell she is Holy Spirit filled.
I don't believe she has a channel. She is very active in the trafficking survivor community.
@@TexasPicturesthank hours for your reply!
As a child who was trafficked, we thank you for bringing light to this dark subject.
Jessica, you have a great success story. Wishing you and your family a wonderful 2024. God Bless. 🙏🏻
Thanks Jessica for sharing your story!!! ❤❤❤😢😢😢❤❤❤
Jessica's story is the most inspiring story that I have ever heard in my life and it made me cry. Thank you so much for sharing this story with us.
Love the way she speaks about Jesus 🙏.
He IS Lord!
Yes! Praise God ! 🙌🏽
I lost my son to a fent-meth-heroin laced pressed tablet in 2021, he was 35. I subscribed so I can learn and grow knowledge to help combat this epidemic. So much of that generation has been lost and as parents, we become parents to grandkids because of the losses. Im looking forward to your videos.
Thank you for your comments
I’ve lost all my closest friends, I’m sorry about your son. There was a time recently when my parents seriously thought they were going to bury me. I’m the only one out of that friend group who didn’t die or go to prison. Sometimes I feel really guilty that I made it out. God bless you and thank you for trying to understand it, it means a lot to addicts.
Also you seem like a genuine soul. I just wanted to tell you I came from great parents and my addiction had nothing to do with them. I feel like parents don’t hear that enough and obviously I don’t know you or your situation. But my parents actually apologized for my child hood. And I got tell them that it wasn’t their fault. I’m not great with words or this type of thing. But I just wanted to share that with you. Because i think good parents often blame themselves.
@@Jesus_is_LORD444 thank you. I know I did the best I could to raise mine. I think the everyday pressures parents go through, a lot of the kids still have no idea why they fought so many battles.
Thank you from all parents
A tremendously sad story, which becomes a story of power, of resolution, of reaffirmation and of helping others. Thanks for sharing it.
God bless you Jessica! Thank you for sharing your story. We’ve had a similar walk, and I’m hugging you in my heart. Praise God for your sobriety! 👏🙌❤️ 17 years for me in May! ✝️🫶🙏 God is so good!!!
I worked in a brothel for about 5 years and also stripped. I felt thats all i was worth. Became and alcoholic . Still till this day trying to get through my trauma and alcoholism.
Thank you for sharing. We also have a series of addiction recovery stories that you might find interesting. Here's a link to the playlist: From Addiction to Recovery - th-cam.com/play/PLdCPA32W_p39Z8hi7xSIX3Fkqmhd7mRzj.html
Praise God! He is definitely the reason I'm still here today. I'm an addict but have been clean now for 15 years! All my thanks is to God!
I love her story. ❤ A true walking testimony of our Lord and Jesus Christ. 🙏🏼
Praise Jesus!!
Jessica, my dear sister in Christ Jesus, thank you for sharing your testimony. God is so GOOD & hearing your story is just what I needed to hear, for many reasons & I want you to know I’m praying for you, Trinity, your husband & son, Spencer, what a BLESSING!!Thank You Father God for saving Jessica Lord!
You’ve lit a fire under me to get out & share the love of Jesus & to help & care for them.
May Jesus bless and keep you.
When she mentioned her daughter's name, Trinity, I started crying.
Oh my goodness. Thanks so much for sharing Jessica! What a beautiful story! Hopefully more women listen to this and know how wonderful they are!! It says Richard he is my husband. My name is Judy from Seattle! Blessings to you and your family!!
Jessica I just wanted to say thank you for speaking with us today, I have a sorted past myself with now three kids to look after. I have recently been reading the Bible and finding God which I have never considered before. The father of my children told me if I start going to church he will leave me and the kids. I feel empowered to follow my faith and found a great church I will attend for the first time on Monday. I am tired of living in fear of abandonment because I now know that I am a strong individual and if I feel compelled to listen to God and follow his word and his people I will live a better life than living in the shadow of a man. God Bless you for encouraging me to follow my own light.
What an inspirational talk Jessica shared with us all. Beautiful outcome to her story. I think it would have been interesting to hear from her husband as well.
Thank you for sharing your amazing testimony! May God continue to bless you as you serve Him and help heal other women.
Survival and low self esteem and the need for money causes us to accept things we ordinarily wouldn't do.
Beautiful. I am so moved. God is good. ❤
Thank you for being brave enough to share the religious part of your story. I believe you. Keep the faith. ❤
Thank you for sharing. What a beautiful message.
Thank you for sharing your story, Jessica! ❤
Thank you for sharing your story 😢 and Thank you Lord Jesus for saving this woman from the darkness Amén 🙏🏼
Thank you for having the courage it took to make this honest video. Prayers going up for both Jessica and her daughter.
You have an amazing testimony! I pray God continues to bless you and your beautiful family ❤
It's confusing to hear her say supply and the demand is a lot of the problem. A very unique persperctive to say "Well if this type of stuff didn't exist I wouldn't have got involved with it." That will keep you thinking. Overall this is a powerful story though, and very well told. Glad she's willing to share....
JESSICA! Your story has blessed me so much. While I’m not a sex trafficking survivor, I definitely empathize with your journey and want to make a bigger effort to love everyone as God loves us before we accept Him and after when we become His children. I love you sister. God bless you and your beautiful family! Praise Jesus!
Jessica great the way you told your story
BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you Jesus!! 🙏🏻❤️
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your story... God is so good. He truly is turning something horrible into something beautiful with your testimony. Your voice and story will help more people than you can imagine. Keep sharing! I'm so happy for you, and proud of you.
Thank you Jessica for your wonderful sharing! God’s Blessings on you and yours!!!
🙏🙏🙏
Praise the Lord sister❤ thank you for sharing your testimony
Thank you for sharing your story!!! I was forced into sex trafficking also and I am thankful I got out from that situation from a program called path rescuing me. But your testimony is very powerful. And I am glad you got out of that situation and I am sorry for all that you have been through.
I'm so glad she's found healing and purpose. It irritates me when ppl bible bash and preach about God. I'm happy for her
What a beautiful journey we all have when we give ourselves to our Lord. Thank you for your testimony sister. Bless you and yours. Amen ❤
Wow! Beautiful story! ❤️❤️
One of the most powerful things I've ever heard, being saved in that hospital and given the message that you are meant to help others! Full body chills! You are an amazing soul 🙏🤍🤍🤍🤍🙏
Thank you so much for sharing Jessica! Praise the Lord for what he has done in your life. Wow...he can redeem anything. Beautiful testimony. It's so good hearing you talk about the Lord ❤️
To walk away that easily is commendable. Shows great strength.
Amazing story. Thanks for sharing!❤
Amen Amen Amen!!!!! Amazing testimony. Praise God!!! I’m in tears because I pray and wish this for all women/girls trapped in this kind of situation will reach out to God to free them.
Thanks!
Thank you very much. This means a lot.
Grateful to hear your story.
Beautiful story! ❤
Amazing testimony ❤❤❤
Miss. Jessica your testimony really touches my heart!!💜💜💜💜💞💜💞
What a beautiful person you are! God bless you. Thank you for sharing.
CONGRATULATIONS!! I am so happy for you. Sorry you had to go through what you went through. Everything happens for a reason. Praise GOD!
Beautiful story of healing Jessica. Also @texas pictures.. you do such a wonderful job.. you should have so many more subscribers. have a wonderful weekend all xxx Juliette from Holland xxx
Thank you for your comments. 🤗
What a story. God bless
So very sorry that lost your Daddy when you were only at that tender age of 18 yrs old. Praise God that you were and are obediant to Him.
What a beautiful story, God is sooooo good !! God bless you and your family 🙏🙏❤️
Such a powerful testimony. 1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice Always✝️
thank you everyone
Praise God for saving you sister. We pray the Lord use you more for His Glory!
God is a awesome God! Praise the Lord ❤️✝️🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing
What a beautilel story, Jessica. God is so good!
❤❤ Thank you for sharing
Piękna historia , choć smutne lata picia , ćpanie i prostytucji, Bóg cię uzdrowił. Wierzę w Boga i nigdy nie zwątpię w Jego dobroć i miłość pełną miłosierdza i przebaczenia. Ludzie, którzy mają głęboką wiare od początku nie sięgają po alkohol i narkotyki. Niech ci Bóg błogosławi i nie zmarnyj szansy na dobre, normalne życie. 👍👍❤❤
Praise God for your testimony.. so wonderful and in awe of our Christ Jesus.
It’s amazing how he uses different means for His children to bring them into salvation.
And how precious that He is using you to reaching out to those who are lost, using your experience to bring them to truth and light. ❤
What a great story. Makes me want to pick up my Bible when I get home.
I know!!!!!❤❤❤
My God, with each trafficking story i watch. Im realizing who my trafficker was. I can't breathe.
You got this. Remember that all the storytellers in this growing series are survivors. So are you. 🤗
@@TexasPictures 💖
What an excellent and inspiring woman. I was really moved by her story and how she has accepted God. She’s really fabulous!
Thanks for an inspiring story.
Thankyou. I can't relate to sooo much. God bless you and all of us. ❤
Such a beautiful testimony!
Thank you for sharing your story. God bless you and your daughter.
God Is Good 🙏🏽 ✝️🤍
I can completely empathize with you Miss Jesica, as my daughter who is also 22y is exactly who I wanted to be when I was growing up! Although I myself was also a tomboy & our daughter is & always has been a very girly girl! I’m speaking of course to her strength of character from such a young age! Her youthful wisdom, her being able to know & accept our Lord Jesus Christ as her savior from a young age as I’ve given my faith as a gift to our children! Both our daughter & our son who is a little more like me. I was lucky enough to come out the other end alive at least young! I married my best friend, the love of my life, my King at 21! We met when we were 15 so he’s aware of a lot of my past as a teenager and what I went through…
I’m very blessed to have my husband & our children.
I volunteer at our local parish and have been a stay at home mum the majority of my adult life. I applaud your strength & bravery to speak up & out about these issues.. I can only 🙏🏽 to be as brave one day!
WOW Thanks so very much😅
Your story brought me to tears... very uplifting and inspiring
My trauma was at school. I suffered from panic attacks. One day when I was in 6th grade we were doing the star test. It's a state test. We had these little slips of paper with our username and password. I was given mine, but I lost it. I told the para that I somehow lost mine. She called me irresponsible and I began to cry and have a panic attack. I was hyperventilating and the rest of the students in the computer lab were staring at me. She yelled at me to stop crying and that I was distracting the other students. So because I was overwhelmed I ran out of the computer lab. My teacher was in the hall talking to another teacher. I began to run down the hall searching for a room to go into to cry. My teacher yelled at me not to run in the hall and began to go after me. She was yelling at me to stop. So I did. She grabbed my arm and pulled me back towards the computer lab. It hurt. I cried harder. She pulled me in front of the computer lab and began to talk to me very sternly. How dare I run away from a teacher. And that I shouldn't run in the halls because it's dangerous. I tried to explain that I ran because I needed time to calm down. I was placed in a chair in the computer lab with the other students and they got me my username and password. I finally got logged in to take my test and my teacher kept coming over saying with gritted teeth that I needed to stop crying because I was distracting other students. Well that's why I ran out of the classroom in the first place. I hope teachers now understand that students with anxiety or trauma need to be treated with kindness and compassion.
You are doing God’s purpose for your life. God bless you and your family 🙏 Thank you for what you do. Praise Jesus Christ 🙏 Hallelujah!!!
i feel for this woman and everything she has gone through to find healing, but respectfully, is she saying that being a stripper is the same thing as being a victim of human trafficking? i dont mean any disrespect and im genuinely curious, thank you for reading my comment and please be civil in the and i humbly thank you for not assuming bad intentions on my part for asking this honest question thanks
She explained that stripping forced her into prostitution and that she was sexually assaulted multiple times.
We appreciate your question. We're learning a lot about trafficking as we develop this ongoing series. What we've learned so far is that "human trafficking" is a term that can include many types of exploitation where the victim is manipulated, usually endures a mental torment, feels trapped even if free to leave. We're learning as we go.
I was curious after hearing her justifications, also. You’re not the only one. The way she explains it, one could assume that models, of any type, are also “victims” as others buy their photos or buy the clothes they are modeling. Who’s the victim when photographers visit schools each year to photograph all the students and offer picture packages for families to purchase? I’m not being facetious, but it goes to show how the definition can be manipulated easily.
My other thought was how the women in these strip clubs think about her coming in to tell them how they need rescuing from traffickers while bringing them Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas gifts? It’s could be construed as, “You’re trapped, so here’s a little something to help normalize it.” What a double edged sword…
@@glcmranger421 thank you for the replies, i thought i was going insane for a sec lol. but i do feel for her, it seems that life took a lot out of her and took a lot of healing to overcome.
@@glcmranger421that's very judgemental and far reaching 😢 these ladies need help
So happy for you! God bless you and your family! I always tell myself with God, all things are possible.
She's blessed to be alive! 💗
How yiu always hear,as a Christian,whre was God when people suffered. In every video ive seen these wonderful ladies had their faith strong at the end of it.
What a powerful testimony to the power of King Jesus bringing a person out of darkness into His (King Jesus) glorious light and changing her life around completely.
What a beautiful testimony! God Bless You! 🙏
Miss. Jessica you have been through alot in your life.
Love how you mention God in helping you find light in the end of the tunnel! He is always looking out for us!
You are an AMAZING women!
Amazing testimony of God's love.
Wow! Want an encouraging story
POWERFUL!
“Jesus replied, ‘Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it for ever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 8:34-36 NIVUK
This is TERRIFYING!!!
you just shine with God's love!!!!!
Testimonies are sometimes kinda ugly, aweful and horrendous,hideous.
But these are testimonies that need to be heard and need to be listened to by people.
I’ve been watching a few videos like this about women speaking on their experiences as a sex trafficking survivor and every person whose story I’ve watched is religious. I don’t know it is just really intriguing as an agnostic/non believer how these amazing women who have gone through so much trauma and darkness speak of God saving them and leading them through the dark. I don’t know just food for thought you know
U r truly amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It’s really cool (to me) that you named your first daughter ‘Trinity’….and that Christ has saved you ❤🕊️. My email reflects my faith….”Trinity_won”! For privacy, I’m not including my email carrier. When it’s all said and done…the Trinity_Won!🕊️🥰
Don't come at me for my question / post as it is a genuine attempt to understand. If she was voluntarily returning each night, how is she a victim of trafficking? When I think of trafficking, I think of force, against the victim's will. I did hear her mention sexual assault - many women are sexually assaulted though, and it not fall under the criteria of trafficking. There are also many people in substance use recovery that do not prostitute to support their addiction. She is trying to blame the "demand" on men. The same argument can be made in reverse....if the women are not making the "supply" available, etc. It just feels what she is saying diminishes the horrors of those who are in the "lifestyle" against their will, who are forced to perform sexual acts with multiple men, passed from one to another. In fact,, I think victims of sex trafficking don't repeatedly refer to it as "the lifestyle". Certainly she has a sad story but I just don't understand how she presents herself as a victim of trafficking. She said herself "bad choices and decisions" - how is it any more than that?
Intrigued, I look at the Department of Justice definition: justice.gov. Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.
How does what she describes meet this criteria?
a commercial sex act induced by coercion seems like the best match. We're learning about human trafficking as we go. Clearly this is a different type of story. The Department of Justice definition is more of a legal definition. Counseling services, suppport groups, victim advocates are likely to definte it differently.
@TexasPictures Thank you. The other story, Megan's, appears to check the sex trafficking victim boxes 100%. These two women appear completely different: Jessica voluntary sex work involvement and Megan not. No judgment against Jessica, her story is sad, but what she describes sounds more like voluntary sex work that she is now attempting to blame on men for the repeated decisions she made to walk through the door each night. And certainly, there needs to be recovery and relapse prevention education and programs for sex workers but not at the expense of sex trafficking victims (their experiences and identity, available community resources, etc). Jessica comes across as a voluntary sex worker to justify it by stepping under the sex trafficking umbrella. Anyway, again, thank you for the response. The fentanyl epidemic is what brought me here some time ago and I always highly recommend it to others whom I feel may benefit.
Thank you for your comment and thank you for watching.
@@JustMe-us1vhbrainwashing, addiction, lack of support, habit.
God Bless you Jessica
My deepest condolences for not having your Daddy, in your life😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭
If couples would get counseling early in the cycle of marital problems, they could probably prevent most divorces. Unfortunately, the greatest regret of marriage counselors is that couples wait too long to seek help. If you have serious disagreements during the first 6 months of marriage, start counselling asap. Often one spouse has a personality or learning disability. These situations can often be made bearable through counseling, neurofeedback and possibly medication. I think couples start pledge to agree to seek help if one partner is in distress. Maybe if people vow this in church, more marriages can be saved. In some cases when a marriage fails, grandparents or aunt and uncle can stabilize the child. Judges should be allowed to award custody to extended family if the parents are extremely dysfunctional, and have the parents pay child support to the relatives, with a monitor verifying that the $ benefits the child.
God bless you Jessica. 😢😢😢❤❤ amen. And Amen