Hi Everyone, I couldn't post on the general board so I'm asking for advice here..
I met someone who I dated some time ago.. and she was coming on heavy which made me a little nervous. Well after she left to go to her home town, she started to call me a lot and we had some pretty good conversations on the phone. Finally she said her sister in another city fell in the bathtub while she was pregnant and needed her to watch after her because she was in the hospital. So, after some more talking, she worked up the courage to ask me if I could assist her financially. I said no because I just met her. After some thinking overnight I figured this girl was after my money because 1. she came on heavy really quickly 2. she was asking me for money so early 3. my spirit told me that her intentions were not true.
After some thinking, I stopped talking to her and ignored her phone calls. Well a month and half passed by and I made a new friend and we started to get to know each other. Some of her interests were environmentalism and so on. She told me how she was reading about a book on Human Trafficking. It broke my heart every time she talked about it. Finally I decided to get the book myself and I became some moved by the stories that were taking place all over the world. There are 27 million slaves in underground facilities even in the united states, that's twice the amount of people that were taken from Africa and other regions of the world in the 19th century.
After a while, I started to think about this girl who I broke up with, how she was doing and if she is okay. Then I started to think... her actions and weird little antics resemble those of people who are sold into the "adult" industry through human trafficking (a look of hopelessness, defeat, fear). Why was it she came on so heavy, why did she get teary and emotional the first date I met her with no explanation, why did her cousin want to know her whereabouts every hour we were together? For someone her age, it didn't make any sense. I know she is a Christian girl, because that was one of the first things we talked about, we both have a passion for God. But the way I let her go was pretty bad. I really hurt her (mainly because I was angry at the time that she was trying to rob me). But in the trafficking industry, people who are enslaved carry "debts" that need to be paid off for them to go free (which is never). So I now understand this maybe what happened with her and why she needed money.
So I tried to get in touch with her, but she won't pickup her phone. I sent her messages through facebook here are our conversations to each other that night.
Tom
You said to me I made a mistake. Now it's you who is making a mistake. I called and left you a message to apologize. I don't want anything from you. I just wanted to say sorry.
Peta
when was that dear.........peta
Tom
last week and I called you 4 times today, why didn't you answer your phone?
Peta
oh unfortunitly i have n't get nothing coming call of u my dear tom may be u called wrong # any ways if it is right no u had just try it now to be sure ,,,but me no i didn't get any call from u .....peta
Tom
No I said what I wanted to say to you, but it looks like you don't have a good heart to be nice. Or is that your "sister" giving you bad advice.
Anyway, it was nice knowing you. I give you my best wishes for the future, that God helps you where you are in life and your son Jacob.
Peta
thank u so much my dear but to tell u th truth i don't have any clu about u are talking about tommy...peta
I was steaming anger that night which is why I ended it the way I did. But I called her today with my number hidden and she didn't answer the phone. She probably knows it's me. How can I get back in touch with her and build her trust so that I learn if she's really a trafficking victim?