I am a victim of child #trafficking We were drugged raped photographed and more. I spent the night trying to make her be ok, but she died beside me under the covers. I was 9. This is my most precious painting. Please speak out, please be outraged #HumanTraffickingAwarenessMonth
It’s #HumanTraffickingAwarenessMonth i’m going to tweet about us, me and the other children who were trafficked with me each day for the rest of this month. Please help me share their voices. They should not be forgotten. It matters what happened and it matters who did it.
This painting, painting it and having it, helps me bear the weight of the pain and terror of that. I made us safe, put us into the water suspended in time, quiet, covered in lily pads, and flowers for her. No one could get us in that moment. #HumanTraffickingAwarenessday
#WearBlueDay#EndHumanTrafficking
It haunts me I don’t know what her name is. We didn’t speak the same language, but children don’t need to. We hugged. After so many hours alone, after, they took her body and I imagined she was just sleeping and got to go to her mom, she didn’t.
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Ellsworth Culver my father co founder of @mercycorps and a great many other things, died on August 15. He was a serial sexual predator, pedophile, as the last investigation showed, a girl died because of him. Murderer. 1/ #HumanTrafficking #metoo #Aidtoo
had a little bit of some thing on my mind when I posted this poem three years on Facebook that I was too scared to state in that post.
I had no idea what was going to happen but I certainly wasn’t going to go gentle…2/
Strange thing is sometimes after a storm you lay there washed up on the shore feeling like you can never get up again, and I feel that… I have felt it for a while, but the fire is still burning inside.
Today marks a major, bittersweet milestone in my decades-long quest for accountability for what happened to me as a child at the hands of my father, Ellsworth Culver, the founder of Mercy Corps. Unfortunately, he was not the only perpetrator, and I was not his only victim. 1/
Today, Mercy Corps publicly released a report on an independent investigation by the Freeh Group International Solutions that looked into what happened to me and others under the auspices of humanitarian missions. You can read the report here: mercycorps.org/sites/default/… 2/
While the investigative report is not a comprehensive account of the extent and depravity of abuse that I and other children suffered at the hands of my father and other "humanitarian" leaders, it reveals so much about how the abuse was able to fester for years under cover. 3/