{"id":37,"date":"2026-02-26T03:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingbeyondtraumaproject.org\/2026\/02\/09\/post-number-one-lorem-ipsum-dolor\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:43:51","slug":"the-questions-compassion-for-sex-traffickers-part-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingbeyondtraumaproject.org\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"The Questions \u2026Compassion for Sex Traffickers? Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quote for Reflection:<\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0\u201cThe word courage comes from the French word &#8216;coeur&#8217;, which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>~Alan Cohen<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/movingbeyondtraumaproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img-0-3-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movingbeyondtraumaproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img-0-3-2026.jpg 640w, https:\/\/movingbeyondtraumaproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img-0-3-2026-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Questions<\/strong><br>Questions were asked to an online group of people I was participating with a few years ago. The group was supposed to have a spiritual focus\u2026at least that is why I thought I was being asked to join initially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These were important questions, ones that all of us could spend some time contemplating. For me, any response to such deep questions would need to come from one\u2019s truth\/personal experience and heart. All else would-be opinions or unhealed\/unprocessed responses which need discernment. There would need to be a pause to feel into myself, asking within if others\u2019 responses resonated with spiritual principles and virtues that I hold sacred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The questions were around Compassion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Could we have compassion towards those who are guilty of sex trafficking?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are they worthy to be given compassion?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knowing about what happens in sex trafficking, what would we do with those feelings in order to demonstrate compassion to those who offended?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Should we not even consider compassion?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is the morally \u2018right\u2019 thing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering that only one person had sex trafficking as part of their childhood experience in the group, me (though no one knew this initially), I found it very interesting in the kind of responses that came from this \u2018spiritually-minded\u2019 group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Punishment\u00a0<\/strong><br>The responses were about the other participants\u2019 need for punishment and revenge. It reminded me of the path of spiritual warrior archetype from the 5th Plane of Existence (Plane of Duality).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had great hopes that what I was about to share with them would be able to be received. Only one or two got it though. The other responses were typical of what I consider the \u2018confusion of mainstream humanity\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I read from them was an eye-for-an- eye mindset, lack of hope, lack of trust in humanity, lack of possibilities, and no vision of restorative justice. They shared:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cWe want this to stop\u2026 bring back public hanging.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThey can\u2019t be rehabilitated.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe guilty don\u2019t have compassion so they don\u2019t deserve it either.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHog tie them.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cMedieval torture.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWhen I get them, they would plead to be hanged.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c\u2019Forgive them\u2019 and then cause them so much pain and anguish they wish they were dead.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPut them down like a dog who bites.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDeath penalty\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, I totally understood why they said all of this and where they were coming from. In the distant past, I had similar sentiments and actually experienced these deep agonizing thoughts to my core, of lashing out, revenge and wanting physical annihilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sex Traffickers Exposed<\/strong><br>It was shared by most of group through their comments, that they wanted the sex traffickers exposed. I was fine with this, but there\u2019s a lot more that this kind of response involves. Depending on who exposes and who is involved, when the exposure happens, and where it\u2019s done, is there personal cost to one\u2019s life? There are other questions that needed to be asked as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When sex traffickers and offenders are heads of state, popular political, religious or public figures, police and governments involved, world-renown doctors and scientists in respected medical facilities, admired teachers, famous Hollywood &amp; TV personalities, or Royalty, how often are those they victimized even believed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can easily say that it\u2019s only recently that these exposures have happened where the media reports it to soon after suppress it in the past. There has been either sensationalizing and\/or victim-blaming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about staying alive if those who were trafficked name their abusers? For many, if they don\u2019t gather with others who are also speaking up and hiring lawyers, it could be difficult territory. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard that some deaths of those who had gone public were determined to have \u2018committed suicide\u2019 after, with little investigation by police or lack of reporting by the major press outlets. Gratefully, we are seeing a big change happening now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Survivors Speakers\u2019 Bureau<\/strong><br>I was on a Survivors Speakers\u2019 Bureau in the early 90\u2019s. I was asked to share about the abuse I had remembered at that time on a well-known national TV talk show, Sally Jessie Raphael show. I had only started my deeper journey in \u201987. In what I know now, in completing all my memory and belief work, and emotional processing, I was really acting bravely\u2026and completely na\u00efve\u2026to think I could go public in anyway then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The producer of the show, rather than having the hostess interview me, wanted to bring one of the perpetrators, a relative, onto the show with me. The relative was very wealthy, prominent and \u2018admired\u2019 by my childhood community. He was connected to the politicians and police in Maryland where I lived.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know! I know! It could be a toss back to some scene of being thrown into the lions\u2019 den in Rome. I had enough sense, even being very dissociated at the time, to say NO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really did wonder why the producer would even ask me to volunteer for such a situation knowing I was abused. I believe that they attempted to use a person\u2019s lack of self-esteem and their deepest vulnerabilities to manipulate them. It was the same pattern of being objectified and used for others\u2019 purpose in being trafficked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides, how many of those on the show were traffickers and pedophiles as well?! The entertainment industry has been riddled with them since the beginning the 1900\u2019s. I didn\u2019t know this at the time I was asked to be on the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless the person has worked the inner healing process for quite a while, including building their inner strength, resiliency, trust within, accepting fully their truth, and feeling deep conviction about it, then more disempowerment, shame and humiliation, even being killed can occur when it\u2019s premature. I didn\u2019t recognize this at the time, but my gut reaction and spiritual protection served me well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would never have been a benefit for me to be sensationalized or set up as a sacrificial lamb. Sharing the truth doesn\u2019t mean to put one\u2019s life in danger, and that would have happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>True Power<\/strong><br>I wonder how many of you might consider that \u2018the role of a sex trafficker\u2019 isn\u2019t a position of true power. What if their \u2018power\u2019 is really hierarchal structures of overpower and control, not true power at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traffickers\u2019 power structure is perceived by them, by those they victimize and by many in the world as greater than everyone else and even more than All-That-IS. It\u2019s the Dark vs Light game. It is embedded in a false premise that keeps the traffickers and everyone that buys into their hierarchal power structure, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and oftentimes physically oppressed (and obviously in danger if being victimized).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also consider, \u201cWhat is the difference between the traffickers\u2019 power structure and those who rule the world\u2019s countries?\u201d At this point, there is no difference in the ways I was trafficked and what is being revealed in those involved. It\u2019s vast and huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also am able to discern between rulers and leaders. It\u2019s rare to see a world \u2018leader\u2019 who isn\u2019t part of a hierarchal power structure and hasn\u2019t joined, bought into it or got compromised to participate. There are exceptions who have been part of this huge psyop that has been on the world stage for some years, yet we are in great need of more true leadership on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hierarchal power ends up in the belief systems as, \u201cThe perpetrators are greater than All-That-IS.\u201d Or \u201cThe perpetrators\u2019 power is greater than my own power.\u201d Thus, True Power would then need to be defined and differentiated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Does the Traffickers have True Power as a virtue?<\/strong><br>I often felt that the traffickers couldn\u2019t find or had forgotten their own God Sparks and the true alignment of their Real Power. It seemed they wanted to own the reflection of this by using the innocence, blood and Light of children, which seemed the purest to them. The blood got them high on a physical and psychological level leaving them open for entity and demonic attachments. Adrenochrome does this. So does cannabolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also thought they could possess this Pure Power and Light through negating or bypassing their virtues, thinking they needed more of the child\u2019s Light and energy, or exist with less of it twisting all structures of human morality into a dualistic rationalization while feeling separated from Unconditional Love\/All-That-IS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how the \u2018lower\/heavier\u2019 Plane of Duality (5th Plane) vibrates. If this kind of pattern is repeated over and over, it becomes a program that is driven deep into the unconscious to project onto the world. We do not want it to play out any further. This is where the rest of humanity has a part to clear their shadows and do their healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These traffickers who play this hierarchal game will need to deal with their polarizing, false perspectives when they die\u2026or perhaps they will wake up before. It\u2019s between them and All-that-IS. That\u2019s another part of Divine Justice in my experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inner World<\/strong><br>Supported by a therapist and hypnotherapist early on in my journey, I was taught to feel and express these feelings of revenge in my inner world, in my sacred space. I pounded pillows with a bat, screamed until the sun rose, cussed profanities at the perpetrators, cried through boxes of tissue, hit a punching bag with my fists, took my hands into a lock hold as if strangling their necks, stomped my feet on the floor squashing their imagined faces, stabbed them all over like a zombie doll in the etherics, visualized them buried alive or burning to death, and sent them on buses to re-education camps. The mind can be creative!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing it this way for years helped me to get through the integration of my different personalities and their feelings. I also journaled all their memories and feelings. I gave full allowance to my inner world to have their day and way (within) in remembering what was done to them. Through a great deal of my early healing, having revenge on the inner helped me to stop projecting my feelings onto others when triggered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized later, though, that I was feeling motivated to also use this revenge\u2013violence on others within\u2013to feel my own power and strength. In a sense, I wasn\u2019t being any different than those who abused me though I was keeping it all well-contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Understanding violence<\/strong><br>From a deeper perspective, violence is most likely what occurred to those who continue to abuse and traffic. They probably had the same things happening to them as children or adults whether they remembered it or not. They acted it out in real time and with real humans (and animals) through their ways of dissociating and internalizing those unprocessed emotional freezes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They learned to objectify others. They lost the feeling of their humanity through experiencing being forced to shut down their feelings in being traumatized. They might have become possessed due to their trauma and choices. Perhaps they were put in compromising positions where they had little choice but to follow orders, demands, or die, just like I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of this goes on for generations in families, cultures and religions. And the cycles continued of abuse, greed, objectifying and dehumanizing. Yet, feeding them hatred and contempt only adds to their energy. It makes them stronger! Imagine my personal energy and power leaching into them. The hatred, contempt and revenge I attach resonates with their energetics; thus it feeds them, powers them to continue their misaligned and evil ways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part 2 of \u201cThe Questions\u2026\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;will further this topic in answering the group\u2019s questions by innerstanding about compassion towards those who trafficked and abused me, about my projections towards Unconditional Love, the perpetrating roles from Past lives, and the overview from Near Death Experiences (NDE\u2019s). Digesting this three-part series in smaller portions felt more palatable. So many feelings can arise for others with loaded topics as this, especially at this time in the world. Sometimes, it\u2019s important to acknowledge and work with issues more slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With compassion and care in all we experience,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Judy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>More on this topic Compassion, Trafficking and the dynamics of forgiveness in Book 3 of Moving Beyond Revised<\/em><\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themovingbeyondtraumaproject.org\/store\/The-Moving-Beyond-Revised-Book-3-p705810112\">https:\/\/www.themovingbeyondtraumaproject.org\/store\/The-Moving-Beyond-Revised-Book-3-p705810112<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote for Reflection:\u00a0\u201cThe word courage comes from the French word &#8216;coeur&#8217;, which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.&#8221;\u00a0~Alan Cohen The QuestionsQuestions were asked to an online group of people I was participating with a few years ago. 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