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anolegion ago

That WaPo article is very strange indeed. First, Monica is described as a sex worker activist, and her US friends quoted in the article are a BDSM prostitute from Denver and another prostitute from RI. Yet this sex worker activist worked full time at a private pre-kindergarten-through-12 school in Haiti.

She was also a research fellow writing an article on a very famous, well researched and shocking book by Siddhart Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009). The WaPo, calling this book 'controversial' (it isn't, at all, on a factual basis) says she was 'critiquing it', according to her professor, who callled her brilliant even if she worked for two years (!) on this as yet still unpublished article.

What the WaPo seems to be saying is that Petersen, far from being a sex trafficking investigator, was actually critical of people fighting sex trafficking. She was "an advocate for sex workers who disdained the rhetoric of people she considered anti-trafficking zealots".

What the fuck? How is fighting sex trafficking even a controversial subject? Why did Petersen take two years to not even finish an article critical of one of the best, well researched books on the billions of dollars industry of sex trafficking and slavery?

Why does a sex worker activist work in a kindergarten in Haiti, where (underage) sex trafficking has become endemic, and writing a pro-sex trafficking article in her spare time?

So many anomalies, this is making my head spin.

noElbittowers ago

That WaPo article is very strange indeed. First, Monica is described as a sex worker activist, and her US friends quoted in the article are a BDSM prostitute from Denver and another prostitute from RI. Yet this sex worker activist worked full time at a private pre-kindergarten-through-12 school in Haiti.

Yup. I don't believe that lady was good friends with Monica. OR if she was, she was probably paid off or only loosely acquainted. What she says completely contradicts the family and friends who were close to her. Why would this so called friend disrespect and contradict Monica Peterson's own mother?

noElbittowers ago

What the WaPo seems to be saying is that Petersen, far from being a sex trafficking investigator, was actually critical of people fighting sex trafficking. She was "an advocate for sex workers who disdained the rhetoric of people she considered anti-trafficking zealots".

What the fuck? How is fighting sex trafficking even a controversial subject? Why did Petersen take two years to not even finish an article critical of one of the best, well researched books on the billions of dollars industry of sex trafficking and slavery?

I agree with you on your observation that the WaPo article is fishy, but on this part I just want to offer some insight.

Sometimes survivors of sexual abuse are critical of academics with a savior complex. Oftentimes people claiming to "help" look down on the very people who they claim to be helping. In addition, there is a lot to be said about hypocrisy in laws and loopholes which don't serve as much protection for survivors of human trafficking in the sex trade.

It makes logical sense that Monica would be critical of those "fighting sex trafficking" if she were fully aware of the Clinton Foundation's ties to so called anti trafficking initiatives, in addition to her shady dealings in a lot of ways.

Don't get me wrong, you are completely right about the WaPo article being completely faulty.... but on that specific point they are faulty because they left out information pertinent as to why she would be critical of those supposedly fighting human trafficking.

A lot of what Monica Peterson has written herself serve as the biggest clue as to what she was onto. Back in 2014 Hillary advocated for urgent action expanding Correction Corporation of America prisons to accommodate the influx of migrant children. A critical analysis of this involvement is something the "alt-right" seems to miss, because they are stuck in the partisan paradigm and are conditioned to demonize migrant children. There are so many leads in Monica Peterson's own writing, and not enough people following these leads. https://archive.is/M3cTp

charmeuse ago

I agree, something is very wrong with the Wapo story. Doesn't make sense, especially in light of no returned body, no autopsy, and now, mother's admission that family is puzzled, as well. And her Professor being former DynCorp? Isn't this reeking of the Agency?