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‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’: Fans are shocked to realize church could be a hotspot for human trafficking

Fans were stunned to know churches are a trafficker's favorite spot for scouting potential victims

The latest episode of ‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’ left fans feeling shocked and horrified when they learned the disturbing experiences of human trafficking survivors. Yung Joc, and his fiancé Kendra decided to raise awareness about the plaguing issue of trafficking in Atlanta, so they arranged a panel discussion with not only survivors of human trafficking, but also a former trafficker on the panel.
 
While the experiences shared by the survivors sent a chill down the spine, the things that the former trafficker revealed were equally shocking. One of the survivors on the panel, named Carla Miles recounted her terrible past as a victim of trafficking on the panel. She shared how for twenty years, she had to sleep with nearly twenty men in a day and had over fifteen abortions while she was in her second trimester.

What had the audience flinching of fear was when she revealed that she was forced into trafficking by a church’s mega pastor’s daughter.

Another panelist who was a former trafficker revealed that her favorite place for scouting young boys and girls was the church. When fans heard how traffickers got their victims from church and how a mega pastor’s daughter pushed a woman into trafficking, they were stunned. A fan tweeted, “Wow!! Now I never thought or would think that the traffickers also targeted the church #LHHATL.”

Another fan wrote, “Not the church!  #LHHATL.” “That recruiting girls from church shook me.  #LHHATL,” commented a fan.
 
Another shocked fan shared, “She said as a sex trafficker her favorite place to recruit was church?!?!?! Damn. #LHHATL.” “Omg!!!!! These sex trafficking stories on #LHHATL  awful!!!!..this lady said the pastor's daughter brought her into it!!.. yikes!!!..I always said church ppl can't be trusted chile,” expressed a concerned fan. Another fan tweeted, “The sex traffickers would recruit women from the church?!? And one of the ladies was drafted by a mega pastor's daughter?!? WOW!! 😯#lhhatl.”

“Mega pastors daughter oh hell naw I wish that lady told the name of this daughter because she could still be trafficking women out of her dads church that is sick scoping out the church for victims #LHHATL,” wrote a fan.
 
You can catch all-new episodes of ‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’ Season 9 every Monday at 8/7c only on VH1.