No little girl dreams of becoming a sex slave when she grows up. That’s why Tina braves dangerous streets in the middle of the night to reach out to teens that are trapped.
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Tina Frundt Fighting Sex Slavery in Washington D.C.
Tina Frundt says that no little girl dreams of becoming a sex slave when she grows up. That’s why Tina risks her life in the middle of the night to reach out to teens that are trapped. She knows their pain and fear. “The reason why I’m so compelled to do this work is because I’m a survivor of sex trafficking,” Tina says, “and quite honestly, nobody did this for me.”
FTS Freedom Award Winner Tina Frundt in the Media Spotlight
Tina Frundt has always believed in the power of creative thinking — it helped her survive sex trafficking and become a grassroots anti-slavery leader.
Her creativity has recently caught the media spotlight, allowing Tina an opportunity to show a global audience that freedom and recovery are possible for slavery survivors.
You may remember Tina as the 2010 recipient of the Free the Slaves Frederick Douglass Freedom Award. She was 14 when she was lured from her home in Chicago by an read more >
Freedom Award Winner Tina Frundt Makes Headlines!
Last year’s recipient of the Fredrick Douglass Freedom Award, activist Tina Frundt, made headlines when she returned to Cleveland—the place she had been trafficked into sex slavery when she was just a teenager.
Frundt has been active in the fight against the multimillion dollar sex trafficking industry, starting her own anti-slavery non-profit called Courtney’s House—a place where services and resources are provided to survivors of the trade in Washington, D.C.
Frundt’s visit to Cleveland was covered by local newspaper The read more >
FTS’ Kate Rosin on Freedom Award Winner Tina Frundt
Kate Rosin, who assists Free the Slaves at our Washington, D.C. headquarters and frequently contributes to this blog, recently wrote a beautiful article for SGI Quarterly, about 2010 Freedom Award winner Tina Frundt. Here’s an excerpt:
Tina Frundt was 13 when she first met her trafficker. On her way to a neighborhood store in Chicago one day, a young man–maybe 15 years her senior–struck up a conversation. In the weeks and months that followed, read more >
Tina Frundt to Congress: “Every Pimp has a MySpace page”
Craigslist representatives testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on sex trafficking of minors this morning. It was the first time the website made a detailed public statement about the recent take down of their “Adult Services” ads. Craigslist removed these ads under pressure from human rights groups who said they facilitated the sex trafficking of minors.
With 103 other anti-slavery/human trafficking groups, Free the Slaves co-signed a letter sent to Craigslist demanding they take down adult ads on read more >
Free the Slaves’ Freedom Award Winner Tina Frundt on HuffPo!
Tina Frundt is a survivor of childhood sex trafficking, right here in the U.S. Now, through her organization Courtney’s House, she dedicates her life to helping others out of sex slavery. For her work in guiding people to freedom, Free the Slaves has awarded her the Frederick Douglass Freedom Award.
Here is her story of survival. Via Huffington Post:
Tina Frundt says that no little girl dreams of becoming a sex slave when she grows up. That’s why Tina read more >
