Migrant sex trafficking survivor speaks out: ‘I saw good people die’

Heartbreaking images of minors at the southern border—alone and clutching nothing but a piece of paper—have become tragically familiar. According to border patrol data, since President Biden took office in 2021, nearly 540,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the southern border. Many of these children fall prey to sex traffickers, facing unimaginable conditions and exploitation.

Fox News recently spoke with a 20-year-old sex trafficking survivor, whose identity we agreed to conceal for his safety. He still lives in fear that his captors will find him. Trafficked from South America to Mexico and then across the border, he was finally rescued at the age of 18 and brought to Bob’s House of Hope.

Bob’s House of Hope is the first safe house in the country dedicated specifically to male sex trafficking survivors. The victim shared harrowing details of his experience: trafficked six to eight times a day, beaten, and threatened with death if he dared to speak out. 

“I saw good people die,” he said.

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Bob Williams, the founder of the safe house, was inspired to create this refuge after his own experiences. 

“They just feel that it just happens to girls and women,” Williams said. “And that’s the problem. That’s the stigma that we have to change. The fact is that we believe up to 50% of human trafficking victims are boys and men.”

Bob’s House of Hope welcomes both U.S. citizens and migrants. He works with law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and FBI.

“As a survivor, I said we are going to take anybody because these kids that are migrants are protected under the Federal Sex Trafficking Act,” Williams explained.

Shockingly, many victims at Bob’s House of Hope have been trafficked by their own families, viewed as nothing more than dollar signs.

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“Most of these kids are trafficked by somebody they know, whether it’s an uncle, a neighbor, or someone else,” Williams noted.

Williams describes a disturbing cycle: many migrants are labor trafficked during the day and then forced into sex trafficking at night.

A common question he says he hears is, “Why can’t the boys escape?” He explains that not only are they threatened with violence, but they are also controlled…