Sycamore Farm is on a mission is to help sexually exploited and trafficked women find freedom through the love of Jesus.
Why we are here
Kentucky ranks as one of the highest in the nation for childhood abuse and neglect cases.
If they have no one to look after them, who will they turn to? Where will they go? How will they learn what is right and wrong, about love, and boundaries? Who will keep pushing them to do their best, finish school or help them get through rough times and understand life’s obstacles?
1/3 of sex trafficking victims enter “the life” as a child, with the average age of 12-14 and most being groomed by familiar people known as friends or people they believe are boyfriends.
Over half of all sex-trafficked victims are trafficked by familiar people. These are people they trust and know to be family or friends of the family. As that abused child ages, they understand their relationships with their abuser will never change, or it is normal and they can only make the best of a bad situation and that fighting will do them no good.
Traffickers vary their tactics often tailoring them to the unique VULNERABILITIES of each victim- using force, fraud, and coercion to keep them in “the life”.
They LIE and give false promises to lure them in.
They ISOLATE their victims which creates more reliance on them and thus more CONTROL, to EXPLOIT, ABUSE and INTIMIDATE. They MANIPULATE them to believe they deserve the treatment they get, THREATEN to harm them or their loved ones, as well as BEAT, TORTURE, intentionally get them addicted to drugs, and ABUSE them.