Pauline

Pauline is a minor character in Adara's Apostasy. A survivor of sex trafficking, she was raised in a middle-class family in the Washington DC area before being groomed and manipulated into selling sex by a gang member. When a physically abusive member of the gang took over as her pimp, and tried to transport her to Cleveland, she managed to escape and make her way to Stallbrook, where she received help from Shiloh Baptist Church and its Free At Last ministry. While Adara Khan points out that she arrived in Stallbrook before Delbert Graham was appointed police chief, Pauline insists that Graham's policies towards sex work would not have helped her, in spite of evidence that many trafficking victims were helped because of cooperation between Stallbrook's police and the sex worker community.
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