Meet the Characters of The Secret Sand Circle: Week Two Pt.2
This week you are meeting three of the five patients Dr. Jo Harkins is writing about in her book.
Today: Sixteen year old Solana
Solana is a Cuban teenager who has been caught up in a human trafficking ring, operating out of Buffalo. Growing up in deplorable and impoverished circumstances, she is easy prey for the smooth-talking trafficking recruiters and their promises of a better life in America. Yet where she ends up is trapped in a dilapidated apartment building on Buffalo’s lower west side, working in the dark and threatening shadows of sex trading.
Jo becomes involved with Solana after reading about the arrest of the trafficking organizers. Outraged, she contacts Buffalo’s Social Services Department and offers counseling help. A team leader on the case asks her to work with Solana, describing her as, “…the youngest and most impacted…” of all those trafficked.
Between their language barrier and the Cuban girl’s complete disorientation, Jo struggles to find ways to reach Solana and assure her that she is now safe. Yet the world of fear and mistrust into which the teen has been thrust takes hold of her young mind, causing her to spiral into painful isolation, And pulling Jo into the shadows with her.
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