Welcome in everyone welcome to no judgment here I am your host Tish Ross and this is the podcast I’m so glad that you guys are here wow this is such an important message today and you know one of the things that I want to say is this isn’t for young listeners ears parents
This is a lot of really great information for you um I believe that uh anyone 18 and older can listen however uh parents you really need to hone in because um children who are far younger than 18 are being affected by um art subject matter today we are talking about sex trafficking
Human trafficking abuse and Angela Thorne has has just so graciously agreed to come on and share her experience with us you know I’ve had a couple of other guests come on and share one was actually a young lady who uh her name was the radio uh show that she was on
With me uh she went by Miracle because it’s a miracle that she escaped um the way that she did and um another mom who came on whose daughter unfortunately was abducted and um I think what makes it even more sad um is that she was autistic and she was murdered and so um
Her mom actually brings a lot of awareness to this uh immediate area on sex trafficking and human trafficking um so we are not immune our children are not immune none of us are and um I’m going to welcome in some guests and then I’m going to bring Angela Thorne to the
Panel so first I want to say thank you guys so much for coming in Joshua Sherman’s Family Farm Mary and bimler thank you for being here there’s Kevin hiking with Jackie boy I appreciate you being here Rebecca touched by YN thank you for being here ma’am actually
Rebecca I need to get in touch with you because I believe um Monday is probably going to be a good day for um us to get together so I will message you probably not until tomorrow um Linda Dobson thank you for being here full-blown country is here hello my
Sweet friend lean Gunther thank you for being here I appreciate you guys and also if you could uh if you have a platform where you can share this please do so it is so much important information um again Angela’s going to share her personal experience and then
Her way that um The Journey began out of this um she brings us Hope and Faith and Healing and um ways to learn how to trust again and I’m going to say that for all of us that are believers we know that the only way to healing and trust
And love is our faith through Jesus Christ and she’s going to share that as well andelle Homestead thank you for being here please share this out guys on your platform I appreciate it Samantha thanks for coming in I’m so glad that you are here and thank you to my mods um
I’m glad that you are here welcoming other guests that I may miss once we get started I appreciate you Dave from goat days thank you I see that you’re here and you’re listening I love you too there’s Rachel back to good thank you for coming in hi Nana nine Acres Farm
I’m glad that you are here I’m so grateful to see you guys here there’s Johnny from Gillum Farms welcome in thank you for sharing I see that you did thank you Samantha I appreciate that um there’s Dogman Dogman thanks for coming in and you guys all have different platforms different uh followers and
Subscribers than I do so again um this is a very important topic to share so um before hello graceon fire I see you thank you for coming in I’m glad you’re watching on the TV Co beans get to get a good glimpse a good view so before I bring
Angela in I’m just going to read this Angela Thorne is the founder is a Founder she’s a CEO a speaker and an author Angela is a lived experience expert and consultant in the anti-trafficking field over the past four years she has dedicated herself to empowering communities to prevent sexual
Exploitation and human trafficking her expertise lies in building trauma and formed community and congregations she also focuses her efforts on cultivating trauma informed pastoral teams she aims to equip faith-based organizations to extend their care beyond their walls nurturing healing in their communities Beyond speaking she leads the nonprofit
Moses movement as its founder and CEO where the mission is to educate equip and Empower communities to prevent sexual exploitation and human trafficking she’s dedicated to creating lasting change through generational momentum by preventing exploitation at its roote I’ve uh put all of our social Handles in the description and I’m going
To bring her in again thank you guys for coming in Cheryl guess I see you thank you for being here there’s a lot of you guys here and I appreciate it all right without further Ado we’re going to bring in Angela Thorne There She is welcome in Angela I
Am so blessed that you said yes to coming on and sharing your story um before we get started if you just would share a little bit about yourself if you’re married you have children and then um share your experience your personal experience with sexual trafficking absolutely thank you so much
For having me on here Tish it’s such an honor to be a part of the show it’s an incredible platform that you’ve created for people like me and I just have to honor you for that and uh everything you do for this community so uh I hold the most important titles which
Is wife and mother I love those roles more than anything else that I do I know in my bio I don’t talk about that at all but you only get so many words so so thank you for allowing me to to talk a little bit about that part of my
Life because it is mostly who I am and what I do I’m a stay-at-home mom of two children I homeschool uh and I’m a homemaker first and foremost um my husband works full-time very hard and owns his own business so we’re busy busy around here um we have been happily married for
Almost seven years we’ve been together 10 years in 2024 and um and we are aiming for our third child right now and we are just praying and hopeful that that will come to pass sooner than later yes anticipation is so stressful for me I know I know how old are your other
Littles I have so they’re all going to be six years apart if we’re successful so I have an 11-year-old a 5-year-old and then of course we’re trying for a third so oh fantastic well I join in prayer that you God knows and he’ll uh definitely bless amen either way for
Sure so yes um so you come in on a topic that I’ve had uh not just the two guests that I’ve I’ve spoken about or shared about there have been multiple people that have joined and shared their um almost or their um short encounters or uh escapes thank God yes um and loss
Unfortunately um and like the bio says you are a lived experience you have lived and experienced sexual human trafficking um as well as addiction and abuse which is something that we talk a lot about on here we have a lot of um parents a lot of uh addicts a lot of recovering
Addicts a lot of um addicts alcoholics that are on the fence or are just struggling in their journey in the midst of it and um you know God meets us where we’re at and uh like my title says there’s no judgment here we are here to band together as God’s witnesses to
Share our stories and our testimony when we are um called to do so so that um others will receive some sort of Hope and a glimpse into how good God is and to seek him um for healing and uh so that they too can share their testimonies so um Angela go ahead and
Share a little bit about your personal experience um in sexual and human trafficking I know that when we chatted you mentioned um that you know we all have traumas beginning somewhere um for me my personal trauma was when my children were little or when when I was little
And my dad was a raging alcoholic so there’s always something that sort of becomes um maybe not who you are but is a part of you until you work through it right we can’t move forward until we work through and um so tell us a little bit
About that sure and I mean you’re you’re totally right there and what I tell people when I engage in this type of conversation is the fact that pretty much everybody walking the planet currently has been through a traumatic event not everybody deals with complex PT P PTSD however um trauma is trauma
And and you do have to face it and and work through in order to get on the other side um but in regards to the topic at hand I can start from the beginning of what led me to become vulnerable to this uh humans rights issue essentially I was born into a
Family of four I I became the fourth child I have three older siblings uh my mother and father uh are Christians I was raised in a Christian CHR home we were raised Southern Baptist my father is um a law enforcement officer and uh he’s about to hit 50
Years of serving and my mother was in the medical field for many moons she just retired uh last year so uh they were both White Collar we lived the normal white collar life it it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary um we dealt with poverty at
Some level just because my mom was stay at home for a while uh while my dad worked Around the Clock um but outside of that it was a pretty normal common home so at the age of five I was playing a game with a couple of my neighbors who
Were around the same age as me the boy was one year younger girl was one year older and she was uh conducting a roleplay game that involved U molestation and that was my first experience of having my boundaries crossed against my will not understanding truly what was going on
However my body knew it was wrong my body knew it was violated and that was truly the beginning of becoming vulnerable uh unfortunately this occurrence became very normal in my life uh in common rather I wouldn’t say normal it felt normal to me but it was becoming normalized because it kept
Happening and not just with this particular person it was I was having sleepovers and it kept happening with the girls that I was hanging out with and so it was girls my age that were perpetrating against me and in my adult life I learned that it’s very common for
Children to reenact things that were happening to them so what Le so what I am led to believe now at this point is perhaps they were being lested in their homes or somewhere else and they were just reenacting that on me and sure I know for two of them they actually came
Forward and told me absolutely like that’s exactly what was happening to me and we thought it was normal we thought this is what kids do like this is just what people do um so that is really what began of in the realm of being vulnerable to this issue uh the next
Thing was uh in early 2000s I was probably around the age of um maybe late 90s we had internet somewhere around that time and I was playing around on a program called lime wire that we used to use to download music and um I clicked
On a file it opened up and it was a porn video and so that was my first exposure to pornography I I really think I was around the age of eight um I’ve kind of uh dwindled it down writing my book I have to figure out the dates and times
And things like that and uh I came to the conclusion I was around the age of eight when I was first exposed to pornography and my brain instantly became addicted and I came back to that video more times than I can even tell you over years uh the same video because
It was the only place I knew to go get it I didn’t know else to find it back in that time it was not readily available like it is today so um that was the second thing that layered on top of that sexual abuse that uh led me to be vulnerable and and
Desensitized uh to uh this type of thing uh and then as I got older and started going to House parties and things like that I I was already in this space of thinking this behavior is completely normal so when I was first um approached by an older College uh student at a
House party that my brother brought me to I sorry I skipped over a huge huge thing let me back up a little bit my parents ended up divorcing while I was 10 years old and and that’s truly when when I guess the straw that broke the
Camels back um for me in this realm and so I I went from having both parents in the home you know to to being in a single parent home where my mother started to work um also around the clock to support four children uh who were
Involved in sports um mind you I was in cheerleading I was in dance my brothers you know were in football music my sister did cheer gymnastics all the things uh I was on the cheerleading squad at school um I was heavily involved in my community uh
Just keep that in mind as I tell my story so after my parents divorce my brothers were then left to watch over me and my sister for the most part because my mom was working in the O and ER and was always on call and just being out of
The house all the time so my older brother at this point was a senior in high school he took me to a college party I believe it was a frat party um instructed me on the way there you’re 21 you’re a dance major that’s all you say to people don’t open your mouth
Otherwise do not drink stay to yourself let me have fun and I I was 12 at this time so we get there and of course I’m like let’s go I was ready to have fun and see what college life was all about because unfortunately I just was already
Familiar with the scene and so so I was very comfortable pretty quickly I I reflect on that having 11-year-old I’m like I could never imagine never imagine my child in that position ever she’s so innocent it’s just you know it’s so hard to wrap your head around even for me and
Myself it was me that it happened to and it’s still hard for me to wrap my head around it so here I am in the garage of this house K you know kids partying everywhere and I was approached by this older man he was a man uh probably in his mid 20s um
And he asked me if I wanted to have a drink and I was like you know I really can’t we got engaged in conversation he was very complimentative told me I was pretty couldn’t believe I didn’t have a boyfriend this that and the other thing you know I was bettering me up invited
Me to go inside to dance we started doing that and then he kept offer he was very um persistent in offering me a drink and so I finally caved I said okay let you know I’ll have one so he gave me a shot of what I believe was mccormic
Sadka and I just remember it was straight rubbing alcohol and later on when I heavily drank I I remembered the taste and W was definitely definitely along those lines and um I think I ended up having three or four of those and and I got to be feeling very ill and I asked
Him if he could take me to lay down somewhere and he took up on that opportunity to take me to his bedroom and and uh essentially started his grooming uh what turned into almost two years of uh creating what is now called uh child sexual uh abuse material uh
Csam um and it’s what was formerly considered child pornography um and so he was filming me doing certain things and uh later groomed me to start recruiting my friends to come and do the same thing and so that went on till I was about 13 and a half close to 14 years
Old um and until I found out it was being distributed um and then I became hyper aware of what was actually going on in the weight of what I was doing um and I was terrified like the only thing I can remember being scared of is my siblings finding out because there was
Mutual friends going on you know LEC where I grew up is not backland was not a big town it was very small town Vibes and uh everybody knew everybody and especially with our father being who he was um he was high up in the rankings at
That point and it was just you know people knew our family and uh I it be it it sent me down a very dark path at that point and instead of seeking help or telling somebody I just went more into isolation uh more into trying to live
This double life and hiding that part of me and um ultimately that led me to attempt suicide for the first time at 14 I was unsuccessful obviously and thankfully and um I was I had just stuck the blade into my wrist and my sister I was ring
In the closet my sister actually walked in the room she still has no idea that she saved my life but she did cuz when she walked in I you know dropped it freaked out was like oh my gosh and then my logical brain you know started to
Come in and I was like what am I doing uh I ended up getting caught the next day at school when a teacher saw my wrist wrapped up and um sent me to the nurse and the one thing my dad did was took me straight to a therapist um
Didn’t engage in conversation with me at all um I guess he just didn’t know how and uh didn’t know what to say and at that point I was pretty Savvy already I was very quick on my feet I knew what to say to the therapist to get out of it as
Quickly as possible it did not help um and and directly after that I just went deeper into alcoholism deeper into addiction um I turned 15 uh the summer were going into my sophomore year in high school uh my first day at school I made the cheer squad uh two of the
Cheerleaders uh took me to school that morning and they were doing cocaine on the dashboard and I tried it for the first time and immediately became addicted and it was just a new high that I never experienced before prior to that it was just marijuana and alcohol so so
That’s when I officially became an addict to cocaine and uh it was not long after just that first experience that I went I mean Head Over Heels into that addiction which ultimately led me to my first sex trafficking experience where I went with a boy’s brother who I was
Dating at the time a drug dealer’s house and he invited me he was like you want to skip skip school go with me to go get a bag or whatever and I was like sure why not and uh on the way there I don’t remember any conversation uh I just remember getting
There and the video you shared that’s the experience I was talking about on there I know it’s kind of obscure that was purposefully obscure um but uh we got there we get in there and I immediately know I was in trouble but the addiction overruled that
That gut feeling and I stayed I didn’t try to get out of it plus there were guns all over men that were very scary and uh I just went with it uh a guy came from out of the back room and called me and and I look at the boy that I came
With and he encouraged me he’s like yeah go go go so I went into the back room with this man and he raped me and at the end of it threw a giant bag of coke at me and told me to keep my mouth shut and
I could take it so I did that’s exactly what I did and I’m gonna stop you there for for just a split second um so one of the things that one of the reasons why one of the reasons there are many but that I’m so grateful that you are
Sharing your story is because you still lived at home while all of this was going on correct absolutely with a police officer as a father Yes yes and I mean because a lot of different things and and and this is one of the things that I’m very ignorant to is that I
Thought um you know that children that were sex traffic um were either abducted or were runaways I yes you know never I didn’t I never knew that this could be going on while the child is still living at home and it’s very common very gosh and I have a lot of
Parents that are on here that are listening one earlier was like oh wow you know um because your dad is a cop and and and he he didn’t know anything he was clueless didn’t know anything in terms of the the sex trafficking or anything like that no idea no no idea
And unfortunately we haven’t really open that narrative at this point either um he’s heard my story I mean I’m very public with it at this point but um I can’t imagine how it would feel at that at that point as a parent and you know I
Give them all the grace in the world to process it however they need to and handle it however they need to and I’ve come to terms and healed enough and forgave enough to just be okay with that but one thing I want to mention right
Now with what you said is um yes it’s very common for for children who are dealing with this to uh be groomed into handling going home and just living this double life but nowadays it’s more so common on the phone and social media and uh what what access traffickers have to Children
Through this thing right here that’s where it’s at nowadays and uh that’s where it’s most common to take place where the grooming takes place and then eventually uh coer ing them into meeting them in public somewhere and a lot of those abductions that we’re hearing about like on on the news nowadays
Aren’t actually abductions they were they had a relationship with these people through you know who they thought they were through social media or some form of app that you can direct message and and so they had actually formed some type of relationship some type of trust
To get that kid to meet them somewhere uh and then eventually yes they’re like okay you’re going with us and then they put him into that life but this kid is probably thinking I’m gonna go get a uh a modeling job or I’m gonna become famous like they there’s these empty
Promises that are given to them to lure them in and uh later on in my story you’ll hear that that was relevant for me back when I was a a young adult so my goodness well I wanted just to ask you or to to share that before I forgot
Because I know there are a lot of parents that are listening right now in fact some comments uh for you that they’re so sorry that you had to go through this and but that they praise God and thank Jesus that you uh made it alive um one mom Samantha says I’ve been
Blessed with what you have to say thank you so much for sharing uh fullblown country says unbelievable thank God you’re still here and able to even talk about this yes that’s that’s huge um Rachel with back to good says just makes you wonder how many kids have gotten
Themselves into this position and too scared to admit to anyone to ask absolutely yes for help oh my goodness so um Angela so we we left off where so the guy throws you a bag of cocaine and says shut up and don’t tell anybody about this and you can keep it yes uh
And I’m led to believe the boy that brought me there was well aware of what the what this situation was going to be maybe he didn’t I’ll I’ll probably never know that but it continued nonetheless uh this became a a normal thing that we did every week and um I
Complied uh to feed my addiction and and my friend’s addiction you know I became the source of you know the party so w um it only continued for you know timelines are really hard for me in this area as it is most for people who deal with
Complex BTSD it’s yes uh uh you have to really dig deep to come up with some type of timeline and so I’m not entirely sure how long it went on but looking at when I ended up moving with my mom it was about six months and so I eventually
Became so careless and Reckless that I was skipping school and staying just gone um and to a point where my dad eventually caught on you you know something something’s not right and uh he he let me lie to him and he ended up catching me red-handed with drugs um it
Was not in any situation where I was being trafficked or anything of that nature but I was with a friend and a couple of older boys with I think at the time we had in our possession for sure marijuana U I don’t I don’t think we had
Anything else in our possession so he picks me up uh and get back home and uh he gave me some time to collect myself I was so gone on this that and the other I think that day I did meth Coke and marijuana uh so as you can only imagine
My brain was gone but uh he told me to come to his room when I was prepared to so when I did I went under a very intense interrogation and uh I ended up giving up all the names that I knew uh the location of that house that all that was going
On and uh I was pretty much scared for my life after that because I knew the severity of what was going on but still at that point I did not outcry what was actually happening to me uh because the the most of the reason why and I’ll give
A little insight to the psyche behind it is I was thinking that I was choosing to do all this so this was all me and my fault like I was not being coerced into doing these things like these were my personal choices and there was so much shame so
Much shame and guilt wrapped up in all of that that that’s why I didn’t say anything it was that simple um and I just didn’t have the words to to just say it so that went un unsaid and I ended up getting basically I tell people
House arrest I mean I was not allowed to do anything or go anywhere at school I had to check in at the principal’s office after every class um I got kicked off the cheer squad I went from having a massive social life to zero uh I did not
Get put into rehab I did not get any type of uh Psychotherapy it was everything I needed I didn’t get and so um it it was it was really hard it was probably one of the hardest Seasons as a teenager uh go that part I would say that was actually
Harder and worse on me than all the other things that I was going through believe it or not um because we are metant for connection and especially teenage girls and yes when we don’t have that it’s like end of the world so I eventually um ended up moving with my
Mom to the DFW area after about six months of that that condition uh I just couldn’t take it anymore and plus I missed my mom she had moved away uh when she met a man earlier uh and and I want it to stay because of friends and
Everything you know so I moved with her to this area which I’m currently in still and uh jumped right back into the drug scene and uh I was in and out of exploitive situations uh that I purposely got myself into I I I can definitely say I
Made those choices uh just to keep feeding my addiction um I came out of addiction at 16 I had a very Divine encounter uh I know that now then it was very scary um but I almost overdosed I think uh I still have no idea but I was
Close I hadn’t slept for three days at this point I was a meth addict and I hadn’t slept for three days I was staying the night at a friend’s house and I think I fell asleep and and or hallucinating I’m not sure what happened but I saw like a demonic figure come out
Of the wall and possess me and when that happened I screamed and was cussing profanities like I couldn’t stop doing that I was so terrified and it was like middle of the night at her home and she was like hitting me so I would shut up because she was scared her parents were
Going to get woken up and I just went into the bathroom and I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I didn’t even recognize who I was anymore sorry makes me a little emotional no it’s I understand I understand and at 16 years old it’s it’s very difficult to process that and
Absolutely but I remember making this decision I looked at myself and I said you know what I’m done like I’m completely done I’m never going to do this again and I didn’t I never touched it again so wow I I told my mom the next day
Straight up I said Mom I’m a meth addict and I don’t want to be anymore and so she started taking me to church and um and I I found the Lord again and um I still drank and but I it it was very seldom um but I I totally cut off all of
Those people and I tried I tried as best as I could to get my life together I got into cosmetology school started going to church regularly I was there like 3 days a week um got on the choir it was just you know I I was doing what I could to
Change my life and I was very successful until the summer going into my senior year I met an older boy he was into all that stuff and you’ll see this as a pattern it’s you made a boy I get into all of that and um he was quite older than me and
Lived basically in a drug house and so I ended up graduating at 17 and moving in with him and went down uh a really really dark path with um being in the commercial sex industry so strip clubs uh prostituting and uh some pornic exposure uh and so that’s
Kind of what the commercial sex industry looks like so uh I had through that time from age 17 to 24 I had about four or five different traffickers um I attempted to get out of the life um three times that I know for sure where I remember making that
Conscious Choice like I was when I was 16 like I’m done I went out I Tred to get out try to get my life turned around but I just didn’t have the proper res a I didn’t have the language to know this is what I need healing from and B I just
Didn’t have the resources at all to heal and so I just kept going back to what was normal to me and what what was comfortable for me unfortunately So eventually um in 2014 I was able to escape two traffickers and leave the life for good when I met my
Husband wow oh oh my gosh and so you escaped your uh you were able to escape traffickers in 2014 and and you met your husband the same year it is it’s when I met him that I got out so July of 2014 I met him just by divinely um I was actually
Working across the street as a bartender so I always held like a normal job in conjunction with all this other stuff that I was in to uh so I was bartending at one place and he worked across the street from me and I got off of a shift
Like it was like 1:30 a.m. uh I worked special events so I got out early and my friend was over there at his bar and where he was bartending and he he was my bartender and served me drinks and uh it was like 30 minutes before last call and
He just approached me and gave me his number he was like I I don’t do this he’s like I know that sounds cliche and I swear to you I don’t but uh you’re beautiful and I would love to take you on a DAT and I was like yeah you know I
Okay I was not interested at all whatsoever and um we ended up going to hang out we’ll come to find out my friend’s guy that she was with that’s his best friend and so when we got back to her apartment he was like hey we should invite Derek and I was
Like okay whatever and he ended up coming over and we hit it off like immediately um later on like they passed out drunk those two our friends and we were just laughing at him and making fun of them we were just goofing off and I remember he took my glasses off and
Looked me in my eyes and just goes you’re just one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen and I have never like up to that point I never had man tell me that I never had a boy tell me that it it shifted something for me it
It made me go wow he didn’t try to kiss me didn’t make a move on me like we were with together we were together all night ended up leaving the next morning we even slept in the same bed and he didn’t touch me and I was like what is this
Creature over there what is this even me like I don’t know what this is like I’ve never up to that point experienced something like that so uh God knew that’s all I needed to know what my worth was yes and I finally the next day
It was like okay so we ended up hanging out again I Unleashed every trick in the book that I had to test this man didn’t phase him like I’m telling him stories of things that I did and like just coming on to him like crazy and he’s
Like whoa lady like you know like I was like okay it didn’t face him at all he still was interested he still ued me and he ended up going on a twoe trip with his family that was pre-planned and everything and so during that two weeks
He was away is when I made my escape from my two traffickers um one of them was a cartel gang member and the other one is a white collar businessman they uh both were trafficking me in different ways and uh wow the the businessman you know he was more it was
Straight business you know okay like do your thing do what you got to do um and the other one was well I say that very lightly I’m sorry that’s it’s it was way more deep than that but um he ended up stalking me for years and he’s still I
Think out there trying to keep Taps on me but so it’s not just cut and dry never never is my goodness but it it wasn’t as dramatic as my other experience where when I told him I want it out and I was done and uh he actually
Tried to kill me he put his hands around my neck and the statistics are so crazy like if the hands make the neck make it around the neck then I forget what the percentage is but it’s like in the 90 or 80 percentile that you’re not going to
Live uh well as he’s trying to strangle me um for time’s sake I didn’t get to tell the whole story but I did already have a daughter at this time she’s one and a half and uh she me she and I live together and anyways as he’s doing this
She enters the room and when she walked into the room he turned ghost white got off of me and just sprinted out of my house and I never saw him again and so I just call her my guardian angel she had a presence on her that scared whatever he was under the
Influence of and I never saw him again never heard of him again like he was just I actually Googled him a few months ago and found out he’s serving life in prison for murder oh my goodness W he actually murdered his dad yeah so um yeah it’s it’s wild it’s it’s it’s a
Crazy crazy story so wow but after that you know we we continue to date we actually ended up moving in together after three months of dating because I got evicted um because when you leave leave the life you have I had I had no money I had and I was actually under a
Debt bondage with this businessman like you owe me all this money now and uh so every penny that I made as a bartender I was having to having to give to him you know this is my mindset at the time sure eventually after Derrick and I dated for
A while he’s like okay like no you know oh this man anything like you’re done okay so anyhow we ended up moving in together uh and we’ve just been together since we’ve been through the ringer we’ve been through the fire we’ve almost divorced several times you know our marriage has been nothing but
Hard because of everything I went through but one of the key points I want to share with you all is I did not know I was a survivor of sex trafficking until 2020 I married him in 2017 you know I I met him 2014 we married in 2017 we had a
Child together we had this life and I did not come to the realization I did not connect to the language until 2020 when I watched the Epstein docu series on Netflix and heard the testimonies of the other women uh that were on that do docu series to go holy crap I look I
Remember looking at Derek and going these things have happened to me like I’ve been through every single like a little bit and piece of each of their stories like yeah that happened to me that happened to me that happened to me that happened to me oh my gosh I’m a
Survivor of sex trafficking holy moly and I was already like deep into the work I was advocating for survivors like I still I was in in that space and I still did not make the connection until I heard those testimonies and that’s when I just knew my life’s purpose was
To share my testimony to by the grace of God hopefully to to get others out and to help them heal and get the language to heal and to just know that they’re not alone and this does happen to people and and and I just knew it was my life’s
Work I immediately knew um and jumped right into it I ended up launching Moses movement the next year so wow and uh tell everyone about um the Moses movement um I have all of your social media your websites or so social Handles in the description if anybody wants to
Go and check um Angela’s uh sites out they’re amazing very informative a lot of information um but tell those that are listening before we have to hop off a little bit about the Moses movement sure so like I said I founded it uh September of
2021 uh I have not done like a hard launch yet I’m still working on the programs because they are so extensive and intricate and Innovative and I’m cannot wait for the moment that I have the funding to launch uh cuz that’s really the only thing keeping me back
Right now um but my mission it was in my bio it’s it’s um to educate equip and Empower communities to prevent sexual exploitation and human trafficking and I will be doing that by hopefully by the grace of God always uh catching it before it even happens like that’s where
In my experience of healing and finding resources and being in the anti-trafficking space for as long as I have now I see where the gaps are and it is it is organization sole mission to prevent it like a lot of organizations have a piece of what they do dedicated
To prevention but there is not an organization out there right now just solely to prevent um so all resources going to prevention so I was like well I’ll take it sign me up God make me the Pioneer let’s go so I am currently working on a program that I am
Praying strongly that I will be able to create a Stage production that will be a program schools launch and uh it will be just like a an assembly type program uh that we will bring into middle school and high school and uh and this will tell the story of three different
Survivors three most common types of trafficking because there are different types of sex trafficking familial uh a lot of the times like the high highest percentage of children that get uh recovered from a sex trafficking situation came from foster care so it’ll tell the story of a foster care Survivor
And then I’ll tell my story so it’ll give three different perspectives of how somebody can get groomed how what looking what it looks like to be in the life and uh ways to escape the life and then we will also so at the end of this
Program have a team on site that can help uh of course we’ll have law enforcement we’ll have therapists we’ll have Advocates on site um and then the week prior to this program we will train uh staff and administrative staff uh on that school campus uh to be able to
Respond because I know the reality is it might be way later that somebody wants to come forward and say you know I need help or I need to get out or I know somebody so uh just really innovative this type of thing does not exist and I
Think it will make such a huge difference in this world if we can get something like this out there absolutely another thing I offer is just something like this where I speak and share my story and then I have a few workshops that I I love to bring in churches to
Organizations businesses really anything this happens everywhere so anywhere you want to bring me in to to share I am available well I am so grateful that you said yes to come on and share um with us and my goodness My Eyes Are Open even wider in terms of being a
Little bit more um informed and uh well informed by what you have shared and and quickly let me ask you this um who is God to you what is your relationship like with God I know that you um in your bio that also said that you want to try to you know cultivate
And inform and um you know pastors and churches to um you know one of the things that I see in in a lot of uh churches is not that they’re turning a blind eye to it I don’t think I don’t know they just don’t understand it they
Don’t understand it and so they don’t almost um shy away from having anything you know anything like that in sure you know a church but it is very much needed but tell me about your relationship with the Lord your personal relationship with the Lord sure so God Jesus Christ and Holy
Spirit uh are my best friends I see them in different ways you know God the father he’s the father I never had uh Jesus Christ is my friend he’s my BFF uh my Confidant uh holy spirit is my comforter he is who gets me through every day I seek Holy Spirit in
Everything that I do I’m am constantly moving by the spirit not by flesh and I just know that I’m better served that way I am able to achieve everything that I face uh living that way uh doesn’t mean I don’t fall to flesh you know I’m not perfect by any means however right
But that’s my that’s my that’s my will I I Just Surrender myself every single moment every single day I’m in constant prayer I just I don’t think I don’t believe by just one pray prayer a day or anything like that I’m just in constant prayer constant conversation with the
Lord and I seek Him in all I do and um it’s it’s served me well to this point and I thank him uh for all that he’s brought me out of and I’m just empowered by his spirit and uh I know that he has given me the authority to uh deliver
People heal people through Jesus Christ’s name and uh and he has uh allowed me to see such incredible Miracles it’s just I just my faith is so strong and it’s unwavered and unshakable because of what he’s allowed me to witness and uh it’s just my heart of hearts to to I have two
Separate thing you know I have my Moses movement going on but I also have Angela Thorn Ministries and and that’s the other part of me and I know we didn’t have time to talk about that tonight but uh I’d be happy to come back and we could
Tell for sure my goodness but but my heart is to transform the church uh one heart at a time uh through sharing my testimony and just uh surrendering myself as a vessel to let Holy Spirit take over and do what he has to do and so far when I’ve allowed that when the
Platform allows me to I’ve seen uh Deliverance I’ve seen healing uh immediate healings when I lay hands it’s it’s incredible and and I’m just here for it uh I love uh prophesying I I do have the gift of the prophetic and I I love praying over people prophesying all
The all the things I’m just all about it my goodness my goodness well there and I want to say this um one of the dads on here his name is Josh his family or his uh channel is Sherman’s Family Farm And he said if it wasn’t for you telling us
I wouldn’t have ever guessed how easy it is to have it happened to someone and not only that too and and along with Josh I I I’m in agreeance with him in that a child can still be living at home and it’s happening I mean I just I never
I never knew who who would have ever thought but um also um the question that I want to ask you that I ask every single guest out of everything that has happened um you know we we we thank god um for the trials and tribulations um there’s purpose and growth and learning
And healing um but after everything that you have been through up to where you are um right now I I want to ask you this who is Angela Thorne today who are you today you not what other people think you are but who are you today I am a child of God
Who has the identity of royalty and I’m going to get emotional again okay it’s okay um that was not an identity even earlier this year that I was comfortable even saying out loud um but through that fire and through the shaping and the molding that he has put me through in the last
Year and my surrender and my yes has led me to truly embody who he has created me to be and that is royalty that is being um an heir to the kingdom of heaven and I have King Jesus living in me and through that I am able to be the
Best wife I’m able to be the best mother friend sister daughter and most importantly just self I am able to just love who I am I can look in the mirror be proud of myself and carry my head high with dignity and allow that to exude out so other women and men even
Uh want to be curious and and just they get uh my hope is one day that like was it Peter or Paul I think it was Peter’s Shadow healed somebody because of what he carried and I want that to be me and I know that he is creating still working
In me to become that and and I just confidently embody that at this point so wow um it’s an incredible place to be and I truly feel that this is an identity and a an embodiment that he wants for all of his children and anybody that’s on this call who doesn’t
Feel as though that they’re even able to think or fathom that season for yourself it is Poss POS it is possible and without like you said those trials and tribulations I would have never been here to this point and so there is hope of healing there is hope for restoration
There is hope for abundance and overflowing love like John 10:10 says the the enemy comes to kill steal and destroy but the Lord Jesus came to give us life and life abundantly to overflowing like not just abundant like he wants us to be overflowing and I just
Uh I declare that over each and every one of you on this call today I love it and someone else said um Josh said even if you’re not on panel we would love to have you in the chat as well we would we would love to have you in anytime that
We we go live and um my goodness my goodness what a beautiful uh testimony uh Angela and I am honored that you said yes to come on and share on the podcast um God is good and boy does he have an illumination over you I can see it uh in
Your smile and in your testimony when you share um God is very real and we can see that within you and so um before we go um we have a couple of minutes before we we uh end the slide but uh I’m going to ask you if you wouldn’t mind just
Praying for for all of us as we continue on through the evening lay our heads down to rest and then continue throughout the week if you don’t mind I do not mind at all heavenly father I just lift every single person up on this call now or those that’ll watch in the
Future I lift them up and surrender to you God that your will just floods over their lives and that you send Holy Spirit into their place right now and just fill their space with your presence to a point of tangibility that they can feel it that they see it that they taste
It that it is just so near that they can feel the warmth of your love and comfort and I just thank you God I thank you God for this tangible presence for your fire that burns away anything that’s not of you that you draw out the gold in every
Single one of us that you Empower us to be better people just because we have you living in us not because we have to strive or do or perform Lord that it’s just because who we are Lord I pray that you allow each and every person to receive deep deep sleep
Deep restorative rest tonight as they lay their heads that any any person that might be on the call that’s struggling with sleep or insomnia that I just cancel any plans of the enemy right now in the name of Jesus that they receive the best sleep they’ve ever had tonight and in the future
Lord I ask that you heal the hearts of those that are hurting that you comfort those that are under anxiety or depression Lord that they just experience this overwhelming love right now I don’t want to ask for it tonight just right now right now start meeting those needs
Overflow with your love in each and every heart Lord and I just thank you right now for making that a possibility and and just real for people and I just ask that you strengthen the faith of those that might uh be a little shaky Lord and just strengthen the faith that
Allows them to say if she has it so can I if I did it so can so can they and I just release my test testimony of overcoming all that I have over everybody and that if it’s something their heart’s desire that they can just reach up and grab it and have
It for themselves I pray for their families I pray for their children I pray for their spouses and them them individually I pray that you strengthen their families I pray that you strengthen their marriages you strengthen their relationships Lord and I just cast a hedge of protection around each and
Everyone I pray that their hearts receive the words of your heart Lord and I pray all these things in Jesus’s mighty name amen amen thank you so much and I know you have to hop off but man oh man what a joy you are really
Really um just amazing to get to talk to you and to see you and to hear your testimony um and for sharing for everyone that is listening and for all those that will be coming in the future so um everyone is saying good night and
Thank you so much and amen and so Angela I hope you have a great evening and I hope I get to talk to you again soon yes absolutely I’ll be in touch for sure sounds good have a blessed night y’all too thank you so much y’all thank you
Bye bye all right you guys y’all have a good night thank you guys for uh coming in again uh Angela’s social medias are in the description of this video and um man that was that was really good um I I pray that alongside of her that you guys
Have a good evening and a great rest of your week and um just love one another hug your children hug your family members and um I send a great big hug to each and every one of you that come in on Monday nights to support um my
Podcast I appreciate you I really do I love you guys and we will see you next week yall have a good night
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