Poetry eases pain of Teen who was sold for sex.
"I got to express my feelings, with people that didn't judge me,"
One of her poems reads like an anthem to her recovery.
"I rose from the dark into the light but don't think it was easy," she writes. "I had to put up a fight. The past was hard to overcome but what's done is done."
Teens and prostitution
• The initial age of entry into commercial sex is 12-14
• The main compensation homeless teenagers receive for commercial sex is not money but a place to stay
• Most of the adults who force children into commercial sex are not strangers but family members
• More than three-fourths of teenagers in the commercial sex industry have a history of childhood rape
