Survivor of Sex Trafficking; Founder, Executive Director, and President, Glory House

Jane Guerino

Jane Guerino was an adopted child who was sexually abused from the age of four to nine.  In her late 20s, she entered the sex trade to support her drug addiction.  At age 30, Ms. Guerino was abducted and held for five months without clothing in a frigid cold basement, where she was terrorized and tortured, and then was sold to different sex traffickers for two years until her escape.  During her time in “the life,” Ms. Guerino was incarcerated 14 times in three different states, tortured and beaten daily, sold four times, and left with drug addiction that lasted 34 years.  Today, she helps abused, trafficked, and incarcerated girls and women though Glory House, the organization she founded.  Glory House is a transitional/reentry support program for women and men affected by domestic violence, human trafficking, addiction, incarceration, and related hardships.

“There is a misconception that being in prostitution is a glamorous life but it’s not; it’s brutal and dangerous.  You are leading a double life and taking enormous safety risks; I had serious brushes with death eight times.  You will sacrifice your health, pride, and self-respect.  You’ll also lose the respect of family and friends, if they find out.  There is a personal cost selling your body for sex that is much greater than any money earned.”