When Noel Gomez walked Aurora Avenue North, she lived in a parallel universe. She’d think of families huddled around Christmas trees while she looked for “dates” on the holiday. In the morning, after being trafficked all night, she’d see people jogging before their office workdays. “When you’re in that space,” she says now, “looking at those people is like looking at aliens.”
Gomez was trafficked in the sex trade. She was in “that life” for 15 years. Her story is a very common one, she says. A boyfriend she met during her youth turned out to be a pimp who threatened the life of her son if she didn’t
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