Maria Suarez

“On a recent night in an aging office tower in the Wilshire District, Maria Suarez stands before a group of Latino men, all felons under court order to receive sex-offender counseling from the nonprofit center About Face. Suarez is beautiful, with black sparkling eyes and high cheekbones, her shining black hair swept into a chic bun. She speaks softly to these 20 or so sex felons. In response, the hardened men don’t glare. They listen. They nod. They respect Maria Suarez.

After all, while every man present this night arrived against his will and via torturous paths, none of those paths was more torturous or unwilling than that of Suarez, who as a teenager was brainwashed by a sexual deviant who enslaved her in his Azusa home and controlled her life for six harrowing years. “

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