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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Annie Kelly

At four, I was kidnapped and sex-trafficked for years. Now I fight for the powerless – and win every case

Antonio Salazar-Hobson at Buena Vista Park in San Francisco, California.
Antonio Salazar-Hobson at Buena Vista Park in San Francisco, California. Photograph: Marissa Leshnov/The Guardian

Although it happened more than 60 years ago, Antonio Salazar-Hobson remembers every detail of his kidnapping. He says that if he closes his eyes, he is instantly taken back to that hot Sunday afternoon in 1960 when he was a four-year-old boy standing with his brothers and sisters in the red dust of his back yard on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona.

Nearby, at the bottom of a short passageway connecting the back yard to the road out of town, a car is idling.

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