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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Aratani

‘Not fair at all’: Sex-trafficking victim says Katie Britt distorted her story for political purposes

Katie Britt
The Republican senator Katie Britt of Alabama delivering Republican response to US president Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday. Photograph: Unrestricted pool

The woman whose story of being sex trafficked as a child was used in Katie Britt’s State of the Union rebuttal speech has said her horrific ordeal was misused by the Republican senator.

“I think she should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude,” Karla Jacinto Romero told CNN in an interview on Sunday. “Someone using my story and distorting it for political purposes is not fair at all.”

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