About Jean

Jean’s Story

Groomed for Abuse

Jean Marie Davis was raised in an abusive household where sexual molestation by family members and neighbors, verbal insults, and drug use were commonplace. At the age of two, she remembers being passed around men’s laps during football parties and being given her first beer at four. By the age of twelve, she was doing hard drugs like LSD and mushrooms.

Throughout her entire childhood, she recounts being taken to bars, where she encountered strangers having sex and doing drugs in the bathroom. Having been repeatedly called “fat” and “unlovable” by her parents and beaten, Jean equated the verbal and physical abuse with love.

By the age of eighteen, Jean was making minimum wage at a pizza place and in a same-sex relationship. After her partner invited her to a party where naked women, money, and drugs were plentiful, she questioned how she could make that kind of money—envisioning a sense of freedom from her current struggles. However, her questioning immediately threw her into bondage, as she was given drugs, gang-raped, and forced into prostitution.

Over the course of ten years, Jean moved from pimp to pimp and felt stuck in the cycle of prostitution and abuse. While some might wonder why she couldn’t just walk away, she recounts having felt groomed to equate abuse with love. To leave the abuse would be to leave the only kind of love she’d ever known.

Finding a Way Out

However, as Jean was nearing thirty, she found out she was pregnant. Feeling desolate, alone, and suicidal, she knew something had to change. She escaped her situation and sought out a homeless shelter. While most denied her, claiming that her situation was “too severe,” one finally accepted and directed her to a pregnancy center, where she was greeted with the words, “How can I help you?”

Jean recounts that this was the first time she truly felt an ounce of love. However, it wasn’t just the woman’s words that were loving; it was the look in her eyes. Jean knew that whatever love was behind that woman’s eyes, she wanted it.

After receiving an ultrasound and finding out she was five months along in her pregnancy, the woman said that although she couldn’t help her, she knew a man named Jesus who could.

Rescued to Rescue Others

Despite her abusive childhood and being trapped in sex trafficking for most of her young adult life, Jean has found hope and freedom in Jesus Christ. While others intended to harm her, she knows that God is using her experience for good and allowing her to help free other victims of sex trafficking in the process.