The author relates how she was sold by poor parents into slavery and forced to endure brutal servitude in California until a neighbor's anonymous call to the police began her journey to freedom and her subsequent efforts to fight for child slaves.

On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 with shaking fingers. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her 12 siblingsranging in age from 2 to 29were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. “Ive never been out,” she stammered. To their family, neighbors, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin...