Sen. Katie Britt denies misusing widely criticized sex trafficking anecdote in Biden's State of the Union rebuttal

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Sen. Katie Britt denies misusing widely criticized sex trafficking anecdote in Biden's State of the Union rebuttal
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Saturday Night Live spoofed Britt’s speech and her misrepresentation of the sex trafficking story.

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Al., denied the allegation that she misrepresented the experience of a sex-trafficking survivor to attack Biden's border policy.

Britt argued that she made clear in her speech that the victim's experience did not happen during the Biden administration.first exposed her for recycling a 20-year-old anecdote about a victim of sex trafficking and presenting it as a result of the current administration's border policy. "I very clearly said I spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. So I didn't say a teenager. I didn't say a young woman — a grown woman, a woman who was trafficked when she was 12," Britt said on"Fox News Sunday."

During the speech, she did not clarify that the crime happened decades ago and that the woman was no longer being sex trafficked.The victim, Karla Jacinto Romero, experienced sex trafficking from 2004 to 2008 in Mexico. Katz and a chorus of online critics lambasted Britt for presenting Jacinto Romero's story as if it happened in the U.S. under Biden's watch.

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