177th ARTICLE: Advocate Mother Tells Missing Daughter`s Story

CRCVC

April 2009

Volume 16, Issue 4

ADVOCATE MOTHER TELLS MISSING DAUGHTER'S STORY

Three years ago, 20-year-old Jessie Foster was working in Las Vegas as an escort, while dating a man who allegedly abused her and called himself her pimp. Foster's mother, Glendene Grant, has not heard from her daughter since then. Though devastated by her loss, Grant has worked tirelessly to find her daughter, and as an advocate against human trafficking.

"Three years in (there's been) lots of media exposure, police on both sides of the border, human trafficking services are aware of her and it's still going strong," Grant said. "Jessie has really made people aware of human trafficking."

Grant has worked extensively with media, missing person databases and officials in Canada and the US. While still grieving her daughter, she takes some solace in having used her story in her advocacy against human trafficking. She still holds out hope that her daughter is alive.

"Jessie is 120 pounds soaking wet," Grant says, "but she leaves a hole the size of the universe. It's hard to be a normal person now. That's all I talk about. That's all I do. My life is nothing but missing and murdered people."

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