Woman's terrible guilt over 14-year-old friend she introduced to sex trafficking world who was later strangled to death by a client

.Leah Albright-Byrd ran away from home at 14 and soon found herself being pimped out for money
.She also introduced a friend, Bridget Gray, to the sex trafficking industry
.While Albright-Byrd got out after four years, Gray wasn't so fortunate and was murdered on her 22nd birthday in Las Vegas
.Albright-Byrd felt responsible and it took years of intensive therapy to help her recover from the trauma of living 'the life'
.She now runs 'Bridget's Dream' a non-profit setup to help other victims of sex trafficking

Leah Albright-Byrd, now 29, has spent the past 11 years recovering from the harrowing experience and processing the terrible guilt she felt after her friend Bridget Gray was strangled to death by a client in Los Vegas on her 22nd birthday.
Albright-Byrd now runs a charity dedicated to trying to save young girls in the same position and has named her non-profit 'Bridget's Dream' in honor of her dead friend.

Leah Albright-Byrd, now 29, spent her teenage years trapped in the sex trafficking trade, but the tragic death of a friend has helped her turn her life around and she now help save other victims
'What I wanted to tell Bridget I now tell other girls to help them get free,' she recently told Katie Curic.
"'You [the girls] deserve so much more than being sold on the streets.'"

Like many of the young girls who are manipulated into a life of prostitution, Albright-Byrd came from an abusive family background.
At the age of just 14, she ran away from home and while on the streets met a man in his 60s who said she could stay at his home as long as she continued to attend school.


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