*Maybe it was the defiant glint in her eye. Maybe it was the way she dragged her feet on the way to join the other underage girls in tube tops and 8-inch heels hawking their bodies in a bad part of Atlanta. Keisha Head wasn’t sure. But somehow Sir Charles always knew when she was considering trying to escape, says Desert News.

“You better not be thinkin’ ’bout leaving,” the pimp would say. “You know what’s gonna happen.”

Sometimes, if he sensed Keisha needed reminding, the big man would shove the then-16-year-old into his Mercedes-Benz and drive her to the cemetery. There he’d strip off her clothes and leave her curled up next to a headstone, sobbing, to contemplate how nobody would notice if she — a runaway and a prostitute — went missing.

“I know grave diggers,” he’d say when he came to collect her 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour later. “We could just throw you in a hole when they’re burying someone else.”

At the time, Keisha, now 31, was considered a delinquent. Now lawmakers are beginning to recognize she was a slave.

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