HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Eight years following an undercover sting, a Tampa Bay woman is coming forward to share her story for the first time, revealing her full identity.

As a teen, she was sold for sex by her own mother.

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“Something like this, it ruins you," said Isabelle Hughes, human trafficking survivor. "It destroys your life. To come back up from it is so incredibly hard."

As a survivor, Isabelle continued her fight to hold her abusers accountable and to inspire other human trafficking victims to come forward.

Isabelle grew up in St. Petersburg. At the age of 16, she and her mom, Kristina Hughes, moved to Brooksville where she said she was groomed as a young girl by Hughes, which led to her to be sex traffi

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