OTTAWA- Some celebrated Friday after the Supreme Court struck down Canada’s prostitution laws as unconstitutional.

But one Ojibway former child sex worker cried.

And they weren’t tears of joy.

“It feels as a survivor, someone commercially and sexually exploited, that it’s a slap in the face. A big slap in the face,” said Bridget Perrier, 37, a former child sex worker who was first sold to men in Thunder Bay at the age of 12. “We can’t put dollars signs on our bodies.”

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously agreed the current prostitution laws in Canada are unconstitutional and has given the federal government a year to come up with something better. The current laws will remain in place until then.

Perrier feels the ruling is a step towards giving men the right to further victimize Aboriginal women and girls who, she says, turn to the sex trade when they no longer have hope.

...

http://aptn.ca/news/2013/12/20/ojibway-former-child-sex-worker-says-striking-prostitution-laws-nothing-help-aboriginal-women/