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Lexington Woman Releases Her First Novel, “Traffic Stop: Human Division”

November 14th, 2023 | KRVN News

LEXINGTON, NE – A Lexington mental health practitioner who serves primarily victims of trauma, spent the last seven years researching and collecting data for a book she wrote called “Traffic Stop: Human Division”.

Author Stacey Cahill has been providing mental health services to the area for the last 22 years, and has taken an interest in fighting back against human trafficking. 

Her book that was recently released follows the story of a young woman from a small midwestern community who goes missing and falls victim to human trafficking.

Cahill says her career as a licensed mental health practitioner, as well as a massage therapist, has helped in the process of writing about human trafficking. 

She adds, “I have never written a book in my life. And so, I have been kind of nudged along by God, a being, or creation, or whatever, and I’m like no, I don’t have time for that… But it kept getting louder, it kept getting louder and so finally I’m like ‘Okay, I will write about this.’”

Cahill explains why she chose to write about this topic for her first book.

While researching about human trafficking, Cahill found some shocking statistics. Some of those statistics are: there are 40 million trafficked individuals in the United States alone, and only one percent of those individuals get rescued.

After learning these numbers and how our nation is effected by human trafficking, Cahill also found that indigenous people are largely targeted. She says there are 1.1 million tribal members in the U.S. and 25 percent of them are of that ethnic group who are trafficked. 

After learning this, Cahill decided to write her next book on indigenous tribes and human trafficking. 

Cahill will be having two book signings during the month of November where she will have books available to sign along with a “murdered and missing indigenous” stamp to commemorate November as Indigenous month. Her first book signing will be at Natural Escapes in Cozad on Friday, November 17th from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm. The second will be at the Lexington Public Library on Thursday, November 30th at 11 am to 12:30 pm, and 4 pm to 5:30 pm. 

To learn more about Stacey Cahill, or to purchase a copy of her book online, go to her website: https://scahilllinebywine.org/

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