This young woman, homeless, destitute and traumatized, sits on the streets of Portland unable to help herself, and ignored by all but the predators. She was molested by her father from age four to fifteen, and her older brother began molesting her from age eleven to fifteen; her mother did nothing. She ran away at age 16 and has been on the streets since then, where she was brutally beaten and has been raped twice. She now sits disassociated from from reality, a poor, hopeless orphan. 

Oh God! Send us a man like Job!

 

Why Job you may ask? 

"Because he delivered the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper. The blessing of the one ready to commit suicide came on him. He was a father to the needy, and he investigated the case of people like her. And he BROKE the jaws of wicked and snatched the prey from his teeth! Snatching them, as it were, out of the FIRE."

Job 29:12-17, Jude 23

This young woman was photographed by Cedric Hayes on the streets of Portland, and the story of her past is not specific to her, but represents the story I've heard countless times by the homeless, the drug addicted and destitute.