NSU Horizons Spring 2016

9 NSU HORIZONS NSU’S CREATE COMBATS 21ST-CENTURY SLAVERY THROUGH EDUCATION, AWARENESS. BY MICHELLE F. SOLOMON A concerned nurse at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, had a hunch about a case that appeared to be domestic abuse. A woman with a fractured front tooth, multiple cuts on her lip, and head contusions had arrived at the emergency room after flagging down a passing ambulance. The nurse became even more cautious after a man, dressed in blood-covered clothes, came looking for the woman. “Had they just told the man to leave or had he just been arrested locally without law enforcement inquiring further about the relationship, he would have never been pros- ecuted federally for human trafficking,” said Barbara A. Martinez, chief, special prosecutions, human trafficking FREE BREAKING