《The Street Festival: How A Wallflower Became The Hero (updated)》Epilogue
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Once Martina graduated from high school she attended Perdue University where she majored in Criminal Law.
Over the course of her career, she became a well-known, very successful lawyer specializing in the prosecution of those who committed sex crimes involving minors.
In her first six years as a lawyer, she put 18 child sex offenders behind bars, 6 of those being minors themselves, just like Barry.
Four months after her 32nd birthday, Martina was appointed to the position of State District Attorney where, two years later with the help of the FBI, she successfully prosecuted the men and women involved in the largest child sex trafficking ring ever ran in the U.S. to date, resulting in the rescue of 37 kidnapped children, ranging in age from six to sixteen.
Nine months later, on her 35th birthday, Martina walked down the aisle and became the wife of the man who had led the FBI's investigation of that trafficking ring.
Martina's husband went on to form a new child sex trafficking task force in the FBI.
Martina eventually became the task force's special prosecutor and together they put hundreds of sex offenders behind bars and rescued more than a thousand kidnapped children, over the course of their careers.
Martina and her husband raised two adopted baby girls. Both of them following in their mother's footsteps to became lawyers specializing in child sex crimes.
Their older daughter ended up a national daytime talk show host, and was instrumental in helping increase public awareness of child sex crimes and spurred several campaigns, resulting in the laws in a dozen states being changed to increase the punishment for perpetrators of sex crimes against minors.
Their younger daughter eventually filled the same position in the FBI her mom had once held.
And that's how a street festival turned a wallflower into a hero.
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