While making serious, complex comments about Mary Jane Kelly on another thread, Simon Wood replied with the comment I have posted somewhere here, hopefully at the bottom.
What if MJK one way or another entered into prostitution as a young girl? What if she was trafficked? That could account for her history that seems to have no researchable truth to it.
I have wondered a lot about her splitting from what appears to have been organised prostitution ranging from Cardiff to West London to East London. Did they let her go? Did she have bad habits like drinking too much? Or did she get too old? Did she no longer look like or pass as a virgin for instance? If traffickers wanted young girls, 22 or 24 years of age was over the hill to use an American colloquialism.
If she entered prostitution as a young girl, perhaps her family was bad or sold her into it. Maybe she got dragged into it some other way and was ashamed to embarrass her family. Maybe she was a poor, Welsh village girl who was recruited to Cardiff with promise of wealth. There seemed to be a lot of that going on at the relative times, according to the Welsh papers. (I was never able to find any line from Cardiff to London and beyond nor could I ever connect French or Belgian procurers to Cardiff, Newport or Swansea.)
What if MJK one way or another entered into prostitution as a young girl? What if she was trafficked? That could account for her history that seems to have no researchable truth to it.
I have wondered a lot about her splitting from what appears to have been organised prostitution ranging from Cardiff to West London to East London. Did they let her go? Did she have bad habits like drinking too much? Or did she get too old? Did she no longer look like or pass as a virgin for instance? If traffickers wanted young girls, 22 or 24 years of age was over the hill to use an American colloquialism.
If she entered prostitution as a young girl, perhaps her family was bad or sold her into it. Maybe she got dragged into it some other way and was ashamed to embarrass her family. Maybe she was a poor, Welsh village girl who was recruited to Cardiff with promise of wealth. There seemed to be a lot of that going on at the relative times, according to the Welsh papers. (I was never able to find any line from Cardiff to London and beyond nor could I ever connect French or Belgian procurers to Cardiff, Newport or Swansea.)
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