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The Scelles Foundation was founded in 1994 by Jean and Jeanne Scelles with the mission to combat all forms of commercial sexual exploitation. Jean Scelles first discovered his passion to help those who are victims of this gross violation of human rights in 1941, while he was serving time as a political prisoner in Algeria. During his imprisonment, Jean shared a cell with a pimp who would often gloat about his past work of exploiting and using women. The pimp would go into detail, describing how he “trained,” “brain-washed” and “broke-in” the girls whom he exploited to get them to obey and scare them from attempting to escape. The pimp’s stories sickened Jean to the point where, upon Jean’s release, he made it his life goal to bring an end to prostitution and modern-day slavery.
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14, rue Mondétour
75001 Paris, FRANCE
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