A LOVING mom-of-three gave birth to her middle child while she was sex trafficked by a predator who used manipulation, threats and violence to force her to keep making “appointments with customers.”
Lacey said her trafficker John David Golom forced her into prostitution until a couple weeks before she gave birth to Nina in June 2017 and didn’t let her stop after, she told The Sun in an exclusive interview from her Florida home.
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Fast forward nearly two years to 2019, Lacey was reunited with her baby girl, her oldest son Miles and the rest of her family, and the moment was captured by her mom in a tear-jerking video.
“It was my first time seeing my daughter in over a year and half,” Lacey told The Sun in exclusive interview from her Florida home.
“It was so hard not to cry. It was just a moment of pure happiness. And it was the first time going back home in a very long time too, so all that was just so overwhelming.”
The video showed Lacey walking towards her family in a bustling airport. Her mom’s hands shook while she filmed.
Lacey choked back tears as she knelt down to come face to face with Nina.
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They were together for just a couple months while Lacey was trafficked by Golom, who’s currently in a federal prison, before they were separated when US Marshals cuffed them both.
Lacey was ultimately released after law enforcement realized she was one of two women who were Golom’s victims.
But nearly two years elapsed, and Nina didn’t recongize her mom and pulled away for a bit.
“It was hard when she like kind of ran away from me but I also knew she didn’t really know me, so of course she’s gonna do that. But it was it was incredible. It was definitely a very happy happy feeling.”
That was still the turning point in the 28-year-old’s ongoing survival story.
Today, Miles is a fun-loving sports fan who told The Sun his mom is “actually nice and I really like her,” which had Lacey smiling.
Nina is a rambunctious and always-laughing four-year-old.
Lacey returned to work at a hospital, married Miles’ dad last year and gave birth to Axel three months ago.
And they all live together with Lacey’s mom, Jill, in Florida, where they run a rescue farm filled with a baby-polar-bear-sized dog, chickens, a pig named Penny, a horse, goats and a second dog and a couple cats.
LACEY’S SURVIVOR STORY
For about three years, Golom used her children to manipulate Lacey, verbal abuse to tear her down and violence to control her.
“I couldn’t even get food without his permission,” the 28-year-old doting mom of three told The Sun.
“He would make me feel like I was a piece of crap and feel I was stuck. He already told me I couldn’t see my son without him.
“And then he would hit me a lot. he punched me. His favorite place to go for was the face. I had so many black eyes during that time, just from him beating me.
“He would grab my arms until he left marks on my arms that you could literally tell that somebody had yanked my arm like because there were bruises all along my arm.
“I was constantly having to put makeup on to cover up the black eyes and bruises. One point, he threw a chair at me, and I have a scar above one of my eyes from that.”
The nightmare ended in January 2018, when they were arrested during an undercover prostitution sting in Queens, New York.
US Marshals cuffed Golom and Lacey and took her seven-month-old baby girl.
“We knew they were closing in … But when we finally got arrested, it was one of the first things that I could think about think was oh my god, it’s finally over.”
Lacey was ultimately cleared and reunited with her daughter in the heartwarming moment in September 2019 that Lacey’s mom filmed.
JOHN DAVID GOLOM IS IN PRISON
Golom trafficked Lacey and another woman in multiple states from Florida to Pennsylvania between 2014 and February 2018 and forced them to perform sexual acts, according to court documents.
After being on the run for months, Golom was finally arrested in February 2018 during an undercover prostitution sting in Queens, New York.
The Pennsylvania warrant was for Golom and Lacey, so both were placed under arrest, but Lacey was cleared.
But Golom was hit with federal sex-trafficking related charges because he crossed state lines, pleaded guilty in September 2019 and is currently held in a federal prison.
Golom recruited Lacey and another woman using web ads that sought women to work as “escorts” before forcing them into prostitution, according to the criminal complaint.
He took pictures of them for ads on websites to solicit customers for commercial sex, court documents said.
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