After a police raid at the brothel where she was being sexually exploited in , she began advocating for the abolition of prostitution. She attracted media attention in Argentina when she sued her exploiters and the city where the brothel was located. She became known worldwide when the U. Department of State gave her an award for her anti-trafficking activism. Kinan's family had enough money to provide her a good education, but her life began to spiral downhill when her father began to abuse her mother.
Kinan has said that her mother, along with her grandmother and her aunts, were prostituted. In this context, it could mean either a small, wretched apartment, or a brothel.
Kinan was raped at age fourteen. Her parents separated when she was fifteen and her younger sister was nine, and her father stopped supporting the family. A year later Kinan's mother went to Buenos Aires , leaving her to care for her sister. Her father refused to help her. A friend suggested working at Aries, a brothel run out of a private apartment.
My grandmother was a prostitute, my mom and my aunts too, it's like being in that situation seems natural. When my mom leaves I'm left in charge of my sister, who is a lot younger than me. There came a time when we did not have anything to eat, we had nowhere to live, it was an extreme situation, I was left with a small child and I was facing that situation. It was then that a girl makes me an offer in a place X, and tells me that we could go to a private apartment where they were hosting bachelor parties, it was like a massage place, it all seemed very strange.
At that time I did not go, until the situation was so extreme that I was up to my neck and one day I found myself ringing the bell at the place that had been pointed out to me. Kinan was seventeen at the time. It's very disgusting. It's those memories that you try to bury under everything else. After that, she worked at bachelor parties and continued seeing individual clients. She says. At one point during this period, Kinan seems to have also been supporting her father. She says that he lived with her and asked her for money.
