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TEEN HOUSTON GIRL SEX TRAFFICKED, NOW MISSING, HEAR MOM’S PLEA · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece.
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Speaker 2: Imagine your child, your girl. You think all your love,
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Speaker 2: all your money, all your energy, your hopes, your dreams
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Speaker 2: for them, and then suddenly they're gone. They're not just gone,
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Speaker 2: They're trafficked. Your child is trafficked. You know when you
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Speaker 2: look around at the mall or the nail salawn, or
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Speaker 2: the kitchen and restaurant, people there have been trafficked. They
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Speaker 2: are being used much less. Girls now out on the
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Speaker 2: street in motels and hotels turning tricks, I mean young
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Speaker 2: girls twelve thirteen, fourteen fifteen. Today the story of Kristen.
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Speaker 2: Is she still alive? Is she out there? Is she dead?
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Speaker 2: Is she being raped? Right now? Where is this teen
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Speaker 2: girl joining me? Her mother? I'm Nancy Grace. This is
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Speaker 2: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at
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Speaker 2: foxination and series ExM one eleven. How did the whole
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Speaker 2: thing begin? Take a listen to our friend Fox twenty six.
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Speaker 3: I just heard the stories that I've met survivors of
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Speaker 3: sex tragedy, and I can't. I can't stop and look
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Speaker 3: to you other way because it's not.
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Speaker 2: Just my be.
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Speaker 3: It's not just my daughter, so right nobody can find her.
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Speaker 3: My daughter has a price Tell how much does your
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Speaker 3: child worth?
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Speaker 1: They could have.
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Speaker 2: My daughter has a price tag. My daughter has a
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Speaker 2: price tag. How much is your child worth? My daughter
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Speaker 2: is being bought and sold over and over. Right now
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Speaker 2: you are hearing a devastated mom telling her story in
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Speaker 2: the search for her little girl still missing. Take a
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Speaker 2: listen to our forensy k h Ou.
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Speaker 4: The last time she was seen was before going to
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Speaker 4: bed on January tecond The next morning, Robin says, Kristen
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Speaker 4: was gone.
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Speaker 5: Paint an agony of knowing what could be happening to
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Speaker 5: my daughter.
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Speaker 4: Kristin, Robin says, had gone missing in November. Robin says
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Speaker 4: police picked her then fifteen year old daughter up on
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Speaker 4: Buzanette Street. She'd been a victim of sex trafficking.
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Speaker 5: Kristin was not the same child when we recovered her.
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Speaker 6: Kristin Galvan was fifteen years old when she was last
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Speaker 6: seen January tewond Mere, weeks after a brief disappearance interesting now.
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Speaker 2: With boyfriend and she was gone for a week and
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Speaker 2: a half.
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Speaker 5: Have I received a phone call from HPD and they
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Speaker 5: had picture up.
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Speaker 6: On this night an area notorious for prostitution in Houston.
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Speaker 2: This little girl out turning tricks. Joining me right now
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Speaker 2: an off star panel to make sense of what we
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Speaker 2: know right now and hopefully give answers. The tip line
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Speaker 2: is nine to three six seven six zero fifty eight
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Speaker 2: hundred repeat nine three six seven sixth zero fifty eight hundred.
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Speaker 2: Please join us in our search for Chris and right
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Speaker 2: now straight out to Kristen's mother, Robin Corey, Robin, thank
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Speaker 2: you for being with us, Thank.
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Speaker 5: You for having me.
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Speaker 2: I'm having a hard time when I drop my children
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Speaker 2: off to school. I miss them, and I worry about them,
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Speaker 2: and I think about them, and I pray about them.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what your life must be like,
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Speaker 2: miss Corey, when you go to bed at night, what
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Speaker 2: is your prayer.
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Speaker 5: That she is safe and.
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Speaker 2: Whole? At this point, really tell me about how Kristen
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Speaker 2: goes missing. I understand she had a boyfriend, which was
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Speaker 2: no boyfriend at all. This is a very very common
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Speaker 2: ploy to get little girls sex trafficked. Teen girls, in
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Speaker 2: her case, just fifteen years old. And the boyfriend promises
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Speaker 2: a wonderful life and and the girl goes with them.
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Speaker 2: The next thing you know, they no longer have a
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Speaker 2: driver's license, a credit card, a cell phone, and they're
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Speaker 2: beaten horribly into submission. They start turning tricks and they're
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Speaker 2: fed drugs and it over. Tell me from your point
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Speaker 2: of view, Robin, how this's happened.
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Speaker 5: Well, it started at her high school. We know now
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Speaker 5: that there were paid recruiters inside of her high school
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Speaker 5: scouting girls to be sold to the traffickers. Her behavior
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Speaker 5: began to do.
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Speaker 2: What high school is that.
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Speaker 5: I don't wish to put them on blast. It was
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Speaker 5: in thy Fair school district.
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Speaker 2: You know, Miss Corey, I understand that it's thigh Wood
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Speaker 2: High School. I don't have a problem with putting that
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Speaker 2: out there. If your belief is that there are paid
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Speaker 2: recruiters within the high school, I'm not going to shy
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Speaker 2: away from telling what we believe to be the truth. Now,
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Speaker 2: why would you think, Ms Corey, that there were paid
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Speaker 2: recruiters within the high school.
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Speaker 5: Because her boyfriend that she she had a boyfriend, which
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Speaker 5: was not her normal standard, you know, type of boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: When you say it was the paid recruiter, what do
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Speaker 2: you mean by that?
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Speaker 5: The traffickers pay people to recruit girls. They pay off hotels,
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Speaker 5: they pay off you know, people to keep quiet. They
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Speaker 5: paid recruiters in high schools to to kind of scout
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Speaker 5: out these teenage girls because they're worth so much money
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Speaker 5: here on the streets of Houston.
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Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you, when you say he was
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Speaker 2: different from any other of the little boyfriends she had
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Speaker 2: ever had, what do you mean by that?
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Speaker 5: Kristin liked, you know, athletic guys. Kristin was very active
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Speaker 5: in her school, so she chose the you know, athletic boys,
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Speaker 5: if you would. She had a boyfriend before met his family.
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Speaker 5: You know, I have to meet them before she goes anywhere.
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Speaker 5: And when she met this boy is when she began
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Speaker 5: to start skipping school and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: Well, what was he like?
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Speaker 5: He was not good in my opinion. He was actually
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Speaker 5: living with somebody else's family because his family did not
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Speaker 5: want him, and he just he just wasn't good from
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Speaker 5: my perspective.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm trying to figure out when you say he's
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Speaker 2: different from her other boyfriends, how was he different?
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Speaker 5: I just didn't fit her profile. He wasn't in any
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Speaker 5: you know, extracurricular activities, he didn't have a family life,
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Speaker 5: and he you know, had tattoos, which was unusual for
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Speaker 5: me for a seventeen year old to have. And he
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Speaker 5: just you know, red flags everywhere for a mother.
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Speaker 2: I find it really interesting and concerning that his family
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Speaker 2: had so much trouble with him that they kicked him out.
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Speaker 2: So now this boy shows up covered in tattoo, is
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Speaker 2: not involved in anything at school, and suddenly wants to
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Speaker 2: go out with your daughter. I see your concern. So
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Speaker 2: what did you tell your daughter Kristen about this guy?
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Speaker 2: Did you try to stop her from seeing him? Yes?
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Speaker 5: I did try and stop her. I noticed, you know,
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Speaker 5: the messages, the new friendships, full of empty promises, if
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Speaker 5: you would, That's what I believe this new group of
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Speaker 5: friends was giving her, you know, new friendship full of
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Speaker 5: empty promises, Louis Vauton bags this, that and the other.
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Speaker 5: And she, like I said, she began to skip school.
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Speaker 5: And I saw her grades kind of you know, deteriorate,
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Speaker 5: and I addressed it.
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Speaker 2: What did you do?
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Speaker 5: I sat down and talked with her. You know, hey,
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Speaker 5: what's going on?
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Speaker 2: You know what's the irony? To Doctor John Delatory joining
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Speaker 2: US licensed psychologist mediator specializing in forensic psychology and you
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Speaker 2: can find doctor Delatory at resolution fc S dot com.
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Speaker 2: Doctor John Delatory, thank you for being with us. I
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Speaker 2: know this is true, but I, as a lawyer, don't
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Speaker 2: know the right psychological terms to apply to it. The
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Speaker 2: more you tell your child don't do this, that makes
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Speaker 2: them do exactly that. I will never forget. When my
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Speaker 2: daughter made a departure. This is in middle school of
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Speaker 2: her nice little friend group, and I was practically doing
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Speaker 2: a backflip, and something said, don't come down too hard
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Speaker 2: on her, because it won't you know, like a magnet,
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Speaker 2: if you put it on the wrong side, it goes
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Speaker 2: the other way. And we would gently point out various
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Speaker 2: bad behaviors the little girl had. Ultimately, and it took
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Speaker 2: a while, many months before Lucy figured out this was
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Speaker 2: not right for her. Thank Heaven, because I've noticed the more,
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Speaker 2: especially Lucy. If I tell my son, hey, you shouldn't
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Speaker 2: do so, and so he goes, okay, that's it. Fine,
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Speaker 2: But Lucy is a very independent thinker and she digs
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Speaker 2: her feet in like a mule. So you can't make
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Speaker 2: a child always do what you want to do, unless
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Speaker 2: you want to beat them and lock them in their room.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely don't do that. It's all a part of
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Speaker 7: the normal developmental process of learning independent and learning autonomy.
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Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, First of all, delatory, do you
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Speaker 2: have children?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Well, okay, I was about to really, you know, give
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Speaker 2: you a black eye on that. How can you say
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Speaker 2: that if you don't have children? But you do, so
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Speaker 2: you know exactly what we're talking about. Go ahead, Yeah, So.
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Speaker 7: You really are confronted as a parent with the idea
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Speaker 7: that you can see the dangers that are out there,
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Speaker 7: and you can see how your child is falling victim
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Speaker 7: to dangers that maybe you at one time were able
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Speaker 7: to avoid or you got caught in, and you see
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Speaker 7: your child making those mistakes. But you're absolutely right, Nancy,
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Speaker 7: when you're saying there are times in which you have
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Speaker 7: to use a velvet glove, and there are times in
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Speaker 7: which you need to use an actual sledgehammer. But the
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Speaker 7: problem becomes particularly in these scenarios where the outside influence,
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Speaker 7: the one that's influencing the child has such a loud
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Speaker 7: and persuasive voice that twists and turns the thought processes
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Speaker 7: of the victims to make them believe that anyone who
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Speaker 7: is trying to pull them away from each other, right,
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Speaker 7: those are the absolute bad guys, And that's called the
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Speaker 7: Romeo aspect of sex trafficking. They made the person using right.
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Speaker 8: The track uses words to.
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Speaker 7: This the individual that they are in a loving relationship
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Speaker 7: when the reality is they're sipically grooming the individual to
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Speaker 7: engage in behaviors that they would not have done had
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Speaker 7: they not been involved in that relationship.
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Speaker 2: I've never heard that phraseology the Romeo aspect, but you're
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Speaker 2: absolutely correct. And guys with me is Christen's mother who
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Speaker 2: was on a desperate search to find her daughter, who
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Speaker 2: I believe was absolutely sex trafficked and is out there
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Speaker 2: somewhere right now. Also with me, in addition to doctor
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Speaker 2: John Delatri is Nima Romani, former federal prosecutor prosecuted numerous
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Speaker 2: human trafficking cases with the US Attorney's Office, author of
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Speaker 2: Harvard to hashtag Nima, thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 2: How many times, Nima, have you seen a group and
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Speaker 2: it's typically boys get together and they do something they
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Speaker 2: would not do if they were on their own. They
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Speaker 2: are acting pursue it to peer pressure.
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Speaker 9: Of course. I mean it could be drug cartels, trafficking
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Speaker 9: woman gang activity here in the United States. I mean,
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Speaker 9: this is part and parcel of organized crime, and this
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Speaker 9: is how they explicitly.
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Speaker 2: Hey, here's an easy one, Nima, have you ever had
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Speaker 2: a case the theft by receiving a stolen car? I
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Speaker 2: guess you had that when you were state prosecutor. Of course,
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Speaker 2: when there's four guys in the car and one guy
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Speaker 2: is like a straight a student or a good kid,
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Speaker 2: the others are horrible and they're like, how did you
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Speaker 2: get into this?
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Speaker 9: That what happens all the time, of course.
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Speaker 2: And they're all charged. They're all charged, doesn't matter if
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Speaker 2: one is good and one is bad. They're all in
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Speaker 2: a stolen car. Of course. Damn, there you go.
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Speaker 10: When that happens all the time, and you know that's
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Speaker 10: just the beginning of criminal activity, really the apex, and
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Speaker 10: it happens to thousands of women, and whether it's moving
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Speaker 10: drugs or extortion or sex trafficking, this is what criminal
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Speaker 10: organizations do and they exploit these young women.
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Speaker 9: And fortunately this is one that the FBI handled and
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Speaker 9: their significant sentences mandatory minimums ten years or girls as
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Speaker 9: old as Christian, but even fifteen for younger girls. But
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Speaker 9: the problem is you have three groups of people, and
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Speaker 9: none of whom want to report. These crumps are the victims,
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Speaker 9: like Kristen. You got the traffickers and you got the
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Speaker 9: Johns that's what makes these cases difficult to prosecute.
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Speaker 2: Because really difficult. Nima Ramani could not be more correct.
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Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: Guys, also with me, Betty Simons. The family's pro bono.
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Speaker 2: That's for free private investigator. That's how much she believes
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Speaker 2: in this. Founder CEO of Valor Investigations, v A. L.
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Speaker 2: O R. Also co founder of Nita Marie Angels n
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Speaker 2: m A, a non profit for the recovery of missing
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Speaker 2: and exploited children her sister trafficked and murdered Betty, Nancie,
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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry about what you have gone through with
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Speaker 2: your sister. The question I want to ask you is
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Speaker 2: you hear Kristen's mom say he promised her a Louis
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Speaker 2: Vauton bag. Okay, to a lot of people, they may
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Speaker 2: say you'd sell yourself for a Louis Vaton bag, But
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Speaker 2: for a kid, that's a whole different thing.
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Speaker 11: Right it is. And the thing is is these these
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Speaker 11: traffickers are master manipulators, and so it's not just the
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Speaker 11: promise of the Louis Baton bag. It's the promise of
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Speaker 11: you know, I'm going to make you a model, I'm
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Speaker 11: going to make you famous. You know, you're gonna have
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Speaker 11: your own house, We're going to open up your own business.
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Speaker 11: These are these are all things that we hear and
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Speaker 11: with a lot of our trafficking victims, even as as
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Speaker 11: young as Kristen, and so it's a it's a promise
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Speaker 11: of this whole new, rich, fancy life that they promised them.
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Speaker 11: And then you know, they tell them how much they
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Speaker 11: love them, and and they they prey on these weaknesses.
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Speaker 11: And so when he said the Romeo effect, it is
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Speaker 11: something that we're extremely familiar with because in almost one
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Speaker 11: of our victims that we recovered, they have fallen victim
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Speaker 11: to the Romeo effect. Whether they're promised this world that
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Speaker 11: that's just not true, that's just their way of manipulating them.
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Speaker 11: And these these traffickers are absolute master manipulators. Not only that,
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Speaker 11: I just have to say, they look for a weakness
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Speaker 11: and a child. So not in Kristin's case, but but
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Speaker 11: in a lot of cases that we've recovered, these children
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Speaker 11: are missing, you know, a parent, or they're missing a
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Speaker 11: father figure or their children of the system. So they're
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Speaker 11: missing that love, that family, and so those are the
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Speaker 11: ones that they also are praying on because they know
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Speaker 11: they're more easily manipulated. Also want to rewind, sorry one
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Speaker 11: more time, when he's talking about, you know, the minimum
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Speaker 11: sentences for these traffickers. There is a minimum sentence. However,
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Speaker 11: in Arian Jackson's case, we were very disappointed because the
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Speaker 11: judge gave less than the minimum for his charges, less
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Speaker 11: than the minimum that was his sentence.
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Speaker 2: Now, when we're talking about Arian Dupree Jackson, remember many
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Speaker 2: people believe that Chris's boyfriend had an association with Jackson
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Speaker 2: and that Jackson was taking part in trafficking minors. That's
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Speaker 2: why you keep hearing that name. So you get a
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Speaker 2: little girl and you convinced her of what life can be,
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Speaker 2: an adventure, and you're going to give her a Louis
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Speaker 2: Vauton and you love her and come out and run
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Speaker 2: away with me. Well she did. She this little girl
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Speaker 2: runs off with the boyfriend, a boyfriend her age. Unlike
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Speaker 2: any of the other nice kids she had been you know,
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Speaker 2: flirting with and talking with. This kid shows up. He's
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Speaker 2: been kicked out of home by his fan, his own
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Speaker 2: home by his family. He's covered in tattoos, he's not
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Speaker 2: involved with anything at the school. He's a bad apple,
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Speaker 2: and mom knows it, but all of her warnings fall
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Speaker 2: on deaf ears, and Kristen is gone. Take a listen
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Speaker 2: hour cut five Fox twenty six.
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Speaker 6: Robin says, Kristin was pulled into sex trafficking and was
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Speaker 6: acting different after her return.
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Speaker 2: Then she vanished. We had given her back her phone,
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Speaker 2: and then she went missing the bed.
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Speaker 6: This time, Robin turned to private investigation. She personally scoured
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Speaker 6: the streets and dug to the bottom of Kristin's social
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Speaker 6: media and everyone Kristen was connected to online.
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Speaker 5: Since so I followed their accounts and found out their
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Speaker 5: games and just in this deep dark world of sextracted
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Speaker 5: me child sex dractory.
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Speaker 2: This mom heart broken up, Robin, Corey is with me.
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Speaker 2: This is Kristen's mom, So Robin, she agrees to run
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Speaker 2: off with the little boyfriend. And was he the same
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Speaker 2: age as her or was he fifteen at the time.
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Speaker 5: No, Kristin was fifteen. He was seventeen too old for her.
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Speaker 2: He's practically a grown man. That said, how long was
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Speaker 2: she gone before she was recovered?
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Speaker 5: Now, she was gone about two weeks before she was recovered.
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Speaker 5: She was still in contact me the first two days
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Speaker 5: after she quote unquote ran away she was calling me.
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Speaker 5: She was actually calling me from a recording studio here
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Speaker 5: in Houston.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my star. So he told her she was going
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Speaker 2: to be recording star.
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Speaker 5: Well, Arian Jackson is a quote unquote aspiring rapper here
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Speaker 5: and he used him. His music is terrible, by the way,
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Speaker 5: but he is a rapper here.
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Speaker 2: So he probably tells your daughter, Oh, I can get
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Speaker 2: you into the music scene. And she's a fifteen year
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Speaker 2: old girl. She's gonna run off with this wanna be.
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Speaker 2: He gives her a baton, he promises her this big life,
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Speaker 2: that he loves her, and she calls you from a
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Speaker 2: recording studio and says what what does she say?
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Speaker 5: Hey, Mom, look I got your Louis Baton bag. I'm
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Speaker 5: gonna get you a wallet, like almost as if you know.
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Speaker 5: She was doing okay, and I'm like, get your butt home.
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Speaker 5: You're missing school, you know. And remember I have Verizon
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Speaker 5: Smart Family. I knew her location, you know, I had
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Speaker 5: her passwords for her Instagram. I was that mom, Nancy.
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Speaker 2: Oh my, so this is your striking fear in my heart.
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Speaker 2: So you can see where she is and she's talking
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Speaker 2: about she wants to get you a Louis Vuitton. Yes,
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Speaker 2: right right, yes, well, little Angel.
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Speaker 5: And then the next day everything goes blake. I'm logged
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Speaker 5: out of all of her social media accounts. I can
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Speaker 5: no longer pull up her location off of Verizon Smart Family.
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Speaker 5: I start panicking, and so I called police report her missing,
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Speaker 5: and of course they lifted her as a runaway. I
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Speaker 5: was so ignorantly and see, I thought human tracking happened
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Speaker 5: in poor countries. You know, I never understood the magnitude
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Speaker 5: of what could happen.
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Speaker 2: So how did you get her back? That time?
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Speaker 5: Houston Police Department called me. I fell to my knees
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Speaker 5: and cried, thank you Jesus, and they told me they
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Speaker 5: had picked her up off of Bisonette Street here in Houston.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's that is not good. I'm familiar with Bisonette
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Speaker 2: with me is Caitlin Monte joining us out of Houston.
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Speaker 2: You can find her Caitlinmonty dot com. Caitlin, thank you
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Speaker 2: for being with us. Why don't you fill us all
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Speaker 2: in for those that don't know about Bissonette door.
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Speaker 8: Nancy, thank you and Robin it's you're just incredible. Biscinette
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Speaker 8: is notorious. It's the black eye on the Houston community
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Speaker 8: because it is notorious for sex trafficking and human trafficking,
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Speaker 8: and this is not hidden in the shadows. I went
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Speaker 8: down there as I reported on Kristen's story and worked
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Speaker 8: with Robin, and you can go down on a Tuesday
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Speaker 8: afternoon in broad sunlight at one o'clock and you will
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Speaker 8: see it right there, in blatant daylight, These women and
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Speaker 8: young men who are being put out on the streets
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Speaker 8: and told you can't come back to safety, to food,
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Speaker 8: to shelter, to life until you bring me my money,
22:48
Speaker 8: until you bring your quota home. I mean, that's happening
22:51
Speaker 8: every day in broad daylight, and it's notorious. And Houston
22:57
Speaker 8: is such a family friendly and wonderful community, but you
23:00
Speaker 8: have this deep rooted world of sex trafficking. And the problem, Nancy,
23:05
Speaker 8: is that if you go and you clean these streets up,
23:07
Speaker 8: if you were to go pick up all the girls
23:09
Speaker 8: and boys who are out there and clean it up,
23:12
Speaker 8: this industry is so deep that it will just pop up.
23:15
Speaker 8: The roots will grow and pop up somewhere else. So unfortunately,
23:19
Speaker 8: Biscinet is where it's happening and where police are able
23:23
Speaker 8: to sort of monitor and look for girls like Kristen
23:26
Speaker 8: who go missing. And girls do show back up, but
23:30
Speaker 8: unfortunately sometimes they don't, and it's very dangerous. These girls
23:35
Speaker 8: have no protection. Houston can be very hot one hundred
23:38
Speaker 8: plus degrees in the summer and they are out there.
23:40
Speaker 8: Told you are not coming back inside. You are not
23:43
Speaker 8: coming back to safety until you get what I want
23:46
Speaker 8: from you, which is the money you're going to get
23:48
Speaker 8: from the men and people who come and unfortunately, for
23:52
Speaker 8: whatever reason, frequent these streets enough that there is enough
23:57
Speaker 8: money going into this industry, enough people willing to pay
24:01
Speaker 8: for a child, that there is an industry. As you
24:04
Speaker 8: heard Robin say, there are recruiters, there are layers to this,
24:08
Speaker 8: and this sinette is where you can go on any
24:10
Speaker 8: given day and see it. And I wouldn't recommend it.
24:13
Speaker 8: It's not fake. You should not be going around there,
24:17
Speaker 8: but it is there, and it is not hidden. It
24:19
Speaker 8: is very much out in the open.
24:21
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about what Robin Corey said. Robin, you said
24:25
Speaker 2: that you went out on the street, scouring the street
24:30
Speaker 2: looking for her, that you had false alarms, that people
24:35
Speaker 2: would what pretend that they were Kristin.
24:39
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, ma'am. And so when Kristen disappeared the second time,
24:43
Speaker 5: I didn't wait on police. I went out to Bisonette
24:46
Speaker 5: Street myself and scoured these streets of Binet. I had
24:50
Speaker 5: a private investigator show me the ins and out of
24:52
Speaker 5: Businette Street. He told me I don't normally take parents.
24:55
Speaker 5: I said, you're going to take me today. You're going
24:58
Speaker 5: to show me the net. You know, I grew up
25:00
Speaker 5: in Houston. I love Houston, but we're number one. We
25:04
Speaker 5: have the number one baseball team, right go Asstros, but
25:07
Speaker 5: we are literally number one. And child sex slavery enough,
25:12
Speaker 5: but the trafficking this is slavery. So when I went
25:17
Speaker 5: out there, I was not expecting to find girl after
25:21
Speaker 5: girl and a line of cars wait to buy these.
25:26
Speaker 2: People to have sex with ten girls.
25:28
Speaker 5: And I was so ignorant.
25:30
Speaker 2: What was the youngest girl that you found?
25:32
Speaker 5: You could ask Betty twelve years old?
25:34
Speaker 2: Betty? Is that true with me? Is Betty Simon's is
25:37
Speaker 2: that true?
25:38
Speaker 11: Correct? Well, the youngest girl that I found was eleven.
25:41
Speaker 11: But the youngest girl, Robin was actually with me that
25:43
Speaker 11: we recovered a twelve year old little girl. She had
25:45
Speaker 11: just turned twelve, by the way, yes, and that was
25:48
Speaker 11: actually on dissonant.
25:50
Speaker 2: And she was out turning tricks.
25:51
Speaker 11: Correct. We saw her get into multiple different cars. I
25:55
Speaker 11: think we saw her get into about four different cars
25:58
Speaker 11: before we could get law enforcement out there. It took
26:00
Speaker 11: us a while to get them out there, but I mean,
26:02
Speaker 11: just right in front of our eyes, we had saw
26:04
Speaker 11: her get into four different cars do four different dates.
26:07
Speaker 11: Since she's twelve, she was, I mean, she was a baby.
26:09
Speaker 2: Why are you calling them dates. They're raping her. She's
26:12
Speaker 2: having a full on sex or oral sex with grown
26:14
Speaker 2: men as it is rare giving her money that she
26:17
Speaker 2: gives to a pimp. They are having regular, full on sex,
26:22
Speaker 2: anal sex, oral sex, you name it, with a girl
26:27
Speaker 2: that has just turned twelve years old. That's what's happening.
26:31
Speaker 2: I mean, there's really no nice way to put it.
26:34
Speaker 2: What was this girl, this little twelve year old story?
26:36
Speaker 2: How did she end up there on Bconette?
26:38
Speaker 11: So she did ended up on this inet because her
26:41
Speaker 11: her mother had a drug addiction problem, and the Child
26:44
Speaker 11: Protective Services had stepped in and they had placed her
26:48
Speaker 11: into a home on Chimney Rock. And Chimney Rock is
26:51
Speaker 11: notorious for children coming up missing and ending up on Bisonette,
26:57
Speaker 11: and so it is a CPS win facility. And so
27:00
Speaker 11: she had ended up at Chimney Rock and from there
27:03
Speaker 11: she had been recruited by another child and then and
27:08
Speaker 11: we actually see traffickers out sitting outside of Timney Frock
27:11
Speaker 11: waiting on these little girls to jump the fence. So
27:15
Speaker 11: that is how she actually ended up on Bissonette, was
27:18
Speaker 11: being recruited.
27:18
Speaker 2: So they're in a facility that's so bad they run
27:21
Speaker 2: away from the facility and then they get into sex
27:24
Speaker 2: trafficking and there's nowhere left for them to go because
27:26
Speaker 2: they run away from the system and they don't have
27:29
Speaker 2: a family, They've got nothing left. Betty. Isn't it true
27:33
Speaker 2: you have recovered nearly fifty girls, little girls from being
27:37
Speaker 2: sex trafficked.
27:38
Speaker 11: That's correct.
27:40
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, back to Kristen, So you get her back
27:44
Speaker 2: the first time, Robin from being with her so called boyfriend.
27:49
Speaker 2: What happens when you get her to and when you
27:51
Speaker 2: see her again for the first time.
27:53
Speaker 5: So, like I said, HPD picked her up. They went
27:55
Speaker 5: and interviewed her with VICE in Houston, and then the
27:59
Speaker 5: police office Sir told me to meet them at Texas
28:01
Speaker 5: Children's Hospital. I went to Texas Children's Hospital and there
28:06
Speaker 5: was my daughter and the shortest skirt and a tube
28:10
Speaker 5: top and she also had on like this, this sweater
28:12
Speaker 5: shawl if you would, and my daughter had four thousand
28:16
Speaker 5: dollars cash on her long nails. And you know, the
28:24
Speaker 5: staff at Texas Children's I said, give her a drug test,
28:27
Speaker 5: you know rape kit. Oh no, we don't normally do
28:30
Speaker 5: a drug test unless she's in co here. And I said,
28:32
Speaker 5: she's just in traffic, like what? And they still wouldn't
28:37
Speaker 5: give her a drug test, And they finally gave her
28:40
Speaker 5: a saint exam and I went in there for that.
28:43
Speaker 5: Saw all the bruises on my daughter. You lost about
28:49
Speaker 5: fifteen to twenty pounds, and she cried during the whole
28:55
Speaker 5: scene exam.
29:00
Speaker 2: What did she say to you?
29:01
Speaker 5: And she saw her you don't know what they made
29:04
Speaker 5: me do, screaming.
29:14
Speaker 2: So you have her at home and then suddenly she's
29:20
Speaker 2: gone again.
29:21
Speaker 5: Well Nancy. So when we recovered her, I had to
29:24
Speaker 5: get her away from Houston. I pulled her from that
29:27
Speaker 5: school so quick. And my mom, she's a retired civil engineer,
29:33
Speaker 5: bliss her heart. She was actually taking care of my
29:35
Speaker 5: sick dad who passed away since then. And I had
29:39
Speaker 5: to get her away from Houston because as I began
29:42
Speaker 5: to uncover these instagrams and these men and Kristen, you know,
29:46
Speaker 5: she didn't come forth in the beginning, but about a
29:49
Speaker 5: week and a half later, after we started the traumaccounting,
29:53
Speaker 5: the psychiatry appointment, you know, her running down the street,
29:56
Speaker 5: they're going to kill you all, her brother running down
29:58
Speaker 5: and chasing her. She finally started to come forth Nancy
30:03
Speaker 5: and said, Mom, I want to start talking about who
30:06
Speaker 5: and what did this to me? I said, baby, you're
30:10
Speaker 5: so brave. That's going to help everybody so much to
30:14
Speaker 5: get these men off the streets. Because she knew it
30:16
Speaker 5: wasn't right, Nancy. So Kristen started to come forth. We
30:21
Speaker 5: called Vice, had them come out interview her. We handed
30:25
Speaker 5: over her phone, and so the holidays, you know, came,
30:29
Speaker 5: and you know, we were looking for facilities for human
30:32
Speaker 5: trafficking victims. There's ultimately zero in Houston, or you have
30:36
Speaker 5: to pay fifteen hundred dollars a day for your child
30:39
Speaker 5: to get the treatment she deserves. And of course nobody
30:44
Speaker 5: works during the holidays. You know, everybody's so busy, and
30:48
Speaker 5: I have my my victim child who you know, nights
30:53
Speaker 5: hair screaming, just she wasn't the same child, and I
30:56
Speaker 5: can virtually get no help.
30:59
Speaker 2: What happened?
30:59
Speaker 5: Then Christmas passes, and you know you tried taking the
31:04
Speaker 5: phone away from your fifteen year old. You know, it's
31:07
Speaker 5: their lifeline. They'd used it for school, and so we
31:11
Speaker 5: gave it back and she was only allowed to have it,
31:13
Speaker 5: you know, in the kitchen where everybody could see her.
31:17
Speaker 5: And then we went to take my sister. My sister's
31:20
Speaker 5: a general in the army, and we went to take
31:22
Speaker 5: my sister back to Fort Hood after the holidays January first,
31:27
Speaker 5: and my dad was left there to watch Kristen and
31:31
Speaker 5: she was gone that night.
31:33
Speaker 2: When you got back and realized she was gone, what
31:37
Speaker 2: went through your mind? Tell me?
31:39
Speaker 5: I need an amber alert. You know, I knew, you know,
31:44
Speaker 5: at the time, even I didn't know that children ran
31:47
Speaker 5: back to their traffickers. Nancy, I had no idea. And
31:51
Speaker 5: you know, I was handing a resource sheet with a
31:53
Speaker 5: bunch of what eight hundred numbers for my traffic file.
31:57
Speaker 2: You what, you know, it's a phenomena. People don't get.
32:17
Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Greece, you.
32:20
Speaker 2: Know, to Nima Romani joining us for a federal prosecutor
32:24
Speaker 2: who has prosecuted countless human trafficking cases in the US.
32:28
Speaker 2: It can be a number of things. The perp can
32:32
Speaker 2: threaten a child. The perp can say I'm going to
32:36
Speaker 2: kill your mom now I know where she is, or
32:39
Speaker 2: just any number of ploys used to make the child
32:44
Speaker 2: so afraid they go with the captor. I've seen it
32:48
Speaker 2: so many times. It's hard for people to understand, but
32:51
Speaker 2: you got to realize, this is a child. A child.
32:55
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we're talking about these commercial sex acts. I
32:58
Speaker 9: mean the federal statutes that talk about fraud, force, coersion,
33:03
Speaker 9: but this is all presumed when you're dealing with a minor.
33:06
Speaker 9: A girl is young, it's fifteen, like Christen. I mean,
33:10
Speaker 9: the statute presumed that these young women they cannot consent
33:14
Speaker 9: to be like that, that they are being coerced. The
33:19
Speaker 9: fraud is presumed, the force is presumed. So if we
33:24
Speaker 9: get the victims that are cooperating, if we can identify
33:28
Speaker 9: these johns, if we can arrest these perpetrators, they're very
33:33
Speaker 9: good cases to prosecute. But unfortunately they're just really tough
33:38
Speaker 9: to find.
33:38
Speaker 2: These women, they really are. And you know, jumping off
33:42
Speaker 2: what Nima is saying, doctor delatry. A lot of people
33:45
Speaker 2: don't understand, but it's akin to an abused woman that
33:51
Speaker 2: has lived in the cycle of abuse. They're afraid to
33:55
Speaker 2: get away, they're afraid not to go back. They're just
33:58
Speaker 2: living in fear. Can you explain it?
34:01
Speaker 7: Yeah. And it's not only just the living and spear
34:04
Speaker 7: it's the threat that violence can happen, not not only
34:08
Speaker 7: to you, but to your family members. It's that right
34:11
Speaker 7: because the victim in the case, they don't want these
34:14
Speaker 7: things to happen, but they are forced to do them
34:16
Speaker 7: because they're force fed drugs and their force fed the
34:21
Speaker 7: idea that aggressive acts are going to be happening to
34:24
Speaker 7: their family if they don't do these things.
34:26
Speaker 2: Well, and we heard that doctor Della Torri when Robin
34:29
Speaker 2: described her daughter being twenty pounds underweight, covered in bruises,
34:33
Speaker 2: crying about what was done to her and what she
34:35
Speaker 2: was forced to be done when she was sex trafficked.
34:38
Speaker 2: And isn't it true, Robin Corey, that your daughter told
34:42
Speaker 2: you that your life and your family was threatened if
34:46
Speaker 2: she did not go with a sex trafficker.
34:48
Speaker 5: Yes, she said they had pictures of all of us
34:51
Speaker 5: and she also described and I have it in her
34:54
Speaker 5: journal she hand wrote it. You know that they had
34:57
Speaker 5: people in a house controlling their social media. You know,
35:01
Speaker 5: this is the organized crime at its finest nancy. It's
35:04
Speaker 5: not just the traffickers, it's the men inside controlling the
35:06
Speaker 5: social media, making the dates, all of that too.
35:12
Speaker 11: It's also a family affair, you know. Not only is
35:15
Speaker 11: Eric in charge, his mother is charged as well.
35:18
Speaker 9: Yep, his own.
35:19
Speaker 2: So they're all in the child sex trafficking business. It's
35:23
Speaker 2: like a family business for Pete's sake, guys, take a
35:26
Speaker 2: listen to our cut six from Fox twenty six.
35:29
Speaker 6: Robin even flew to Atlanta after the district attorney showed
35:33
Speaker 6: her a picture that they thought was Kristen.
35:36
Speaker 2: That picture was one hundred percent like my daughter. Where
35:39
Speaker 2: was the picture from? It was taken in Atlanta.
35:43
Speaker 5: So I then scoured the web and found my daughter
35:46
Speaker 5: on an esport website. I flew up there and there
35:49
Speaker 5: was a few other girls listed in the same as
35:51
Speaker 5: mad as her.
35:52
Speaker 2: I found them as well. She wasn't okay, Robin. I'm
35:56
Speaker 2: trying to take in what you're telling me, and I've
35:58
Speaker 2: had other parents tell me the same thing, and they're
36:01
Speaker 2: desperate attempt to try to find their children, their missing
36:04
Speaker 2: girl or boy. They go online and find their teen
36:09
Speaker 2: child on an escort website, a hooker site.
36:13
Speaker 4: Yeah.
36:13
Speaker 5: So the Houston DA, you know, is trying to convict
36:17
Speaker 5: these men in jail that we have that Kristen told on.
36:20
Speaker 5: And I get a pick a call from the Houston
36:22
Speaker 5: DA and they sent me a picture of kristin her
36:25
Speaker 5: faith in her hands. And I know my daughter's body
36:29
Speaker 5: like the back of my hand, every freckle, every birthmark,
36:31
Speaker 5: and especially Kristen's hands, and I was sure that was Kristen.
36:37
Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of Kristen's and you know, and
36:40
Speaker 5: this was her. And so they would not give me
36:44
Speaker 5: the website.
36:45
Speaker 2: So we found the law on a hooker site, yes.
36:48
Speaker 5: Ma'am, an escort website.
36:50
Speaker 4: Mm hm.
36:52
Speaker 2: And what did you do?
36:54
Speaker 5: And the ad was listed out of Georgia And that's
36:57
Speaker 5: when it became an FBI case as well, by the way,
37:00
Speaker 5: so it had proven that she had crossed state lines.
37:02
Speaker 5: That's when it became a federal case. And I just
37:05
Speaker 5: couldn't hold back, you know, I had to go to Atlanta,
37:09
Speaker 5: and oh my god, Atlanta is just as bad as Houston,
37:13
Speaker 5: it's not worse.
37:14
Speaker 2: What happened when you got to Atlanta and your search
37:17
Speaker 2: for your daughter.
37:18
Speaker 5: I was handing out flyers, desperately searching. It was actually
37:22
Speaker 5: when they had that killing at the spa, that was
37:26
Speaker 5: human traffic, you know that. Yeah, that was at that time,
37:31
Speaker 5: and I went up there and she just wasn't there.
37:34
Speaker 5: Nobody was given any information.
37:36
Speaker 2: When the killer went on the rampage and started shooting
37:38
Speaker 2: up spas. In other words, locations for sex trafficking and hookers. Guys,
37:46
Speaker 2: take a listen to our cut to in our friends.
37:49
Speaker 12: De Mollie, Gary and Jackson previously pleaded guilty to sex
37:52
Speaker 12: trafficking miners with force, fraud, or coercion, and today a
37:56
Speaker 12: federal judge sentenced the twenty four year old to twenty
37:59
Speaker 12: seven years in prison. Now, Jackson was a local rapper
38:03
Speaker 12: who investigators say kept twelve girls and women in a
38:06
Speaker 12: house here in Houston, and they say he trafficked them
38:09
Speaker 12: for sex. Now, according to the judge, Jackson gave the
38:12
Speaker 12: ladies drugs and used threats and beatings to force them
38:17
Speaker 12: to comply with him.
38:18
Speaker 3: Now.
38:18
Speaker 12: One of Jackson's victims, according to the court records, was
38:21
Speaker 12: fifteen year old Kristin Galvan. She went missing from her
38:25
Speaker 12: home in spring, and her loved ones have been searching
38:27
Speaker 12: for her ever since. She still hasn't been found.
38:31
Speaker 2: Kay Lemonte joining us Houston journalists, what can you tell
38:34
Speaker 2: me about this guy Jackson?
38:36
Speaker 8: And Jackson is not an unfortunately and uncommon story, as
38:41
Speaker 8: you've heard Robin say, this is a very common mo
38:44
Speaker 8: of this sort of ring leader who's got the power
38:47
Speaker 8: and is part of this machine. Jackson's mother was involved.
38:52
Speaker 8: Jackson pleaded that he, you know, life was hard for him.
38:57
Speaker 8: He didn't mean to cause all this, you know, he
38:59
Speaker 8: tried to sort of play a pity card once it
39:02
Speaker 8: got down to the eleventh hour. But it's just, you know,
39:07
Speaker 8: you just struggle to think about the girls in that house.
39:11
Speaker 8: And I think it's very telling.
39:12
Speaker 2: Could he tell us anything about where is Kristen? No?
39:15
Speaker 8: And his I believe his father said, if we knew,
39:18
Speaker 8: we would tell you. But that's you know, taked out
39:20
Speaker 8: for what it's worth. And it says a lot that
39:22
Speaker 8: Kristin had all that money on her when she was
39:24
Speaker 8: found the first time and rescued the first time. Four
39:27
Speaker 8: thousand dollars can get you out of town. But it
39:29
Speaker 8: shows you just how powerful individuals like this become. That
39:33
Speaker 8: Kristen felt watched it felt like she couldn't leave, felt
39:36
Speaker 8: like the danger was right over her shoulder. As you
39:38
Speaker 8: heard Robin say, she was paranoid. So you've got this
39:42
Speaker 8: young man who is choosing to use his life for
39:47
Speaker 8: this purpose, and that's not uncommon. And the cycle of
39:51
Speaker 8: this system that pulls in individuals and makes them part
39:54
Speaker 8: of these gangs and part of this system. I mean,
39:57
Speaker 8: it's horrifying to see just how many young life are
40:00
Speaker 8: being ruined and just how many young people are participating
40:03
Speaker 8: in this at a young age. This is not some
40:07
Speaker 8: guy who'd been around for decades and learned how to
40:09
Speaker 8: do this. He was young. His mother was involved, so
40:12
Speaker 8: he was being influenced into it. It's horrifying. And yeah,
40:17
Speaker 8: he was trying to be a rapper at the same time,
40:18
Speaker 8: you know, thinking he was going to rise up in
40:20
Speaker 8: the music business while he was also on the side
40:24
Speaker 8: ruining lives and taking part in something like this. It's
40:27
Speaker 8: horrifying and it is alarming for parents. As a mother
40:30
Speaker 8: of three myself, it scares me.
40:33
Speaker 2: Robin, do you believe in your heart Kristin is still alive?
40:37
Speaker 7: Appre she is.
40:38
Speaker 5: I appreci she is because I don't even want to
40:41
Speaker 5: think about if she's not.
40:44
Speaker 2: When was the last time you heard from her?
40:46
Speaker 5: January first of twenty twenty. Kristin would not do this.
40:53
Speaker 5: Kristin would not not leave her brothers. She has two
40:55
Speaker 5: little brothers. Kristin would not you know her, it would
41:00
Speaker 5: not you know, she wouldn't do this to her family. Nancy,
41:04
Speaker 5: Kristen just and she doesn't have the capabilities to you know,
41:09
Speaker 5: she was just barely getting her permit, she was in
41:11
Speaker 5: driving school.
41:12
Speaker 2: Do you believe that there have been credible sightings of
41:15
Speaker 2: your daughter?
41:16
Speaker 5: Oh Man, there's been so many, Nancy, but they all
41:20
Speaker 5: were not Kristen. We get curly haired leads all the time.
41:25
Speaker 5: They're just not Kristen.
41:26
Speaker 2: The tip line is nine three six seven six zero
41:30
Speaker 2: fifty eight hundred repeat nine three six seven six zero
41:36
Speaker 2: fifty eight hundred. The search for Kristen goes on. Goodbye friend,