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Horrific stories of children, teens sold into sex slavery in their own words · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace is coming to Fox Nation. I Want Justice.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace premieres March ninth, only on
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Speaker 1: Fox Nation. The US Department of Health and Human Services
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Speaker 1: estimates between two hundred and forty and three hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand. That's half a million to three hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty five thousand children are at risk for sex trafficking.
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Speaker 1: Children who are often deemed to be quote runaways are
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Speaker 1: not runaways. They have been put into sex trafficking. Look
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Speaker 1: around you. I know it's hard to believe. When I
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Speaker 1: first heard it, I pooh pooed it myself. But it's real.
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Speaker 1: I'm sounding the alarm. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. In
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, the unit picked up this teenager named Kad.
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Speaker 1: She'd been abducted and trafficked by men she met online.
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Speaker 1: I actually got to call at three forty five in
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Speaker 1: the morning. She's a sixteen year old who ran away
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Speaker 1: from the city of Maricopa and ended up here in Phoenix.
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Speaker 1: He told me fifteen minutes fifteen to twenty minutes was
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Speaker 1: one hundred, thirty minutes was one twenty to one fifty,
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Speaker 1: and an hour was two hundred. But it depended and
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Speaker 1: like that was only told me. But I'm guessing to
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Speaker 1: went up more and more if play one and more time,
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Speaker 1: and we're seeing more and more girls. But they're just
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Speaker 1: typical teenagers going through the wolves of being a teenager
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Speaker 1: and become a victim because they're vulnerable because the traffickers
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Speaker 1: have access to them through their phones and through the internet.
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Speaker 1: Believe it or not, it's happening, and it is happening
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Speaker 1: right here and right now on our beloved American soil.
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Speaker 1: You don't believe me. The US Department of Health and
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Speaker 1: Human Services estimates between two hundred and forty and three
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand children are at risk for
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Speaker 1: sex trafficking with me today an all star panel. You
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Speaker 1: were just hearing from our friends at PBS Frontline sex
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Speaker 1: trafficking in America. Can you imagine a little girl just
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Speaker 1: three and a half years older than my twins are
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Speaker 1: getting one hundred dollars for twenty minutes of sex with
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Speaker 1: random men. It's almost too much for me to take
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Speaker 1: in with me mont To forty, journalist, writer of document Mary,
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Speaker 1: What Happened to the Girl next Door? You can find
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Speaker 1: her at Lorie as Strong Mountainmedia dot Com. Kim Checki
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Speaker 1: Sheltercare Advisor, the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance and the Samaritan
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Speaker 1: Women Institute for Sheltercare. Ashley Kelly, clinical social worker expertise,
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Speaker 1: sex trafficking, child abuse. Jeff Cortesi, former FBI Special Agent,
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Speaker 1: renowned defense attorney in the Atlanta jurisdiction, Former prosecutor Daryl Cohen,
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Speaker 1: and Michelle Terry. She works with children and has now
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Speaker 1: created her own skincare vegan line of products, and she
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Speaker 1: is donating a portion of her profits to stop child
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Speaker 1: sex trafficking. A normal person, just like you or me,
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Speaker 1: who's devoting a percentage of her money to stop sex trafficking. First,
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Speaker 1: I want to go straight out to Laurie monteforty, the
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Speaker 1: host of What Happened to The Girl next Door? Laurie,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. What led you to
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Speaker 1: create the documentary What Happened to the Girl next Door?
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Speaker 1: What led to this documentary was my work as a
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Speaker 1: general assignment reporter in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. We
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Speaker 1: started to notice a lot of these sex trafficking cases
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Speaker 1: talked up and if you know anything about the Poconos.
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Speaker 1: It's this picturesque mountain community. People come here to ski
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Speaker 1: and relax. Nobody was believing that sex trafficking was happening here.
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Speaker 1: But we had some really dedicated detectives who were starting
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Speaker 1: to notice. They started to do things, and I was
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Speaker 1: doing story after story after story, and I said this,
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Speaker 1: there's something to this. We need to dig a little
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Speaker 1: bit deeper. So the local district attorney partnered with me
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Speaker 1: and the TV station where I was working to dive
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Speaker 1: deeper into the issue. You know, with me Laurie monteforty,
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Speaker 1: who created the documentary Happened to the Girl next Door,
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Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, defense attorney, former prosecutor Darryl You, and I
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Speaker 1: prosecuted in one of the heaviest crime case areas in
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Speaker 1: the country at the time I was there. It was
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Speaker 1: the murder capital of the country, Inner City Atlanta, and Daryl.
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Speaker 1: I remember the first child trafficking case I had, but
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Speaker 1: we didn't call it that then. We didn't know about
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Speaker 1: child trafficking. It was a statutory rape case. It was
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Speaker 1: two pimps who had gotten a then twelve turned thirteen
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Speaker 1: year old while she was with them. Two grown men
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Speaker 1: were pimping out a then twelve year old girl, Darryl.
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Speaker 1: I will never forget it. I looked with the vice
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Speaker 1: cops for months on the street, literally three months, trying
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Speaker 1: to find the girl. Finally they called me at about
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Speaker 1: five o'clock in the morning. I threw my clothes on,
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Speaker 1: I got in the car and went down to Stewart Avenue,
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Speaker 1: which was then the strip for prostitution, drugs and so forth.
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Speaker 1: I went into a flophouse. I went into the room.
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Speaker 1: They were all standing there's I can't make out. I'm said,
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Speaker 1: there's not a kid in there, and they went and
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Speaker 1: go back in as the girl and the white boots.
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Speaker 1: I went back in. She like she was a thirty
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Speaker 1: five year old woman, Darryl. She had on a weave,
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Speaker 1: she had on a ton of makeup. By now it
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Speaker 1: was like seven o'clock in the morning. She had on
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I like hera one piece dress that
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Speaker 1: was up to her underwear, and shiny plastic boots that
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Speaker 1: came up to her knees with high heels on them.
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Speaker 1: But when she was cleaned up, all that makeup taken off,
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Speaker 1: she looked like a twelve year old girl. I also
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Speaker 1: got to miss trayld in my opening statement for calling
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Speaker 1: the defendants pimps, I hadn't reindicted to include misdemeanor pimping
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Speaker 1: and retried them in four days. Daryl Cohen, we didn't
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Speaker 1: know as child sex trafficking. Then that's not what we
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Speaker 1: called it, Nancy. It was happening right under our noses,
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Speaker 1: and we didn't see it because it was so obvious
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Speaker 1: that these were pimps, and these were girls that were
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Speaker 1: obviously doing it because they wanted to get away from
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Speaker 1: their house and nothing, nothing could have been further from
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Speaker 1: the truth. They were part of a sex trafficking that
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Speaker 1: we did not know existed, and now we know it,
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Speaker 1: and now it has become a nationwide epidemic. And you know, Daryl,
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Speaker 1: I was just getting cases piece by piece. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know it's part of a bigger sex trafficking epidemic in
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Speaker 1: our country of children. First of all, what kind of
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Speaker 1: perv wants to have sex, forcible sex with a little
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Speaker 1: girl or boy? Take a listen to this. The night
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Speaker 1: she left home, Kat was driven thirty miles to Phoenix,
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Speaker 1: where she met a third man. What she says was
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Speaker 1: the most frightening of them all. Brian flamante. Brian was
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Speaker 1: more of the enforcer. You could see you tell me,
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Speaker 1: I don't give up who you are. He said, I
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Speaker 1: own you, I own your body. I own you, and
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Speaker 1: you have no saying what you do. The men took
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Speaker 1: her to a hotel and that black truck right there
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Speaker 1: is Jesse Sisnarosis truck. This is Jesse Sisnarios. This is
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Speaker 1: Bryant flamante. They arrived to the hotel together and then
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Speaker 1: here comes Kat and this is what Jessie explains, you
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Speaker 1: have a client. I was like, what are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: I have a client, a client my rear end, a
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Speaker 1: little girl fourteen fifteen years old, has a sex client.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've got Lucy and the scouts for Pete
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Speaker 1: say she's playing the handbills at the church. She's an acolyte.
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Speaker 1: Were working on her French test last night. Joining me
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Speaker 1: right now is someone in addition to Laurie Monta, Forty,
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Speaker 1: Kim check, Hiyashi, Kelly, Jeff Cortesi and Daryl co this
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Speaker 1: is a regular person like you and me, who has
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Speaker 1: taken it upon herself to make a difference in this world.
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Speaker 1: Michelle Terry is with me. She is a nanny she's
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Speaker 1: a babysitter. I know her well, and she is now
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Speaker 1: devoting part of her income to stop child sex trafficking.
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Speaker 1: Michelle Terry. Why because it's very important to me. I've
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Speaker 1: always wanted to be a part of something big, to
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Speaker 1: give back to help. So I created this line. This
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Speaker 1: is very dear to my heart. I created this line
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Speaker 1: to help women that have come out of sex trafficking
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Speaker 1: and that are in these nonprofit organizations where they need
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Speaker 1: help to get them back on their feet, whether it
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Speaker 1: be education, whether it be shelter, clothing, and etc. So
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Speaker 1: I created this line. It's all vegan, it's all one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent natural. A portion of the profit will go
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Speaker 1: back to a local organization here in Atlanta. We know
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Speaker 1: right here in Atlanta it's one of the top cities
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Speaker 1: in the country with the sex trafficking issue because we
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Speaker 1: have our international airport here and there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: girls missing in these neighborhoods. They're like vanishing off the
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Speaker 1: streets and it's very sad, and I want to be
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Speaker 1: I want to help. I just want to help, Michelle.
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Speaker 1: I recall in DC a series a little girls go missing,
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Speaker 1: and it was a big deal. Then it just disappeared
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Speaker 1: I'm somehow getting off the point of sex trafficking, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to circle back on that. But take a
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Speaker 1: listen to this. He was like, you're going to have
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Speaker 1: sex with this man. He was like, you're gonna tell
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Speaker 1: him your nineteen and your name is Rose. And this
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Speaker 1: stranger comes in. He did those things to me. He
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Speaker 1: puts some money in the drawer and then he leaves.
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Speaker 1: was like, you're going to have sex with this man.
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Speaker 1: He was like, you're gonna tell him your nineteen and
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Speaker 1: your name is Rose. And this stranger comes in. He
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Speaker 1: did those things to me. He puts the money in
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Speaker 1: the draw and then he leaves. It was like, my
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Speaker 1: whole world just collapsed. Over the course of a week,
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Speaker 1: she was taken to homes and hotel rooms and repeatedly
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Speaker 1: sold for sex until someone saw her outside the hotel
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Speaker 1: became suspicious and called the police. We went in check
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Speaker 1: back in produce into a different room. It was on
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Speaker 1: the cover end, but it was a different room. She's
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Speaker 1: the only victim I've had who could tell me specific
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Speaker 1: room numbers of hotel rooms that they had been taken
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Speaker 1: to a sex room two oh four that you pointed out. Yet,
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Speaker 1: when she could recall so much detail, that helped us
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Speaker 1: tremendously in tracking down who all these players were. Our
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Speaker 1: friends at PBS Frontline sex trafficking in America. It's happening now.
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Speaker 1: I didn't believe it. I thought it was an anomaly.
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Speaker 1: It's not. Three hundred thousand children plus are going to
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Speaker 1: be sex trafficked in America this year, many of them
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Speaker 1: counted as runaways. It's overwhelming to me, and those stats
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Speaker 1: are from the US Department. It is a form of
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Speaker 1: modern slavery, smuggling, trading of children and forced to labor,
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Speaker 1: or sex exploitation. You know, y'all can all get mad
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Speaker 1: at me, but do you remember Lt. Lawrence Taylor, the
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Speaker 1: big hit on Dancing with the Stars, the football star.
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Speaker 1: He ordered up a thirteen year old girl like she
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Speaker 1: was a pizza to his room, and she got a
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Speaker 1: black eye from her pimp to get in there and
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Speaker 1: have sex with Lawrence Taylor. Now that's really hard for
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Speaker 1: me to believe he didn't know she was under age,
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Speaker 1: and then everybody's cheering for him on Dancing with the Stars,
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Speaker 1: I mean joining me. Kim Checkhi, Sheltercare Advisor, National Trafficking
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Speaker 1: Sheltered Alliance, The Samaritan Women Institute for Sheltercare. Kim check Hi.
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Speaker 1: Why is it so hard for people to believe this
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Speaker 1: is happening right under our noses? As Daryl Cohen said,
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Speaker 1: right under my nose. I didn't know that one case
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Speaker 1: was part of something much bigger. Because in the United
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Speaker 1: States of America, prosecution is what it's the oldest job
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Speaker 1: in the book, and so we don't a change. We
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Speaker 1: need to change the way we think. We need to
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Speaker 1: change the way we process. We need to begin to
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Speaker 1: be looking at these children even as an adult woman.
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Speaker 1: If she's over the age of eighteen, but she's been
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Speaker 1: sold from the time she's been eight, nine, ten. We
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Speaker 1: can't just pretend that after all the trauma, after all
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Speaker 1: the horror that she has been exposed to, that it's
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Speaker 1: supposed to go away and she's supposed to live a
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Speaker 1: normal life. It doesn't happen. It's here, it's on our noses.
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Speaker 1: There's broussels. There are brossels all over the United States
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Speaker 1: where women are being sold thirty forty times a day
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Speaker 1: with a quota that they have to come back with. Guys,
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Speaker 1: take a listen to this. At seventeen, she got pregnant.
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Speaker 1: Her trafficker continued forcing her to have sex with strangers
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Speaker 1: being pregnant. It's a fantasy from it, a pregnant woman,
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Speaker 1: and so they were actually paying a lot more for
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Speaker 1: a pregnant woman. After she gave birth, a family member
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Speaker 1: took the child the trafficker Kate. At eighteen, that trafficker
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Speaker 1: sold her to another pimp. The new slave keeper told
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Speaker 1: her he paid twenty thousand dollars for her and it
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Speaker 1: would be up to her to earn that money back.
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Speaker 1: He forced her to go on multiple dates every day,
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Speaker 1: living in fear and despair, but she never let the
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Speaker 1: buyers see that. You put on a front and a
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Speaker 1: mask in a way. You have to make them think
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Speaker 1: that you like it, because if not, they're going not
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Speaker 1: gonna spend the money. If she didn't make money, her
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Speaker 1: trafficker would severely beat her. Oh that breaks my heart
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Speaker 1: so much. Laurie Monteforte, writer and host of the documentary.
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Speaker 1: You just heard what Happened to the Girl next Door.
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Speaker 1: It's so hard for me to take in. While I'm
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Speaker 1: busy about Lucy and John David meeting their requirements to
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Speaker 1: make first class and Scouts and become Eagles, these girls
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Speaker 1: are out there forced to have sex, getting beaten if
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Speaker 1: they don't go along. Ashley, we were just hearing Larie
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Speaker 1: Montefort's documentary what Happened to the Girl next Door? Ashley.
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Speaker 1: Why don't the girls just call nine one one? It's
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Speaker 1: a really complicated question because a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of them are threatened with their family getting hurt or killed,
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Speaker 1: with themselves getting hurt or killed, kept in dog cages.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of different techniques that pince and traffickers
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Speaker 1: use to keep girls quiet and keep them loyal. It's
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Speaker 1: a very complex issue for sure. And I really love
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Speaker 1: that you're you're talking about the Scout because that's how
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Speaker 1: I got my first exposure to child sex trafficking with
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Speaker 1: our local Girl Scout trop here in Phoenix. We have
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Speaker 1: the Social Justice Program and we've provided Scout services two
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Speaker 1: girls who had been trafficked in detention centers and in
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Speaker 1: gre homes and in community programming. So that was my
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Speaker 1: first go around about ten years ago in the Girl
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Speaker 1: Scout program, and I met a lot of young girls.
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Speaker 1: And Phoenix is a is a hot spot for sex
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Speaker 1: trafficking for children, specifically who had horrific stories of their pants,
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Speaker 1: who tattooed or branded their faces with stars to remind
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Speaker 1: them what would happen if they told anybody who would
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Speaker 1: throw them out of cars on the freeway, leaping by dumpsters,
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Speaker 1: just horrific, terrific threat clime stories with Nancy Grace. He
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Speaker 1: offered to me a ride up to Phoenix, and with
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Speaker 1: everything in my head, I was like, you know, what's
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Speaker 1: just to rye, you know, like nothing's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: When you got here, I climbed out of bed jim
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Speaker 1: window and got into his car. He was like, I'm
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Speaker 1: not jumping you off, and I was like, you know
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Speaker 1: what are you talking about. He covered my eyes so
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Speaker 1: I could see where we were going. It was really dark.
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Speaker 1: Their plan was to get Kat and utilize her for
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Speaker 1: the purpose of sex trafficking. They knew it going in.
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Speaker 1: Kat was the unsuspecting one who had no idea, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: and that's how her nightmare began. He told me, I
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Speaker 1: don't give up who you are. He said, I own you,
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Speaker 1: I own your body. I own you, and you have
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Speaker 1: no saying what you do. You know, it's almost so
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Speaker 1: horrific that people don't believe it. With me today an
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Speaker 1: All Star panel, you were just hearing from our friends
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Speaker 1: at PBS Frontline Sex Trafficking in America with me. Laurie Monteforte, journalist,
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Speaker 1: writer of documentary What Happened to the Girl next Door.
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Speaker 1: You can find her at Lorie as Strong Mountainmedia dot com.
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Speaker 1: Kim Checki Sheltercare Advisor, the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance, and
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Speaker 1: the Samaritan Women Institute for Sheltercare. Ashley Kelly clinical social
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Speaker 1: worker expertise, sex trafficking, child abuse, Jeff Cortesi, former FBI
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Speaker 1: Special Agent, renowned defense attorney in the Atlanta jurisdiction, former
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Speaker 1: prosecutor Daryl Cohen, and Michelle Terry. She works with children
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Speaker 1: and has now created her own skincare vegan line of products,
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Speaker 1: and she is donating a portion of her profits to
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Speaker 1: stop child sex trafficking to Jeff Cortesi, former FBI special
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Speaker 1: age at earlier Michelle Terry, who has launched her on
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Speaker 1: skin Line Vegan skin Line Wellness now one O one,
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Speaker 1: a portion of her profits going to stop sex trafficking.
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Speaker 1: Jeff CORTEZI we heard Michelle mentioned Atlanta. We heard Ashley
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Speaker 1: Kelly mentioned Phoenix is a hot spot. Why are certain
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Speaker 1: cities but it's not exclusive, this happens in rural areas too,
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Speaker 1: But why are certain cities hubs of sex trafficking, including
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Speaker 1: child sex trafficking. Yeah, that's a great question, Nancy. I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of it comes down to, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: location of criminal activities, basic supply and demand. You know,
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Speaker 1: another factor that we haven't really touched on in this
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Speaker 1: discussion is, you know, oftentimes coyotes smuggling across the border
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Speaker 1: turn those whom they're bringing into the country into slaves
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Speaker 1: unbeknownst to them when they when they had arranged to
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Speaker 1: be brought into the country. So a lot of the
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Speaker 1: border states tend to higher volume. But it's going to
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Speaker 1: come down to a lot of elicited gang and drug activity,
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Speaker 1: population and basics applied. To take a listen to this,
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Speaker 1: I felt disgusted, but at the same time, I thought,
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Speaker 1: that's why he wanted for me. I thought that's I
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Speaker 1: was trying to please him in a way. Experts say
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Speaker 1: Kate was a victim of a process called grooming. During
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Speaker 1: that process, traffickers carefully execute mind games. Their schemes form
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Speaker 1: psychological chains. Emily Paznak Lapstick is an end trafficking Program
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Speaker 1: officer with UNICEF. That's the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.
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Speaker 1: The charity helps at risk children. She explained that first
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Speaker 1: traffickers make the victims think they're in love and then
24:46
Speaker 1: gradually replace love with abuse. Children are very malleable, and
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Speaker 1: especially if that child has been abused in the home,
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Speaker 1: which many trafficking victims have experienced prior abuse, they're used
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Speaker 1: to that cycle of abuse. Told us she was sexually
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Speaker 1: abused as a child, and she felt the same shame
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Speaker 1: when she was sold for sex. She felt used, dirty
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Speaker 1: and disposable. Are you sissue? Over and over again? This
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Speaker 1: little girl says she felt like used tissue like clean X.
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Speaker 1: You're hearing from what happened to the girl next door.
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Speaker 1: When you hear a story like that, from what happened
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Speaker 1: to the girl next door, Michelle Terry, stories like that
25:28
Speaker 1: must have motivated you to actually do something about it. Explain, Yes, Nancy.
25:34
Speaker 1: It truly breaks my heart again. Being here in Atlanta,
25:37
Speaker 1: we see it every single day. We hear about it
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Speaker 1: on the news. How many women are missing. The number
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Speaker 1: is so big that I think, again, people really don't
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Speaker 1: believe that is happening. And it just truly breaks my
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Speaker 1: heart to you even think of an eight year old,
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Speaker 1: a ten year old, fifteen year old, a grown woman.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're actually kidnapping grown women and throwing them
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Speaker 1: into bands and they're vanishing off the street, and it's horrific.
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Speaker 1: It's just horrible. Listen, me and my parents have been
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Speaker 1: arguing a lot about just things that have been going
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Speaker 1: on throughout my life and things that were going on
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Speaker 1: their life, and it seemed like they would blaming for everything,
26:19
Speaker 1: and I just like I couldn't take it anymore. I
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Speaker 1: had Facebook, Guide, Instagram, I had all these things, a Snapchat,
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Speaker 1: everything like that. My friends told me about this app.
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Speaker 1: It was called meet Me. It was like a like
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Speaker 1: you meet people and you talk to them, you know,
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Speaker 1: it didn't really seem like it was that harmful. This
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Speaker 1: is his chatting history. There's Kat and there's Rafael. Through
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Speaker 1: them meet me app, God began chatting with a man
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Speaker 1: named Raphael Quiros. They exchanged messages for almost a month.
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Speaker 1: She talked to him about the struggles that she was
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Speaker 1: having at home with her family and fights that she
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Speaker 1: was having, and he was just playing on her vulnerabilities.
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Speaker 1: Raphael introduced Kat to a friend of his name Jesse,
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Speaker 1: says Nils, So Jesse started corresponding with her on Snapchat,
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Speaker 1: and Jesse was the one who actually arranged to meet
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Speaker 1: up with her. I went to go wake her up
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Speaker 1: for school, and I looked in her room and I
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Speaker 1: didn't see her. I drove all over town looking for her,
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Speaker 1: and she wasn't there. And that's when he started realizing
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Speaker 1: something wasn't right. Kat's parents filed a missing person's report
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Speaker 1: National Human Rafting Hotline eight eight eight three seven three
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Speaker 1: seven eight eight eight. If you think you know something
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Speaker 1: eight eight eight three seven three seven eight eight eight,
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Speaker 1: and for those of you who want to know more,
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Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
28:09
Speaker 1: When Kate was a little girl, she dreamed of parrouetting
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Speaker 1: across a big stage or prepping fancy meals in a
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Speaker 1: big restaurant kitchen. A chance meeting led her dreams to
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Speaker 1: fall apart. A human trafficker sold Kate into sexual servitude.
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Speaker 1: I never wanted to do it. I never wanted to
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Speaker 1: do I never thought I would be doing this. It
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Speaker 1: all started a glance at a train station. Kate was
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Speaker 1: on a trip to visit a friend when a young
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Speaker 1: man told her she was beautiful. I'm fourteen years old,
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Speaker 1: starting again to boys. I you know this guy likes me.
28:44
Speaker 1: Come on now, like he's really nice, he's handsome. They
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Speaker 1: exchanged phone numbers, then started communicating often. She told her
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Speaker 1: parents he was her boyfriend. He showered her with clothes
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Speaker 1: and gifts. Kate thought they were in love and she
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Speaker 1: would do anything to make him happy. That included selling
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Speaker 1: her body. She was just fourteen the first time. He
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Speaker 1: took her to a hotel room, gave her alcohol and marijuana,
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Speaker 1: and then told her to have sex with a stranger.
29:15
Speaker 1: You are hearing from our friend Laurie Montaforty's documentary What
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Speaker 1: Happened to the Girl next Door. That's just a tiny,
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Speaker 1: tiny sample of thousands of young girls and boys that
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Speaker 1: are sex trafficked in our country every year. With me,
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Speaker 1: Laurie Montaforty, who created that documentary, Laurie, we keep getting
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Speaker 1: the question why don't some of the teens call nine
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Speaker 1: on one and get away. This is something that so
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Speaker 1: many people asked throughout the entire making of the documentary,
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Speaker 1: the screening, and then when it was on TV. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: even after seeing it, they couldn't comprehend why can't these
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Speaker 1: girls get away? A lot of times they don't have
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Speaker 1: access to a phone. That would be a basic problem,
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Speaker 1: but will Oftentimes it's much deeper than that. These girls
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Speaker 1: have been traumatized and formed what are called trauma bombs
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Speaker 1: with their traffickers. So oftentimes they feel like they love
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Speaker 1: them and that they have to do these things to
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Speaker 1: please the trafficker. They've set up this mind game that
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Speaker 1: the traffickers the only person who will ever love them,
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Speaker 1: and even if they call for help, no one will
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Speaker 1: help them. So they're trapped. They're trapped in this mental
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Speaker 1: abuse combined with the physical realities that they might not
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Speaker 1: even have a phone with them. In my documentary, I
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Speaker 1: interviewed one girl who eventually was so beaten and battered
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Speaker 1: and abused that she tried to run away. She did
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Speaker 1: manage to make it to a hospital. The traffickers have
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Speaker 1: infiltrated themselves so deeply into her life that the trafficker
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Speaker 1: was listed as her emergency contact at the hospital, so
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Speaker 1: instead of calling someone who actually cared, the hospital brought
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Speaker 1: the trafficker to her, and then she was brought right
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Speaker 1: back into it. So it's not as easy as oh,
31:01
Speaker 1: why don't you just escape? You know, We've I dealt
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Speaker 1: with that many times in court with the battered women's syndrome,
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Speaker 1: when people would ask why are you prosecuting him because
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Speaker 1: she wanted out of the relationship. She could have just laughed.
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Speaker 1: She could have called nine one one. That's not that simple,
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Speaker 1: and especially when you're dealing with a teen girl or
31:20
Speaker 1: even younger that is being sex trafficked, take a listen
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Speaker 1: to this. She then met Barudi Hobson, who invited her
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Speaker 1: to stay with him. Within days, the fifteen year old
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Speaker 1: was having sex with Hobson and started working for him
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Speaker 1: as a prostitute. Hobson took provocative photos and posted them
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Speaker 1: to sites like backpage dot com. He really capitalized on
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Speaker 1: the fact that my parents would be highly disappointed and
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Speaker 1: not love me anymore. I'm dirty. He was very convincing
31:49
Speaker 1: and all that. While working for Hobson, she was arrested
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Speaker 1: in a sting operation where JS told the police officer
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Speaker 1: that she was eighteen years old, and they let her go,
31:58
Speaker 1: but before she left, an office took a photo of her. Later,
32:01
Speaker 1: as her parents kept pushing, investigators were able to use
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Speaker 1: that photo to track her down to a posting on
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Speaker 1: backpage dot com and planned a rescue operation to save
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Speaker 1: the fifteen year old JS. To see her come home
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Speaker 1: and have that light gone out of her eyes, it
32:19
Speaker 1: was painful. I didn't think it would ever return. She
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Speaker 1: told investigators that she was sold up to fifteen times
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Speaker 1: a day. You were hearing from our friends at NBC
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Speaker 1: talking about a teen girl being sold for sex up
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Speaker 1: to fifteen times a day. First people found out about
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Speaker 1: her on back Page. I don't know if you've ever
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Speaker 1: heard about that, but it's a classified ad website that
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Speaker 1: was the largest marketplace for buying and selling sex before
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Speaker 1: the FEDS busted it, including child sex. Jeff Cortes, How
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Speaker 1: does it work? How do you get a girl that
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Speaker 1: is at a party, let's say, or hanging out on
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Speaker 1: the corner with her friends, or at a bus stop.
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Speaker 1: How does that child, who may even be walking to
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Speaker 1: school in the morning. Yes, that is a real scenario
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Speaker 1: end up in sex trafficking, and they're reported as a
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Speaker 1: runaway or a missing kid. Nobody has any idea what's
33:21
Speaker 1: really going on? How does it happen? Jeff Nancy. I
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Speaker 1: think he noted earlier some really important things, one of
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Speaker 1: which being changing the way we think about sex trafficking.
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Speaker 1: You know, these traffickers, they tend to target the most
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Speaker 1: vulnerable runaways, foster children, abuse kids, as we've as we've
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Speaker 1: already touched on, and you know, their master's at manipulation.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna find what it is that this child needs, wants,
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna exploit that, and they're going to massage it,
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna keep working until they can manipulate this
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Speaker 1: person into getting them at least where they need them
33:57
Speaker 1: to be. And then after that they might load them
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Speaker 1: up with and use force, fraud, or coercion as we
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Speaker 1: call it, to get them to do exactly what they
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Speaker 1: want them to do. Ashley Kelly with me licensed clinical
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Speaker 1: social work or expertise sex trafficking and child abuse. Ashley,
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Speaker 1: Very often I have heard people that are not in
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Speaker 1: the note state that rape is not a violent crime,
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Speaker 1: that child molestation is not a violent crime, that these
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Speaker 1: victims can blend back into society and resume their normal lives.
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Speaker 1: That's not true. I'm certainly no medical doctor or a shrink,
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Speaker 1: but having dealt with literally thousands of child molestation victims
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Speaker 1: rape victims, I know that's not true. You're never the same, Ashley.
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Speaker 1: You're right. I can't think of a more traumatizing thing
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Speaker 1: than your body, mind, and spirit being violated by somebody else,
34:56
Speaker 1: particularly when our brains are still developing. You lose things
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Speaker 1: and experiences that you could have had or were anticipated
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Speaker 1: to have because somebody decided to violate that for you.
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Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely a violent crime of every level.
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Speaker 1: The people that I've worked with who've been assaulted in
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Speaker 1: various different ways, particularly starting with molestation when they're a child,
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Speaker 1: and onward to even sex trafficking. I've even heard the
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Speaker 1: term child prostitute being used to describe victims of this,
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Speaker 1: and there's no such thing as a child prostitute because
35:34
Speaker 1: children can't consent to sex, and a lot of these
35:37
Speaker 1: people who get into it are forced into it, courced
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Speaker 1: into it when their children become adults, and even though
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Speaker 1: they're now of consenting age, there wasn't consent from the beginning,
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Speaker 1: and it was a forced course, desperate situation that they've
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Speaker 1: had to continue to go into it because they know it.
35:57
Speaker 1: So I would agree it's it's very much a violent.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this from My favorite hobbies are collecting porcelain
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Speaker 1: nolves and playing soccer. Of course, JS grew up in
36:10
Speaker 1: a typical middle class home with a great family. I
36:13
Speaker 1: was a happy kid. I did sports, played musical instruments, violin, piano.
36:20
Speaker 1: I was really kind of like the jack of all trades,
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Speaker 1: wanted to do everything. I was really happy. At fifteen
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Speaker 1: years old, she started to fall behind in one of
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Speaker 1: her classes. Scared to show her parents her report card,
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Speaker 1: she made a plan. I ran away. I've gone on
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Speaker 1: a city bus. I never done that. I didn't even
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Speaker 1: know how city busses worked. I was like, everything's fine.
36:42
Speaker 1: She made her way to a homeless shelter where she
36:44
Speaker 1: met a young woman who promised to help take care
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Speaker 1: of her. The two went to a party where she
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Speaker 1: was raped. Before that party, she was a virgin. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to keep my innocence for like a special person
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Speaker 1: and like I wasn't able to our friends at NBC.
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Speaker 1: That child was then that teen girl forced into child
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Speaker 1: sex Trafficking National Human Trafficking Hotline eight eight eight three
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Speaker 1: seven three seven eight eight eight. If you think you
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Speaker 1: know something eight eight eight three seven three seven eight
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Speaker 1: eight eight and for those of you who want to
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Speaker 1: tomorrow for more of our investigation into sex trafficking. I'm
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