A 15-year-old who went to a Dallas Mavericks game with her dad was taken and sold into sex trafficking.
A 15-year-old who went to a Dallas Mavericks game with her dad was taken from the game and sold into sex trafficking. The incident has opened eyes to how widespread human trafficking is. FOX 26's Damali Keith speaks with the man who found the girl and helped her return home.It shocked parents when a 15-year-old girl, who went to a Dallas Mavericks game with her dad, was taken from the stadium and sold into a world that’s far from the suburbs where she's from.
Most trafficking victims are said to be hidden in plain sight but to rescue them JB has to travel into sections of cities and really into a world most of us only see from the safety of our televisions. "Secondary trauma is real. It increases my anxiety when you’re in an area where armed robberies, carjackings, beatings, rapes, assaults of all sorts, are common" he explains.
The teen was being trafficked for sex in Oklahoma and had been placed in online advertisements for sex. "She looked distraught, surprised that somebody was taking her picture and did not look like she was posing intentionally for an ad," JB says, and he explains how he felt anxious to get her and all the kids he rescues back home before they’re too scarred and harmed.
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