This story is every parent’s worst nightmare.
You and your kid go to see a sports game or a concert, the teen gets up to use the bathroom, and never comes back.
That sounds like the worst hellish nightmare ever, but it was one Texas father’s reality when he and his teenage daughter went to a Dallas Mavericks game.
At halftime, the 15-year-old girl got up and went to use the bathroom, her father waited in the seats for her, but she never came back.
Sex traffickers nabbed her when she came out of the bathroom.
That’s the horrific news, the good news is that after 11 days the parents finally found her in another state, but only after their daughter had been sexually brutalized for all those days.
Bizpacreview reported that the North Texas teenager disappeared on April 8th at the American Airlines Center. The girl was caught on surveillance video leaving with a man. She was missing for 11 days.
On April 18, police found the girl in a room at the Extended Stay America hotel where she had been repeatedly sold and sexually abused. The hotel is over 200 miles from where she was taken, WFAA reported.
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A lawsuit has been filed by the family against a number of organizations over the incident. They claim it could have been stopped but wasn’t.
“She was gone missing a total of 11 days,” attorney Zeke Fortenberry told WFAA. He is representing the family in their lawsuit.
The attorney issued a statement that named the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas Police Department, and the American Airlines Center as groups that could have potentially intervened to prevent the abduction but didn’t.
The father attempted to file a missing person’s report with the police according to Fortenberry. He was told to contact the North Richland Hills Police where he lives and then was told to go home. When he contacted the North Richland Hills Police, they claimed they could not help because the incident occurred in Dallas.
“The family was frustrated,” Fortenberry noted. “After days of not getting any information from the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Police not taking any action, the family sought out the help of this agency in Houston.”
They found their daughter with help from the human trafficking agency Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative in Houston which used facial-recognition technology according to WFAA.
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Thank GOD for that human trafficking group that helped them, and thank goodness the parents had the wherewithal to put two and two together and seek the proper help because in this case, the police were not on track to find her anytime soon.
According to the attorney, the Dallas Police didn’t even ask for a photograph of the missing girl. I think a lot of times cops get it in their heads that most are “runaways” or kids just being kids, and they fluff it off, but they need to do better, listen to the parents and feel out the situation. Every incident isn’t “typical.”
Thanks to the human trafficking group, the girl was rescued by the Oklahoma City Police.
A total of 8 monsters who were part of her abduction and trafficking were arrested.
The monsters were charged with human trafficking, the distribution of child pornography, and rape.
Parents, go with your kids to the bathroom, and the snack booth… there are so many monsters out there and they have so many tricks to abduct your kids.