1
00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,920
Speaker 1: Nancy Grace is coming to Fox Nation. I Want Justice.

2
00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,680
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace premieres March ninth, only on

3
00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:17,160
Speaker 1: Fox Nation. The US Department of Health and Human Services

4
00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,360
Speaker 1: estimates between two hundred and forty and three hundred and

5
00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,560
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand. That's half a million to three hundred

6
00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:33,520
Speaker 1: and twenty five thousand children are at risk for sex trafficking.

7
00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,040
Speaker 1: Children who are often deemed to be quote runaways are

8
00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:46,760
Speaker 1: not runaways. They have been put into sex trafficking. Look

9
00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,120
Speaker 1: around you. I know it's hard to believe. When I

10
00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,680
Speaker 1: first heard it, I pooh pooed it myself. But it's real.

11
00:00:53,920 --> 00:01:13,520
Speaker 1: I'm sounding the alarm. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. In

12
00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,479
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, the unit picked up this teenager named Kad.

13
00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,600
Speaker 1: She'd been abducted and trafficked by men she met online.

14
00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,200
Speaker 1: I actually got to call at three forty five in

15
00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,600
Speaker 1: the morning. She's a sixteen year old who ran away

16
00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:34,399
Speaker 1: from the city of Maricopa and ended up here in Phoenix.

17
00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,120
Speaker 1: He told me fifteen minutes fifteen to twenty minutes was

18
00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,679
Speaker 1: one hundred, thirty minutes was one twenty to one fifty,

19
00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,400
Speaker 1: and an hour was two hundred. But it depended and

20
00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,040
Speaker 1: like that was only told me. But I'm guessing to

21
00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,040
Speaker 1: went up more and more if play one and more time,

22
00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,920
Speaker 1: and we're seeing more and more girls. But they're just

23
00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000
Speaker 1: typical teenagers going through the wolves of being a teenager

24
00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,520
Speaker 1: and become a victim because they're vulnerable because the traffickers

25
00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,080
Speaker 1: have access to them through their phones and through the internet.

26
00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,040
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, it's happening, and it is happening

27
00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:16,040
Speaker 1: right here and right now on our beloved American soil.

28
00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,280
Speaker 1: You don't believe me. The US Department of Health and

29
00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,800
Speaker 1: Human Services estimates between two hundred and forty and three

30
00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:29,799
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand children are at risk for

31
00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:34,360
Speaker 1: sex trafficking with me today an all star panel. You

32
00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,400
Speaker 1: were just hearing from our friends at PBS Frontline sex

33
00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:43,359
Speaker 1: trafficking in America. Can you imagine a little girl just

34
00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,440
Speaker 1: three and a half years older than my twins are

35
00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,480
Speaker 1: getting one hundred dollars for twenty minutes of sex with

36
00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,519
Speaker 1: random men. It's almost too much for me to take

37
00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,400
Speaker 1: in with me mont To forty, journalist, writer of document Mary,

38
00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,840
Speaker 1: What Happened to the Girl next Door? You can find

39
00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:07,120
Speaker 1: her at Lorie as Strong Mountainmedia dot Com. Kim Checki

40
00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,079
Speaker 1: Sheltercare Advisor, the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance and the Samaritan

41
00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:18,560
Speaker 1: Women Institute for Sheltercare. Ashley Kelly, clinical social worker expertise,

42
00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:23,480
Speaker 1: sex trafficking, child abuse. Jeff Cortesi, former FBI Special Agent,

43
00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,040
Speaker 1: renowned defense attorney in the Atlanta jurisdiction, Former prosecutor Daryl Cohen,

44
00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,359
Speaker 1: and Michelle Terry. She works with children and has now

45
00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,440
Speaker 1: created her own skincare vegan line of products, and she

46
00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:47,160
Speaker 1: is donating a portion of her profits to stop child

47
00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,240
Speaker 1: sex trafficking. A normal person, just like you or me,

48
00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:59,880
Speaker 1: who's devoting a percentage of her money to stop sex trafficking. First,

49
00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,360
Speaker 1: I want to go straight out to Laurie monteforty, the

50
00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,000
Speaker 1: host of What Happened to The Girl next Door? Laurie,

51
00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,280
Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. What led you to

52
00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,000
Speaker 1: create the documentary What Happened to the Girl next Door?

53
00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,960
Speaker 1: What led to this documentary was my work as a

54
00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:21,120
Speaker 1: general assignment reporter in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. We

55
00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,880
Speaker 1: started to notice a lot of these sex trafficking cases

56
00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,640
Speaker 1: talked up and if you know anything about the Poconos.

57
00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,640
Speaker 1: It's this picturesque mountain community. People come here to ski

58
00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:36,400
Speaker 1: and relax. Nobody was believing that sex trafficking was happening here.

59
00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,680
Speaker 1: But we had some really dedicated detectives who were starting

60
00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,480
Speaker 1: to notice. They started to do things, and I was

61
00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,840
Speaker 1: doing story after story after story, and I said this,

62
00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,440
Speaker 1: there's something to this. We need to dig a little

63
00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,560
Speaker 1: bit deeper. So the local district attorney partnered with me

64
00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,400
Speaker 1: and the TV station where I was working to dive

65
00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,840
Speaker 1: deeper into the issue. You know, with me Laurie monteforty,

66
00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,719
Speaker 1: who created the documentary Happened to the Girl next Door,

67
00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:06,200
Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, defense attorney, former prosecutor Darryl You, and I

68
00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:12,560
Speaker 1: prosecuted in one of the heaviest crime case areas in

69
00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,800
Speaker 1: the country at the time I was there. It was

70
00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,559
Speaker 1: the murder capital of the country, Inner City Atlanta, and Daryl.

71
00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,159
Speaker 1: I remember the first child trafficking case I had, but

72
00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,080
Speaker 1: we didn't call it that then. We didn't know about

73
00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,360
Speaker 1: child trafficking. It was a statutory rape case. It was

74
00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,960
Speaker 1: two pimps who had gotten a then twelve turned thirteen

75
00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,000
Speaker 1: year old while she was with them. Two grown men

76
00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,880
Speaker 1: were pimping out a then twelve year old girl, Darryl.

77
00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,040
Speaker 1: I will never forget it. I looked with the vice

78
00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,839
Speaker 1: cops for months on the street, literally three months, trying

79
00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,080
Speaker 1: to find the girl. Finally they called me at about

80
00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,120
Speaker 1: five o'clock in the morning. I threw my clothes on,

81
00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,600
Speaker 1: I got in the car and went down to Stewart Avenue,

82
00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,200
Speaker 1: which was then the strip for prostitution, drugs and so forth.

83
00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,000
Speaker 1: I went into a flophouse. I went into the room.

84
00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,440
Speaker 1: They were all standing there's I can't make out. I'm said,

85
00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,800
Speaker 1: there's not a kid in there, and they went and

86
00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,680
Speaker 1: go back in as the girl and the white boots.

87
00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,479
Speaker 1: I went back in. She like she was a thirty

88
00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,400
Speaker 1: five year old woman, Darryl. She had on a weave,

89
00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,520
Speaker 1: she had on a ton of makeup. By now it

90
00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,200
Speaker 1: was like seven o'clock in the morning. She had on

91
00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like hera one piece dress that

92
00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,800
Speaker 1: was up to her underwear, and shiny plastic boots that

93
00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,440
Speaker 1: came up to her knees with high heels on them.

94
00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,320
Speaker 1: But when she was cleaned up, all that makeup taken off,

95
00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,200
Speaker 1: she looked like a twelve year old girl. I also

96
00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,160
Speaker 1: got to miss trayld in my opening statement for calling

97
00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,960
Speaker 1: the defendants pimps, I hadn't reindicted to include misdemeanor pimping

98
00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,440
Speaker 1: and retried them in four days. Daryl Cohen, we didn't

99
00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,680
Speaker 1: know as child sex trafficking. Then that's not what we

100
00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,200
Speaker 1: called it, Nancy. It was happening right under our noses,

101
00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,400
Speaker 1: and we didn't see it because it was so obvious

102
00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,800
Speaker 1: that these were pimps, and these were girls that were

103
00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,360
Speaker 1: obviously doing it because they wanted to get away from

104
00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,840
Speaker 1: their house and nothing, nothing could have been further from

105
00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,400
Speaker 1: the truth. They were part of a sex trafficking that

106
00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,440
Speaker 1: we did not know existed, and now we know it,

107
00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,920
Speaker 1: and now it has become a nationwide epidemic. And you know, Daryl,

108
00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,520
Speaker 1: I was just getting cases piece by piece. I didn't

109
00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,120
Speaker 1: know it's part of a bigger sex trafficking epidemic in

110
00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,360
Speaker 1: our country of children. First of all, what kind of

111
00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,360
Speaker 1: perv wants to have sex, forcible sex with a little

112
00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,440
Speaker 1: girl or boy? Take a listen to this. The night

113
00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,960
Speaker 1: she left home, Kat was driven thirty miles to Phoenix,

114
00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,720
Speaker 1: where she met a third man. What she says was

115
00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:54,240
Speaker 1: the most frightening of them all. Brian flamante. Brian was

116
00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,480
Speaker 1: more of the enforcer. You could see you tell me,

117
00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,440
Speaker 1: I don't give up who you are. He said, I

118
00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:07,800
Speaker 1: own you, I own your body. I own you, and

119
00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,960
Speaker 1: you have no saying what you do. The men took

120
00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,800
Speaker 1: her to a hotel and that black truck right there

121
00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,360
Speaker 1: is Jesse Sisnarosis truck. This is Jesse Sisnarios. This is

122
00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,280
Speaker 1: Bryant flamante. They arrived to the hotel together and then

123
00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:30,000
Speaker 1: here comes Kat and this is what Jessie explains, you

124
00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,439
Speaker 1: have a client. I was like, what are you talking about?

125
00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,160
Speaker 1: I have a client, a client my rear end, a

126
00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:42,880
Speaker 1: little girl fourteen fifteen years old, has a sex client.

127
00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got Lucy and the scouts for Pete

128
00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,880
Speaker 1: say she's playing the handbills at the church. She's an acolyte.

129
00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,600
Speaker 1: Were working on her French test last night. Joining me

130
00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,120
Speaker 1: right now is someone in addition to Laurie Monta, Forty,

131
00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,800
Speaker 1: Kim check, Hiyashi, Kelly, Jeff Cortesi and Daryl co this

132
00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,679
Speaker 1: is a regular person like you and me, who has

133
00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,400
Speaker 1: taken it upon herself to make a difference in this world.

134
00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,160
Speaker 1: Michelle Terry is with me. She is a nanny she's

135
00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,960
Speaker 1: a babysitter. I know her well, and she is now

136
00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:24,640
Speaker 1: devoting part of her income to stop child sex trafficking.

137
00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:29,120
Speaker 1: Michelle Terry. Why because it's very important to me. I've

138
00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,160
Speaker 1: always wanted to be a part of something big, to

139
00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,920
Speaker 1: give back to help. So I created this line. This

140
00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,040
Speaker 1: is very dear to my heart. I created this line

141
00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,640
Speaker 1: to help women that have come out of sex trafficking

142
00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,920
Speaker 1: and that are in these nonprofit organizations where they need

143
00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,640
Speaker 1: help to get them back on their feet, whether it

144
00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:58,079
Speaker 1: be education, whether it be shelter, clothing, and etc. So

145
00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,120
Speaker 1: I created this line. It's all vegan, it's all one

146
00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,560
Speaker 1: hundred percent natural. A portion of the profit will go

147
00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,480
Speaker 1: back to a local organization here in Atlanta. We know

148
00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,200
Speaker 1: right here in Atlanta it's one of the top cities

149
00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:19,080
Speaker 1: in the country with the sex trafficking issue because we

150
00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,679
Speaker 1: have our international airport here and there's a lot of

151
00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,560
Speaker 1: girls missing in these neighborhoods. They're like vanishing off the

152
00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:31,480
Speaker 1: streets and it's very sad, and I want to be

153
00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,520
Speaker 1: I want to help. I just want to help, Michelle.

154
00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:40,200
Speaker 1: I recall in DC a series a little girls go missing,

155
00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,920
Speaker 1: and it was a big deal. Then it just disappeared

156
00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,240
Speaker 1: at something else took the forefront. I'm looking at your

157
00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,679
Speaker 1: line right now. Let's say Wellness dash now das one

158
00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,160
Speaker 1: one dot my shopify dot com. Well, that's certainly a mouthful,

159
00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,920
Speaker 1: Michelle Terry. How I supposed to remember that? Is there

160
00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,439
Speaker 1: any easier way for me to get it? Good gravy wellness?

161
00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,000
Speaker 1: Now tell me? How can I just pin in wellness

162
00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,320
Speaker 1: now one I one? Would that work? Yes? You can

163
00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,720
Speaker 1: do wellness now one on one. You can find me

164
00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,360
Speaker 1: on Facebook, and you can find me on Shopify, and

165
00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,400
Speaker 1: you can find me on Instagram. Okay, very quickly? How

166
00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,280
Speaker 1: do I find you? I mean this first time I've

167
00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,320
Speaker 1: ever heard the word shopify? Okay, because you know I

168
00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,080
Speaker 1: hate shopping. I would never think to look up Shopify.

169
00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,640
Speaker 1: What is? What did you say about Facebook? That's a name?

170
00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,240
Speaker 1: I know what? Yes? Yes, yes Facebook? You can go

171
00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,720
Speaker 1: on Facebook, Nancy Wellness now one on one? Okay? What

172
00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,199
Speaker 1: was the other? One? Instagram? Wellness now? Okay, yes, I'm

173
00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,280
Speaker 1: familiar with that. You looked at all the pictures as

174
00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,640
Speaker 1: the twins. So I can find it at wellness one

175
00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:49,200
Speaker 1: I one on Instagram? What else? And Facebook? Instagram? Those

176
00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,000
Speaker 1: are my two big places where you can find it

177
00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,280
Speaker 1: out right now, what is body butter and sugar scrub?

178
00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:01,000
Speaker 1: Hold on, Jackie, did you see this? They're all natural?

179
00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,920
Speaker 1: Everyone everyone really loved the product. Okay, wait a minute,

180
00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,880
Speaker 1: I'm somehow getting off the point of sex trafficking, and

181
00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to circle back on that. But take a

182
00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,920
Speaker 1: listen to this. He was like, you're going to have

183
00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,719
Speaker 1: sex with this man. He was like, you're gonna tell

184
00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,520
Speaker 1: him your nineteen and your name is Rose. And this

185
00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:27,240
Speaker 1: stranger comes in. He did those things to me. He

186
00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,240
Speaker 1: puts some money in the drawer and then he leaves.

187
00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:48,680
Speaker 1: It was like, my whole world just collapsed. Guys, Nancy Grace,

188
00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,120
Speaker 1: here we are heading straight into breaking crime and justice news.

189
00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,880
Speaker 1: But first, how can you keep yourself and your children safe?

190
00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:05,040
Speaker 1: I have investigated and prosecuted literally thousands of felony cases.

191
00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:10,280
Speaker 1: I have covered literally thousands of cases of missing people,

192
00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:17,800
Speaker 1: adults and children, unsolved homicides, violent crimes. After all the cases,

193
00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,679
Speaker 1: after speaking to all the victims, all the police, all

194
00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,880
Speaker 1: the witnesses, over years, what can we do about it?

195
00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,240
Speaker 1: I don't want to just sit back and report on it.

196
00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,199
Speaker 1: I want to take action, and I know you must

197
00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,520
Speaker 1: feel the same way. You don't want to just hear

198
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,120
Speaker 1: about crime. You want to do something about it and

199
00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,720
Speaker 1: do something to stop it. And here is the news.

200
00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:47,040
Speaker 1: Don't Be a Victim Fighting back against America's crime Wave,

201
00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:53,480
Speaker 1: a brand new book. After interviewing literally hundreds of crime

202
00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:58,440
Speaker 1: victims and police, we put our knowledge into Don't Be

203
00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:04,200
Speaker 1: a Victim. This book is for everyone he wants to

204
00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,560
Speaker 1: stay safe, or he wants to keep your loved one safe.

205
00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,840
Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com. Pre order now and know that

206
00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,160
Speaker 1: portions of our proceeds goes to the National Center for

207
00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:28,440
Speaker 1: Missing and Exploited Children. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, he

208
00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,480
Speaker 1: was like, you're going to have sex with this man.

209
00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,120
Speaker 1: He was like, you're gonna tell him your nineteen and

210
00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,400
Speaker 1: your name is Rose. And this stranger comes in. He

211
00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,440
Speaker 1: did those things to me. He puts the money in

212
00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,560
Speaker 1: the draw and then he leaves. It was like, my

213
00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,360
Speaker 1: whole world just collapsed. Over the course of a week,

214
00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,760
Speaker 1: she was taken to homes and hotel rooms and repeatedly

215
00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,760
Speaker 1: sold for sex until someone saw her outside the hotel

216
00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:04,160
Speaker 1: became suspicious and called the police. We went in check

217
00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,200
Speaker 1: back in produce into a different room. It was on

218
00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,560
Speaker 1: the cover end, but it was a different room. She's

219
00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,720
Speaker 1: the only victim I've had who could tell me specific

220
00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,240
Speaker 1: room numbers of hotel rooms that they had been taken

221
00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,840
Speaker 1: to a sex room two oh four that you pointed out. Yet,

222
00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,520
Speaker 1: when she could recall so much detail, that helped us

223
00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,640
Speaker 1: tremendously in tracking down who all these players were. Our

224
00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,760
Speaker 1: friends at PBS Frontline sex trafficking in America. It's happening now.

225
00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,840
Speaker 1: I didn't believe it. I thought it was an anomaly.

226
00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:41,520
Speaker 1: It's not. Three hundred thousand children plus are going to

227
00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,800
Speaker 1: be sex trafficked in America this year, many of them

228
00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:52,160
Speaker 1: counted as runaways. It's overwhelming to me, and those stats

229
00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,840
Speaker 1: are from the US Department. It is a form of

230
00:15:55,120 --> 00:16:00,960
Speaker 1: modern slavery, smuggling, trading of children and forced to labor,

231
00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,680
Speaker 1: or sex exploitation. You know, y'all can all get mad

232
00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:11,160
Speaker 1: at me, but do you remember Lt. Lawrence Taylor, the

233
00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,360
Speaker 1: big hit on Dancing with the Stars, the football star.

234
00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,720
Speaker 1: He ordered up a thirteen year old girl like she

235
00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,840
Speaker 1: was a pizza to his room, and she got a

236
00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,320
Speaker 1: black eye from her pimp to get in there and

237
00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,440
Speaker 1: have sex with Lawrence Taylor. Now that's really hard for

238
00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,680
Speaker 1: me to believe he didn't know she was under age,

239
00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,200
Speaker 1: and then everybody's cheering for him on Dancing with the Stars,

240
00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,160
Speaker 1: I mean joining me. Kim Checkhi, Sheltercare Advisor, National Trafficking

241
00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,360
Speaker 1: Sheltered Alliance, The Samaritan Women Institute for Sheltercare. Kim check Hi.

242
00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,840
Speaker 1: Why is it so hard for people to believe this

243
00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,040
Speaker 1: is happening right under our noses? As Daryl Cohen said,

244
00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,760
Speaker 1: right under my nose. I didn't know that one case

245
00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,160
Speaker 1: was part of something much bigger. Because in the United

246
00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,960
Speaker 1: States of America, prosecution is what it's the oldest job

247
00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,440
Speaker 1: in the book, and so we don't a change. We

248
00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,840
Speaker 1: need to change the way we think. We need to

249
00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,800
Speaker 1: change the way we process. We need to begin to

250
00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,359
Speaker 1: be looking at these children even as an adult woman.

251
00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,120
Speaker 1: If she's over the age of eighteen, but she's been

252
00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,560
Speaker 1: sold from the time she's been eight, nine, ten. We

253
00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,919
Speaker 1: can't just pretend that after all the trauma, after all

254
00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,160
Speaker 1: the horror that she has been exposed to, that it's

255
00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,800
Speaker 1: supposed to go away and she's supposed to live a

256
00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,680
Speaker 1: normal life. It doesn't happen. It's here, it's on our noses.

257
00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:34,560
Speaker 1: There's broussels. There are brossels all over the United States

258
00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,760
Speaker 1: where women are being sold thirty forty times a day

259
00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,600
Speaker 1: with a quota that they have to come back with. Guys,

260
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,040
Speaker 1: take a listen to this. At seventeen, she got pregnant.

261
00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,080
Speaker 1: Her trafficker continued forcing her to have sex with strangers

262
00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,240
Speaker 1: being pregnant. It's a fantasy from it, a pregnant woman,

263
00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,639
Speaker 1: and so they were actually paying a lot more for

264
00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,720
Speaker 1: a pregnant woman. After she gave birth, a family member

265
00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,960
Speaker 1: took the child the trafficker Kate. At eighteen, that trafficker

266
00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,400
Speaker 1: sold her to another pimp. The new slave keeper told

267
00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,920
Speaker 1: her he paid twenty thousand dollars for her and it

268
00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,160
Speaker 1: would be up to her to earn that money back.

269
00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,480
Speaker 1: He forced her to go on multiple dates every day,

270
00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,280
Speaker 1: living in fear and despair, but she never let the

271
00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,840
Speaker 1: buyers see that. You put on a front and a

272
00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,240
Speaker 1: mask in a way. You have to make them think

273
00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,760
Speaker 1: that you like it, because if not, they're going not

274
00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,920
Speaker 1: gonna spend the money. If she didn't make money, her

275
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,600
Speaker 1: trafficker would severely beat her. Oh that breaks my heart

276
00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,800
Speaker 1: so much. Laurie Monteforte, writer and host of the documentary.

277
00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,480
Speaker 1: You just heard what Happened to the Girl next Door.

278
00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,240
Speaker 1: It's so hard for me to take in. While I'm

279
00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,760
Speaker 1: busy about Lucy and John David meeting their requirements to

280
00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:56,159
Speaker 1: make first class and Scouts and become Eagles, these girls

281
00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,400
Speaker 1: are out there forced to have sex, getting beaten if

282
00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,119
Speaker 1: they don't go along. Ashley, we were just hearing Larie

283
00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,640
Speaker 1: Montefort's documentary what Happened to the Girl next Door? Ashley.

284
00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:14,360
Speaker 1: Why don't the girls just call nine one one? It's

285
00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:17,879
Speaker 1: a really complicated question because a lot of a lot

286
00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,080
Speaker 1: of them are threatened with their family getting hurt or killed,

287
00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:26,360
Speaker 1: with themselves getting hurt or killed, kept in dog cages.

288
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,760
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different techniques that pince and traffickers

289
00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,800
Speaker 1: use to keep girls quiet and keep them loyal. It's

290
00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,280
Speaker 1: a very complex issue for sure. And I really love

291
00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 1: that you're you're talking about the Scout because that's how

292
00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 1: I got my first exposure to child sex trafficking with

293
00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,359
Speaker 1: our local Girl Scout trop here in Phoenix. We have

294
00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,040
Speaker 1: the Social Justice Program and we've provided Scout services two

295
00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:59,000
Speaker 1: girls who had been trafficked in detention centers and in

296
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 1: gre homes and in community programming. So that was my

297
00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,320
Speaker 1: first go around about ten years ago in the Girl

298
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 1: Scout program, and I met a lot of young girls.

299
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,560
Speaker 1: And Phoenix is a is a hot spot for sex

300
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:18,160
Speaker 1: trafficking for children, specifically who had horrific stories of their pants,

301
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 1: who tattooed or branded their faces with stars to remind

302
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,440
Speaker 1: them what would happen if they told anybody who would

303
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: throw them out of cars on the freeway, leaping by dumpsters,

304
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:48,760
Speaker 1: just horrific, terrific threat clime stories with Nancy Grace. He

305
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,240
Speaker 1: offered to me a ride up to Phoenix, and with

306
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,359
Speaker 1: everything in my head, I was like, you know, what's

307
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,160
Speaker 1: just to rye, you know, like nothing's going to happen.

308
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,400
Speaker 1: When you got here, I climbed out of bed jim

309
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:05,120
Speaker 1: window and got into his car. He was like, I'm

310
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,639
Speaker 1: not jumping you off, and I was like, you know

311
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. He covered my eyes so

312
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 1: I could see where we were going. It was really dark.

313
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,480
Speaker 1: Their plan was to get Kat and utilize her for

314
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 1: the purpose of sex trafficking. They knew it going in.

315
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: Kat was the unsuspecting one who had no idea, unfortunately,

316
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: and that's how her nightmare began. He told me, I

317
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 1: don't give up who you are. He said, I own you,

318
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 1: I own your body. I own you, and you have

319
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 1: no saying what you do. You know, it's almost so

320
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,240
Speaker 1: horrific that people don't believe it. With me today an

321
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 1: All Star panel, you were just hearing from our friends

322
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 1: at PBS Frontline Sex Trafficking in America with me. Laurie Monteforte, journalist,

323
00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: writer of documentary What Happened to the Girl next Door.

324
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 1: You can find her at Lorie as Strong Mountainmedia dot com.

325
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: Kim Checki Sheltercare Advisor, the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance, and

326
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 1: the Samaritan Women Institute for Sheltercare. Ashley Kelly clinical social

327
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 1: worker expertise, sex trafficking, child abuse, Jeff Cortesi, former FBI

328
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: Special Agent, renowned defense attorney in the Atlanta jurisdiction, former

329
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 1: prosecutor Daryl Cohen, and Michelle Terry. She works with children

330
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:37,879
Speaker 1: and has now created her own skincare vegan line of products,

331
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: and she is donating a portion of her profits to

332
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 1: stop child sex trafficking to Jeff Cortesi, former FBI special

333
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 1: age at earlier Michelle Terry, who has launched her on

334
00:22:55,359 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 1: skin Line Vegan skin Line Wellness now one O one,

335
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: a portion of her profits going to stop sex trafficking.

336
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: Jeff CORTEZI we heard Michelle mentioned Atlanta. We heard Ashley

337
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: Kelly mentioned Phoenix is a hot spot. Why are certain

338
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: cities but it's not exclusive, this happens in rural areas too,

339
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 1: But why are certain cities hubs of sex trafficking, including

340
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: child sex trafficking. Yeah, that's a great question, Nancy. I

341
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: think a lot of it comes down to, uh, you know,

342
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 1: location of criminal activities, basic supply and demand. You know,

343
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: another factor that we haven't really touched on in this

344
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 1: discussion is, you know, oftentimes coyotes smuggling across the border

345
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: turn those whom they're bringing into the country into slaves

346
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to them when they when they had arranged to

347
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 1: be brought into the country. So a lot of the

348
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: border states tend to higher volume. But it's going to

349
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: come down to a lot of elicited gang and drug activity,

350
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: population and basics applied. To take a listen to this,

351
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: I felt disgusted, but at the same time, I thought,

352
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: that's why he wanted for me. I thought that's I

353
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: was trying to please him in a way. Experts say

354
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: Kate was a victim of a process called grooming. During

355
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: that process, traffickers carefully execute mind games. Their schemes form

356
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: psychological chains. Emily Paznak Lapstick is an end trafficking Program

357
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: officer with UNICEF. That's the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.

358
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: The charity helps at risk children. She explained that first

359
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: traffickers make the victims think they're in love and then

360
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: gradually replace love with abuse. Children are very malleable, and

361
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,360
Speaker 1: especially if that child has been abused in the home,

362
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: which many trafficking victims have experienced prior abuse, they're used

363
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: to that cycle of abuse. Told us she was sexually

364
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: abused as a child, and she felt the same shame

365
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: when she was sold for sex. She felt used, dirty

366
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: and disposable. Are you sissue? Over and over again? This

367
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: little girl says she felt like used tissue like clean X.

368
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: You're hearing from what happened to the girl next door.

369
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: When you hear a story like that, from what happened

370
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: to the girl next door, Michelle Terry, stories like that

371
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: must have motivated you to actually do something about it. Explain, Yes, Nancy.

372
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: It truly breaks my heart again. Being here in Atlanta,

373
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: we see it every single day. We hear about it

374
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: on the news. How many women are missing. The number

375
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: is so big that I think, again, people really don't

376
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: believe that is happening. And it just truly breaks my

377
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: heart to you even think of an eight year old,

378
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: a ten year old, fifteen year old, a grown woman.

379
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they're actually kidnapping grown women and throwing them

380
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: into bands and they're vanishing off the street, and it's horrific.

381
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 1: It's just horrible. Listen, me and my parents have been

382
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: arguing a lot about just things that have been going

383
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: on throughout my life and things that were going on

384
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 1: their life, and it seemed like they would blaming for everything,

385
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: and I just like I couldn't take it anymore. I

386
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: had Facebook, Guide, Instagram, I had all these things, a Snapchat,

387
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: everything like that. My friends told me about this app.

388
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: It was called meet Me. It was like a like

389
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: you meet people and you talk to them, you know,

390
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: it didn't really seem like it was that harmful. This

391
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: is his chatting history. There's Kat and there's Rafael. Through

392
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: them meet me app, God began chatting with a man

393
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: named Raphael Quiros. They exchanged messages for almost a month.

394
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: She talked to him about the struggles that she was

395
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: having at home with her family and fights that she

396
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 1: was having, and he was just playing on her vulnerabilities.

397
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: Raphael introduced Kat to a friend of his name Jesse,

398
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:10,959
Speaker 1: says Nils, So Jesse started corresponding with her on Snapchat,

399
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: and Jesse was the one who actually arranged to meet

400
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: up with her. I went to go wake her up

401
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: for school, and I looked in her room and I

402
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: didn't see her. I drove all over town looking for her,

403
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: and she wasn't there. And that's when he started realizing

404
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: something wasn't right. Kat's parents filed a missing person's report

405
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: National Human Rafting Hotline eight eight eight three seven three

406
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,959
Speaker 1: seven eight eight eight. If you think you know something

407
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: eight eight eight three seven three seven eight eight eight,

408
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: and for those of you who want to know more,

409
00:27:49,320 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

410
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: When Kate was a little girl, she dreamed of parrouetting

411
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: across a big stage or prepping fancy meals in a

412
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: big restaurant kitchen. A chance meeting led her dreams to

413
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: fall apart. A human trafficker sold Kate into sexual servitude.

414
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: I never wanted to do it. I never wanted to

415
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: do I never thought I would be doing this. It

416
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: all started a glance at a train station. Kate was

417
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: on a trip to visit a friend when a young

418
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: man told her she was beautiful. I'm fourteen years old,

419
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: starting again to boys. I you know this guy likes me.

420
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: Come on now, like he's really nice, he's handsome. They

421
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: exchanged phone numbers, then started communicating often. She told her

422
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: parents he was her boyfriend. He showered her with clothes

423
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: and gifts. Kate thought they were in love and she

424
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: would do anything to make him happy. That included selling

425
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: her body. She was just fourteen the first time. He

426
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: took her to a hotel room, gave her alcohol and marijuana,

427
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: and then told her to have sex with a stranger.

428
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: You are hearing from our friend Laurie Montaforty's documentary What

429
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: Happened to the Girl next Door. That's just a tiny,

430
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: tiny sample of thousands of young girls and boys that

431
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: are sex trafficked in our country every year. With me,

432
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: Laurie Montaforty, who created that documentary, Laurie, we keep getting

433
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: the question why don't some of the teens call nine

434
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: on one and get away. This is something that so

435
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: many people asked throughout the entire making of the documentary,

436
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: the screening, and then when it was on TV. Sometimes

437
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: even after seeing it, they couldn't comprehend why can't these

438
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: girls get away? A lot of times they don't have

439
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: access to a phone. That would be a basic problem,

440
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: but will Oftentimes it's much deeper than that. These girls

441
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: have been traumatized and formed what are called trauma bombs

442
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: with their traffickers. So oftentimes they feel like they love

443
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: them and that they have to do these things to

444
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: please the trafficker. They've set up this mind game that

445
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: the traffickers the only person who will ever love them,

446
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: and even if they call for help, no one will

447
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: help them. So they're trapped. They're trapped in this mental

448
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: abuse combined with the physical realities that they might not

449
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: even have a phone with them. In my documentary, I

450
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: interviewed one girl who eventually was so beaten and battered

451
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: and abused that she tried to run away. She did

452
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: manage to make it to a hospital. The traffickers have

453
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: infiltrated themselves so deeply into her life that the trafficker

454
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: was listed as her emergency contact at the hospital, so

455
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: instead of calling someone who actually cared, the hospital brought

456
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: the trafficker to her, and then she was brought right

457
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: back into it. So it's not as easy as oh,

458
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: why don't you just escape? You know, We've I dealt

459
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: with that many times in court with the battered women's syndrome,

460
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: when people would ask why are you prosecuting him because

461
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: she wanted out of the relationship. She could have just laughed.

462
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: She could have called nine one one. That's not that simple,

463
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: and especially when you're dealing with a teen girl or

464
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: even younger that is being sex trafficked, take a listen

465
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: to this. She then met Barudi Hobson, who invited her

466
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: to stay with him. Within days, the fifteen year old

467
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,239
Speaker 1: was having sex with Hobson and started working for him

468
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: as a prostitute. Hobson took provocative photos and posted them

469
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: to sites like backpage dot com. He really capitalized on

470
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: the fact that my parents would be highly disappointed and

471
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: not love me anymore. I'm dirty. He was very convincing

472
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: and all that. While working for Hobson, she was arrested

473
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: in a sting operation where JS told the police officer

474
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: that she was eighteen years old, and they let her go,

475
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: but before she left, an office took a photo of her. Later,

476
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: as her parents kept pushing, investigators were able to use

477
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: that photo to track her down to a posting on

478
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: backpage dot com and planned a rescue operation to save

479
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: the fifteen year old JS. To see her come home

480
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: and have that light gone out of her eyes, it

481
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: was painful. I didn't think it would ever return. She

482
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: told investigators that she was sold up to fifteen times

483
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: a day. You were hearing from our friends at NBC

484
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: talking about a teen girl being sold for sex up

485
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: to fifteen times a day. First people found out about

486
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,959
Speaker 1: her on back Page. I don't know if you've ever

487
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: heard about that, but it's a classified ad website that

488
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: was the largest marketplace for buying and selling sex before

489
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: the FEDS busted it, including child sex. Jeff Cortes, How

490
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: does it work? How do you get a girl that

491
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: is at a party, let's say, or hanging out on

492
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: the corner with her friends, or at a bus stop.

493
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: How does that child, who may even be walking to

494
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: school in the morning. Yes, that is a real scenario

495
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: end up in sex trafficking, and they're reported as a

496
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: runaway or a missing kid. Nobody has any idea what's

497
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: really going on? How does it happen? Jeff Nancy. I

498
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: think he noted earlier some really important things, one of

499
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: which being changing the way we think about sex trafficking.

500
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: You know, these traffickers, they tend to target the most

501
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: vulnerable runaways, foster children, abuse kids, as we've as we've

502
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: already touched on, and you know, their master's at manipulation.

503
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 1: They're gonna find what it is that this child needs, wants,

504
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: and they're gonna exploit that, and they're going to massage it,

505
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: and they're gonna keep working until they can manipulate this

506
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: person into getting them at least where they need them

507
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: to be. And then after that they might load them

508
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: up with and use force, fraud, or coercion as we

509
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: call it, to get them to do exactly what they

510
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: want them to do. Ashley Kelly with me licensed clinical

511
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: social work or expertise sex trafficking and child abuse. Ashley,

512
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: Very often I have heard people that are not in

513
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: the note state that rape is not a violent crime,

514
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 1: that child molestation is not a violent crime, that these

515
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 1: victims can blend back into society and resume their normal lives.

516
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: That's not true. I'm certainly no medical doctor or a shrink,

517
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: but having dealt with literally thousands of child molestation victims

518
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: rape victims, I know that's not true. You're never the same, Ashley.

519
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: You're right. I can't think of a more traumatizing thing

520
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: than your body, mind, and spirit being violated by somebody else,

521
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: particularly when our brains are still developing. You lose things

522
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 1: and experiences that you could have had or were anticipated

523
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: to have because somebody decided to violate that for you.

524
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely a violent crime of every level.

525
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: The people that I've worked with who've been assaulted in

526
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: various different ways, particularly starting with molestation when they're a child,

527
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: and onward to even sex trafficking. I've even heard the

528
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: term child prostitute being used to describe victims of this,

529
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: and there's no such thing as a child prostitute because

530
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: children can't consent to sex, and a lot of these

531
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: people who get into it are forced into it, courced

532
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: into it when their children become adults, and even though

533
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 1: they're now of consenting age, there wasn't consent from the beginning,

534
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: and it was a forced course, desperate situation that they've

535
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: had to continue to go into it because they know it.

536
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: So I would agree it's it's very much a violent.

537
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: Listen to this from My favorite hobbies are collecting porcelain

538
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: nolves and playing soccer. Of course, JS grew up in

539
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: a typical middle class home with a great family. I

540
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: was a happy kid. I did sports, played musical instruments, violin, piano.

541
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: I was really kind of like the jack of all trades,

542
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: wanted to do everything. I was really happy. At fifteen

543
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: years old, she started to fall behind in one of

544
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: her classes. Scared to show her parents her report card,

545
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: she made a plan. I ran away. I've gone on

546
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 1: a city bus. I never done that. I didn't even

547
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 1: know how city busses worked. I was like, everything's fine.

548
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: She made her way to a homeless shelter where she

549
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 1: met a young woman who promised to help take care

550
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: of her. The two went to a party where she

551
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: was raped. Before that party, she was a virgin. I

552
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: wanted to keep my innocence for like a special person

553
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: and like I wasn't able to our friends at NBC.

554
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: That child was then that teen girl forced into child

555
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: sex Trafficking National Human Trafficking Hotline eight eight eight three

556
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: seven three seven eight eight eight. If you think you

557
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: know something eight eight eight three seven three seven eight

558
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: eight eight and for those of you who want to

559
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: know more, go to crime online dot com with this

560
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: and all other breaking crime and justice news. Join us

561
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: tomorrow for more of our investigation into sex trafficking. I'm

562
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace Crime Stories, signing off,

563
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: goodbye friend