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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace and Juvenile Hall. I had given

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Speaker 1: up on life. I thought I won't live. I won't

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Speaker 1: And I was only thirteen. I wasn't even fourteen yet,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the statistics a seven year life expectancy,

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Speaker 1: and that's what should have happened to me. But fortunately

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Speaker 1: to figure out what that meant. This message that we

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Speaker 1: hearing the voice of a child sex trafficking survivor. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. I can distinctly remember prosecuting a case

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Speaker 1: Melody Miller, a documentary director of California's Forgotten Children. With

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Speaker 1: felony prosecutor to Melanie Miller, how did you meet all

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Speaker 1: I recall that particular case and prosecuting the pump that

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Speaker 1: What do you do if your child goes missing? Do

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Speaker 1: my son I was with John David and Lucy alone

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Speaker 1: and a huge babies are us superstore? What do you do?

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Speaker 1: Did you know? Four hundred and fifty thousand missing children

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Speaker 1: movement is when I was in high school and I

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Speaker 1: started volunteering for Missy. I wasn't able to meet any

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Speaker 1: of the children because they were going to the same

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Speaker 1: high school as me, so I didn't A victim could

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Speaker 1: have been sitting right next to me in my classroom.

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Speaker 1: And so from that moment on I knew that I

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Speaker 1: had to do something about it and had to fight

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Speaker 1: for my peers. He drove me off into an industrial

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Speaker 1: area and he's customed at me, and they told me

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Speaker 1: he's going to kill me and if I didn't really

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Speaker 1: told him to do. But I looked on the dashboard

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Speaker 1: and there was this picture of this little girl and um,

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Speaker 1: I asked him, you know, is that your daughter? And

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Speaker 1: he said yeah, And I said, I'm somebody's daughter too.

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Speaker 1: You know where you please let me go. I had

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Speaker 1: had to tell me that I wasn't going to make

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Speaker 1: it trying to get One of the happiest moments in

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Speaker 1: my life was when I graduated from college. You are

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Speaker 1: hearing the voice of a child six trafficking victim. That

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Speaker 1: was Leah Jeanette Albright Bird, who is now a nationally

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Speaker 1: recognized the motivational speaker and human rights educator. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just so overwhelmed, and it's it's hard to change

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Speaker 1: public perception. Because Karen Stark New York psychologists, I thought

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Speaker 1: for so many years children were kidnapped um or they

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Speaker 1: ran away. But I always would suspect a kidnap when

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Speaker 1: a child would go missing but this is much bigger

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Speaker 1: than single kidnaps. This is child sex trafficking and it's

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Speaker 1: happening all around us. Do you remember, Karen, when you

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Speaker 1: and I covered the case of Shasta Grone. She and

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Speaker 1: her brother Dylan were kidnapped and brutally raped over and

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Speaker 1: over and over. Dylan was murdered. And then video surveillance

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Speaker 1: emerged after we begin cover ring it on TV so often,

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Speaker 1: and a seven eleven worker, a convenient store worker, identified

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Speaker 1: Shasta and she was just walking along a few paces

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Speaker 1: behind her kidnapper and her brother's killer. She looked sad

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Speaker 1: and downcast, and she wasn't speaking, but she wasn't screaming

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Speaker 1: for help. She didn't indicate in any way that something

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Speaker 1: was wrong or run up to someone and say help me.

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Speaker 1: I've been kidnapped. So you can't tell when you see

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Speaker 1: a child sex trafficking victim. You don't know that. Why

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Speaker 1: you don't know that because they're not capable of asking

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Speaker 1: for help. They are terrified, and they become indoctrinated where

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Speaker 1: they don't feel like they should belong in a different situation.

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Speaker 1: They don't really understand anymore what's happening to them. This

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Speaker 1: is what life is like it becomes normal. So they're

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Speaker 1: terrified for their life, but they've also adapted to the situation,

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Speaker 1: believing that they deserve to have this happen. They take

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Speaker 1: responsibility for it. Children blame themselves for everything. Take a

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Speaker 1: listen to this, which go right along with police. In

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Speaker 1: one case, officers found the fourteen year old staying in

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Speaker 1: a vacant house. He hadn't eaten a meal in three days.

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Speaker 1: Those are the types of kids that we're dealing with

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Speaker 1: in this and it's really sad. Once recovered, the next

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Speaker 1: step is to ask a series of questions to find

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Speaker 1: out if there were sex trafficking victims, who did they

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Speaker 1: stay with, Did somebody pay for you know, pay for

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Speaker 1: them to stay somewhere, Do they do favors for them?

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Speaker 1: Did they give them drugs? Officials tell us one in

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Speaker 1: six runaways get involved in sex trafficking. By finding them

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Speaker 1: and not only saves their life, but it could lead

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Speaker 1: police to the traffickers. In less than a day, Lawn

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Speaker 1: Cincials recovered more than one missing kids from Wayne County.

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Speaker 1: Of those, three sex trafficking cases have opened. If we

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Speaker 1: can do this more often, hopefully we won't have this

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Speaker 1: big of a problem. You're hearing from w x y

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Speaker 1: Z TV News Detroit Sema Choudhry speaking with Michigan State

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Speaker 1: Police Sarah Cribs about a huge operation Michigan Safe Kids

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Speaker 1: that say a hun and twenty three child victims. You

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Speaker 1: know that begs the question, what would you do if

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Speaker 1: your child went missing? Do you know what to do?

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Speaker 1: Do you know that over four hundred fifty thousand missing

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Speaker 1: children are reported every year. One in seven so called

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Speaker 1: runaways are now believed to be victims of child sex trafficking.

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Speaker 1: Age doesn't matter to the sex traffickers or the kidnappers.

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Speaker 1: What do you do if the unthinkable happens to you?

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Speaker 1: You know what? I've got Mark Class right here with me,

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Speaker 1: who joined me as we were creating Justice Nation. Crime

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Speaker 1: Stops Here, a five episode series delivering action information that

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Speaker 1: you apply in your daily life. You go to Crime

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Speaker 1: Stops Here dot com. You know, Mark Class, you were

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Speaker 1: the one that told me nearly of kidnaps happened to

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Speaker 1: and from school and I could not believe it. Mark.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely unbelievable because given that knowledge, we can take

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Speaker 1: steps to be able to protect children on those school

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Speaker 1: routes and dramatically cut the instances of stranger abduction in

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Speaker 1: the United States. And I'm talking about surveillance, whether it's

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Speaker 1: high tech, whether it's slow tech. I'm talking about better

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Speaker 1: school bus routes. I'm talking about, you know, giving children

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Speaker 1: the knowledge that they may be targeted going to and

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Speaker 1: from school because of the patterns that have been established.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you really opened my eyes to that.

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Speaker 1: We cover safe at home, out and about safe online,

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Speaker 1: safe at school, safe at daycare or with a babysitter.

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Speaker 1: Go to crime stops here dot com, use promo co

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Speaker 1: Nancy for off. Proceeds are going to National Center for

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Speaker 1: Missing and Exploited Children and Class Kids Foundation founded by

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Speaker 1: Mark class to help save children. Right now, we are

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Speaker 1: really spurred on by a Michigan sweep that discovered one

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Speaker 1: d and twenty three missing children, many of whom we

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Speaker 1: now believe were sex trafficked. You know, I'm so overwhelmed

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Speaker 1: with what is happening. Just got Morgan, for instance, on

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Speaker 1: a plane, let's just say, on a plane, how do

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Speaker 1: you identify that a child has been sex traffic Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that in my estimation that if the child

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Speaker 1: is acting oddly, say they're reserved maybe perhaps Uh they're

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Speaker 1: acting in terror. Uh they look diminished in some ways,

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Speaker 1: say for instance, Uh they're frightened. Uh, they're contracted in

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Speaker 1: some way, perhaps seeking something to eat. Maybe they haven't

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Speaker 1: been fed in sometimes. You know. I'm reminded of a

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Speaker 1: a very recent instant where an airline ticket agent saved

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Speaker 1: two teenage girls from human trafficking. It was an American

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Speaker 1: Airlines ticket agent. The quick thinking on behalf of that

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Speaker 1: agents saved two little girls in a human trafficking, sex

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Speaker 1: trafficking scheme. And that is according to police in Sacramento,

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Speaker 1: these two teen girls were boarding a flight to New

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Speaker 1: York from Sacramento without i d without adults, without luggage.

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Speaker 1: That's a big indicator, according to ticket attendant Denise Miracle.

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Speaker 1: And what a name? How appropriate is that? She called authorities.

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Speaker 1: She said the tickets were first class and purchased online

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Speaker 1: as mark class. Just told us with a credit card

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Speaker 1: and a name they did not match either one of

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Speaker 1: the girls, and the card had been flagged for fraud.

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Speaker 1: Between the two little girls, they had a bunch of

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Speaker 1: small bags and it looked like they were running away

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Speaker 1: from home. And they kept looking at each other that

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Speaker 1: looked fearful, and this flight attendant just got the feeling,

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Speaker 1: the deep feeling that something was very wrong. As it

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Speaker 1: turned out, after the flight attendant, Miss Miracle calls the cops.

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Speaker 1: The girls say that a guy named Dre had gotten

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Speaker 1: their tickets, that they had first met on Instagram, and

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Speaker 1: that they were going to be paid to thousand dollars. Well,

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Speaker 1: guess who Dre was? A child sex trafficker? What about

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Speaker 1: that mark class? Well, you know, it's the century phenomenon, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: that we finally are identifying these underage girls. And when

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Speaker 1: I say underage, I mean under the age of eighteen

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Speaker 1: that are engaged in prostitution. We prior to the twenty

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Speaker 1: one century, we always considered them criminals. They were the prostitutes.

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Speaker 1: Now we understand that it's a very different dynamic, that

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Speaker 1: in fact they are the victims and that the real

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Speaker 1: criminals are the ones that control them. So just that

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Speaker 1: shift in understanding has led to this this whole open

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Speaker 1: us about the issue, so that UH ticket counters are

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Speaker 1: able to identify people that might be involved in these

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Speaker 1: kinds of situations. So it's about education, it's about awareness,

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Speaker 1: and it's about continuing the fight to save these young girls.

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Speaker 1: If you have any information on human trafficking, a tip,

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Speaker 1: even a theory something you've seen, please call eight eight

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Speaker 1: three seven three seven eight eight Nancy Grace Crime Story

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Speaker 1: signing off, goodbye friend,