Sex Trafficking: News and Information

APPALLING: Teen Girl Disappears at NBA Game and Turns Up 11 Days Later in Nude Photos on Sex Trafficking Site

A 15-year-old girl attended a Dallas Mavericks basketball game at the American Airlines Center with

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Can we start a separate forum for events of this type, plus resources/contacts for family members?

 

[Kimster]

APPALLING: Teen Girl Disappears at NBA Game and Turns Up 11 Days Later in Nude Photos on Sex Trafficking Site

A 15-year-old girl attended a Dallas Mavericks basketball game at the American Airlines Center with

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Can we start a separate forum for events of this type, plus resources/contacts for family members?

If we can generate some interest via comments, sure! Let’s see how the thread goes. If there seems to be a lot of interest in populating a forum, we’ll certainly do it.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

'Missing' investigates small town girl's journey from cheerleader to sex-trafficked 'hostage'

Kristin Thorne examines the disappearance of Corinna Paige Slusser, who went from small-town Pennsylvania cheerleader to sex-trafficked "hostage" in New York City, where she vanished in 2017.

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'Missing' investigates small town girl's journey from cheerleader to sex-trafficked 'hostage'​

Corinna Paige Slusser disappeared in 2017. Is she trapped in a sex-trafficking ring?

In the next episode of 'Missing', Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne examines the disappearance of Corinna Paige Slusser, who went from small-town Pennsylvania cheerleader to sex-trafficked "hostage" in New York City, where she vanished almost half a decade ago.

According to police, someone reported seeing Slusser leaving the Haven Motel on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park, Queens early one September morning in 2017. She has never been seen again.

Is Slusser still alive, trapped in a sex-trafficking nightmare? Her mother, Sabina Tuorto, hopes this investigation will help her find out what really happened to her daughter.

 

[Mel70]

This story is frightening and disgusting! The police didn't investigate it thoroughly because she was considered a runaway. And don't unless there is clear evidence of a kidnapping of a teenager. I thought they quit doing that crap! What, The video of her an adult together. And the fact she was at a baseball game with her dad and never came back to her seat wasn't suspicious enough?!

 

[Sunburst]

Eight ( so far) people have been arrested in the case of the teen who disappeared at the Mavericks game and she was rescued after being trafficked to Oklahoma.
Her parents have hired lawyers who are filing multiple lawsuits against the Dallas PD, the arena, Extended Stay hotels, and a number of other people and agencies.

Texas has opened an investigation into allegations that foster children in Texas are being trafficked as well and that some social workers are actually traffickers.

 

[Guess Who]

70 missing children recovered in West Texas, authorities say

Seventy missing children were recovered in West Texas, authorities announced.

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[Sunburst]

U.S. Marshals Rescue 225 Missing Children in Massive Child Sex Trafficking Bust

The U.S. Marshals Service located 225 missing children during a 10-week sex trafficking operation dubbed "Operation We Will Find You." The U.S. Marshals reco

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..."The high-profile bust also nabbed a couple that was on the Top 15 Most Wanted list who had fled to Mexico with their five children."
The operation focused on the following locations:

Eastern Virginia
Washington D.C.
Maryland
Massachusetts
South Carolina
New Orleans
San Antonio
Detroit
Yakima
Washington
Orlando
Florida
Los Angeles
Northern Ohio
Guam
Puerto Rico
The U.S. Virgin Islands

 

[Kimster]

Yakima Washington? That is really strange. Children were missing from there? Why didn’t we hear when they went missing?

 

[GrandmaBear]

I haven't been there in a long time but I used to check the D O J government site. A lot of this has been going on for years as far as arrests and investigations, not just trafficking, but drugs, financial crimes, etc.

I just don't get the time any longer. No one should have a view of politics imo who doesn't follow the truth of matters on this site and in what years real things happen and in what years they don't or results are due to others having gotten after it.

There are other govt. sites where REAL facts and data exists on a lot of things too that are NEVER shared by the news. Why is it our news is like that....? Children missing near you and you never heard of it...

 

[Sunburst]

Yakima Washington? That is really strange. Children were missing from there? Why didn’t we hear when they went missing?

I interpreted it as the places thre victims were being trafficked to and rescued from, not where they went missing.
Northern OH is very accessible to Canada. The port cities listed can have victims sent overseas. Maryland is very accessible to Washington DC.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I merged this recent bust with our thread for sex trafficking.

To protect the identity of the children we rarely hear more about these stings/busts/arrests. But I'm glad they are releasing info about it. It's good info to know for future cases as well. Most were runaways. But some were FAMILY ABDUCTIONS! 80% were found in the city they went missing in.

US Marshals Rescue 225 Endangered or Missing Children in National Operation

The U.S. Marshals Service announced this week that 225 missing or endangered children were recovered as part of a 10-week, multi-state effort dubbed “Operation We Will Find You.” In a news release on May 24, the federal law enforcement agency said the children include runaways as well as...

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Meanwhile, U.S. Marshals also noted that 42 children were found outside of the city they went missing in, with 10 of those children being located in Mexico. Additionally, a number of teenage girls—described by the agency as possible victims of human trafficking—were located in the Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, and Riverside County areas from March 1 to May 15 as part of the nationwide sting operation, according to a separate May 24 news release.

Data released by the agency shows that 86 percent of the children were endangered runaways, 9 percent were family abductions, and 5 percent were considered otherwise missing.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

FBI-Led Sweep Targeting Sex Traffickers Recovers Dozens of Minor Victims | Federal Bureau of Investigation

The FBI-led “Operation Cross Country" located 59 minor victims of child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation, and another 59 children who had been reported missing.

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FBI-Led Sweep Targeting Sex Traffickers Recovers Dozens of Minor Victims​

More than 200 victims of sex trafficking were rescued during a nationwide enforcement campaign last month that also included the identification or arrest of more than five dozen suspected human traffickers and 126 individuals accused of child sexual exploitation and trafficking offenses.

The FBI-led “Operation Cross Country,” which involved nearly every FBI field office and their respective state and local partners, also located 59 minor victims of child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation, and another 59 children who had been reported missing.

FBI: Over 200 sex trafficking victims, including 59 missing children, found in nationwide operation

The FBI found more than 200 sex trafficking victims and identified or arrested more than 125 suspects during a two-week nationwide operation in July.

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FBI: Over 200 sex trafficking victims, including 59 missing children, found in nationwide operation​

The FBI rescued more than 200 sex trafficking victims and identified or arrested more than 125 suspects during a two-week nationwide operation last month, federal officials said Tuesday.

The FBI also found 59 victims of child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation, and located 59 missing children during the July operation, the FBI said in a news release.

Nearly every FBI field office was involved in “Operation Cross Country,” an annual two-week nationwide initiative – now in its 13 year – focused on finding human trafficking victims.

During the operation, the FBI identified or arrested 126 suspects of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking and 68 suspects of trafficking, the FBI said.

“Human trafficking is a grave violation of human rights that preys on the most vulnerable members of our society,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said. “The FBI’s actions against this threat never waver as we continue to send our message that these atrocities will not be tolerated.”

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

12 missing Nashville juveniles found during 'Operation Music City Missing'

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) located 12 missing Nashville children following a two-day operation.

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12 missing Nashville juveniles found during 'Operation Music City Missing'
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) located 12 missing Nashville children following a two-day operation.

The recovery effort which included multiple agencies was dubbed "Operation Music City Missing," which led to the agencies identifying 111 missing juveniles reported as runaways.

In total, 12 children were located, 11 were determined to be out of the country, and 35 had turned 18 or located prior to the operation.


On Sep. 26 and Sept. 27, five teams located the missing children from different locations.

Any time that we are able to locate a child that’s missing is a huge win," DCS Director of Human Trafficking Response Team, Kate Greer said. "That is a child that is somehow not in their own environment, generally they’ve run or left for a variety of reasons.

Greer emphasized these runaway children are the most vulnerable.

They are on the street, and they do not have an income. They don’t have a support system, they don’t have anything they are used to having, regular meals, that kind of thing,” Greer said.

She explained some of them are victims of human trafficking.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Tennessee officials rescue 13 missing children at risk of being trafficked: 'America's ugly secret'

Tennessee officials on Nov. 9 announced the rescue of 13 minors whom they believed were at risk of being trafficked. The minors were rescued in and around the Memphis area.

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Tennessee officials rescue 13 missing children at risk of being trafficked: 'America's ugly secret'​

Federal and local officials have rescued 13 previously missing children, whom authorities determined to be at risk of human trafficking, in and around Memphis.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), which worked with the U.S. Marshals Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Memphis Police Department and Tennessee Department of Children’s Services on the two-day mission called "Operation Not for Sale," said officials were focused on locating children at risk of being trafficked.

"There may be children coming from an environment where they have been sexually abused, previously, in their life. But that might be their norm," Foster Care Institute founder and director, Dr. John DeGarmo, who works with child welfare agencies across the globe, told Fox News Digital when asked what makes a child at risk of being trafficked.

Police might identify these kinds of children based on their own records of families with histories of domestic violence or sexual abuse. They might identify children who have unique tattoos or bands, or even new and expensive clothing, according to DeGarmo.

Weeks prior to Operation Not for Sale, intelligence analysts identified children who were at "high risk in regard to human trafficking," TBI said in a press release. Then, between Nov. 2 and 3, six search teams went to 56 different locations in their efforts to locate the missing children they had identified as high-risk.

Authorities located 12 juvenile victims ranging from 11 to 17 years old, as well as one 2-month-old infant, during the operation.



In 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received more than 17,200 reports of child sex trafficking from all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. They also received 25,000 reports of runaway children – with one of six likely to become human trafficking victims, according to the organization.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Retired captain killed in Seattle child sex sting had 40-year career in U.S. Navy

FOX 13 News uncovered new documents surrounding the man police killed during a child sex sting operation in South Seattle.

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Retired captain killed in Seattle child sex sting had 40-year career in U.S. Navy​

Seattle Police say Bruce Meneley thought he was meeting an 11-year-old and a 7-year-old at the DoubleTree on Southcenter Parkway. Body camera footage shows the person identified as Meneley by the King County Medical Examiner pulling a gun out as soon as officers open the door to contact him.

New documents FOX 13 News obtained from the U.S. Military show Meneley’s official history with the Navy. Meneley enlisted in 1975 and retired in 2016, holding powerful positions in several different countries during that time.


According to probable documents FOX 13 Seattle obtained from Kitsap County, a little more than a year after Meneley retired, he was arrested in a human trafficking sting operation.

The records say Meneley took out money, and expected to have unprotected sex with a prostitute for $110. However, Meneley was actually talking to investigators posing as sex workers.

During the arrest, Meneley admitted to contacting several other sex workers in the past, and paying for sex at least one other time within the last year. Investigators said Meneley’s number popped up in at least two other sting operations, but he was never arrested.

Meneley also told investigators he had been arrested in Texas for a similar crime. Texas was the last place Meneley was stationed.

 

[GrandmaBear]

He just finished having someone he defended in trafficking sentenced to I think 440+ something odd years. Is this the Baroz case, it would be some CO case, should be able to figure out which one for anyone who has time... Adre Baroz but that was serial killing, murders, was it trafficking? He was JUST sentenced though but this sentence was yesterday I think, so I think not...

So which CO one IS it and do we know of it? It's huge considering the sentence and so we should know or be informed.

HAWKINS is the last name.

Reposting what I said in Daybell with this part highlighted.

I haven't seen Scott in FOREVER. I don't think it's because he isn't on, I think it's because even though I am subscribed his shows don't pop up for me these days.

I'm parking it here because of the title of course and the fact this case is covered on it. Not sure if I'll have time to go cross ref it in others it relates to like trafficking and just the current one because what else do you do with one that coves more than one case...

Anyhow he starts out with where he was I believe yesterday. Yesterday one of his clients, big case, got sentenced to more than 440 some years, he says dubious honor of having a client with the longest sentence ever in CO history for trafficking and perhaps in the US even, etc. How DO they represent such types I tell ya, I will never get it... He said six of the 12 jurors showed up for sentencing and you know it is going to be bad then... Not that they influence I don't think is meant so much that the case was so major to them, and so bad, that they feel the need to see sentencing. That's my GUESS anyhow.

Anyhow I just started it, it will cover a few as his do, including worst parents and dumbest criminal and Chad, etc. So here's Scott:

As I said, have barely begun listening.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Okay the man who got I think 448 years was offered a 40 year deal early on but did not accept it. WHAT?! How could anyone ending up with such a sentence as here with seven victims I think Scott said even be OFFERED a chance to ever go free and how dumb is he not to accept it? The defendant, not Scott...

Habitual offender, again how can you defend someone like this.... I guess how could they even be out applies here again to HARM again?

Such failures in our system that is run by idiots or those that give a sh*t as the case may be.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

'You don’t know you’re in danger until you’re in the middle of it' | Teen sex trafficking survivor who disappeared from Dallas Mavs game speaks out

On April 8, 2022, Natalee Cramer was sex trafficked after being kidnapped from a Dallas Mavericks game. Now 18, she's sharing her story about her fight for justice.

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'You don’t know you’re in danger until you’re in the middle of it' | Teen sex trafficking survivor who disappeared from Dallas Mavs game speaks out​

Natalee Cramer has been reading and watching her story through the lens of other people for the past two years.

"I look at those pictures and all of those stories that people have made, and I'm not the same person. It's like looking at a completely different person," she said. "It's me, but it's not me anymore."

It's been more than two years since the then-15-year-old disappeared from a Dallas Mavericks game at the American Airlines Center. She had gone to the game with her dad and never returned to her seat after getting up to go to the bathroom. Eleven days later, she was recovered by a police officer in Oklahoma City from what investigators determined was a sex trafficking ring.

Natalee is 18 now, and she wants to tell her story her way.

"I think it's really important to tell my story because I want to be the voice for the people who don't feel that they can speak for themselves, including people who know people who are going through this," Natalee said. "I want to make a pathway for people to feel comfortable and emotionally safe to talk to people and come forward."

STORY AT LINK

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

12th suspect charged in case of missing Patchogue girl

Daniel Soto, 36, of Bay Shore pleaded not guilty in Suffolk First District Court to second-degree rape and endangering the welfare of a child.

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12th suspect charged in case of missing Patchogue girl​

There are now a dozen named suspects — nine men and three women — charged in the alleged kidnapping and sex trafficking case of a 14-year-old Patchogue girl who went missing for 25 days amid the holiday season.


Soto allegedly had sex with the teen between Dec. 13-20 aboard a 56-foot boat docked in White Cap Marina in Islip, according to the Newsday report. Following her Dec. 9 disappearance, the girl was allegedly kept on the boat from Dec. 13 until she was found on Jan. 3, authorities said previously.

The owner of the boat, Francis Buckheit, 64, was the first suspect arrested in the girl’s 25-day disappearance. Arrested the day after the girl was found, Buckheit is charged with rape and kidnapping.

The other defendants in the case include Alton Harrell, 35, who is alleged to have picked the teen up in his car outside of her home on Dec. 9. From there, prosecutors said, he drove her to a house on Doane Avenue in Bellport and allegedly raped the girl.

LI dad reveals horror of 14-year-old daughter who vanished mysteriously for a month and was found on a boat

Frank Gervasi said his 14-year-old daughter was drugged and sex trafficked by unsavory creeps after she went missing from the family’s Long Island home.

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LI dad reveals horror of 14-year-old daughter who vanished mysteriously for a month and was found on a boat​

A Long Island dad said his 14-year-old daughter was plied with drugs and sex-trafficked by “unsavory characters” during a horrific, month-long ordeal that ended on a boat docked at an Islip marina.

Frank Gervasi said his daughter [redacted], who has struggled with drug abuse in the past and wore a monitoring ankle bracelet when she went missing on Dec. 9, was abused for several weeks by several creeps — including a 65-year-old man who planned to weigh anchor and ship her down south before her rescue.