APPALLING: Teen Girl Disappears at NBA Game and Turns Up 11 Days Later in Nude Photos on Sex Trafficking Site
The girl went to the restroom before halftime. When she didn’t return, the father told security she was missing. The arena was searched, the girl wasn’t found, and the father was told to go home.
Surveillance video shows the girl leaving the arena with a man in his 40s.
The father called the Dallas Police Department and was told to call the cops in his hometown of North Richland Hills, thinking the girl was a runaway. The North Richland Hills Police in turn told him to call the Dallas Police because that is where she disappeared.
The American Airlines Center claims the man who was seen leaving with the girl got in with a counterfeit ticket.
Eleven days later her parents were sent a nude picture of her from a sex trafficking site.
Frustrated with the Dallas Police Department, the family contacted the Houston-based Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative. The girl’s parents gave them a picture of the missing teen.
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Using facial recognition technology, the Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative was able to locate the girl in less than a day. She was being trafficked almost 200 miles away in Oklahoma City.
Fortenberry and the family plan to sue the Dallas Police Department, the American Airlines Center, the Dallas Mavericks, and Extended Stay America hotels.
OMG.....this is horrifying! EVERY parent’s worst nightmare.
Thank God she was found.
These parents will be able to sue the fire out of these groups....not that that erases any of the harm done, to their daughter....but, maybe these venues/PDs, etc will do MORE (like the Houston group proved CAN be done!) to prevent more of these evil abductions, for trafficking.
Just terrible, but...so thankful she has been found.
From your article....(I couldn’t stomach posting much more) ...
...“When a 40-something-year-old man walks in with a 15-year-old girl and rents multiple hotel rooms and then there is traffic coming in and out of those rooms, those are red flags,” Fortenberry told reporters....
No kidding!! I wonder if the Extended Stay manager/front desk is in on this horrid crime.