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Toddler not used as ‘bait’ in Carlee Russell case: human trafficking expert
NY Post ^ | 07/18/2023 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 07/18/2023 6:53:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Alabama woman who mysteriously reappeared two days after vanishing when she stopped to help a toddler who was walking on the side of a highway was likely not the target of sex traffickers, according to a report.

A human trafficking expert on Monday threw cold water on Carlee Russell’s parents’ suggestion that the tot was used as “bait” to lure the 25-year-old nursing student out of her car and kidnap her.

“As far as we are aware, this is not a tactic that traffickers use,” Sabrina Thulander, a spokesperson for Polaris, the nonprofit that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline, told Insider, adding that it’s a common myth that traffickers often use force to capture their victims

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KEYWORDS: alabama; bait; carleerussell; russell; smollett; toddler; trafficking
Carlee is making a sequel I see. Jessie PART II
1 posted on 07/18/2023 6:53:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I saw tweets about this right after she went missing. It seemed weird to me how the family acted like they knew exactly what happened right away. How did they come up with their theory?
2 posted on 07/18/2023 6:55:57 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Meanwhile...

https://www.wtvy.com/2023/07/18/carlees-parents-say-police-are-pursuing-her-abductor/

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/carlee-russell-parents-abduction-update-investigation-latest

The parents doth protest too much, methinks...


3 posted on 07/18/2023 6:57:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla
More details...

Unanswered questions linger in Alabama woman's disappearance after 911 call about roadside child

4 posted on 07/18/2023 6:59:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where is the toddler? Did he even exist?


5 posted on 07/18/2023 7:05:45 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

Likely not.

This seems it may have been a GoFundMe scam. Or at best a “give me social media attention” case.


6 posted on 07/18/2023 7:13:36 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope the reporting on this sad event is accurate in all matters factual.
But, supposing it was a farce...why do it?
Could it have been a way to keep police busy? In a way it is like defunding police cause it makes them less available.

Or was it a distraction while some other illegal activity was planned or was carried out?

Or the Jussie Smollett race baiting scam?

Of course, the hostile MSM will play up the race baiting scam.


7 posted on 07/18/2023 7:14:53 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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I saw an article yesterday that Gofund me was trying to give the money collected back because this was a hoax.


8 posted on 07/18/2023 7:58:51 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: Getready

Occam’s Razor sez that they are a bunch of morons and had no intelligible reason to do it.


9 posted on 07/18/2023 8:17:50 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: mewzilla
Russell communicated on her cell phone with individuals known to her while on her path of travel up to the point of calling 911 at 9:34 PM. The conversation with the 911 operator ended and Carlee called a relative.

That link reads like a Jr High Journalism project that got a C-

10 posted on 07/18/2023 9:17:57 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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