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And do you think these kids would be allowed to keep their cell phones with them? Or be given access to a phone they could use to make a long-distance call? What are you thinking of?

That was exactly my point. The journalist's statement ("Pimps often move their human cargo across the country, making it difficult for girls to contact their families.") made absolutely no sense.

If a kidnapper has somebody locked up, it really doesn't matter if they're ten miles away or a thousand. Taking a victim across the country has almost zero effect on their ability to contact their family.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I dunno. According to this researcher guy, Estes, there are fairly well-established routes, known to law-enforcement agencies, by which underage sex slaves are transported to cities for these depraved purposes.

It definitely paints a picture of children being picked up in one place, and used in another. Maybe the aspect of being 1,000+ miles from home, helps to discourage the kids and convince them that it's hopeless, they don't know anybody nearby, there's nobody's house they can run to, they'll never get back home.

It hardly makes sense to object that "That's unreasonable" (or "illogical"), since kids --- but especially kids who have been raped, beaten, terroristically threatened, drugged, etc. --- are not known for their cooly logical thought processes.