North Texas teen who went missing from Mavs game was advertised and sold for sex in Oklahoma City. Her family says many people could've stopped it.
This story just seems horrible all the way around. Go figure a FB post from a news station in Corpus is how I read about it!
What a CF. The article goes on to say the hotel she was discovered in never raised any alarms, despite the red flags of a 40 something male renting multiple rooms with a teenager and then a relatively steady stream of traffic in and out of the hotel. It also looks like a bunch of finger pointing from the Mavericks, AAC, DPD, and NRH PD.
But at least she didn't tap the shoulder of an opposing players mom.
This story just seems horrible all the way around. Go figure a FB post from a news station in Corpus is how I read about it!
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DALLAS On April 8, a 15-year-old girl from North Richland Hills went to a Dallas Mavericks game with her dad at the American Airlines Center.
She went to the bathroom right before halftime.
She never made it back to her seat.
Surveillance footage showed video of her leaving the arena with a man that night.
A week and a half later, on April 18, police found the teen in a hotel room in Oklahoma City after her parents identified her through nude photos that had been posted online in sex advertisements.
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Fortenberry said the teen's father notified police at the game when he realized she was missing. But, according to Fortenberry, the father was told to report it to North Richland Hills Police, since that's where he lives.
The father said he was then told to go home.
He said he called North Richland Hills Police that night. Fortenberry said NRH police weren't able to help because, they said, the incident happened in Dallas.
"The family was frustrated," Fortenberry said. "After days of not getting any information from the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Police not taking any action, the family sought out the help of this agency in Houston."
Fortenberry said the Houston-based human trafficking agency Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative was able to use their face-recognition technology to help break open the case.
"That agency was able to help them locate the photograph of their daughter online within the same day," Fortenberry said.
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"The Dallas Police Department never asked for a photo of the daughter," Fortenberry said.
What a CF. The article goes on to say the hotel she was discovered in never raised any alarms, despite the red flags of a 40 something male renting multiple rooms with a teenager and then a relatively steady stream of traffic in and out of the hotel. It also looks like a bunch of finger pointing from the Mavericks, AAC, DPD, and NRH PD.
But at least she didn't tap the shoulder of an opposing players mom.
