Truemors AMW Forum: MissingJessi - http://forums.amw.com/dir-app/bbCard/profile.asp?webtag=foxamw&uid=1875631920
My Canadian daughter Jessie (JESSICA EDITH LOUISE) Foster is an endangered missing person. Jessie is probably a human trafficking victim. Jessie went missing from the home she shared with Peter Todd and his twin brother James Todd at 1009 Cornerstone Place, North Las Vegas, Nevada on March 29, 2006. Jessie's phone, credit cards, bank account or passport have not been used since.
After Jessie went missing we hired a private investigator who found records stating Jessie was beaten so badly she was hospitalized and that she was forced to work at an escort agency. I talked to the woman who ran this agency who told me that she tried to convince Jessie to leave Las Vegas and go back home to Canada but Jessie told her she was too scared to leave. This woman told me she witnessed bruises on Jessie and also told me that Jessie was not the only person scared of him. She told me she called Jessie "Little Girl" and she wanted me to know that Jessie was not like the other women she knew who worked there, she said that Jessie was NOT a drug user and did not work at the agency for any reason other than she was made to.
After over 2 years of trying to get Jessie's case on AMW it finally shown on November 15, 2008 - http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/brief.cfm?id=60803 but on that episode they were talking about a possible truck driver serial killer kidnapping and killing (and sadly, dismembering) prostitutes in Las Vegas. They mentioned 3 other cases...
1) Lindsay Marie Harris - http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/brief.cfm?id=31826 (found outside of Springfield, Illinois)
2) Misty Marie Saens - http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=60901 (found near a deserted stretch of Las Vegas highway)
3) Jodi Marie Brewer - http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=60899 (found in northern California)
...all three went missing from Las Vegas and have only partial remains have ever been found.
Jessie has never been found and when Jessie went missing all her belongings from her home went missing with her.
SO, HOW COULD A SERIAL KILLER HAVE GOTTEN HER THINGS?
He couldn't. SO MUCH FOR THAT THEORY IN JESSIE'S CASE....but it got her story on AMW.
Jessie's story was also told on the Geraldo at Large show (April 24/06), the Maury Povich show (October 11/06), the Montel Williams show (May 24/07) and again, not a repeat but a 2nd show, the Montel Williams show (July 8/08). On August 25/08 it was even in the National Enquirer by Sharon Ward (there were millions of readers and people are still reading old issues - I got a call from a woman from Indiana who read it a month ago and wanted to tell me she was praying for Jessie's safe return...that is the good thing about magazines). Jessie's story was told in a book by Canadian author Lisa Wojna: MISSING! The Disappeared, Lost or Abducted in Canada. And will be coming out in the new year in the 2nd edition of the cookbook by the Kristen Foundation (Jessie's story gets a full 3 pages in this book). The magazines Crime Watch Canada and Oracle 20/20 have had stories about Jessie and there are about 150 newspaper articles on her case.
There are 4 human trafficking task forces who are aware of Jessie's case: ATLAS (Anti-Trafficking League Against Slavery) in Las Vegas, 2 trafficking task forces in Edmonton, Alberta and 1 in Vancouver, BC.
Website: http://www.jessiefoster.ca/
NowPublic: http://my.nowpublic.com/jessiesmomglendene
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jessiesmomglendene
Facebook: "MissingJessie Foster'sMom" http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1631212503&ref=name
Google search: "missing Jessie Foster"
BLOGS:
Jessie blog: http://jessiefoster.blogspot.com/
Jessie news articles blog: http://jessiesnewsarticles.blogspot.com/
FORUMS: I have been trying to get Jessie's story on as many forums as possible and sometimes I go to a new one and there is already a thread on Jessie's case.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR SUPPORT IN THE SEARCH FOR MY MISSING DAUGHTER JESSIE FOSTER. I miss her and need her back.
Jessie is the 2nd oldest my 4 daughters. Jessie's older sister Crystal will be 26 in a few weeks, her younger sister Katie will be 22 in a week and is due to have my first grandson this month, and her youngest sister Jennee will be 19 in a couple of months and is the mommy to my first grandchild; my granddaughter will be 1 this month.
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at 10:43 on December 3rd, 2008
OMG!!! It's a sad story, sorry to hear that...
at 12:55 on December 3rd, 2008
It is sad....it is our life, and we are managing, but yes, it is sad. NOW, keep in mind, my daughter's belongings went missing with her, so it is doubtful she is a victim of a serial killer as the other girls are suspected of being. BUT, she is still an endangered missing person and probably a human trafficking victim.
www.jessiefoster.ca
at 16:19 on December 3rd, 2008
MomGlendene, put it in your mind that you're daughter is still there, somebody is holding here, i believed that if she can managed to scape, she will...my strong understanding now is, she's a victim of human traficking?... Lets pray for him!!!
In February the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Las Vegas is one of 17 cities suspected of being a hotbed for human trafficking. A high level of growth, an increasing immigrant population and an economy built on tourism and entertainment make Las Vegas a prime location for the crime.
Who are these people who have been reduced to economic currency? How do we remove the veil from our eyes and see what is happening in our own back yards? How do we end it?
Human trafficking is not the same as smuggling. It is not the same as regular prostitution. It is not the same as the poor people who work the migrant labor trails across the United States.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, smuggling is when a person consents to allow another person, often called a "coyote," to bring him across the border, usually for a set fee. Once the transaction is completed, the smuggled person can freely go about his life and usually does not see the coyote again.
People who are victims of human trafficking do not have to be physically moved to be trafficked. The victims either do not consent to their situations or the situation they agree to becomes null and void as their trafficker changes the circumstances to generate illicit profits from the victim's exploitation, according to HHS.
In one of the most common scenarios, a trafficker will publish an advertisement in a foreign country for domestic, construction, manufacturing or agriculture work in America. The person who replies to the ad is then falsely told that he will have a time-specific contract of service for a set price and that his expenses (room, board, airfare) will be paid for up front. Once the person makes the agreement and finds himself in America, the trafficker forces him to pay for the airfare and other expenses, usually holds him captive (when not working), forbids any outside human contact, prevents him from learning English, does not give him money promised, as well as other abuses.
From 800,000 to 900,000 people are internationally trafficked each year, with an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 coming to this country, according to the State Department. After drug dealing, human trafficking is tied with arms dealing as the second-largest criminal industry in the world -- and is the fastest-growing, according to HHS.
Most victims of trafficking are from Asia, Central and South America and Eastern Europe. The parts of Southeast Asia destroyed by the tsunamis earlier this year have opened up an even greater market for human trafficking in that region.
Many victims realize that their circumstances are bad but don't know that there is any way to get help. This is why HHS has launched a public education campaign about human trafficking. As the public -- especially service providers such as police, health care, court and immigration workers -- learns how to spot trafficking victims, they can contact authorities on victims' behalf. The agency's hotline is 888-3737-888.
In Las Vegas two new human trafficking service coalitions have formed in the past year. The Nevada Human Trafficking Working Group focuses more on prosecution and includes agencies such as the Nevada U.S. attorney's office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Department of Labor.
GODBLESS!!!
at 20:13 on December 3rd, 2008
Thank you so much......