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Teen Sold For Sex Slavery
This is typical and happens way too often. Use to be we would never hear of this in the news. Now we hear more and more horrific stories of kidnapped girls and boys who are forced into human sex trafficking. What's worse we are hearing about parents who are selling their children.
This is happening in Mexico and the US, all over the world, when is it going to stop? Without support and action from all Governments around the World we will continue to witness the selling of babies,forced prostitution, and Human Sex Traffiking. We have to look beneath the surface.
Report what we see even if you think it's nothing. Remember the girl in Vista I did a story on, Beaten with a wire hanger almost to death. She lived in a normal house in a normal neighborhood.
Lauree B. will tell you that her now 16-year-old daughter has been difficult to love. "I tried talking to her. I tried to get her to sit down and watch movies, play games. She just wanted to run, run, run, run, run, run.”
A year and a half ago, Lauree's daughter ran one final time. Though no one knows how he found her, for 37 year old Leonard Russell of Iowa, Lauree's runaway daughter was the perfect prey.
"Things just go through your head,” says Lauree. “What is she doing? Is she alive? Is she dead somewhere? It's hard. It's very hard."
Over that year and a half, Russell sold Lauree's daughter and a 15-year-old girl to men for sex all over the country. Russell trafficked and prostituted the two young girls for money.
Leonard Russell arrested, was the first person to be convicted under Iowa's human trafficking law. Russell was found guilty in September following a trial in Crawford County, Iowa. He was also convicted of one count of ongoing criminal conduct and two counts of pandering.Prosecutors who used addresses in Sioux City, Iowa, and Omaha recruited and harbored two girls, ages 15 and 16, who were runaways. The Iowa attorney general said Marcia Ryan helped recruit the underage runaway girls in Omaha last August and took them to Russell for the purposes of selling them for sex. Ryan's mother told KETV in September that her daughter was a victim in the scheme. Cassandra Ryan said Russell preyed on her daughter in addition to the teens.






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