‘A Human Trafficking Pipeline’ | 5

Felonious Florida

Wondery | Sun Sentinel

Crime Story, Documentary, Exhibit C, History, Murder Documentaries, Florida, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A staff mentor at a group foster home lures away two teenage residents to be sold for sex in hotel rooms from the Florida Keys to Tampa. A car crash in the middle of the night offers what may be their only chance to escape — but their captor isn't finished with them yet.

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Human trafficking help and resources

If you are a human trafficking victim or have information about a potential trafficking situation, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) at 1-888-373-7888 or text 233733. NHTRC is a national, toll-free hotline, with specialists available to answer calls from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can also get more information and submit a tip on the NHTRC website.

If you believe a child is involved in a trafficking situation, submit a tip through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline or call 1-800-THE-LOST. FBI personnel assigned to NCMEC review information that is provided to the CyberTipline.

Parents and caregivers of children who have been victims of sex or labor trafficking can find help and resources through the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crimes.

If you have information on the disappearance of Sophie Reeder or any other case you’ve heard in this podcast, contact Crime Stoppers USA at 1-800-222-TIPS. Tips can be made anonymously.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Flawneus Florida Add Free on Amazon Music.
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0:08.4	This episode contains graphic language and descriptions of events that some listeners
0:11.9	may find disturbing.
0:19.7	A Grey Honda Accord is traveling south along Interstate 75 in Florida.
0:24.7	It's 2.30am on a still, clear night in late August of 2014.
0:30.2	About 75 miles south of Tampa, the Accord takes a sumpter boulevard exit in the city of
0:35.0	Northport.
0:36.4	But on the off ramp, it's cut off by a driver in a red car.
0:40.2	It infuriates the man in the Accord's passenger seat, and he tells the female driver to follow
0:44.6	the other car.
0:49.5	For two miles, they trail it along the flat, winding boulevard.
0:53.9	When they stop at a red light at West Price Boulevard, the passenger grabs a driver's
0:57.9	leg and forces her to step on the gas, slamming them into the red car ahead.
1:07.2	And he threatens to hit the driver if she doesn't ram the car again, harder this time.
1:12.2	So she does.
1:15.0	For two teenage girls in the back seat, the commotion may be their only chance to escape.
1:19.9	For the past 10 days, they had been held captive by adults, and they had been sold for
1:24.3	sex out of a string of hotel rooms from the Florida Keys to Tampa.
1:33.5	One of the girls broke an elbow and sprained a knee in the crash.
1:36.9	But still, they make a break for a Walgreens that's a couple hundred feet away.
1:42.4	They hide behind the building until the car they escape from speeds away.
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