FIND Aubrey: Parents of Lehigh Valley girl, 14, FEAR Daughter SEX TRAFFICKED
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A Pennsylvania family is worried sick about 14-year-old Enci “Aubrey” Wu, who disappeared six weeks ago. Aubrey’s parents say based on her secret social media use, Aubrey could be anywhere from California to Saudi Arabia. Her parents terrified she was lured out of their home by a predator and may be a victim of sex-trafficking.
Just over six months after Aubrey gets her own phone, her parents discover a second, older iPhone hidden in her room. When confronted, Aubrey admits she convinced a boy at school to give it to her, and he told his parents he lost it. Aubrey paid for a new iCloud account to use on the phone, bypassing both her parents’ blocks and rules on when she can use a phone. Aubrey’s extremely upset when her parents take both phones away and ground her.
10:00 p.m., January 10th, Palmer Township PD knock on Aubrey Wu’s door, asking her parents to wake her up for a welfare check. Officers say Aubrey’s boyfriend, a boy the parents don’t know, begged his parents to call police, as he hadn’t heard from Aubrey in more than 24 hours. Stepfather John Gehrmann calls upstairs for Aubrey several times—but receives no answer. The family’s security cameras reveal Aubrey crawled out her bedroom window, crept across the roof, shimmied down a grate, and disappeared into a back alley behind their home more than three hours ago.
Where is Aubrey?
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- John Gehrmann - Stepdad
- Jade Wu - Mother
- Alexandria “Ally” Crouthamel - Attorney for Aubrey Wu's Family, Attorney at Crouthamel Law Offices
- Anna Sonoda - Child sex abuse, Grooming expert, Clinical Social Worker, Counsels convicted sex offenders, Author, “Duck Duck Groom”
- Caryn Stark - Psychologist, renowned TV and Radio trauma expert and consultant, www.carynstark.com, Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Brian Fitzgibbons - Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security, Leads a team of investigators specializing in locating missing persons, website: www.uspasecurity.com, Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security
- Alicia Kozakiewicz - Survivor of an abduction as a teen via internet site. Motivational speaker and internet safety expert, aliciakozak.com, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube: @ItsAliciaKozak
- Sydney Sumner - Crime Online Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.4 | Please help us find Aubrey. |
| 0:09.5 | The parents of a missing Lehigh Valley girl are pleading for your help tonight. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:16.7 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:19.1 | Police desperately searching for a missing 14-year-old |
| 0:22.5 | amidst a family's fears of sex trafficking. |
| 0:26.4 | Joining us, an all-star panel to make sense of what we are learning about missing Aubrey tonight. |
| 0:32.9 | As the days pass, her parents are desperate and they are joining us now. |
| 0:38.2 | Straight out to John German joining us, her stepdad and her mom, Jade. |
| 0:43.2 | To both of you, thank you for being with us. |
| 0:45.5 | John, from what you have told me, there was no indication at all that Aubrey would just run away and disappear. Why are you concerned Aubrey could be |
| 0:59.8 | sex trafficked? Thank you, Nancy. Our concerns are, they're stem from the fact that we learned |
| 1:08.3 | that there was extensive use of a hotspot in our home from a real |
| 1:13.9 | phone that we provided her that had multiple layers of parental controls. |
| 1:19.5 | Saturday morning, one of Aubrey's closest friend, if not her closest friend, provided us |
| 1:26.2 | feedback that she had tried to reach out to Aubrey. |
| 1:30.1 | I said to her, well, I have Aubrey's phone and I don't see an inbound call or a text. |
| 1:36.1 | And the young girl uttered the phrase to us that is the beginning of our living nightmare here, |
| 1:43.5 | which is I contacted your daughter through her secret |
| 1:46.8 | Snapchat and she proceeded to give us... |
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