Human Trafficking: It's in your town!

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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News, True Crime

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

When daughters go missing, investigators consider the possibility that human traffickers were involved. Children and young women have been kidnapped and forced into sex slavery. In this episode, Nancy Grace talks to Memphis journalist Shane Deitert about what is being done to fight the problem in Tennessee. You may be shocked to learn how there may be slaves in your community.

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0:00.0	Meet a typical teen from a wealthy Virginia suburb.
0:08.0	He's about 13. He started off as a nice guy.
0:11.0	But her dream boyfriend turned into a nightmare.
0:14.0	He took me off. He started off as a nice guy.
0:17.0	Hortening found herself caught in the dangerous and terrifying world of human sex trafficking.
0:23.0	This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:26.0	At 13, when she should have been worried about homework, she was being branded, bought and sold by a friend of her drug-added father.
0:35.0	I was scared he might kill me or my dad.
0:38.0	See how he starts like that and he always has guns.
0:41.0	They've been called all sorts of names over the years from ladies of the night to prostitutes.
0:47.0	But when they're underage, police now have a different name for them.
0:51.0	We have come a long way and recognize that these children are victims.
0:56.0	Human trafficking. What is it? Is it real?
1:02.0	We hear about it all the time and now report surfacing that little Matty McCann may have been a victim of child trafficking.
1:11.0	Human trafficking.
1:14.0	This is Crime Stories. I'm Nancy Grace. Thank you for being with me.
1:18.0	Very special guest joining me today in addition to the Duke Allen Duke joining me out of LA.
1:24.0	Shane Dietert joining me.
1:27.0	Shane, thank you so much for being with us. He is joining us from Give Me Your Formal Title, Shane.
1:34.0	I'm the assignment editor, social media, web producer, character at WTN and Memphis, Tennessee.
1:43.0	Shane, you have had a lot of experience in covering human trafficking cases.
1:50.0	Tell me what's happening.
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