Michigan sting uncovers child sex workers
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What do you do if your child goes missing? Nancy Grace here. I want to tell you about a brand new |
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| 0:35.9 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. In juvenile hall I had given up on life. I thought I won't live. |
| 0:44.0 | I won't live past 16. There's no way I'm going to make it and I was only 13. I wasn't even 14 yet |
| 0:49.9 | and I couldn't see myself making it to 16. Maybe not even 15. It just wasn't even a thought that I |
| 0:55.9 | would. But at the time when I was trafficked at 12 I should have been dead by 19. I mean that's |
| 1:00.8 | the statistics. A seven-year-old life expectancy. And that's what should have happened to me. But |
| 1:06.5 | fortunately someone came into my life and planted this seed and said you have potential and then I |
| 1:15.4 | started trying to figure out what that meant. This message that we can all do something needs to |
| 1:21.7 | get out there. We have our unique abilities, talents and we can develop them and we can change |
| 1:26.9 | the world with them. You are hearing the voice of a child sex trafficking survivor. Wow. |
| 1:35.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. I can distinctly remember |
| 1:42.0 | prosecuting a case of child molestation where the child, the girl was about 12 years old and when |
| 1:49.8 | I went looking for her trying to find her out on the streets of inner city Atlanta, I found her |
| 1:57.2 | in a brothel and I went in the room and came out and said she's not there. And a cop said my |
| 2:04.9 | undercover vice cop said go back in. She's the one in the white boots. I went back in. I came |
| 2:10.5 | back and I said no she's not that's 35 year old woman. It was a then 13 year old girl that they had |
| 2:20.0 | made up to look like a grown woman with a weave and high heel boots and tons of makeup and |
| 2:32.0 | I could not believe that that was the little girl whose picture I had in my file. You were just |
| 2:38.7 | hearing the voice of Curissa Phelps, child sex trafficking survivor. And that voice was brought to |
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