For one local girl, it took only 36 hours. “He pulled me in with his kindness and pushed me out with his violence. I was only 15 and naive.”
Police say it doesn’t take long to get trapped in the web known as human trafficking.
For one local girl, it took only 36 hours. “He pulled me in with his kindness and pushed me out with his violence. I was only 15 and naive.”
Those words are from the young Jacksonville girl, simply known in court records as A.B.
“She’s a typical 15-year-old girl. She’s an A/B honor roll student,” said JSO detective Dave Bisplinghoff.
Bisplinghoff said that the typical teen ran away from a stable home life and ended up tangled in human trafficking.
“Within a matter of 36 hours, she was brought into that trade in a poor neighborhood in Jacksonville and quickly introduced to crack cocaine, then the world of prostitution,” said Bisplinghoff.
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