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Pointed to the white wall and said if i didn t stop screaming, i was going to see my brains all over the white wall. at that point, i really, really thought i was going to die. i couldn t sleep. i couldn t eat. all i could imagine, i wasn t going to hear the last thing out of shauna s mouth was, mommy, help me. i just refused that. while her frantic family called police, a beaten and bleeding shauna could see her so-called friend walking back and forth through the hallway. i was so exhausted. and i was so scared. that i finally i think i just gave up. i think i finally said, this is where i m going to die and i remember just praying and saying, if i die here, just at least please, please tell my family that, you know, that i love them and that i m sorry i disobeyed them and just let them know that i m sorry. i just get back in the car from hanging up flyers on a telephone pole. my husband said, they found shauna, found shauna. ....
They added, if they re now willing to cooperate they will reopen the case. all shauna s family wanted in the six days she was missing was to bring her home. that s all they wanted. marc klaas runs klaas kids, an organization dedicated to recovering abducted children. he says local police find the notion of american girls being sold into slavery just not credible. all too often, kidnapped girls are classified as runaways, which enrages helpless families. they didn t want to make friends with the cops. they didn t want to create enemies with the cops. they wanted their little girl to be back at her home with her family. you ve got the family that s anxious, petrified. you ve got the little girl that s being victimized. and when all is said and done, what does law enforcement do? they point the finger at the family and say, well, they weren t cooperative. oh, my goodness. they are the victims, aren t they? therefore let s treat them a little more kindly. i was thinking the whole t ....
To sell their bodies in order to survive. i think i found one here, a missing girl out of redwood city. msnbc undercover investigates sex slaves in the suburbs. it s a story that begins in small town usa with the girl next door. i always figured something like that could never happen to me because i was safe. i was always careful. at 16 shauna newell heard the stories of thousands of young foreign women being tricked into modern-day sexual slavery. always thought stuff like that happened only to people who put themselves in that position, in that predicament, you know, like girls who were floozies and ....
He was, like, the girls are going to clean condos. they will make $80 a piece. i ll make sure she calls you. you can come out there any time. shauna is just begging me, begging me, begging me. i finally gave in. cathy s dad took the girls to a friend s house not far from where shauna lived. her dad took us to this house and said he would be right back. he left us there and 20 or 30 minutes after we were there, i asked for some water and i drank the water and blacked out. when shauna woke up she felt groggy and couldn t move. my legs were being held down. the guy raping me was holding my hands back. i was completely naked. it was cold in the room. so i know i was completely naked. i kept screaming, stop, but i was so weak i couldn t fight him off. i was so really out of it. i blacked out a few times and i kept coming back to. i was still being raped every time i woke up. ....
To the house to make money for the man kathy claimed was her father. after receiving a frantic phone call from her daughter, shauna s mother lisa called police. she says they told her not to worry and tried to convince her shauna had run away. he s like, oh, there s nothing i can do, you know teenagers. i was like, no, you don t understand, i know my children, something s wrong. i kind of knew something as a fatherly feeling i guess you would say in my stomach, pit of my stomach, that something was wrong. i knew it was wrong, so i had to go out and do the best that i could as a father. police dispatch told the family they couldn t conduct an official missing persons search until 72 hours passed. but after hearing the story about cathy and mysterious dad lisa said the responding officer gave them a clue that made the difference between life and death for shauna. he told my husband, he said and i thank him to this day for it he said, i ve got a number. and what you do wi ....