They rescued a 15-year-old girl who was kidnapped at an NBA game and sexually exploited.

The Oklahoma City Police Department in the United States rescued a 15 -year -old girl who was kidnapped at Dallas Mavericks stadium, in a game against the Portland Trail Blazers for the NBA regular season, including purpose of entering her into a ring of prostitution. Eight people were arrested for this episode.

According to his father’s account, on April 8 the minor goes to one of the bathrooms of the stadium during the game but does not returnso he decided to immediately inform the security personnel of the compound, as well as the Texas city Police, about his disappearance.

“My daughter is missing in Dallas, it’s a case in Dallas, but they refused to open a case for her,” the girl’s father said, in an open comment to the Dallas Police Department (DPD).

The security force responded that “those cases, by code, must be filed where the minor lives.” In addition, he “generated a report and assisted the North Richland Hills Police Department (leading agency where the teen lives) and created a bulletin about the missing teen and submitted it to the department on April 11, 2022.”

However, the family of the missing minor came in when North Richland Hills told him he had to file a complaint in Dallas, because that’s where the kidnapping took place.

An NGO, key search

It is in this context that parents They decided to go to a non-profit organization called the “Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative”, which specializes in combating human trafficking, which after intense searching was found. photos of the victim on an Oklahoma website offering sexual services.

With these data, the family found the whereabouts of the minor ten days after his kidnapping. They found him at the Extended Stay America hotel. of Oklahoma, about 200 miles away from Mavericks stadium.

According to the family’s attorney, Zeke Fortenberry, the teenager was attacked several times.

The Oklahoma City Police Department eight people were arrestedsix women and two men, under different charges, including kidnapping, rape, human trafficking, distribution of child pornography and prostitution.

Their names, in detail foxnewsThey are Saniya Alexander, Melissa Wheeler, Chevaun Gibson, Kenneth Nelson, Sarah Hayes, Karen Gonzales, Thalia Gibson and Steven Hill.

“We are grateful for the work of the Oklahoma City Police Department and for our daughter’s recovery. It breaks my heart for the unthinkable things my son had to endure in the days he was taken, and I am glad that Be safe like we are, “the girl’s mother said in a statement on May 5.

The family, now, will require corresponding explanations not only from Dallas Police and those responsible for the Mavericks stadium, but also at the hotel where the teenager is being held hostage, for non-enforcement of security protocols. in the presence of a minor.

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