everything that had happened and i was cussing and screaming at anybody that tried to come close to me, i was swinging at them. brad dennis of klaas kids who helped to rescue shauna said the staff misread the situation. what i saw was a very scared, terrorized girl. that s what i saw. someone that had immediately put up her defenses because here s a situation that maybe she had a little bit of control over. it was just a nightmare. the hospital got angry because shauna wouldn t let them do a rape kit at first. she would have if they would have let me in the room or my mom in the room. for christ sake the girl didn t realize she was safe. she thought she was still with these people. i kept telling them, if you ll at least let me or my mother sit in the room she ll let you. she s just being uncooperative so we re leaving. and that s exactly what they done. finally shauna s grandmother
shauna. it was a girl on crutches. but shauna had been there. at first he didn t want to tell us that until my husband started to get violent with him. the girl started screaming, just tell him, just tell him. under threat of violence the man admitted he had seen shauna but refused to say any more. while her parents searched on foot, shauna s older brother alerted friends who worked for the local county search and rescue team. that call reached brad dennis of klaas kids. the best thing you can do is begin talking to the family and talking with them about it all and call her friends and try to find out who this young girl is and what is she really all about. while friends and family searched the area, brad dennis pressured police to run background checks on shauna s friend cathy and made a frightening discovery. the new girl who had befriended shauna had served time for
person. you know? i dressed respectably. i never showed my body off. ever. but this florida teenager s life took a terrifying turn when she was trafficked by an unlikely criminal, a fellow 16-year-old girl. i was such a trusting teenager. i thought everybody liked me and everybody wanted to be my friend and nobody would hurt me. 200,000 to 300,000 of our children are at risk of it every year, our children, united states citizens. brad dennis runs rescue and recovery for klaas kids, the national organization dedicated to saving missing children. he says shauna s case shows the alarming growth of the disappearance of american kids, an estimated 300,000 forced into prostitution in the u.s. each year. it s happening in every major town, every little suburban area, every rural area. it s happening all over the united states. it happened when shauna began an innocent friendship with a new girl junior year in high school. it was a girl i went to
i was still in shock from everything that had happened and i was cussing and screaming at anybody that tried to come close to me, i was swinging at them. brad dennis of klaas kids who helped to rescue shauna said the staff misread the situation. what i saw was a very scared, terrorized girl. that s what i saw. someone that had immediately put up her defenses because here s a situation that maybe she had a little bit of control over. it was just a nightmare. the hospital got angry because shauna wouldn t let them do a rape kit at first. she would have if they would have let me in the room or my mom in the room. for christ sake the girl didn t realize she was safe. she thought she was still with these people. i kept telling them, if you ll at least let me or my mother sit in the room she ll let you. she s just being uncooperative so we re leaving. and that s exactly what they done.
i never showed my body off. ever. but this florida teenager s life took a terrifying turn when she was trafficked by an unlikely criminal, a fellow 16-year-old girl. i was such a trusting teenager. i thought everybody liked me and everybody wanted to be my friend and nobody would hurt me. 200,000 to 300,000 of our children are at risk of it every year, our children, united states citizens. brad dennis runs rescue and recovery for klaas kids, the national organization dedicated to saving missing children. he says shauna s case shows the alarming growth of the disappearance of american kids, an estimated 300,000 forced into prostitution in the u.s. each year. it s happening in every major town, every little suburban area, every rural area. it s happening all over the united states. it happened when shauna began an innocent friendship with a new girl junior year in high school. it was a girl i went to school with.