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Jewelry and nice smelling cologne. i was drawn to it. >> one day daniel offered teresa a ride home. >> i thought he was amazing and jumped at the chance like any 15-year-old girl would do and said sure. >> on the way home she says daniel stopped to show her his house and took teresa to an upstairs bedroom. >> one thing led to another. he kissed me. id always known when to tell somebody to stop and he didnt and i kept getting louder and pushing him and trying to get him off me and he wouldnt stop...

>> i was an irish catholic, middle class girl that lived in the suburbs. i had a nice family and went to church. i was a good kid. i did not party and i wasnt loose. i was just a normal, every day kid. >> back in 1981, teresa flores was a 15-year-old high school student. thats when her family relocated from a small world town to this upscale suburb outside detroit. >> i think it was the hardest move that we made. >> teresas family moved every year as her father, an executive, climbed the corpora...

Get me out of here. and that was the wrong reaction to have and was smacked across the face, was, you know, some kind of liquid was being shoved in my mouth. >> terrified, teresa says instead of daniels basement, the boys drove her to a shabby motel somewhere in detroit. >> and it was just one of those cheap, nasty, disgusting hotel rooms. the room was so packed full of guys you could hardly see. >> teresa says that night was the worst of her life. >> and it was, you know, one after the other af...

Mindset. and especially when theyre being psychologically tortured and physically tortured night after night. >> teresa says her torture included being whipped, burned with cigarettes, gang raped, and sodomized. often she would pass out from the pain. teresa says one night changed the course of her enslavement. it was on that night when she was called outside by a group of drunk boys who were friends of daniel. >> they grabbed me and shoved me in the car. at that moment, you know, i found my inn...

Student. thats when her family relocated from a small world town to this upscale suburb outside detroit. >> i think it was the hardest move that we made. >> teresas family moved every year as her father, an executive, climbed the corporate ladder. in 1981 that meant a new house, new friends, and starting a new life in a new high school. unlike the small, rural high school she had attended, her new high school had thousands of kids who teresa considered exotic, including a junior named daniel. >>...

That his cousin took while hiding in the bedroom. >> it looked like very compromising pictures. it didnt look like there was a struggle. >> you can traffic your next door neighbor and that is happening to many of our youth. >> assistant u.s. attorney erica mcdonald says as shocking as it may seem to most americans its not unusual for girls to be trafficked out of their homes. >> people hear trafficking and think it involves transportation. it doesnt. >> over the last two decades she has prosecut...

Later. >> he said, you know, this is daniel. and you need to come now. i was like, are you crazy? what are you talking about? its midnight. and hes like, babe, they want to see you now. im like, how? im in my room. im in my house. my parents are here. and he said, find a way. >> barefoot and still wearing pajamas teresa sneaked down the stairs and out her patio door. daniel drove her back to his house and led her down to an opulent basement. >> there were a bunch of men there probably all in the...

>> one thing led to another. he kissed me. id always known when to tell somebody to stop and he didnt and i kept getting louder and pushing him and trying to get him off me and he wouldnt stop until it was too late. >> for teresa, an obedient catholic girl, the rape was devastating. >> that was the most important thing to me in the whole wide world was my virginity. my religion was so important to me that this shame that that carried with it was huge. there was no way i wanted my mom to know tha...

At that moment, you know, i found my inner self, my real self came through. im like i got to get out of here. i dont care. get me out of here. and that was the wrong reaction to have and was smacked across the face, was, you know, some kind of liquid was being shoved in my mouth. >> terrified, teresa says instead of daniels basement, the boys drove her to a shabby motel somewhere in detroit. >> and it was just one of those cheap, nasty, disgusting hotel rooms. the room was so packed full of guys...

Me that the shame that that carried with it was huge. there was no way i wanted my mom to know that that had happened. >> in a state of shame and shock, theresa was approached by daniel a few days later at school. >> he said, i need to talk to you after school. and i remembered last time what happened, and he said, no, i need to talk to you. >> against her better judgment, theresa met daniel. to her shock, theresa says daniel showed her pictures of the rape that his cousins took while hiding in ...