Traffickers do not typically happen upon girls and whisk them away to some sex slave den where they are chained and raped. In most cases, trafficked girls fall into it through a long series of bad events - drugs, proper prostitution, foster care, homelessness and so on and have multiple opportunities to leave. Very very VERY rarely is a "normal" girl taken from a suburban home, especially in a town of this size (yes the town size matters statistically speaking) and then sold for sex across multiple states. When you hear stories of young girls snatched and sold into human slavery, it is usually not in the US but happens more frequently in Eastern Europe and Asia. As an example, a 16 year old disappeared from a Los Angeles suburb last year and was recovered during a sex trafficking sting where she had gone willingly with a friend and some older men to shoot a rap video. They were not being held captive (othr than via drug and lifestyle dependence). In another case, a teenage girl disappeared twice with her pimp (voluntarily). Unfortunately that one ended up dead, so this is not to say Karlie wuld be safe in a trafficking scenario, it is just really unlikely. When the FBI doesn't consider trafficking in a case, there is a good reason, and CA has one of the most active trafficking task forces on earth.
