interesting article on traffivcking in Bay Area and Sacramento:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sex-Trafficking-a-Reality-in-Bay-Area-188846671.html
Sex Trafficking, Abductions, Sad Reality in Bay Area
Modern day slavery - that’s what some are calling an unspoken reality that many may not be aware of in the Bay Area. The FBI ranks California as one of the worst states for the crime that includes sex trafficking, child labor, forced labor, and domestic servitude.
Kacie Klinnert and her mother, Vickie Zito, would not learn of human trafficking until March 2008, when Klinnert, a developmentally disabled young woman who was 17 at the time,
was abducted by a man with whom she shared mutual friends outside a Safeway in the quiet suburb of El Dorado Hills, about half an hour east of Sacramento.
Klinnert said Sanwal sold her off to two “gorilla pimps,” a term used to describe more violent and aggressive pimps. Klinnert said they drugged and starved her for days, who admitted the same thought terrified her constantly, “You don’t know if you’re going to come out alive.”
Eight days later, the FBI tracked her to a Motel 6 in Fremont. Through tears, Zito said it’s difficult to shake off the nightmare of what felt like forever. “What I really clung to at that moment, because it was just too much, was that she was found alive and she was on her way home.”
One of the most alarming trends, said Boeving,
is that victims have shifted in the last year from foreigners to Americans. It’s taking place in the big cities, but also the suburbs all around. “We’re talking about suspicious cases happening in the Atherton and Saratogas and Walnut Creeks of the Bay Area.”
Boeving mentioned a recent case involving Hillsborough twins contacting a man,
having their mother drive them to the mall to meet him, and then disappearing. “They were found two years later on Craigslist being solicited for underage prostitution.”
husband kills wife, girlfriend disappears or the horrible crimes against children.