I don’t completely think it’s a sex trafficking case but we don’t know anything, the news reports have been reported inaccurately and obviously any scenario could be realistic at this point not having insider knowledge to investigation. I will say though that there are 20-30 million sex slaves in the world today and it’s definitely increasing every day especially in the rural Midwest and even larger cities. (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, etc.)
In the US, sex trafficking victims are:
1. Overwhelmingly black.
2. Overwhelmingly poor.
3. Work voluntarily as prostitutes.
4. Were lured into prostitution due to vulnerability as runaways, from families with heavy dysfunction, or due to drug/alcohol addiction and/or serious mental illness.
There is this myth of white slavery rings ala the movie "Taken". In the US, that's utter b.s., with the exception that some Eastern European women victims of human trafficking have been forced to prostitute themselves here.
I have not seen one single case of a missing, middle class American white woman or girl turn out to be a trafficking or "sex slavery" case (unless abducted by a predator and held by him for his own pleasure). Including Sherri Papini BTW. (No proof what she said happened actually happened. But it sure plays into the white slavery narrative pretty well!)
It's fiction. But it is a persistent fiction.
I don't know if Mollie took off, harmed herself, was killed by someone she knows, was randomly snatched and murdered or is being held somewhere or was taken by a stalker.
All of those are up in the air for me at this point.
But what I'm willing to place major bets on? Mollie was not abducted off the street by a shadowy network of sex traffickers who went to a tiny, Iowa town, and coincidentally happened to find a pretty white gal jogging, as they hunted in that tiny town, and were able to bodily grab her without anyone seeing or hearing and now have her chained, waiting to either sell her at some mysterious, fictional auction, to the highest priced bidder, or train her to provide sex to Johns in various locations.
She's not 14. She's not from a poor family. She isn't a runaway. There's not a hint of family dysfunction, sexual abuse, drug issues. Etc.
She doesn't fit the demographic.
We are all entitled to our opinions but based on the above, everything is up in the air for me except that.