So, I know this girl. She is twelve years old. She lives in a loving home. She made friends with neighborhood kids. Kids who had lived through much turbulence and instability on their road to adolescence. One day, this girl decided not to go to school and instead spent her day at the mall without the intent of returning home that night. When three in the afternoon rolls around, this girl is not home. Her mom starts wondering where she is. Mom calls the girl’s phone- no answer. She called the bus barn to see if her child was on the bus, but the driver had left for the day. So, mom waits. After a short period, mom starts calling around friends’ houses. No one had seen or heard from the girl.
By 6 p.m., mom calls the police to share her daughter is missing.
The Flagstaff Initiative Against Trafficking recently produced a video to provide information on combat human trafficking.
The video featured local youth, Lt. Charles Hernandez from the Flagstaff Police Department and Kate Wyatt, director of Human Trafficking Services at Northland Family Help Center, providing information on red flags to watch out for, contact information for the Flagstaff Initiative Against Trafficking (928-233-4319 — kmwyatt@northlandfamily.org) and the National Human Trafficking Hotline (1-888-373-7888 — Text: 233-733).
