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The girl was gone for 10 days after she disappeared from a
Dallas Mavericks game until authorities found her at a hotel in
Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City authorities have arrested and charged eight
individuals after a 15-year-old Texas girl was allegedly
trafficked from a Dallas Mavericks game at the American Airlines
Center (AAC) game on April 8.

The girl went to use the bathroom while attending the Mavericks
game with her father and never returned, according to a press
release from her family's attorney, Zeke Fortenberry of the
Fortenberry Firm, PLLC.

She was gone for 10 days until authorities located her at an
Extended Stay America hotel in Oklahoma City on April 18.

The Oklahoma City Police Department has arrested Saniya
Alexander, Melissa Wheeler, Chevaun Gibson, Kenneth Nelson,
Sarah Hayes, Karen Gonzales, Thalia Gibson and Steven Hill in
connection to the trafficking case. Gibson is charged with
offering to engage in prostitution; Nelson, Hayes and Gonzales
are charged with human trafficking and distribution of child
pornography; Hill is charged with rape; Gibson and Alexander
have felony warrants; and Wheeler has a robbery warrant.

"We are thankful for the work of the Oklahoma City Police
Department and the recovery of our daughter. My heart breaks for
the unimaginable things my daughter had to endure for the 11
days she was taken, and I am so glad she is safe as we work
toward her recovery," the girl's mother said in a May 5
statement.

WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING?

After the girl left to use the bathroom at the AAC and did not
return, her father "immediately notified AAC security, staff,
and Dallas [p]olice [o]fficers of her disappearance." By the
time the game ended, she "had not been found," and her father
was instructed to return home.

Fortenberry says the Dallas Police Department (DPD) never opened
an investigation into the case despite multiple pleas from the
victim's parents.

MTV EX-REALITY STAR RAPPER RECRUITED SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
USING LARGE SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWING: POLICE

"My daughter was missing in Dallas, this is a Dallas case, but
they refused to open a case for her," the girl's father said of
the DPD.

The DPD told Fox News Digital that an officer at the April 8
Mavericks game was notified of the 15-year-old's disappearance
and searched the event and location that night. Beyond that, the
department pointed to Texas Family Code (51.03 b. 3), which
"dictates that missing juveniles are investigated as runaways
unless there are circumstances which appear as involuntary such
as a kidnapping or abduction."

"Those cases per code are to be filed where the juvenile
resides," the department said. "A report was generated by Dallas
Police and Dallas Police assisted the North Richland Hills
Police Department (lead agency as that was where the teen
resided) and a bulletin about the missing teen was created and
went out to the department on April 11, 2022."

The North Richland Hills Police Department said it handled the
missing persons side of the case, but the Oklahoma City Police
Department eventually arrested the eight individuals involved in
the alleged trafficking incident.

8 ARRESTED IN TENNESSEE HUMAN TRAFFICKING STRING ALLEGEDLY
SOUGHT ACTS FROM MINORS

The victim's parents eventually sought a nonprofit handling
Texas trafficking cases called the Texas Counter-Trafficking
Initiative (TXCTI) to help them locate their daughter. The
organization was able to track down explicit images of the
victim on a prostitution website out of Oklahoma City.

Now, her family is demanding answers as to why the DPD and AAC
did not do more to help locate the girl when she went missing.
They are also demanding answers from Extended Stay America,
which Fortenberry alleges did not implement safety and security
protocols to protect the girl from a registered sex offender who
used a fake name and ID card to rent rooms at the hotel chain's
location in Oklahoma City.

The offender was allegedly able to purchase multiple hotel rooms
for multiple nights.

Additionally, Fortenberry said in the press release that a
fraudulent ticket seller known to the AAC and Mavericks may have
sold a fake ticket to a male suspect who allegedly lured the
victim from the sports center.

"The systems and organizations involved in this case continually
failed the victim. She should never have had contact with the
man at the Mavericks game. The Dallas Police should have worked
quickly to investigate leads and locate the teenager before she
was trafficked to Oklahoma," Fortenberry said in a statement.
"The Extended Stay America hotel in Oklahoma City put profits
ahead of people by turning a blind eye to the sexual
exploitation occurring right before their eyes. This victim�s
life will forever be changed. We hope to hold accountable those
responsible and create change within these organizations so that
this never happens to any other child."

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