Source: Christian Headlines, August 7, 2018<\/p>\n
Crystal Allen was found by a postal worker [in Sacramento, California] when she escaped her trafficker\u2019s vehicle on June 8. The 16-year-old was found hiding behind a bush, sobbing, according to Ivan Crisostomo:<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear this crying, this really bad crying. So, I went around behind this large, bush-like thing, [a] large tree, and saw this young lady,\u201d he told KCRA 3<\/a> [a local television station]. \u201cThe girl kept saying, \u2018They are coming to get me. They are coming to get me.\u2019 I said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry, nobody is going to get you. I\u2019m here for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Allen was reportedly lured from her group home by a friend into the hands of the captors. KCRA 3 reports, \u201cShe was held captive for three months. During that time, she was drugged, beaten, and sexually assaulted.\u201d Allen had been unable to escape, stating that she was often tied to chairs and that there were guard dogs on the premises and people who prevented her (and others) from leaving.<\/p>\n When she was found by Crisostomo, Allen was \u201cin a panic,\u201d according to the postal worker. He eventually persuaded Allen to call her mother and tell her she was all right:<\/p>\n \u201cShe was frantic. I didn\u2019t know what was going on,\u201d Allen\u2019s mother said, \u201cI couldn\u2019t even understand her she was so upset and that\u2019s when I told her she had to reach out to someone for safety and she gave the phone to Ivan and he instantly kicked into gear and told me that he would save my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a> and pray for this young woman and others like her.<\/p>\n \u00bb Did you know Sunday, September 23 is Anti-Human Trafficking Day of Prayer? Learn more or download materials<\/a> (Salvation Army of Canada).<\/p>\n \u00bb See also Is Tbilisi the New Capital for Iranian Sex Workers?<\/a> (Iran Wire).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Christian Headlines, August 7, 2018 Crystal Allen was found by a postal worker [in Sacramento, California] when she escaped her trafficker\u2019s vehicle on June 8. The 16-year-old was found hiding behind a bush, sobbing, according to Ivan Crisostomo: \u201cI hear this crying, this really bad crying. So, I went around behind this large, bush-like … Continue reading USA: Teen Rescued from Trafficking by Postal Worker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8063,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}