Crime & Safety

Sex Trafficking Victim Claims Pimp Brought Her to Houston to Work During Super Bowl

FBI, police investigating claims that woman was kidnapped from Ohio.

HOUSTON, TX -- A 21-year old who was raped in downtown Houston told investigators that she was a sex trafficking victim brought here to work during the Super Bowl.

Investigators said the victim claimed that the man who she said is her pimp kidnapped her in Ohio .

"He snatched her and put her in the car and said, 'Now, you work for me,'" Kathryn Griffin a peer recovery coach specialist for the Harris County Sheriff's Office told KTRK. "This is probably the saddest scenario I have come across in my 14 years of dealing with the human sex trafficking.”

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Griffin said the victim has the mental capacity of a child and may not even understand what the Super Bowl is, but that the pimp brought her to Houston to make him a lot of money.

Griffin said the victim told investigators that the pimp had been teaching her sex acts, but she has a medical condition that causes seizures.

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Investigators said that the woman was dropped off in downtown where she was raped.

The woman was rescued by a good samaritan and brought to Ben Taub Hospital.

The Houston Police Department, Harris County Sheriff's Office and the FBI Sex Trafficking Division are investigating.

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