At that time, she was having a craving for weed she consumed to cope with her anxiety.
I told him, Im just really looking to smoke.
Do you smoke?'
He didnt tell me there was anyone else there with him, she said.
It was just him.
Natalee was forced into the car and taken to a house in North Texas, where theabusersraped her.
It looks like a normal conversation until its not.
Theres no room to judge people because they cant get out.
She was paralyzed with fear and thought that she would be punished if she tried to escape.
It clicked for me that I was in danger when I was raped by them.
I could have asked for the phone, but they would have been right there.
What was I supposed to do?
Even if I had run, where would I go?
I didnt know where I was.
They told me they couldnt help me.
They didnt know how to help me.
The dad of these little children looked at me, and he couldnt tell at the hotel.
I cant do this anymore.
That someone was a police officer who identified her when she was walking outside of an apartment complex.
Natalee was found eleven days after her disappearance.
He pulled up next to me, and hes like, Are you Natalee Cramer?
and I was like, Yes.'
All were later sentenced to time in prison.
Other times, men patrolled the hotel hallway with an AK-47 style assault rifle.
Her family continues to fight for the men whokidnappedthe teen in Dallas to be charged and jailed.
I was extremely upset, Natalees mother, Brooke Morris,expressed.
Natalee said her memory is enough evidence to confirm what she experienced.
I can recall all of the things they did.
All of the things they were wearing and all of the things they said and did to me.
If they cant speak for them, Im going to speak for them.
Estimatessuggestthat women and girls may constitute up to 80% of persons trafficked globally.
She was a naive kid.
Traffickers took advantage of her, one reader wrote
