Parents of Texas teenager who left Dallas Mavericks game speak out on human trafficking case

DALLAS — The parents of a 15-year-old Texas girl who in April left a Mavericks game with an unidentified man, ultimately prompting a human trafficking investigation, are speaking out to raise awareness about human trafficking.

Kyle and Brooke Morris, in an interview with ESPN and Good Morning America, said they want their daughter's story to be a cautionary one about the dangers of human sex trafficking and how laws governing the crime are applied.

«We just want to make sure people understand… that something like this can happen to anyone anywhere,» Kyle Morris said. «Even if you don't think it's possible, there's people out there that they want to make it happen.»

Police found the girl as she walked on the side of a road in Oklahoma City, 10 days after Morris, her stepfather, reported her missing from American Airlines Center in Dallas. She had been taken to an Oklahoma City hotel, where she was sexually assaulted multiple times, starved and not allowed to bathe, according to her parents and their lawyer.

The nonprofit Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative helped find the girl through an online ad soliciting sex.

Three people were arrested in Oklahoma City and charged with human trafficking and other offenses. Their cases are pending.

The parents said their daughter is safe, has entered treatment to recover from her trauma and is doing well. The girl has given her parents permission to discuss the case publicly, according to the family's lawyer. ESPN is not naming her because she is a minor.

The girl told her mother a couple of days after she was found that she had met «so many other girls» in Oklahoma.

«And she said, 'I wonder how long they have been in this life, but no one looked for them,'» Brooke Morris said.

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