Springfield, OH, United States
“A 16-year-old Mexican girl was found to have been trafficked across the US border. Doctors noticed the heavily pregnant girl showed clear signs of physical abuse when she was brought into a hospital in Dayton to give birth. The police were called but the couple who had brought her had already fled. When the girl's story emerged, it became clear she had been kept against her will in the nearby city of Springfield and used for labour and sex.” The hospital contacted Maria Messer, who works with Casa Amiga, to translate for the young girl. Messer discovered that the young girl was an illegal immigrant who was being held against her will by a local couple to have the husband’s child, and most likely sell to a childless couple. Because of the young girl’s injuries, they were planning on inducing her and stealing the child.