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West Seattle, WA, United States

The suspect was a 23 year old man who forced a 12 year old girl into prostitution. He met her thorugh a mutual friend on January 9th and invited her to hang out. Police said he had unprotected sex with her that night and several times over the next several days. When the girl failed to return home the night of the 9th, her family filed a missing persons report. During the five days, the two stayed at the homes of several women who described themselves as the suspect's fiances. She was ordered by the man to walk the streets of South King County to work as a prostitute and the man allegedly told her the exact price to charge for each sex act. She was also told not to tell her age to any customers. One of the suspect's "financees" became angry about the girl and called a phone number she found in a school binder that the girl had left at her home. The person who answered the phone turned out to be the 12 year old girl's sister. The "fiancee" told the sister where the missing girl was in downtown Seattle. Police said relatives found the girl Sunday night with the man in downtown Seattle. The relatives took the girl to Harborview Medical Center where a rape examination was performed and then went to the Seattle police department's West Precinct and notified police they had found her. After talking to the girl, the police found the suspect on a West Seattle street. According to detectives, the man's acquaintances say he has befriended other young girls, raping them as well as coercing them into prostitution.

Location
United States · West Seattle, WA · 2008 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
The girl's family had been calling the department daily since her disappearance on January 9th and believed the missing persons division wasn't working fast enough, police said. They were ready to start calling everybody, including congressmen. They were reaching out trying to get answers, trying to get people to start looking. When relatives confronted the man on the street, demanding he return the girl, they said he was a little argumentative at first, but the relative who did the relative who did the finding is a big guy. The article said that the family planned to have the girl enrolled in counseling. The information is from a January 18, 2008 newspaper article from the Seattle Times. The title is "Man coerced 7th-grader into prostitution, cops say".
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