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Toddler not used as ‘bait’ in Carlee Russell case: human trafficking expert
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0:33Now PlayingThe Alabama woman who mysteriously reappeared two days after vanishing when she stopped to help a toddler who was walking on the side of a highway was likely not the target of sex traffickers, according to a report.
A human trafficking expert on Monday threw cold water on Carlee Russell’s parents’ suggestion that the tot was used as “bait” to lure the 25-year-old nursing student out of her car and kidnap her.
“As far as we are aware, this is not a tactic that traffickers use,” Sabrina Thulander, a spokesperson for Polaris, the nonprofit that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline, told Insider, adding that it’s a common myth that traffickers often use force to capture their victims.
Thulander also discounted the theory of “luring” kind-hearted women.
Only about 6 percent of the human trafficking victims who’ve contacted the hotline since 2007 reported that they had been abducted, she told the news outlet.
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