I didn’t directly tell him that the pictures were of me, but assured him that his father didn’t look at or keep teenage porn and that I would speak to him about it. My son came to me really worried with the concern that his father was potentially hoarding teenage porn. The problem is that the pictures are nude shots! You can’t really tell that the pictures are of me, as my appearance has changed pretty dramatically since I was 14-hair color change, weight difference, boobs, etc. The pictures were in an old shoebox filled with baseball cards and other adolescent memories. The Naked Truth: My 14-year-old son recently came across some Polaroid pictures of me that his father took of me back when we were 14-we have been together for a long time and got married when I was pregnant with my son. ( Sign up here to get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week. An edited transcript of the chat is below.
And I drank the water and I blacked out.Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is online weekly to chat live with readers. “And I asked for some water because I was thirsty. “Her dad took us to this house and said he'd be right back and he left us there,” Newell recounted in a taped interview. Newell’s mother, Lisa Brant, didn’t like the idea, but after weeks of lobbying by her daughter, Brant met with the girl and the man she said was her father to make sure her daughter would be safe.īut the girl’s “father” was really a convicted felon, and the girl, who had a record of prostitution in Texas, was an accomplice in the abduction. She’s gone public to warn other girls about how easy it is to be kidnapped and trafficked.Ī typical 16-year-old in a middle-class home in suburban Pensacola, Fla., Newell’s nightmare began innocently enough: A new friend she had met in high school asked her to come to her home for a sleepover. Thanks to her mother and Klaas’ organization, which organized a search for her, she was rescued after three days. So we find this situation where we find these young victims, these young girls that all of a sudden are being treated and looked upon as criminals.”Īt least in that regard, Newell was fortunate when she was abducted two years ago. But what happens is when they’re trafficked, they’re turned into hookers they’re turned into prostitutes. “First of all, many of these kids are missing children.
When they are forced into prostitution, the young people are the ones who are prosecuted, Klaas told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Thursday in New York. Like Newell, many are treated by law enforcement authorities as runaways, said Marc Klaas, who founded the advocacy group KlaasKids after his own 12-year-old daughter was abducted, raped and killed.
You have scarred me for the rest of my life and you're just sitting there going on with your life like nothing is wrong.”Īs shocking as Newell’s story is, it is not unique, TODAY’s Natalie Morales said Thursday in a special report entitled “Sex Slaves in the Suburbs.” Advocates for girls and young women who are forced into prostitution by people who approach them in various ways, including on the Internet, claim that thousands of American youths are victims of human traffickers. “I went out to the beach a few weeks ago and I saw the dude who raped me, and he just looked at me,” Newell told NBC News, her voice choking.