[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 8906-8907]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       DEBBIE'S KIDNAPPING STORY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)

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  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Americans once thought that the 
horrors of human trafficking were a foreign problem. However, 
traffickers lurk all around us right here in America.
  Debbie's mother thought nothing of letting her young daughter meet a 
friend in front of their yard one night to play. Her mother didn't 
realize her 15-year-old daughter, who was clad in her cartoon pajamas, 
was quickly abducted by two men in front of their house.
  These deviants threw Debbie in the car, drugged her, and gang raped 
her. They threatened to shoot her if she ever tried to escape. For 60 
days she was forced to have sex with countless men.
  An anonymous tip led police to a hotel room where they found Debbie 
tied up and stashed under a bed. But many trafficking victims are never 
rescued. We cannot allow this scourge to continue to rage in America. 
Our children are not for sale, period.
  And that is just the way it is.

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