Uber Driver Saves 16-Year-Old Girl From Sex Trafficking - Polidicks

[quote]For Uber driver Keith Avila, Monday's shift in Sacramento, California started out like any other — but ended with him helping save a 16-year-old girl from child sex trafficking. Avila said he picked up two women and the teen and drove them to a Holiday Inn in nearby Elk Grove, California. While in the car, the women openly talked about delivering the girl to a "John" and getting money from him. Once Avila dropped them off at the hotel, he called the police. "The worst thing I thought would happen when driving Uber is that I would be getting drunk passengers and I would have to handle them," Avila, 34, who is also a quinceañera photographer, told NBC Latino. "All my life, I thought about people throwing up in the car as the worst scenario." Avila started streaming to Facebook LIVE once the police arrived. His reaction to breaking up a child sex trafficking ring had been viewed more than 119,000 times as of Thursday afternoon. Elk Grove public information officer Chris Trim told NBC Latino that police immediately detained Destiny Pettway, 25, and Maria Westley, 31, when they arrived at the scene. Police found the teen trafficking victim with Disney Vang, 20, in a hotel room. Pettaway and Westley were arrested and charged with pimping and pandering, and their bail was set to $500,000. Vang was arrested on suspicions of sexual activity with a minor, and has since been released. The victim was discovered to be a runaway, and she was sent to stay in an "alternative housing situation" until her parents or guardians could be located, police said. Avila, a first-generation Mexican-American, is a married father of of a 6-year-old son. By chance, he had photographed a quinceañera at the same hotel earlier in the year. A member of the Uber Safety Team reached out to Avila over the phone to congratulate him for his work, and to inform him that all three people involved in the incident have been permanently banned from Uber. In an email, an Uber representative reiterated their admiration for his quick thinking and thanked him again.[/quote] [url]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/uber-driver-saves-16-year-old-girl-sex-trafficking-n701241?cid=sm_fb[/url] Video of his reaction to catching the sex traffickers from facebook [url]https://www.facebook.com/TheKeithAvila/videos/1528634217151135/[/url]

Did they ban the girl from Uber or the woman named Disney?

Good on him but bit weird how he starts going on about hillary and trump supporters.

[QUOTE=Araknid;51608606]Good on him but bit weird how he starts going on about hillary and trump supporters.[/QUOTE] his attitude is weird overall (he seems ecstatic at the coverage he's getting on facebook), but hey at least he did a good thing.

I've seen this movie

[quote] While in the car, the women openly talked about delivering the girl to a "John" and getting money from him. [/quote] Man, these are some bright criminals.

I hope he doesn't get fucking killed as revenge by some human trafficking mob boss

One thing that baffles me about this is why the hell would they ban the victim? Makes no sense at all to me.

[QUOTE=damnatus;51608995]I hope he doesn't get fucking killed as revenge by some human trafficking mob boss[/QUOTE] If they're using Uber to get to their clients, I doubt they're organized enough to have that happen.

[QUOTE=damnatus;51608995]I hope he doesn't get fucking killed as revenge by some human trafficking mob boss[/QUOTE] That was my first thought too.

[QUOTE=Svinnik;51608603]Did they ban the girl from Uber or the woman named Disney?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=GoldenDargon;51608999]One thing that baffles me about this is why the hell would they ban the victim? Makes no sense at all to me.[/QUOTE] When did they ever say they banned the victim? I think they meant the three people arrested, including the one that was released.

[QUOTE=damnatus;51608995]I hope he doesn't get fucking killed as revenge by some human trafficking mob boss[/QUOTE] I'd figure that would be way too much trouble for what it's worth

[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;51608999]One thing that baffles me about this is why the hell would they ban the victim? Makes no sense at all to me.[/QUOTE] They banned the two pimps and the John.

[QUOTE=damnatus;51608995]I hope he doesn't get fucking killed as revenge by some human trafficking mob boss[/QUOTE] Chances like this are very slim. The video was posted in his car and not in his home and he didn't give out his address so he's fine. Plus his job has him driving around NYC so he's always on the move. This isn't a mafia film where the mobsters are gonna hunt him down for the arrest of three of their members. Human trafficking, much like drug rings, is HUGE and all this driver did was toss a rock in a vast ocean.

[QUOTE=damnatus;51608995]I hope he doesn't get fucking killed as revenge by some human trafficking mob boss[/QUOTE] I'm sure mob bosses don't mind trimming their ranks of the fat, If they are stupid enough to get caught they are not much use, Plus its much easier to kill the caught criminals in prison than to kill the guy responsible for catching them.

[QUOTE=damnatus;51608995]I hope he doesn't get fucking killed as revenge by some human trafficking mob boss[/QUOTE] Does that happen alot?

[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;51609901]Chances like this are very slim. The video was posted in his car and not in his home and he didn't give out his address so he's fine. Plus his job has him driving around NYC so he's always on the move. This isn't a mafia film where the mobsters are gonna hunt him down for the arrest of three of their members. Human trafficking, much like drug rings, is HUGE and all this driver did was toss a rock in a vast ocean.[/QUOTE] I don't know how it works in the us but here in Sweden you can just type a persons name on google and you can get access to the persons home address and phone number totally legal.