Hey girls,
Have any of you ever come across girls who you have reason to believe may be trafficking victims either by force or coercion in your club? I was working this afternoon and I sat down to chat with a man at the beginning of my shift who said he was waiting for a friend. About an hour later after I came out of the champagne room from doing some dances with another client and I noticed he was sitting next to a young looking girl. Girls coming into my club for whatever reason (date, girlfriend, cool lady friend, prostitute, wife etc.) is not super unusual however there were a few things that were off about this one. She was obviously too young to be this dudes significant other (he was 60+ and she looked in the 16-20 range) unless she was a mail order bride (which was my first inclination), and she was not done up at all like most of the escorts you see coming into the club with their dates. Her hair was in a braid, sweater and leggings, no/very little make up. I went over to talk to her mostly out of curiosity at, and the second red flag (first one being her looking no way in hell over 20 and closser to 16) was that she barely spoke any English. She barely seemed to understand the questions that I was asking and the dude seemed pretty antsy to get rid of me as he said to me when I asked if they wanted a bit of company for a while "I think we're ok we're not going to get any dances or anything." When I asked the girl if she was there because she was thinking about dancing she didn't seem to understand the question. Third red flag is that this dude was accompanying this girl to the bathroom (the bathroom for female customers is right beside the male one and the dj needs to buzz you in so it's not like it's unsafe or anything). All of the other female customers I have seen in this bar seem perfectly able to go to the bathroom by themselves, they went to the bathroom at the exact same time about 3 times during my shift. I wanted to try and speak with this girl in the bathroom but couldn't because this dude was following her around! So strange right? I talked to a friend and she agrees with me that this is suspicious. I want to report it to crime stoppers (I sneakily sat down at the bar and snapped a photo of the two, it's not good quality but it was the only thing I could think of to do at the time) but I don't want to cause any trouble for everyone who works at my bar. Am I being too paranoid? I'm not sure what the best way to go about reporting this would be and what kind of details I should include/omit with the photo.



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373-7888 which is a human trafficking hotline.



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