You know what my problem is? I’m too good-looking.

written by  Sophia Perez on July 7th, 2017

Flight attendant Shelia Frederick was making her rounds on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to San Francisco when she noticed something strange: a blonde teenager wearing wrinkled, old clothing was seated by a window, next to a well-dressed older man. The girl had a large bruise on her leg. When Shelia noticed her, the girl looked up.

“Her eyes just pierced my soul,” remembered Fredrick. “They fixed on me and I knew something was wrong and I needed to help her.”

Source: Huffington Post

Fredrick went to the nearest lavatory and placed a note for the girl where she could find it. She also left a pen.

When she returned to the young girl, the man seated next to her was eyeing a menu. Fredrick looked at the girl and mouthed “go to the bathroom.”

The girl followed Fredrick’s instructions. Sure enough, when Fredrick checked the note, she had written back:

“I need help.”

Fredrick called the captain, who arranged for police to be waiting in the terminal when the plane arrived in San Francisco. The teen was a victim in an incident of human trafficking. She had been kidnapped for over two months by the time she and Fredrick locked eyes.

Source: Nancy Rivard

“Traffickers use commercial airlines all the time because it keeps them anonymous,” said Nancy Rivard. Rivard was an American Airlines flight attendant before she founded Airline Ambassadors International in 2009.

Rivard identified multiple trafficking victims before becoming frustrated by the lack of training that she and her coworkers received in the area. She founded Airline Ambassadors to teach crew members how to spot victims. Airline Ambassadors now works alongside US Customs and Border Protection to stop human trafficking in its tracks.

“It’s incredible this isn’t industry-wide yet,” Rivard asserted. That said, more and more airlines are starting to implement similar training.

Fredrick identified the teen back in 2011. Since then, Frederick has become an Airline Ambassadors member and has received training in how to identify human trafficking incidents.

“I tell people to be aware of their surroundings,” said Fredrick. “There are so many warning signs. Look closely.”

Source: WTSP

A few months after the incident occurred, Fredrick was surprised to receive a phone call from the young girl she rescued. She called to “say thank you and that she was back with her family, in therapy,” Fredrick remembered.

Fredrick and the girl still keep in touch every so often. According to Fredrick, the girl is now attending college, working towards a brighter future.

Six teenagers from the Burundi robotics team, who had come to Washington to compete in an international competition, were reported missing to D.C. police on Wednesday, according to police reports.

The missing teenagers range in age from 16 to 18 and include four males and two females, police said

Police identified the missing teenagers on Twitter as:

Richard Irakoze, 18, a black male with a dark complexion who is 5-foot-11, 140 pounds; 

Kevin Sabumukiza, 17, a black male with a medium complexion who is 6-foot-4, 160 pounds; 

Nice Munezero, 17, a black female with a dark complexion who is 5-foot-7, 140 pounds; 

Aristide Irambona, 18, a black male with a dark complexion who is 5-foot-6, 130 pounds;

 Don Ingabire, 16, a black male with a medium complexion who is 5-foot-8, 130 pounds;

 Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, a black female with a dark complexion who is 5-foot-3, 130 pounds.

We’re living in such a scary world and we, as a community, can’t let this go unnoticed. This racism and hatred  black people experience every day  in America might have become the reason these teens are missing right now. Share this to find them as soon as possible, because you can save a life. If you have any information about them- call the police. Don’t stay aside.

Me:

i don’t know anything about game grumps and i don’t have any personal investment in DD apart from that a longtime mutual of mine, @bevsi, was on the art team and she’s really excited about the work she’s done. i played one route today after a recommendation from a friend and i was totally blown away by how empathetic and deep and rich and satisfying the whole experience was. like, i am a gay author and i’ve devoted a significant amount of time both to writing and reading gay lit, and i’ve never, ever witnessed storytelling like this.

“At that time, people teased me about zippers and belts and whatnot and I’m the type of person if somebody eggs me on I’m gonna do it more!”

So we finally have an explanation for this nonsense:

And that explanation?  One word:

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