Former sex slave: I was chained in basement and sold

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Nashville, TN (WSMV) — Law enforcement and rescuers of sex slaves report that because of a saturation of human trafficking in the deep South, more human traffickers are bringing young girls to Middle Tennessee.

“The trafficker said to them (slaves) on the way here, I’m taking you to Nashville because I can make more money off you there,” said Derri Smith, executive director of End Slavery.

Sex crimes detectives said that Nashville is part of a four-city human trafficking “loop” that also includes Birmingham, Memphis and Atlanta.

“It’s almost like a circuit,” said an undercover Metro sex crimes detective.

Investigators said the girls are taken from city to city.

The TBI estimates in Davidson and Coffee counties there have been more than 200 recent cases of minors being sold into slavery.

Photographs obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team from law enforcement show the circumstances where the girls are kept.

One photograph shows a gun in a bathtub where a girl was duct-taped and left for hours.

Another shows the kinds of tickets, often seen in carnivals, that are used to sell the girls.

One group of photos shows shrines set up in hotel rooms to Santa Muerte, a kind of cult, where pimps pray for protections from cops and other competition.

“The youngest investigation I’ve worked was on a 12-year-old,” said the undercover detective.

A survivor of a sex trafficking loop agreed to share her story with the Channel 4 I-Team.

“Stephanie,” who is now 18 years old, is currently in Middle Tennessee, brought here by investigators while the men charged with selling her are being prosecuted on the West Coast.

She is getting counseling and help from the nonprofit End Slavery that interviewed her this year, and both they, and Stephanie, agreed to share that interview with Channel 4.

Stephanie said she was 15 when she was first sold into slavery. She said an older man showed her affection and then drugged her.

“I woke up, and I was being raped by everybody in the room,” she said.

She said the man then threatened her and said she needed to leave town with him or he would come after her family. After traveling with him for a while, she said the man took her to an abandoned house.

“He chained me to a pole in a basement. I was there for a while,” she said.

Stephanie said in that basement, she found she wasn’t the only girl being held captive.

“She was all filthy, she was all scared to talk. One day they came down to feed us, and they caught us talking. Then they put her upstairs. And after that, I never seen her again,” Stephanie said.

But her ordeal in the loop was just getting started.

“He sold me to a gang member. He (the gang member) made me wear heels, made me wear lingerie to the clubs. He made me prostitute myself,” she said.

Finally, she was arrested by police, and revealed her true age.

“I told him my name, I told him my age, I told him when I went missing, I told him how long I was missing,” she said.

After agreeing to testify against her abductors, she is now getting help from End Slavery, including documenting on camera how she survived.

“It was totally her idea. She approached us. She said, ‘Do you know any journalists? I want to tell my story.’ She’s ready to have a voice,” Smith said.

Smith said Stephanie is working on getting her GED and has a job.

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Barefaced in Bondi! Makeup free Tahnee Atkinson shows off plenty of leg as she …

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10:06 EST, 31 July 2014

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She’s often seen in sultry lingerie shoots, but on Thursday Tahnee Atkinson was seen in civilian mode.

The 22-year-old Australian beauty was spotted completely barefaced as she went for a coffee run in Bondi.

Tahnee chatted away on her phone as she sported no makeup and monochrome casual wears that showed off plenty of her long legs.

Barfaced beauty! Tahnee Atkinson stepped out without makeup on Thursday in Bondi

Leggy babe! The former Australia’s Next Top Model star showed off plenty of leg, wearing a long-sleeved white sweatshirt and a studded pair of black shorts

The former Australia’s Next Top Model star wore a long-sleeved white sweatshirt and a studded pair of black shorts.

In addition to her enviable legs, Tahnee’s outfit had a spot of her toned midriff on display – particularly as she held her hands in the air while on the phone.

To top off her casual look she tamed some of her brunette locks with a small bun, and wore a pair of Adidas slippers.

After talking on her iPhone, Tahnee had a quick chat with her barista after being given her caffeinated goodness.

Coffee run! Tahnee was out for coffee, and is seen here chatting to her barista after being delivered her caffeinated goodness

Keeping it casual! To top off her casual look she tamed some of her brunette locks with a small bun, and wore a pair of Adidas slippers

Tahnee has found considerable success modelling lingerie, swimsuits and underwear since she came to fame on 2008′s season of Australia’s Next Top Model.

But Thursday wasn’t the first time in July she pulled a 180 from her sexy, scantily clad photoshoots.

The Perth-born model rugged up heavily for a fun weekend in Thredbo with friends earlier in the month.

Evidently a fan of her Adidas slippers, they were also her footwear of choice in the freezing cold snowfall.

Enviable bod! In addition to her enviable legs, Tahnee’s outfit had a spot of her toned midriff on display – particularly as she held her hands in the air while on the phone