ABILENE, TX -- Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly held a teenage runaway for sexual relations and then keeping a woman as a prostitute.
According to KTXS, just before Christmas of 2018 a 14-year-old girl ran away from her home to live with 38-year-old Richard Earl Daniels Jr.
Abilene Police Department is now searching for Daniels after the victim told them the horrid stories of where she had been.
It began by Daniels just giving the child food and a place to stay. Then he began having sex with the child and giving her methamphetamine on a daily basis.
The victim told police that Daniels would force her to have sex with him.
The child was not the only person who Daniels was keeping either. The child told police that Daniels kept a woman there so that he could prostitute her for drugs and money.
Daniels would often threaten the two with knives and on some occasions would hit them with a hammer. The windows were also boarded up in the house.
This man could be in the surrounding area and if you have any information on him contact police immediately.
A $500 reward is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.
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Man, I bet he can run fast!
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PermalinkTake a look at the face of human trafficking. This situation is one of the FEW that will ever produce enough evidence, or victim's willing to talk, to put one of the bad guys away.
This is your street level pimp, even girls that think they know the streets and try to operate independently, fall victim to this sort of guy a lot more often than people think.
Glad this guy got popped, hope they find enough to convict if he's proven guilty. While selling sex has it's own moral implication's, they don't need to be compounded by the pimp's who are looking to victimize people any further.
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