Lynn Shaw

put out by the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children.

We don't like talking about this, but you've got to have the pieces in place so if something happens, you know what course of action to take, and you don't freeze and do nothing, because that's the worst thing to do, right?

And another point I want to point out, we talk about trafficking, exploitation.

There is another myth that it's usually strangers.

Really, 65%, this is another tough one, of the trafficking cases.

are by somebody the family knows it's either a family member or somebody the family knows it's called familial trafficking and that's like a taboo taboo subject like nobody wants to talk about you know uncle johnny and little susie it's buried but we have to have kids know this is wrong and where can they go if something's happening to them they have to have that trusted adult who again might be a guidance counselor might be a teacher might be another relative to report this

This can't sustain the way we're going on right now.

And again, we haven't even touched really upon AI.

The ethical technologists tell me it's only going to be bad.

So although we're praying and we're hoping and we're teaching, when you hear that from people who work in this field, that's what they do.

That is very frightening.

Well, I mean, thank you, but we will direct them.

We truly, you know, we hear this word a lot, collaborate, right?

Mm-hmm.

A lot of people do not collaborate, I'm here to say.

It's taken me a lifetime to get here, but I've realized they don't.

We need true collaboration because what I do, you don't do.

What you do, I don't do.

So we really do have to come together and share the information, get it out there, and expand everything.

And so there may be, you know, we have a situation where the 14-year-old needs some housing.