“A lot of them would ask if they could sleep with me and she would tell them ‘no,’ until a pimp picked us up and then took us to his house.” “We would walk on the highway and then people would come pick her up and I would sit in the back seat and then she would sleep with them,” she said. She said her older friend was turning tricks right in front of her. Out on her own, Natalie quickly learned the dark side of life on the streets. “You know, kind of just floored that- Gone? Why? You know? Where? You know, how?” She called her husband Tom and said they needed to go to the police immediately. I was having a good time.”īack at home, her mother Nacole found a letter Natalie had left behind.
“I had never smoked weed before, never drank… I don’t know. “She was very familiar with the shelter and the Seattle area in general and she told me… we could go hang out,” Natalie said. Natalie said she ran across a soccer field, jumped a fence, found a bus stop and took a bus to downtown Seattle, where she met an older girl at a youth shelter. “I didn’t want them to… be disappointed… I had told all my friends that I was going to run away.” “I thought maybe things would be easier if I could just go do it on my own,” she said. She ran away from home because she said she received a bad grade at school and was nervous about how her parents would react to it. When Natalie was 15 years old, she said she made a decision she would regret for the rest of her life. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, told “Nightline” that Backpage “requires more of someone who wants to sell a motorcycle than of someone who wants to sell a child.” Senate for its alleged connection to underage sex trafficking. She is part of a major lawsuit against, the highly controversial online classifieds site that is currently being investigated by the U.S. Natalie is now a 21-year-old mother with a toddler and another baby on the way. 24/7,” Natalie told ABC News “Nightline.” She has asked us to refer to her as “Natalie” for this report, and her parents have asked that we do not use their last name.