“This whole case is very tragic and not something we want to see any of our kids go through,” DeShae Fangmeyer, deputy senior probation officer, told AZ Family Thursday.
“If she didn’t have this ankle monitoring device on, we never would have found her,” she said, adding the bracelet was on for hours before being cut off.
“It is a priority for our office to utilize our Secure Strike Force to assist minors and to prosecute the growing number of human traffickers who are out there. These crimes are becoming more frequent, and we all need to continue to work together to combat these crimes,” Richard Piatt, the office’s communications director, said in a statement.
