My daughter Corinna and I were not getting along.
When she turned 18 she figured
she could do what she wanted to do.
I wasn't having that.
She moved in with her girlfriend.
A month later I found out that she was in New York City.
I didn't know until I saw it on Facebook.
My understanding, from her friends,
she was escorting, doing dinner dates.
I told her, "Get your butt home now."
And she'd say, "I'm okay."
Then I'd get something in the mail.
It was a protection from abuse order
that she put out on a gentleman because she said
he had choked her and took her money.
I would have never thought my daughter
was involved in being pimped, prostituting.
The last time I talked to Corinna was September 20th.
And she just said, "Mom, I'm coming home tomorrow."
And I was like, "Well, if you wanna come home tomorrow,
"you're gonna go back to school and
"you're going to get a job."
It was the first time ever that
she said she wanted to come home.
I was texting her for like a whole week.
I never got any response.
I asked one of her friends when the last time
they saw or heard of Corinna, she just said,
"Nobodies heard from her."
She's not responding to my calls
or messages, something's wrong.
I was worried sick so I went to the police.
Police are on the hunt for a nineteen year old girl who--
Corinna Slusser was last seen
in the morning of September 20th at a Queens motel.
Police in New York City are involved in the investigation,
and believe the young woman may be
the victim of human sex trafficking.
Missing for more than a month,
Corinna is from Montour Township, just outside Bloomsburg.
She's in trouble and we need to find her
and we need to make her safe.
NYPD called me and he said, "We arrested the last guy
"that was with Corinna, Ishi Woney."
He's 23 years old and he was an aspiring rapper
who somehow met my daughter and,
from what I read, there was 806 messages
in 10 days between him and Corinna.
What they said, I do not know.
Basically, after that date, no ones heard from her.
This is a person who vanished.
I don't know if Corinna is still alive.
I pray that she is. I love her.
And I want her to come home.
Well, I'm very, very sorry
that you're in this situation.
I can't even imagine, and this is something
that, obviously, just haunts you 24/7 at this point, right?
Right. It does.
Now, it was July 2017 that you found out on Facebook,
that your daughter was in New York City, right?
I actually saw her post something
that she was in Brooklyn, in New York.
And where did you think she was?
In Hazleton, living with her friend.
And then there were some Instagram pictures
that after she moved to New York that she put up
and they were these pictures that she posted
of herself on Instagram in July,
then August, and then September.
When did you get the inkling
that there was prostitution involved?
After the investigation started.
I knew nothing until I reported her missing.
So now, after that it started--
More news started coming out and developing
and then I started to learn that she
was involved in human trafficking.
Maybe they enticed her there somehow, conned her in a way,
and then started to control her.
Now, there was an online ad that she posted
on September fifth of '17, and this ad was posted
at 10:48 PM, 15 days before she disappeared.
And whether she posted it herself
or someone else did in her name, we have no way of knowing,
that's what I mean, you don't know.
And it says, And I knew nothing.
"I am sensual and open minded, young, sexy Italian women.
"I am the epitome of young, beautiful, and fun,
"and can adapt to any situation or your heart's desire.
"I am a petite, thick and curvy blonde
"that weighs only 150 pounds.
"I have sparkling blue eyes, golden blonde hair,
"and fair olive skin tone.
"No law enforcement or pimps welcome.
"I service all."
Does that sound like her at all?
No. She never referred to herself as a sexy Italian women.
She never called herself petite.