BATON ROUGE - A missing 13-year-old girl from Baker was found safe but reportedly abused in a basement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The arrests of three men in three different states followed. Officials say that this case is a clear example of online grooming and trafficking.

Chris Masters, a Supervisory Special Agent with the Louisiana Attorney General's Cyber Crimes Unit, stressed the critical need for law enforcement.

"Every juvenile case, every juvenile runaway, we need to look at it through that lens and see if this is a human trafficking case instead of just a normal runaway," Masters said.

Investigators say 26-year-old Ki-Shawn Crumity told the victim he would "get her adopted by a trusted adult" before she left home.

Masters explains how the abuse begins through online groomi

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