A STEWARDESS has been hailed a hero after she saved a teenage girl from a sex trafficker while working on a flight.

Shelia Fedrick, 49, noticed a girl with greasy blonde hair, believed to be about 14 or 15, sitting next to a well dressed older man on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to San Francisco.

Fedrick said the difference in age and appearance between the travelling companions seemed suspicious to her. But the flight attendant was especially struck by the demeanor of the girl who looked like “she had been through pure hell”.

When Fedrick decided to approach the pair the girl apparently refused to speak or make eye contact.

The man sitting next to the girl kept interrupting and became defensive as the stewardess tried to make conversation.

“Something in the back of my mind said something is not right,” Frederick told local news station WTSP. It was then that Fedrick quickly came up with a plan.

She managed to convince the girl to go to the bathroom where the flight attendant had left her a note stuck to the mirror.

“She wrote back on the note,” Fedrick told NBC News. “She wrote on the note she needed help.”

Fedrick immediately reported the man to the pilot who then alerted the police. By the time the flight touched down in San Francisco cops were waiting at the terminal.

It was then revealed the girl was the victim of human trafficking and Fedrick had just saved her life. Fedrick told WTSP: “I’ve been a flight attendant for ten years and it’s like I am going all the way back to when I was in training.

"And I was like, I could have seen these young girls and young boys and didn’t even know. If you see something, say something.”

The teenage girl is thought to have been a victim of human trafficking, something flight attendants are now trained to look out for.

Fedrick said she has kept in contact with the girl who is now attending college. “I put my phone number on the note that I left for her and I guess she memorized it, so a few weeks later, she called me,” Frederick said.

It’s estimated that more than 50,000 women and girls are trafficked into the United States for prostitution each year, reports The Washington Post.

Last year, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 2,000 human traffickers and identified 400 victims. Flight attendants are now being trained to spot for signs of human trafficking as part of their training, reported airlineamb.org.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2794278/air-stewardess-saved-girl-human-trafficking/

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/02/07/alaska-flight-attendant-praised-for-reportedly-saving-human-trafficking-victim.html

another story about caring,,,brava

This is about more then just caring. What this woman did was truly amazing and heroic. She was able to pick up on what was going on long before flight attendants were trained in Human Trafficking.

She could have just ignored her feeling and went on with her day, but she didn't and because of that this young girl is not only alive but is in college and seems to be going someplace with her life and it is all due to this heroic woman!

Wow.
Amazing.
What horrible journalism.
Fox news link?
And people say there is a tendency for "left leaning" bias, and for "liberal" newspapers to manipulate emotionally.


By whom?
How?
What evidence?
Was the guy arrested and charged?
If cops were involved, where's the police report?


Huh?
How can you go from "revealed" a victim of human trafficking to "thought to have been."

Which is it?

There is no real information in the story.

Without the "sheeple" food here's the story:
"Stewardess feels traveling companions seemed suspicious...girl wrote on a note she needed help...Fedrick immediately reported the man to the pilot who then alerted the police...cops were waiting at the terminal."

And with this? "it’s like I am going all the way back to when I was in training.... Flight attendants are now being trained to spot for signs of human trafficking as part of their training"

The stewardess did her job. Who knows how effectively.
For all anyone knows there could have been 100 other girls being trafficked on the flight.
For all anyone actually knows the guy could have been her uncle taking her to rehab.

she could have done nothing

giving the girl a chance to ask for help was a caring thing to do

It is sad how many young girls are being forced in to sex trafficking...This is a big money making business...

No telling how many of the ones that are on the sex sites are in this predicament...

Hopefully along with her they were able to find more girls..

Kuddos for the Flight Attendant for being observant and taking actions....

They can't release much information. The victims of sex crimes can never be identified and if it's a sex trafficking case they never go public until the entire ring is brought down.