It was a phone call that would trigger a Victoria-area mom’s real-life nightmare.
“It will always haunt me,” said the mom, who CTV News is only identifying as “Lori”.
She remembers hearing her then-15-year-old daughter’s frightened voice on that call, screaming for help and trying to get away from a man.
“She was screaming out to have him let her go and he was yelling to give (her) the phone. I could tell there was a struggle going on, a lot of yelling,” recalled Lori.
But then the line suddenly went dead.
At the time of the call, Lori’s daughter, who had been going through a difficult time and was in government care, had run away.
Lori only knew her daughter was believed to be somewhere in Calgary.
She had no idea, until that phone call, that her daughter was being sex trafficked.
Lori immediately called the Calgary Police Service, who traced the number to a building …