Quick thinking by flight attendant Shelia Frederick prevented a teenage girl from falling victim to human trafficking.|
Frederick noticed a man and the girl acting suspiciously during the flight – the man answered all questions for her and she avoided eye contact.

“She wrote on the note that she needed help,” she said.

Frederick discreetly advised the girl to go to the bathroom where the girl found a note seeking help. Frederick alerted the pilot and the police, ultimately saving the girl.

“He was well-dressed, that’s what kind got me because why is he well-dressed and she is looking disheveled and out of sorts,” Frederick told WTSP. “Something in the back of my mind said something is not right.”

She said, “I’ve been a flight attendant for 10 years and its 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.”

She has since been in touch with the girl who is now attending college. Frederick urged, “If you see something, say something.”