When an 11-year-old girl was brutally beaten to death behind the gates of a Myrtle Beach community in June 2025, it sparked a human trafficking investigation that would lead to the arrests of six people.
The case made headlines as more information slowly came to light about how the girl and her siblings came to be in the care of her killer, performing unpaid cleaning labor at medical centers in the area.
While the tragic case was a shock to the community, it also followed patterns familiar to those who regularly investigate human trafficking cases…