Randy Hand operates a gas station across the street from the house in Goodlettsville, Tenn., where a woman was held captive and sold for sex.
Photo by John Partipilo/The TennesseanNASHVILLE-The young woman was wrapped in a blanket, ushered by an FBI agent into a car and away from the brick Goodlettsville home where she had been held captive and sold for sex.
Before her rescue, she was taken to brothels in several cities, driven around by a man known by different names.
The victim was among a group of undocumented Hispanic women forced to work in brothels and serve as many as 30 men a day in Tennessee and across Southern states and cities, according to a federal indictment this month.
On May 4, the FBI swarmed the Goodlettsville home that sits across from a gas station on Old Springfield Highway in the Davidson County section of this county-line city.
“We were shocked when we heard that she was kidnapped and held there,” said Randy Hand, owner of the gas station and convenience store.