Corinna Slusser was last seen at the Haven Motel (Photo: Google)
Nov. 7, 2017 By Tara Law
Friends and family of a Pennsylvania teenager last seen at a Rego Park hotel are asking for the public’s help to find her.
Corinna Slusser, 19, who grew up in the small town of Bloomsburg, went missing in September and is likely to have been caught up in a sex trafficking ring, the girl’s mother Sabina Tuorto said in an interview Tuesday. A friend of Slusser’s said that her daughter moved to New York to join a man she had met online.
Slusser was last seen on Sept. 20 at the Haven Motel, located at 6805 Woodhaven Blvd, according to police. The police informed Tuorto that Slusser may have been involved in prostitution.
Tuorto said that her daughter’s difficulties began a year ago, when the two of them began to argue about her deteriorating school grades.
Slusser moved out in June and lived with a friend in Hazleton, Pennsylvania for a short period.
She then moved to New York to live the “sugar daddy lifestyle,” said Cameron Seely, a hometown friend.
Slusser had been documenting her journey from Pennsylvania to the city via social media. She updated her Twitter bio to say that she lived in the Bronx, and her final Instagram post was tagged in that borough.
Slusser told her mother that she had found an administrative job. Tuorto said that she urged her daughter to come home, although subject to certain conditions.
“I told her that she was not welcome home until she got a job and went back to school,” Tuorto said. “Not once did she say she was not okay.”
Tuorto said that she did not realize that her daughter was in danger until a Protection From Abuse order arrived for Slusser.
The order said that a man named Yhovanny Peguero, 32, was not permitted to have contact with her. The document, dated Aug. 29, stated that Peguero had been incarcerated.
Stunned, Tuorto contacted her daughter.
“I called her and she said ‘Some guy bashed my head in and choked me,’” Tuorto said.
Slusser also told her mother that the man was out on bail and was trying to find her. Tuorto later learned that her daughter had been assaulted by the same man twice. After one of the assaults, Slusser was transported to hospital with a neck injury.
Corinna Slusser (Photo: NYPD)
Slusser reported the assault to the NYPD, according to police.
Slusser told her mother on Sept. 20 that she planned to return home. It was the last time they spoke.
Tuorto soon realized that Slusser had stopped communicating with the rest of her family and friends, and had stopped posting on social media.
She travelled to New York to file a missing person report with the NYPD. When she arrived, however, she learned that the police were already searching for her.
Tuorto searched for her daughter in Queens and Manhattan but was unable to locate her and returned home.
Tuorto says that she is at a loss about what do next to find her daughter.
“She’s either not alive or she’s being held against her will,” said Tuorto. “It’s killing me.”
Slusser is white with blond hair and blue eyes. According to Tuorto, she is 5 feet 8 inches tall and about 140 pounds.
Slusser has a large black lotus tattoo on her chest.
Anyone with information as to Slusser’s whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS.
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A lot of adult men and women choose the pimp and ho lifestyle because of the money. The only real crime here in this case is domestic violence and the woman not contacting her mother to let her know she is alive. Working at minimum wage jobs or so-called better paying jobs where you are trapped working and living from paycheck to paycheck till your late 60’s or early 70’s paying high rents or mortgages and taxes is a way worse existence than being a stripper or a hooker making a $1000-2000 on a good day especially if she is a legal adult, is not forced and she is doing it by choice and she has the stomach for it.
its sad that this young girl chose this style of life to be a prostitute and may be now addict for some kind of drugs,,dominated by her pimps,,blind by the money, ,,we dont know where she is,,if she want out from this trap and this business,,she have thousand way to do that,,contact her family ,the police,,other organizations for help,,,,70 percent of the girls like her chose this style of life by themselves without pressure,,they want it ,,they love it,,and I am sorry to say that corinna is not stupid,,she knew before she moved with this pimp where she is going and what she will be doing,,like I said before,,if she wants out help,,there atr many ways to do that,,but she wont,,
Why was this man let out on bail?
I pray she is rescued alive and is able to heal from this mess.