text: ATLANTA (AP) — A man hired women to work as dancers inside a million-dollar mansion and threatened to kill at least one of them if she tried to leave, according to a 911 call. 
   
   Officers helped eight women leave the home after the 911 call was made Tuesday morning, police said Wednesday in a news release. In the 911 recording, the caller cryptically asks the dispatcher for help getting out of a "bad situation." 
   
   Under questioning from the dispatcher, the woman describes a boss who carries a gun, sent her to get plastic surgery, tells her she can leave anytime she wants — but threatens to kill her if she does. 
   
   Kenndric Roberts, 33, faces charges of false imprisonment and trafficking a person for labor. He was in jail with an initial court appearance scheduled for Thursday. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on the charges. 
   
   "What we believe is he was luring these women to this house with promises of either modeling careers or financial assistance. We're not 100 percent sure on that. The investigation is continuing," Sandy Springs police Sgt. Sam Worsham told WSB-TV. 
   
   As the dispatcher learns more about what's happening, her surprise is clear, her tone at times incredulous: "Wait. Did you say you're in a house full of girls?" 
   
   "Mmm hmm," the woman responds. 
   
   "And somebody's threatening to kill you if you leave?" 
   
   "Mmm hmm." 
   
   "Who's threatening to kill you? One of the girls?" 
   
   "No, our boss." 
   
   "Your boss?" 
   
   The woman says she knows her boss only as "Ken something," that she met him online and that it initially seemed like a good situation because she could make money for dancing. When she arrived about a month ago, he sent her to get plastic surgery, she told the dispatcher. 
   
   The situation quickly turned bad: "He's, like, so mean I just can't stay." 
   
   She describes the home as "a very nice house" in a gated subdivision, with cameras inside. According to Fulton County property records, the two-story brick home measures 6,806 square feet and is valued at $976,300. 
   
   Her boss also lives in the house, drives a lot of different cars and generally has a handgun with him, she told the dispatcher. 
   
   Throughout the 14-minute 911 recording, the woman repeatedly says nothing illegal is going on but that she's scared to leave. 
   
   "Does he know holding someone against their will is against the law?" the dispatcher asks. 
   
   "He is so smart. He knows exactly what he's doing," the woman said. "He'll be like, 'You can leave whenever you want,' and then he'll, like, threaten you right after." 
   
   There were seven other women in the home, she said, but she was the only one who wanted to leave. 
   
   The woman told the dispatcher she was planning to run out of the house and call a car to come pick her up and take her to the airport because she had to catch a flight home to Orlando, Florida, that friends got for her. 
   
   The woman asks the dispatcher to have officers pull up in front of the house and that she'll go out to meet them. ||||| The voice was calm and quiet and desperate: "I'm in a very bad situation, and I need to get out." 
   
   The caller, a 20-year-old woman, told a Georgia dispatcher that she was being held against her will. And it wasn't just her. 
   
   "It's a house full of girls and ... if I try to leave, he'll try to kill me and stuff," she said, prompting the dispatcher to ask, "Wait — did you say you're in a house full of girls?" 
   
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   The caller's Tuesday morning plea helped Georgia authorities to uncover what they believe is a case of human trafficking based out of a $1 million luxury home in the suburbs of Atlanta. The suspect, Kenndric Roberts, 33, was charged with additional felonies Friday, Sandy Springs police told NBC News. 
   
   Roberts faces five counts of false imprisonment, five counts of trafficking persons for labor and two counts for possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. An AK-47 and a Glock .45-caliber handgun were found in the home, police said. Possible federal charges are also pending. 
   
   In total, eight women ranging from ages 19 to 22 were found at the home, said Sgt. Sam Worsham. 
   
   Roberts was renting the residence, Worsham added, and the homeowners weren't there. The president of the local homeowners association told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the group had received complaints from neighbors about cars constantly "coming in and out." 
   
   It's unclear how long some of the women were allegedly held at the home, which is listed as having five bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms. The 911 caller said she had been there about a month. 
   
   Kenndric Roberts, 33, is suspected of human trafficking. via 11alive.com 
   
   She said she met the man holding her captive via SeekingArrangement.com, a website that offers "mutually beneficial relationships," and that "he had me go get, like, plastic surgery." 
   
   Police said Roberts had lured the young women by telling them he could provide them modeling jobs. 
   
   But the promises made of easy money turned into threats of violence, detectives said in an affidavit. 
   
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   One woman "stated that Kendrick [sic] had threatened her on numerous times, one instance where he stated he was going to pay someone to cut her chest open, take out the implants and cut her up," the detective wrote. 
   
   Some of the women also said he forced them to work at local strip clubs, and they had to leave their IDs and phones at home, police said. He offered to pay them more money if they stayed with him — and threatened to hurt them or their families if they left. 
   
   Roberts waived his first court appearance Thursday. He is being held without bond in Fulton County Jail with another hearing planned for later this month. 
   
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   The FBI office in Atlanta is helping to assist the investigation, and is asking for other potential victims to come forward. 
   
   Worsham said all eight of the women have been brought to families or placed in safe houses. 
   
   Atlanta remains one of the largest hubs in the country for sexual exploitation and human trafficking, federal authorities say. 
   
   Kasey McClure, who runs the faith-based nonprofit 4Sarah Inc., which assists victims of sex trafficking in the Atlanta area, said this latest case should be an eye-opener because it happened in an affluent bedroom community where neighbors failed to notify police. 
   
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   For the women, who are oftentimes desperate for money and a place to live, the lifestyle can seem irresistible, she added. 
   
   "These girls think, 'Well, I’m in a beautiful home. I’m getting fed. I’m getting transportation. I don’t have to worry about paying bills.' It’s glamorized," said McClure, who began the nonprofit in 2005 after leaving the sex industry herself. 
   
   Her organization, which began as a "strip club ministry," aims to help women turn their lives around. While some young girls and women are put off by the violence and leave on their own accord, others sometimes return because they have nowhere else to go, she said. 
   
   But she remains hopeful organizations such as hers can make a difference: "You change lives one girl at a time." ||||| Just One More Thing... 
   
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target: – A man has been charged with holding eight women against their will inside a million-dollar home in the suburbs of Atlanta, NBC News reports. Authorities say 33-year-old Kenndric Roberts met the women online and offered them modeling jobs. But once they moved into the 6,800-square-foot, five-bedroom house he was renting, things changed, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The women—who range in age from 19 to 22—tell police Roberts threatened them if they tried to leave, forced them to work at strip clubs, threatened their families, and made them get plastic surgery. One of the women referred to Roberts as "our boss," the AP reports. It's unclear how long the women had been in the home. What authorities now believe was a human trafficking operation was discovered Tuesday when one of the women called 911 and asked police to help her escape a "very bad situation" in a "very nice house." She said a man who had a "house full of girls" was threatening to kill her if she left. Police responded and found the eight women. Roberts was arrested on Wednesday. He's been charged with multiple counts of false imprisonment, trafficking persons for labor, and more. Federal charges are also possible. The women have been returned to their families or placed in safe houses.