He asked if it would be out of place if he said I was pretty. I was like, 'No.' I mean, it was a compliment.
He said that he was a model agent, [that] he was looking for new models in the area, it’s not like something I've been wanting to do or anything, but, I mean, it was ... it seemed interesting.
They said they were on their way to California to go back to their office and they were going to do some more photo shoots, and they wanted me to go along with them. He said that I could probably make about a thousand or more. ... He said I could try it for three days. ... And so, I went with them.
They used just a cheap camera you can buy, the throwaway, and they said once we get to California that we would be at a photo shoot, and that they'd be using, uh, some really good equipment, they'd have makeup artists and stuff like that.
He showed me a website that he put them up on, and it was an escort service site.
I mean, I was really far away from my house, and I didn't know where to go.
I waited till they were completely asleep. And I put my suitcase by the door. And I was about to leave and ...sure enough, the phone rings.
[Miya handed her captor his phone and told him she was going downstairs for a cigarette]
And that was the last time I talked to him. I grabbed my suitcase, and I ran to the elevator and I got outside and I started running until I got as far away as I possibly could.
I was just so glad I was out of their reach.
[The police asked Miya to help catch the man who had lured her away from the mall]
They found out what room he was in. He tried jumping out the window. And they caught him.
Courtesy of ABC News
