(3/24/04 - HOUSTON) ? A 15-year-old girl from Minnesota probably regrets ever coming to Houston after she was allegedly turned into a sex slave by strangers. She's hospitalized after going missing for three days. The girl went to an after-hours dance club on Saturday night, but when her friends were ready to go, she was gone.

She finally called relatives Tuesday from a southwest Houston apartment. Investigators think someone slipped her a rape drug because she doesn't remember much from the time she was missing.

But the story she told her family and a Texas Equusearch member is disturbing. She claims she was sexually assaulted several times and was even passed around between two or three homes as a sex slave.

She suffered bruises on her face, a bloody nose and general soreness. Doctors and nurses will gather evidence while treating her.