A 4-year-old North Carolina girl missing for more than three weeks and considered in danger has been found safe in a Lewisville house being investigated for human trafficking.

Carmen Lowe and her 4-year-old daughter, Aubriana Recinos, had been missing for about three weeks. (Fayetteville Police Department)

Aubriana Recinos and her mother, Carmen Lowe, had last been seen July 8 in Fayetteville, N.C., WNCN-TV reported.

Police say Lowe, 23, defied a court order by taking her daughter out of state and was believed to have traveled to New Jersey and then Louisiana.

Lowe was arrested Thursday in New Orleans on charges of prostitution and theft.

Aubriana was later found unhurt at a Lewisville residence being investigated for human trafficking.

"It's a human trafficking ring that the FBI was investigating, and these individuals have other children as well," Fayetteville police Maj. Robert Ramirez told WNCN. "The child was pretty much given to a pimp, an associate of a pimp or family of the pimp for keeping."

He said the people involved were not cooperating with police.

The investigation is ongoing.