Rape For Profit

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- So it's late Friday night,

and we're somewhere up

on queen Anne right now.

We followed a guy

who we've been following

for an hour and a half

on the track.

He's just been

tracing the track,

looking for girls to pick up

to buy them for sex.

He's parked over here

on this block.

So we're gonna go

confront him right now.

And we're gonna tell him,

"hey, it's not right

what you're doing.

You can't do this here

in our city."

I'm not sure

how this is gonna go.

These guys usually

don't react very well

with this type of thing.

[car horn honks]

What are you doing?

- None of your f***ing business.

- Oh, it's my business now.

You made a big mistake.

You made

a big mistake.

Let's get in the car.

- He can't get out.

[tires screech]

[crash]

- Get this side.

- Hey! What do you think

you're doing, huh?

Get that.

Get their license plate.

Get their license plate.

He's up on the right.

He's up on the right.

- Is that him?

- Yep.

He saw us.

- Right there?

That's him?

- Hey, what the f***

is your problem, dude?

- Let me tell you my problem.

- What's your f***ing problem?

- LET ME TELL YOU MY PROBLEM.

[horn blares]

[indistinct arguing]

- So often

when I hear people say, glibly,

"prostitution is the oldest

profession"...

Now, look,

agriculture, fishing,

hunting is the oldest

profession,

but prostitution is not

the oldest profession.

It is really the oldest

oppression of women

on the planet.

It has always been that way,

and it will always

be that way.

- Men are the issue

that has to be addressed.

It is the demand side

that is the issue.

- I don't... I don't want

to hurt people,

but there's a part of me

inside that does.

That's the horrible thing.

Like, it's somewhere inside

that just...

Just only wants

to feed itself.

- In this country,

we pride ourselves on the fact

that we're a free country.

And in fact, our constitution

was founded upon that principle.

And yet, the sad reality is,

the irony is that we have slaves

in the United States.

- It comes as a shock to a lot

of Americans

that in their own community,

in their own cities,

that young people as young

as 12, 13, 14 years old,

boys and girls, are being

forced to sell their bodies

for the profit

of someone else.

They're brought from cities

around the United States

and they're brought

from around the world

to satisfy the appetites

of individuals

who have no compassion

or concern for the future

and life of a young person.

- The most common area

of sex trafficking that we see

is prostitution-related

activities.

- Rape and prostitution

are flip sides of the same coin,

and that is the sexual

oppression of women.

- That's slavery.

You may not see the manacles,

you may not see that somehow

that they are being

locked and keyed away,

but they are being held

against their will, intimidated,

and also being used

in a such a way

that they have no freedom

to pursue their own destiny.

- Nobody really likes

to think

that there are children

being sold for sex.

It's a very hard issue

to talk about.

It's a very hard thing

to recognize

that it might be something

that's occurring

in one's own community.

- Kids are captured

and forced into street

and Internet prostitution.

And we need to set

a new norm in our city

and in our country that

that's just a line

we are not gonna allow people

to step over.

- If we're looking at

prostitution

in Seattle, Washington,

what we're looking at

is the average girl

begins turning tricks

when she's 13 years of age.

- And we commissioned a cultural

anthropologist, Debra boyer,

who wrote a paper, a white paper

called "who pays the price?"

And she estimates there's

anywhere from 300 to 500 girls

just in the greater Seattle

metropolitan area

out at any given time involved

in the sex trade.

- We could, in a very short

period of time,

put names to 238 young people

who were involved

in prostitution.

The police tell me that

that is also an underestimate.

- We live in a culture now

where many fourth and fifth

graders talk about sexuality,

know about sexuality.

There's an indication that

by third or fourth grade,

20% have experienced oral sex.

So we live in a vastly

sexualized culture

where Parisian young women

at age 10

ARE ON VOGUE MAGAZINE,

in a display that can only...

I mean, to use the word

coquettish

is a profound misuse

of language.

It is a profoundly

sexualized world.

So we, as a world around us,

have, in some senses

of the phrase,

a certain pedophilic drift.

- What it was like growing up

was my dad was in the military.

My dad was, um, uh...

Let's see.

He was...

He had a good heart,

but when he drank,

he was a monster.

I still have nightmares

about this man

with a good heart that played

with kids and stuff like

that just contorting

into a monster.

He started sexually

doing things to me

when I was four years old.

And he was giving me a bath,

and he inserted his fingers.

And I went out

to tell my mom because,

three or four years old, you

just say everything, you know.

And he backhanded me, and my

teeth went through my lip.

And I remember picking my lip

up off my teeth

and thinking I was gonna die

because your

lip isn't supposed to be

on your teeth, you know.

But it was like a real solid

way of telling me,

"don't talk."

My mom would lock me

in my room, and so long

that I thought she forgot

that I... she had a little girl.

And I would draw pictures

of a mom and a little girl,

you know, just these little

stick figures.

Well, actually, mine

were little round snowman

kind of figures, you know.

And I would slide them

under the door

because she would

have to pass by my bedroom

to go into the bathroom.

And it was like

I couldn't write words,

so I was, like, screaming on

paper, "let me out."

On my ninth birthday,

I was really excited

because it was one of the first

times that I felt like

I was gonna be celebrated

that day.

I wasn't a kid who normally

had a lot of birthday parties,

or really any at all.

I don't think I'd had much of

anything up to that point.

But my mother told me

that she was throwing me

a birthday party.

And it was kind of a neat

experience.

It just seemed

like Disneyland to me.

Eventually, all the kids

were gone,

and my mother and my father

were just talking

to a bunch of guys.

They took me and said

there was someone

in my brother's bedroom that...

My brothers old bedroom...

That they wanted me

to meet

that had something for me.

And so I was thinking,

okay, a birthday present,

like, you know...

They led me into his room,

and just super quick

they shut the door and left.

And he just

smiled really big and...

Said, "hey, Happy Birthday.

I've got something for you."

And just started grabbing on me

and wouldn't let me go.

And...

I was crying and confused

and kept trying to push away.

And...

I just... I couldn't...

I couldn't get away.

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