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Um...

He raped me

and then brought

the other men in,

and they took turns,

and just kept raping me.

I was seven

when my father raped me,

and then two years later,

I was nine,

and that was the first time

that I was sold for sex.

- When we talk about

sexual abuse,

the essence of it is this:

It is the misuse of another

person's helplessness

for the other person's

sexual pleasure.

So it's always,

first and foremost,

about an issue of power.

- 90-plus percent

of young people

who are in

"commercial prostitution"

have been sexually abused.

At what point are you

given a choice?

- Very few women end up,

around the world,

in what we call prostitution

without a history

of prior sexual harm.

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- I'm going to crestview west

apartments.

Okay.

[indistinct chatter]

- So face the car?

- Yeah, face the car.

- You got any weapons on you?

- No, I don't.

- Nothing sharp, right?

- Hi, harmony,

can you let me know

of your availability today

and in-call location

in bellevue?

- Okay, are you, uh...

- But you are in a pimp

situation right now, aren't you?

Okay.

Is it violent?

How long you been

in that situation?

Three months?

You like that situation

or kind of want to get away

from it?

Okay.

So do you have a little fear

about turning on your pimp

right now?

Is that what it is?

- Yeah.

- Like he'd come after you?

- When we are talking about

sex trafficking

and sex slavery,

we are talking

about the commercial

sexual exploitation of people,

whether they are minors

or whether they are adults.

- Anyone who's forced into

prostitution is a victim.

And I believe that's most

of the people in the sex trade.

I think there are

very few volunteers.

So whether she's being

coerced into it

at the age of 24 or the age

of 14 is immaterial.

Coercion is coercion.

Rape is rape.

- So right now,

we've left the track,

which was dead, and we're now

on aurora Avenue.

We're on the 8200 block

of aurora heading north

to the city limits,

which is 145th.

We're gonna be

looking around here

for possible street prostitution

occurring.

- Here we go.

- Hello.

- Hello.

Me and my buddy here...

- Hi.

- Hi.

- We're just... what we're

trying to do is...

- Thank you

for telling me that.

- No problem.

- 'Cause I would have freaked.

- Yeah, yeah.

What we're trying to do is...

- Can we drive

and get out of here?

- Absolutely.

- Are you a cop?

- No, no, no.

What we're trying to do

is we're trying to hook up

our buddy on a bachelor party.

- Okay.

- So are you willing to...

I mean, we got a room

at the westin.

- Okay.

- Our buddy's down...

We got a bunch of guys

down there,

and we're looking for a girl.

- Okay, and...

- I... okay.

Go ahead.

- Can I see your dick?

- No, you ain't gonna

see my dick right here.

I'm not gonna show my dick

in front of my buddy here.

- Okay, well, can you show me

yours, since he's your friend?

- I'm not gonna

do that either.

- Well, cops don't show me...

Show you their d*cks.

So...

- How did you get involved

in this?

- Pimp.

- Pimp?

- I ran into a pimp

when I was 12 years old.

- From where?

- From Washington.

- Where you from?

- I am from Eugene, Oregon.

I was a ward of the court

in Tacoma.

He was 34.

- He was 34,

and you were 12 years old?

- Yeah, I was 12,

and I literally

ran away from home

with my Teddy bear.

And two months later...

- Let's get out of here.

- And two months later,

I was on the street.

- "Oh, baby, oh, baby,

I love you."

- I thought

I was in love with him,

and, "baby,

you'll do anything for me,

but you just

have to talk to this guy."

I mean, at first it wasn't,

"go suck his dick."

It was, "just go talk

to this guy."

And then, "oh, man,

we can get $100 more.

That'll pay for the room

for a half a week."

And it just...

It gradually happened.

I mean, gradually, well,

it was only over like

a week and a half

before I was full fledged.

- Did he ever beat you?

- Oh, yeah.

- Yeah.

- You don't make enough money,

you get hit.

- How much were you expected

to bring in a night?

- It depended

on where we were

and if it was

a weekday or not.

$600 and up was basically

my minimum.

My body is so to where

I don't even have

any more muscle anymore.

I mean, my hips are so hard

to where it's...

I... it's time.

It's time.

I mean, I'm surprised

I'm still breathing

because my circulation is

so bad that...

I mean, how does the blood

get through when you have,

like, rocks, you know?

My fat cells are like rocks

up against each other.

It's like all cartilage now,

you know?

- And you're 33?

- And I'm 33.

And I guarantee you,

if you put

a 70-something-year-old woman's

body up against mine,

she's gonna be

in better health than I am.

- There's not a good pimp.

These guys are the best

psychologists in the community.

There's not one of them

that doesn't use coercion

to keep these kids in,

not one.

- Whether it's

their friends online

or somebody they meet

on the bus

or somebody who they meet

at the mall,

often times the victims,

the girls will refer to them

as their boyfriends.

- The psychological warfare

that they use to shape the girls

into, you know,

their working girls, is...

It's... I hate to say it, but it's

actually kind of impressive.

It's almost like you wonder if

somebody read a book somewhere.

Because they do all the right

stuff to make the girl

not only do

horrible things for them,

but fall in love with them.

- I think of these pimps,

I just... no other...

The best word to describe

them in my mind

is they're psychopaths.

It's just they have no empathy

for what these girls go through.

These girls are strictly money

for them.

- Stop the car!

Don't turn on the car!

Don't turn on the car.

- Step out, sir.

- Step out of the car.

Sheriff's office.

Pull your pants up.

Get out of the car.

- Go ahead and button up,

and then face the car.

- Okay.

- Get to the voice mail.

I'm wanna look at her pictures.

Is that her?

Yeah, that's her.

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

[pop song ringtone]

- Yo!

He hung up.

He probably thought he called

the wrong number.

- [laughs] OH!

HE'LL CALL BACK.

- Hello?

Who is this?

Cat got your tongue?

He hung up.

- He's lighting them up

westbound,

heading towards the laundromat.

Northbound.

- Hey.

- What are we doing?

- He damaged his phone,

so we can't check it out.

Pretty smart, man.

Why did you tear your phone

apart?

No. Why did you tear

your phone apart?

Can you answer me?

- What did I do wrong?

- Why did you

take your phone apart?

- What did I do wrong?

- You pimping.

- No, I'm not.

- That's what you did wrong.

- No, I'm not.

- Your girl's singing

like a bird, dog.

- No, I...

- Your girl is.

So she lying on you?

- You're crazy, dude.

- I'm crazy?

Yo, it's funny how you act all

tough with these broads,

and y'all get a man

in your face,

you act like little girls.

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