Rape For Profit Page #3

- Yeah, you did.

You're a pimp.

I looked at all

your text messages

to the little blonde-haired

girl.

I looked at them all

from you,

telling her to get out there

and make your money.

- Oh, come on now.

- "Daddy."

I'm gonna let cps know to take

your daughters away from you

'cause I don't trust pimps

around little girls.

Yes, you are.

- I worked down on Denny way

for a couple days

and got surrounded

by all the pimps in Seattle.

And they pretty much made me

choose up.

Told me I wasn't gonna

work down there

WITHOUT PIMPING IN MY LIFE.

[chuckles]

From, like, the time I was 14

to about the time I was 17,

I pretty much bounced around

from pimp to pimp

and learned the ins and out

of the streets.

- In many ways, what a pimp

provides is a community.

A dangerous community,

but in some sense,

you create the problem,

you provide the protection.

Frankly, I think there's

a lot of insurance companies

in our world

that provide the same thing.

So the reality

of an economic structure

is we create problems,

and then we solve them.

And in many ways, a pimp

is just economically

a really bright capitalist.

- You know, how do you talk

about these men

who have kind of raised you?

You know what I mean?

In a sick fashion.

I love the man.

I... when he gets

out of prison,

I can't say if I won't

at least try

to get a hold of him

to say hello, you know.

But he was the best

and worst thing

that ever happened to me

in my life.

- For a trafficker or a pimp

in Seattle

to have three young girls

in his stable

that he controls and manages,

and have them go out

every night,

he is making about $400,000

a year in non-tax money.

Imagine if he were then

to extend to four,

to five girls,

to have multiple operations.

But it would only take

a very small operation.

It's not even a crime

right now.

It's a young pimp who says,

"I'm gonna manage

these three young girls."

So if we are going to address

sex trafficking,

we have to understand

that commitment

to that kind of money.

- He has an infinite market

to whom?

To men who are plumbers

and who are physicians

and who are judges and pastors

and the whole retinue

of people

seeking the services

of an abused woman

who has now been caught

in the trial

of being a prostituted women.

Let's just talk about

the real issue.

It's not her problem.

- And here's this cowgirl,

you know,

it's... promising

she's gonna protect me,

promising I can belong

to her family.

My family had always told me

I wasn't good enough

to belong to them,

you know.

And here's this person

telling me

that she's gonna protect me

and teach me.

And I went with her gladly.

Gladly, you know.

Relieved.

I thought I was saved.

I thought I was rescued.

Little did I know I was

gonna be in the worst hell

I'd ever been in before.

And my first sexual encounter

was a rape.

And after that, it was kind of

like anything goes.

There wasn't anything precious

to hold onto anymore.

And I told her,

"I don't want to do this."

And she beat me up real bad.

And I thought

when she beat me up,

"well, this is what people

do to me,"

'cause my dad had done

the same thing.

And I thought it was something

inside of me

that made people...

You know,

just like I was a magnet

for people's fists.

She started having men

come to the house.

The first one was a lawyer.

[clears throat]

AN OLDER MAN.

And he left $20 with her

and came to the back bedroom

to me.

And I did oral sex on him.

And one at a time.

Now it was a lawyer.

It was a policeman,

it was a judge, it was a pastor.

A pastor that she told

I was 14 years old.

She told him I was 14,

and he was like,

"praise the lord for this

14-year-old child,"

you know, while he's

having sex with me,

you know, licking my breasts

and things like that, you know.

And thanking God

that he's having sex

with a girl

he thinks is 14.

My trust was pretty low then,

pretty dim.

I was tired

of being killed inside

by my own family.

Tired of being treated

like I didn't matter.

And there was always more

of me expected

than I knew how to give.

At least with Connie,

I had directions.

I couldn't go back there.

I could not go back there

anymore.

Maybe Connie

did care about me

'cause she kept telling me

she did,

and I'd never

heard that before.

I was 14 years old

when my mom

touched me affectionately

the first time.

She walked behind me,

and I was sitting on the floor,

and I was sick.

And she patted me

on top of the head.

And I froze

because I thought,

"that's my mom's touch."

And I...

And I was afraid

if I walked

that her touch would blow away

from the top of my head.

So I took my hand,

and I wiped that touch off

and swallowed it so it

would be inside of me.

And no one could ever take it

away from me again.

[sobbing]

I was so hungry to be wanted

by somebody.

And Connie told me

she wanted me.

Somebody wanted me.

A terrible person,

but somebody.

- The village voice media

is a national company

that has a number

of subsidiary companies.

AND THOSE INCLUDE PRIN NEWSPAPERS LIKE SEATTLE WEEKLY

that are distributed

in Seattle

and supported primarily

by advertising dollars.

They're in a number

of major markets

around the country

with a print edition.

THEY ALSO HAVE AN ONLINE VERSION

OF THE SEATTLE WEEKLY.

And they also have something

called backpage.com,

which is their online

classified services.

So they have print classifieds

and online classified.

And the online

classified service

includes advertising

for escort services.

- Backpage.com charges

for posting ads online.

And I've had

a number of cases

where the juvenile

is being posted online.

She's selling her body

for sex online.

- Backpage.com is one

of the pages that I go to.

And I'll look.

We'll go down here.

And, actually,

I'll go full ads.

And we'll just go down.

We get on the Internet

all the time

and just surf the web,

and look for what appears

to be underage girls.

Now, what we'll do

is we'll contact the number,

and we'll arrange

for what we call a date.

And we'll either go to her,

or if she wants

to do an outcall,

we'll have to go and get

a room at a hotel.

Once they offer and agree

to the sex acts for money,

that's when we have enough

to arrest them

for the act of prostitution.

We'll sit them down,

we'll identify them,

find out

are they a juvenile?

Are they an adult?

Like here's a girl here.

Doesn't look like she has a lot

of hip or waist development.

She says she's 22.

- Village voice media,

THROUGH ITS SUBSIDIARY,

SEATTLE WEEKLY, SAID,

"it's not really

that big a problem."

It is a big problem.

- And, frankly, I feel

that all of this discussion

is just simply a way

to distract us

from the real problem,

which is customers.

- He's in the backseat.

- Boys will be boys.

Unfortunately, boys will be boys

at the expense of girls.

- What I dislike,

what I despise, what I loath

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