" 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 fucking 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 fuck is your problem, dude?" " Let me tell you my problem." " What's your fucking 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." "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." "[electronic bleep]" "[electronic bleep]" " 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 dicks." "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." " 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 PRINT 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. which is their online classified services." "So they have print classifieds and online classified." "And the online classified service includes advertising for escort services." "And I've had a number of cases where the juvenile is being posted online." "She's selling her body for sex online." "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 are these bastards who are out there who call themselves men." "They're not men." "What?" "'Cause you got a penis and two balls?" "Because you've got money in your pocket?" "Because you think that you can do whatever you want to do to someone's daughter?" " Sheriff's office." " Pull your pants up, sir, and step out." " All right." "Put that video camera away." " You know what?" "Go ahead and put the cigar down." "You don't need that right now." " All right." " You want to take the condom off or you already got it off?" " No, no, no." "I ain't got no condom on." " Okay." " I ain't got no condom on." " All right." " All right, man." "See ya." "[handcuffs snapping]" " Come on." " Who are the Johns?" "You think it's some little lonely creep sitting in a basement apartment watching porn and getting an erection and going out into the night looking for a prostitute woman." "Johns are everyday people." "I've been to John schools." "50% of the guys have a wedding ring." " "Just lust."" " The majority of these guys think that," ""hey, it's my right." "I'm a guy." "I have money." "And she's a woman."" "And they don't want to ask the woman." "They don't want to know that that woman is there by force because that would ruin their fun." " Wanna step out of your underwear?" "Step out of your underwear." " From time to time, I might take a break from my family, come out here." "Might find a girl I like, interesting." "Take her to my condo, influence her with drinks or money or whatever it takes to try to get laid." "I get laid." "And then I drop them off." "I go back to my normal life." " Do you know what you're doing is illegal, though, do you?" " Yes, sir." " You do understand that?" " Yes." " It's not worth it, is it?" " No." " It's not worth it, is it?" " No, it's not." " Yeah." " That's what you mean?" " Mm-hmm." " You think these girls want to be out here?" "Let me help you with that one." "Okay, I'll help you." "They don't." "They don't want to be out here." " Your bad." "Oh, that was, uh..." " All right, man." " Like I said, you're under arrest for purposes..." "Loitering for the purposes of prostitution, okay?" "You picked this gal up." "We've been watching you." "You drove all around all these neighborhoods." "Can you tell me what purpose you were doing that?" "We were what?" "Okay, why do you think we were following you?" "Where were you giving her a ride to?" "Why does it take stopping at an atm machine to get money just to give her a ride?" " Don't know." " Why'd you need money?" "Oh, that money's for lunch for tomorrow?" "How much you take out?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Why you have to think about it?" "I went to the atm earlier today." "I took out 40 bucks." "How much did you just take out of the atm?" "Okay, it's none of my business." "Well, you're gonna go to jail." " How many kids you got?" "Enough?" "Sounds kind of negative." "No, you're right, it's your business." "But you'd think you take care of your business." "Doesn't look like you're taking care of business." "Do you know that she was raped and abused by her dad when she was little?" "And that..." "I mean, that just took her to the streets." "You got a family, yeah?" "Little kids?" "Hey, listen, she's not tearing your family apart." "You're tearing your family apart." "Why don't you stop shifting blame and take a little ownership, huh?" "I mean, you smile now, but just right now in your mind, picture your wife's face and what she's gonna think when she hears this." "I don't think you'll be laughing as much." "And I don't think you'll be blaming anybody." " He's been called one of the most prolific serial killers in American history." "Gary RIDGWAY SPENT DECADES, THE '80s AND THE '90s, preying on prostitutes in king county." " The pleasure in killing is to... it's..." "You know, be control..." "To have sex with them if I wanted afterwards." " In 2003, ridgway admitted killing 48 women, and as part of a plea agreement, helped investigators recover their bodies to avoid a death sentence." " He would pick up girls and young women along the pacific highway." "He was a truck painter over at kenworth." "And he would take them back either to his house or kill them in his truck or take 'em to the woods and kill them." " Ridgway choked all of his victims from behind, saying, "it was more personal and rewarding than shooting them."" "He stole their jewelry, sometimes leaving it in the women's restroom where he worked, thrilled at the idea someone would wear it." "He often left many bodies at one place, so he would remember where they were." "Sometimes he would return to have intercourse with them, occasionally with his sleeping son in the car." "Ridgway denies ever being sexually molested or physically abused, but he admits having both sexual and murderous thoughts about his own mother." " "I strangled Cynthia hines to death."" "Is that your statement?" " Yes, it is." " Is it true?" " Yes." " "I strangled opal mills to death." ""Delores I." "Williams." "I strangled Debra estes to death."" " Yes." " "I killed so many women," ""I have a hard time keeping them straight." ""I wanted to kill as many women" "I thought were prostitutes as I possibly could."" "Is that true?" " Yes." " "I picked prostitutes because" ""I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught."" " Almost a majority of his victims were under the age of 18, so as young as 15, 16, 17." "He actually said in one of his lengthy confessions that he preferred killing the young ones because they fought more and had more life in them." " In the fall of 2001, myself, detective Brian Taylor, and other members of the precinct four street crimes unit conducted a John sting here at the motel six in seatac." "As part of that John sting, we were able to catch Gary ridgway, who later was determined to be the green river killer." "It was in rooms like these here and in hotels like this along the seatac strip where Gary ridgway would meet his victims." "The reality is, none of these girls know when they take a John back to a hotel room like this, if they're going to be servicing the next Gary ridgway." " He was creepy from the get-go." "He was sadistic." "He cared way more about pain than he did about sex." "Like, he obviously got aroused by seeing people suffer." "He had a shower curtain around my neck at one point and was just laughing." "Like, he was almost giggling laughing." "And something in me just clicked, like," ""I am getting the hell out of here."" "And I kicked him, and I bit him, and I ran." " Well, Connie told me to hitchhike to Disneyland, because I could find tricks at the bars and stuff there." "Golfers would go there, you know, for golfing conventions and that kind of stuff." "And I would just sit in a room, and one golfer after another would come, you know, put their money down, have sex with me." "Oh, my gosh." "There was a Navy base there too." "And the Navy base guys couldn't even do it one at a time." "It was like four or five on one, you know?" "I didn't even know who was where or what was what." "I just know that I had something in every hole I had, you know?" "But Connie was happy 'cause I made a lot of money, you know?" " A lot of what the men want, it really deals with degradation, dehumanization." "It deals with disrespect." "If you really respected this woman, if you really felt that she is another human being, would you do that to her?" "Would you do the kinds of things that you do to these young women, to your wife?" "Would you want it done to your sister?" "Would you want it done to your daughter?" "If the answers are no, then why the hell are you doing it?" " Right now a girl or a boy who's brought in off the street originally for suspicion of prostitution, and then is recognized of being a trafficking victim, really has nowhere to go." "We're just not providing services." "So we want to promote the idea that shelter needs to be provided." " So after contacting these girls on the streets over and over and over again and having no place to take them, except jail, hearing some of the really horrific stories that they told me, I, you know," "I really wanted to do something." "It affected me quite a bit." "So, what I want to do is put a center together, which will include safe houses." "And to get these girls off the street, out of the life." "And then replace that structure that's in their life that's been stripped from them..." "Their school, their home life, their job, any kind of job skill training, all these structures that have been... [police radio chatter] RIPPED AWAY FROM THEM." "The genesis project is basically gonna provide that structure and replace it back to them." "And that's what the idea is." "We're pushing to get that open." "And we're hoping to get it open 24/7." "And then once we get that open 24/7, we want to go for the safe houses." "We want to provide a complete a-to-z comprehensive approach to completely help restore these girls and get them out of the life." " Did you feel like you had a choice?" " Why?" " I don't know, man." "[crying]" "Thank you." " You're crying." "You're worried about them coming back on you you or sending somebody after you, right?" "We work with this stuff all the time, every single day." " My sister's with her too." " Okay." " Okay..." " And how old is your sister?" " She's 15." " All right." "We're sitting out in front of the Fairfield here on the strip in seatac." "We just got a 16-year-old in custody." "She told us that her sister's out there too, but claims she wasn't working, but we know otherwise." "Brian was able to take our 16-year-old's phone and pretend to put in a distress call, and make it look like our 16-year-old was in some trouble here." "So hopefully, with any luck, the pimp is gonna come out and check on her welfare and see how she's doing." "'Cause we made it sound like," ""you need to get here right now."" "And he responded that he was coming." "So he should be here any minute." " Wait till... she's gonna give us a signal if that's the right car." " That's it, we got it." " Her sister's in the passenger seat." "He's coming west through the back part of the other parking lot to the left." " Put your hands up." " Hands up." " Get them up!" " Hands up, right now!" " Get out of the car." " Please step out." " Turn around." " Away from the car." " Anything you say can be used as evidence against you in court." " What's your name?" " You have the right, at this time, to an attorney of your own choosing." "You may have him or her present before you say or sign anything." " How old are you." " 24?" " Is that your car?" " You need to tell me what's going on." "If you're being forced into something, you know what I'm saying, you need to start talking." "Yes, we can." "Okay?" "And we will do that." "Yes." "Okay." "Come with me." " So..." " She has a phone." "And she's been using my phone." " She's been using your phone?" " Yes, sir." " With your permission." "So we can look in your phone, right?" "You wouldn't have anything in your phone that would be incriminating if we take a look?" "That's quite a hesitation." "Are you sure?" " I mean, it's..." " So we're on our way right now to pick up a 15-year-old juv..." "15-year-old juvenile, the younger sister of the 16-year-old." " Wait." "They're talking to me right now." "White coat, blue jeans, like, a light blue shirt, a little taller than the other girl." "Oh, yeah, I got her." " That her?" " Right here." " I got her at the bus stop at 225 and the highway." "Don't get out yet, till I..." " Till you go first." " I have your sister under arrest right now for prostitution." "I have the pimp and the other girl under arrest too." "I'm here to help you, but I can't have you lie to me anymore, all right?" "I know why you're here." "I'm trying to help you." "We were a little concerned about you." "Right now I really just want to help you, okay?" "My detectives that work for me, all we want to do is help you, give you different resources and get you help, okay?" "To get you away from this situation, all right?" " So are you or have you ever been involved in prostitution?" " Yes." " Yes." "Uh, when did you first start prostituting?" " Um..." "Well, like, when I first started was when I was a teenager." " How old?" " Um, like, 14." "When we were in Las Vegas," "I got my ass whupped, like, really, really bad." " By this guy that you were given to?" " Yeah." " Okay." " He, you know, just yelled at me, you know." "And then he went around, you know, pulled me out by my hair and said," ""you're gonna do what the fuck I say," you know?" " Okay." " "You listen to daddy."" ""I'm daddy." Like, that's his thing." ""I'm daddy."" " Right." " You know." "Ugh." "Ugh." "And, uh..." ""I'm daddy."" "Then he broke down the daddy rules, you know?" ""Did you ask your daddy questions when you were growing up?"" "And, you know, I had to say, "no."" "And, you know, he's, like, "well, don't ask me questions." ""You know, you ask your daddy questions," ""you're gonna get in trouble." ""You're gonna get consequences." "You're gonna get slapped."" " Mm-hmm." " You know?" "And I'm just, like, "okay, I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, daddy,"" "you know, 'cause I kept..." "If I don't call him daddy, like, he gets mad." " Okay." " The only feeling that we need to feel is motivated to make, like, daddy happy." " Okay." " That's our goal." "That's... that's what I'm supposed to do." " Okay." " [stammering] AND I TRIED." "I TRIED." "I did." " And I just want to be clear." "He doesn't have a job, right?" " No." " Okay." " His job is bitches." " Right." "Right." "Okay." "Where do you work at?" " I don't." " You don't have a job?" " No, sir." " And how much money do you have on you tonight?" " A couple hundred." " Okay, so..." "No, no, it was more like $400, correct?" "'Cause my partner counted it in front of you." " Yes, sir." " Okay." "So we catch a guy on pac highway of high prostitution..." "And I want you to follow me here." " I know exactly how it looks." " Follow me." "A high prostitution area." "We catch a guy with $440 in his pocket, and he's with three prostitutes, two juvenile prostitutes, and he's the only one that has money on him." "If you were me, what would you be thinking?" " It's three white girls, and I'm a black guy." "So if this white girl is saying I'm beating her up, then it's a high chance I am, right?" "No, I'm not saying that it's a race thing." "I'm saying that I'm aware of the perception." "I'm aware of the perception of me being the only one with money, and them being who they are." "I'm not saying it's race." "I mean, it's reality." "And I'm just telling you, it's not that black and white and simple." "[sighs]" " Sir?" " Um..." "I know answering some of these questions is not gonna help me at all." " You want to... you refuse to answer that question, 'cause you know this is the strip, the track, the blade, whatever you call it." "You refuse to answer that question." "You can't come up with the most basic, simple answer to the most basic simple question." "Anywhere I've ever been, I could always tell you why I'm there." " Sir, so..." " And you refuse to answer the question." "You absolutely refuse to answer that question 'cause you don't have a good answer for why you're up here, an hour and a half from oak harbor." "You can't tell me why you came up to seatac." "But you want to try to explain it to me, to reason it with me." " Sir, you told me I had a right to..." " Simple question, dude." " You told me I had a right to not answer some questions, right?" " Well, you know what?" "If it's all right with you, partner, I think we done." " Yeah." " Okay." " What kind of situation you come from at home?" "What I mean, is what kind of parents do you have?" "Treat you bad?" "What's going on?" " So there's nothing to stay at home for?" " Mm-mm." " If you could get out of it and your sister could get out of it tonight, would you want to?" " I don't know if you've been told this before, but you don't deserve that type of treatment." "You know that." " No, you're right, but it can change." "And I think..." "I know you've lived 15 years on this earth, and it doesn't seem like anything's gonna change." "But if you want it to change, there are people here in this building tonight with you that want to help you." "I mean, you're precious." "My heart hurts because you didn't grow up hearing that." "You didn't grow up being told that you're a princess and that you've got value and worth." " I HAD..." "[sighs]" "Three children in my stomach." "I was told it was just a mass of tissue." "Connie told me the only good pregnant hooker is a dead pregnant hooker, and that I was no good to her pregnant." "No one would buy me if I was pregnant." "So she took me to the abortion clinic, not too far from my 20th birthday." "[clears throat]" "That was my first abortion." "I had been singing to that baby." "I was full of wonder." "I thought I wasn't alone." "It was a human being growing inside of me." "[crying]" "And they took that..." "Took me in that room, and just vacuumed it out." "And I almost bled to death a couple of times." "I'd be out on the street, and I'd just start gushing blood." "They finally took me to the hospital." "And they did a dc." "And they wanted me to stay overnight." "Connie wouldn't let me stay overnight 'cause she said they didn't have any food at home, and I had to go to work." "And I said, "I can't work, you know?" "The doctor doesn't even want me out of the hospital."" "And there was so much pain down here." "And there was so much pain in my heart." "And I wished that I had died with that baby." "[crying]" "But I had to leave the hospital that night and make enough money for them to have dinner." "[electronic beep]" " West on 95th." "How far did you guys go down?" " About a half mile." "[door opens]" "[engine starts]" " Police." " Step out and talk to me, sir." "There's not very many of these girls out here 'cause they want to be out here." "And the ones that tell you that has had horrific home lives..." "Molested, abused, and bad situations." "And you're taking advantage of that by engaging in this activity." " I'm very sorry, sir." " You don't apologize to me." " Yeah, I know." " You need to apologize to her, okay?" "You need to apologize to her 'cause at what point in her life did she say," ""I want to grow up and be a prostitute and suck dick in an alley in his truck?"" " No." "Never..." " You think she ever had those dreams, that ever been a part of her dream?" " No, sir." " You got an I.D.?" " It's not enough with porn." "But obviously, it's just feeling the touch of someone else." " When you look at this whole thing, prostitution is the main act." "And porn, for these men, is the dress rehearsal." "They see it, and then they go, and they act it out." " AND MY MOM ALWAYS SAID, "NEVER LOOK AT PLAYBOY."" "SO I WAS LIKE, "OKAY," SO I TYPED IN "PLAYBOY"." "And after that, I got into a lot of..." "Just so self-indulgent that you just go from one thing to another and just go all the way, you know." "Like when it's Thanksgiving, you just eat as much as you can until it hurts." " At first, maybe they get turned on, or maybe even they get disgusted first." "But then they look again, and then they look again, and they go, "hmm." "I'd like to maybe try that."" "And that's what sets them into going down the path of a John." " You can only look at porn for so long, you know." "It gets boring." "And you need to have something else." "You need to experience what they're experiencing." " Porn drives demand for trafficking." "It's a form of advertising for prostitution." "And we have more porn, you got more people who are consuming it, you're gonna be demanding more women being trafficked and prostituted in a society." " Well, my name is Donny pauling." "And I went by the name Donovan Phillips when I was in the porn world." "And I was in that world as a producer for nine years." "And in that amount of time, I went from being a producer for one amateur site to the place where I owned my network of sites that had 12,000,000 visitors a month coming to it." "And there was more than 500 first-timers that I recruited in my career." " These guys are pretty slick now." "They actually go to the malls, they actually go to the movie theaters, underage dance clubs, and they hand out business cards, saying they're a modeling agency." " You know, what do you do?" "You walk up and say," ""you want to model for porn?"" "No, I was..." "I came up with a story almost instantly in my head." "I was really good at manipulating people and deceiving them, including my wife who didn't know what I was doing for three years." "But for this girl, I walked up to her and..." ""Is your name..." You know, I'll say Carrie." ""Is your name Carrie?" "No, I'm not Carrie."" ""All right." "I'm looking for a girl named Carrie."" "And then I walked away, and I'm, like, looking around like I'm looking for someone." "And, you know, let a few minutes pass." "And then go back and sit down by her and say," ""man, that sucks." "I was gonna pay her $500 today."" ""Really?"" ""Yeah, yeah." "I was gonna do this photo..."" "You know, I acted all nonchalant." "And, you know, 30 minutes later, she was in front of my cameras." " It's akin to the grooming process that you see in prostitution." "To lure in, to groom, and then there's a breaking process that occurs where their will is just broken." "And, you know, the same thing happens in the porn industry." " The pornography worked in a couple different ways." "Part of it was they were filming me alone, or they would film me with guys or groups or whoever, and just hold that as one of the reasons why I couldn't run, or one of the reasons" "why nobody would believe me." "'Cause they were saying, "you know, you can't leave." ""You're a whore who has herself on film." "You know, no one's gonna believe that you're a victim here."" "So that was a piece that I've been scared of, and I know will follow me the rest of my life." "You know, I've had people walk up to me in public places and say, "hey, I saw your film."" " Trafficking victims are used in the production of porn." "Across the globe, women who are being forced into the sex industry, they're being filmed." "I mean, it's just natural." "Porn and prostitution go together." "You go to any red light district, you go to Vegas, you got porn all over the place, you get prostitution all over the place." " When did you buy the first girl, first woman?" " I probably was 18, 19 when I went down to the bunny ranch." " Oh, you went down to the Vegas... in Vegas?" " Yeah." "So it was legal." "So..." "But yeah, obviously, it's illegal here." "So I wish I was there now 'cause obviously," "I wouldn't be in trouble now, and I wouldn't be talking with you guys." " Yeah, but if you hear what you just said, you wished you'd be there." "The girls there abused, exploited from a young age too." "I don't care if it's legal or not." "It doesn't make it right 'cause it's legal." " I understand that, but I wouldn't be in this predicament right now if I was there." " No, but listen, you are in this predicament now because you were there." "You know what I'm saying?" " Yeah." " Get your fix at 18 years old and think, "okay, I'm a young guy." ""I put enough money down," "I can do whatever I want to a woman."" "You see how that's a little bit twisted?" " This isn't even about sex." "I mean, porn is not about sex." "It's about a very specific type of sex, commercial sex, which is inherently exploitative." "Porn production itself is a form of sex trafficking." "Under U.S. federal law, the trafficking victims protection act, sex trafficking is defined as the recruitment, the provision, the solicitation, the transportation of a person for a commercial sex act." "That's a day-in and day-out life of a porn producer." " We don't think about that when we're looking at porn." "We just see this fantasy." "Those faces and those expressions and those noises that the girls are making are 100% fake." " It's an act." "It's totally an act." "Like, you learn when to moan and when to sigh and 'cause if I could make a guy's experience almost more pleasurable," "I'd be out of there faster, and it probably wouldn't be as violent." " When a society demands more porn, it's demanding more prostituted women." "It's demanding more exploited women." "It's demanding more women being turned into objects and commodities." " I would not want to live frickin' 50 years in this, you know, wasteland of used people and degrading yourself and degrading others." "And the only point being..." "And the only high point is finding a really good blowjob." "Like that's your life?" "That's like..." "It's so meaningless." " I sold my family out for $1/2 million a year." "How cheap are you selling yours out?" "A couple images, some video clips?" "It's not worth it." " You're under arrest for commercial sex abuse of a minor." "[handcuffs click]" "Let's go back here." " If a daughter isn't feeling loved by her father, she's very vulnerable to find that love in other places, either through a boyfriend, a pimp, older men." "And that may not be the love that she wants or needs, but it is attention, and it is validation of sorts." "It's the kind of attention and validation and love that she's not getting at home." "And it leaves her vulnerable to the prey of a pimp." " Most teenage girls are asking two questions..." ""Do I matter?" And "do I have value?"" "And they're getting answers to those questions from a lot of places." "From their friends, from school, from the media." "And most of the time, those answers that they're getting are not true." "They don't speak of the value of a person and of the purpose of a person." "And so these girls need to hear from their parents that they do matter, that they do have value, that their life is significant." " Unfortunately, there is still a tremendously strong link between a woman's value in our society and her sense of sexuality." "Young girls are seeing thousands of messages every day from a variety of sources that directly tell her her value and worth in the world is connected to her body." " When we focus too much on the outside, on the physical appearance," ""are you pretty?" "Are you beautiful?"" "Then they miss out on hearing about their significance, on their value." "They miss out on the message that says," ""you can be part of something bigger than yourself."" " Should a father, should a mother delight in a child's precocious beauty and her playfulness and innocence?" "Absolutely yes." "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes." "But if beauty is the only thing you're drawing attention to, you're really doing gender violence." "Do you tell your beautiful two-year-old son that he's beautiful?" "I hope so." "I hope, in many ways, as often." "But why do you then talk about," ""oh, you are so strong."" "Say that to your daughter?" ""You are so bright." "You know, you are so funny."" "In other words, our task is not to create, but one window of honoring the glory of being made in the image of God." "The facets of a child's ongoing growth of goodness and beauty now needs to be heard as not merely physical, but a kind of beauty that has to do with," ""I love the way you fight with me." ""You are really articulate seven-year-old." ""In fact, I got a point a moment or two ago" ""when I wasn't quite sure what to do with you." ""You are really bright." ""Now, you're also gonna go to your room." ""So you're not gonna get more ice cream." "But I love the way you argued for that."" " A girl who was raised by a loving father and an attentive mother who are modeling a healthy relationship is much less likely to be at risk for a pimp's manipulations and caught in the trap of prostitution." " You can't help but look at a girl that's that age when you have a girl that age and think of a stark difference." "It's like, "oh, let's see." "I know where my daughter is right now," you know." "And you think about the things your daughter does, a typical 15-year-old." "Oh, she's involved in softball and glee club and whatever, drama after school." "And then you come out here and go to work and see a girl whose life is the street, and that's it." " I think it was just like last year or something" "I saw "sleeping beauty" for the first time." "It was like I don't..." "You know," "I felt like I lived under a rock." "But at the same time, I had to be so much more mature than the age I really was." "And so it was almost as if I went from 8 years old and I skipped all the way to 25." "And I missed my childhood." "Yeah, I feel robbed." " Do you think she wants some dude, some gross dude slobbering on her, shoving his little thing in her mouth?" "You think she enjoys that?" " That's pretty much..." "You know what?" " Let me answer the question for you." "Okay?" "Girls like this that are on the streets have been raped at the age of 9, 10, 11, 12 years old, put on the streets." "No girl grows up saying," ""hey, I want some guy to slobber on me and shove his crap into my mouth."" "No little girl grows up wanting to do that." "I don't know if you have a sister, a mom..." "A daughter, whatever." "You imagine if that..." "No, no, no." "Look at me when I'm talking to you." "You imagine your mom or your sister going on the streets, having a bunch of slobbering dudes like you shoving stuff in their mouth, you'd be cool with that?" "I'll be straight up with you, man to man, okay?" "If that was my sister and my mom, my wife," "I'd kill you." " That ain't just some piece of meat." "It's a human being." " I get angry sometimes 'cause I feel so robbed." "I can see inside my heart." "There's a good person in there." "I have so much I want to give." " Like, no girl wants to have sex with some guy that they hate or can't stand or is grossed out by or has to vomit later because it's so disgusting." "Or has the stench of a man stuck on her fingers and her body for hours afterwards to where you can check out mentally, but you have to continue to smell it, and so you're stuck." "There's nothing about that that I enjoyed." " I'll lose, like, 20, 30 pounds, and I'm literally terrified something will happen." "Like, a guy will smile at me, just probably being nice." "But to me, it's like a trigger, going back to, um..." ""Oh, my God, he finds me attractive."" "You know." "And then I find myself just eating chocolate and all that kind of stuff, so I can get that weight back." "And I don't want to be unhealthy." "And I don't want to be ugly." "But ugly is safe." "Ugly is so safe." "I'm not afraid of being raped anymore because I'm ugly." "I'm just safe." "I am so safe." "I guess I have to say it over and over again because deep down inside I don't even believe that." "They're talking about their kids in school, they're talking about their fun college years." "They're talking about dates they had." "What am I gonna talk about?" "My children are dead." "I never went on a date." "Never got married." "I'm so strange." "I'm so strange to everybody." " This is kind of a historic..." "I think it's a historic night." "IT'S THE OPENING." "[cheers and applause]" "Awesome." "We have our staff, and our volunteer staff is gonna be here tonight." "And what we're hoping to do is find a girl that is a good candidate." "A good candidate meaning they're ready to get out of the life, they're willing to take that first step." "And we're gonna bring them back here." "And hopefully, we'll bring in the first girl tonight." " You're precious." "My heart hurts because you didn't grow up hearing that." " Tonight was the grand opening of the genesis project drop-in center." "And so they finally, after eight years of doing this and two years of..." "In the making, had a place to go, other than back on the streets." "So right now, we're at the genesis project." "They just got checked in." "And they're gonna be here, taken care of by the volunteers and the staff here." "They're gonna have food, clothing." "They can have a bed if they want to sleep." "They're gonna get some counseling." "They're gonna get resources given to them." "The pimp's in jail." "We got them out of the life." " They're so vulnerable." "And you know, I look at their age." "At 15, I think, wow, they should be thinking about the prom or you know, thinking about their driver's license or their first job." "And that's not even close to what they're thinking." "They're just... there's no hope." " Finding out that girls have been going missing," "I'm just really glad that it wasn't me, you know." " As much as this night has sucked, can you kind of see that it's a blessing in disguise" " that you kind of got..." " Mm-hmm." " Found, captured, whatever, arrested?" " Mm-hmm." " Now you're in the genesis project." " Yeah." "I'm... thank you." "I'm thankful for everybody here." " You're gonna raise some little girl some day the way that she should be raised because you didn't have it growing up." "Know what I mean?" " Mm-hmm." " And tonight, you can be a support for your sister, and she can be a support for you." " Yeah." " 'Cause you're a princess." "Remember we talked about that?" " Hmm." "Yeah." "Where's my crown?" " I'm gonna get... you need a crown." " I need a crown." " Next time I see you, I'm bringing you a crown." "You need to know that, that you're a princess." "Because you have a lot of purpose and a lot of value." " I WANT TO SEE GPS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES." "We need safe places here for these girls." "And we need to look at them as victims." " And it's just amazing to be able to see you at this place when we've seen so many other women" "WHO WERE IN THEIR MID 40s WHO HAVE BEEN IN THIS since they were 15." "You're gonna live a much different life than them." " And I know it's not as comfortable as your other home, but there's some amazing women here that have stayed up all night waiting for the first girls to come in, just to be here." "So there's amazing women in this place that want to befriend you guys and have a relationship with you guys." "So give them a chance, okay?" "All right." " Thanks." " Well, we love you." " Thank you." " Have a good night." " I love you too." " Good luck." " So you'd be interested in some resources." "It's called genesis project." "We take all this time with you because we do care about what happened to you out here." "I'd like to introduce you to some really nice ladies, and then they can help get things going for you." " Sentencing range as to promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor, the court will impose 240 months." "Count two, promoting prostitution in the second degree, the court will impose 51 months." "Arrest count five, promoting prostitution in the first degree, the court will impose 108 months." "Count seven, crime of rape in the first degree, the court will impose a term of 93 months." " The way I got out was..." "I mean, I tried several times, but I guess the way" "I finally got out was I finally prayed." "I prayed, "if my dog is outside," "I'll know it's safe to leave."" "And I drove by the house, she was outside." "I'm like, "was that you, God?" "'Cause you don't just drive away from these people, you know."" "And my dog had been hit by a car earlier and was terrified to get in cars." "So I said another prayer." ""If she'll get in the car, then I'll leave."" "So I drove by, I opened up the car, she jumped in without me calling for her or anything." "And I left." "And I left with only my dog." "I had made Connie over $1,000,000." "And I left with my dog, a torn pair of jeans, and a blue and white striped t-shirt." "I came all the way out to Washington from Florida, the farthest away I could go, the farthest away I could drive my old red mustang with my dog in it." " So that I'm out of the life and now that I'm in kind of a journey of healing and in a good community," "I've gotten the incredible honor to be involved in a couple anti-trafficking organizations." "I've gotten a chance to volunteer, even with anti-trafficking in foreign countries." "I get to participate in events and speak for other organizations and bring awareness to what actually goes on." "I just finished my master's degree." "I'm really excited to continue to work in this movement." "I'm in this for the rest of my life." "I survived." "I'm here." "I don't want any other girl to go through what I had to go through." " Decent men, decent men who do not buy people, who do not buy sex have to come forward." "Decent men can no longer be silent." "They can no longer be bystanders." " Men are the largest drivers of demand of sex trafficking around the world today." "And we need men who will stand up and say that," ""I don't stand for that."" " Men have to challenge each other and say," ""enough with this porn." "Enough with this prostitution."" "And start talking about what it is to be a real man." " There is a girl out there somewhere who is begging that you will see and read between the lines of what she's saying or not saying." "And her survival depends on you asking her the right question." " When you see a girl out there, don't judge her." "Don't judge her..." "'Cause probably nine times out of ten, she doesn't want to be there." "I didn't want to be there." "I didn't have any strings holding me that you could see, but I was pinned down more than you can imagine." "Standing out there alone on the street..." "Yeah, I was pinned down." "I was trapped." "I was a prisoner." "I looked like I was free to come and go, but I was not free." "When you see those girls, don't you judge them." "You do everything you can to help them." " ¶ A light inside" "¶ I finally find" "¶ I've become" "¶ I've become" "¶ like you" "¶ make" "¶ your shadow" "¶ dark as the height" "¶ of noon" "¶ wake" "¶ and see" "¶ the morning" "¶ makes all things new" "Subtitles brought to you by:" "Kyosti"