government investment into advocacy groups and nonprofit organizations that provide care for victims. tonight the stories of just a few who have dedicated their work to helping survivors beat the terrible cycle of human trafficking. there's a graphic nature of this piece viewer discretion is advised. if you've seen what i've seen and seen the damage that is caused to those who have been subjected to the buying of sex, and you realize that broken homes, the broken lives, the broken bodies. corporate alan of the pasco county sheriff office in florida has seen horror of human trafficking first hand. >> they have number 29.9 victims worldwide and recently revised that to 40.3 million. as a education increases the reporting of it increases, so we're able to e see larger numbers of reporting comeing in. in 2016 they prosecuted 241 human trafficking cases. more than 95 a% of which focused