>> me being 9 years old, living in a community where prostitutes worked in front of our window and looking ought the window at the prostitutes getting in and out of cars and having shiny dresses on and be very beautiful and asking my grandmother, what are those women doing and she told me. she told me those women take off their panties and give them money and me relating to because men had been taking my panties off and i said, wow, i didn't know they were supposed to give me money. >> her grandmother encouraged her to sell herself at 14 to add money to the family purse. >> i sat on the corner and that night i made over $400. those guys knew i was a minor. they knew i was young. they paid me more because i was young. >> after 25 years of surviving exploitation and violence, brenda was forced out of the