You can forget the streets full of punk that stop and stare you got a runnin start so you can feel the change you got to heal your heart so you can live again another day you had to live out loud with no one to fear with no one around who ever bring you down or to give you tears out on your western shore you are no longer brave jimmy you can see a bonus song at www. Jimmykimmellive. Com. Jimmy i want to thank matthew fox, radha mitchell, 50 cent fred armisen. Apologies to matt damon, we ran out of time. Tomorrow night terrence howard, the cast of duck dynasty and music from churchill. Thanks for watching. Nightline is next. Good night. Tonight on a special edition of nightline, the virgin trade. Girls as young as 14 being bought and sold on the cheap in bars run by americans overseas. Hour team goes undercover in the shadowing corner of commerce where tourists trade cash for sex. Is it a high stakes International Sting and we are there as authorities try to bust it. It is innocence for sale. A sixmonth investigation revealing a shocking truth. American dollars are funding this diabolical trade. A special from new york city, this is a special edition of nightline. Good evening im bill weir. For those who plan their vacations around spas or theme parks it might bring a queasy shock to find an Alarming Number of people plan their vacation around the flesh of young children. Children are bought and sold in countries for the average sex tourist. Americans are not only buying, some are also selling. But little do they know the authorities are also watching even over there. Alex waterfield takes us to the philippines and take us inside the raid. Reporter tonight in a far flung part of the philippines, Arthur Benjamin is in a good mood. All the girls around im good. Reporter laughing, drinking ogling the girls on stage at this bar which he says he owns. Benjamin is a 49yearold american suspected of having sex with underage girls and suspected of selling them for sex out of this bar called crowbar. But he has no idea that at that moment, filipino and american authorities are just a few miles away plotting a raid that will bring his world crashing down. Were ready. Reporter this is the story of Arthur Benjamin who travelled to subic bay, a beautiful part of the philippines where benjamin has been living for 25 years. But our journey went into the dark and disturbing world of underage prostitution finding how easy it is to buy sex with underage girls. How old are you . 14. Reporter it is a top destination for americans not just looking to have sex but to sell sex as well. About 4 third and 00 girls working for me. And they go all night for 30 bucks. The americans want to come here because they perceive it is easier to operate here than in the United States be. You they are sadly mistaken. Reporter Eric Mcloughlin is with the Customs Enforcement department. He teamed up with a local Nonprofit Organization called preda which has been gathering evidence for months. Its my job to determine if the allegations are accurate. If they are accurate we will hold them accountable. Reporter we want to meet benjamin and see for ourselves what is going on inside that bar. So producer Alex Waterfield and i put on these tiny hidden cameras that look like shirt buttons and head down to a run down part of town to benjamins bar and dont know what to expect. Around a dozen young women are milling around, including this one. What is your name . Princess. Reporter princess is one of the most popular girls in the bar. She is just 16 years old. Do you like to pick them up . Reporter its not long before princess and another girl are offered to us. 1500 pesos. Just under 40. Mama lucy is called a mamasan. She manages the girls. We decline her offer but she calls benjamin to come meet us. Come sit at the bar so we look within minutes the 66 texan tells us about his sex life and business. My wife found out i have this place. Reporter a former waitress wrote to his wife on facebook. She sent this thing saying i have [ bleep ] [ bleep ] i own a bar, ive got other girls. And all this other crap. All of which is true. I have to deny. Reporter oblivious to our hidden cameras, benjamin says he has a 16yearold girlfriend who lives in the house out back. She is a tiny dark skinned girl she needed a place to stay and i needed a place to do her. I bought a bar for her. She is so young we are blurring her face to protect her identity. Her name is jade. We cant find anything like this in the states. A guy my age. Not going to happen. I can have anything i want any time i want. Im going to hell. I know. Reporter benjamins declaration is so stunning we felt we had to alert Eric Mcloughlin but he says building a case requires more evidence. This guy is saying on tape i have had sex with underage girls repeatedly that is not enough . No. As investigators we have to prove these acts occur. Me just saying it is not enough. Reporter the key might be this 18yearold girl marisol. Until december she worked at benjamins bar. She has come to the preda center, the nonprofit that began to track benjamin. She identifies four girls who are underage including the one we met, princess. Why did you decide to tell your story . Translator i felt hopeless working in the bar, she says that my friend the minors feel the same way. I wanted to tell my story and to save them. Reporter benjamin isnt is only american capitalizing on the demand. Many in this long string of bars in subic bay are owned or managed by americans. Many are military veterans. They have eight bars all foreign owned. Marines, army. Its well organized. Just dont understand the magnitude of what weve got going on here. Reporter subic bay was home to a u. S. Naval base for 50 years, providing a boon to the prostitution industry. Its going to feed their whole family for weeks. [ bleep ] enjoy it, man. Dont get too wrapd up in your head about it. Reporter to see how easy it is for americans to find underaged girls we visited a neighboring town 45 minutes from subic bay. It takes less than half an hour before we are approached by this woman who offers not just young girls but virgins. How many girls do you have . And for each one it is 750. We will talk about it and maybe come back and see you. Later that night we meet the woman and the girls near a busy intersection. How old are you . 15. And you . 14. Youre in school. What grade are you in . Second. So eighth grade. You look very nervous. Dont be scared. Its okay. This is your aunt . Yeah. This is your aunty. She loves you . Yeah. Very much. Why is she asking you to do this . Because, you know, we need money, thats why. They just give to the filipino man who dont have job, lazy. Its reporter that was incredibly disturbing. They were both so young and so easy for us to find them. We said no thank you and walked away. When we come back crowbar. Thats it. We have to be fluid and fast. Reporter authorities decide to make the final move on Arthur Benjamin. I want to see your hands, sit down. Reporter but there l they have enough evidence to arrest him . While everyone else seems headed in the wrong direction, ford is not just going forward, its going further. Introducing the entirely new ford fusion. With a hybrid thats the most fuelefficient midsize sedan in america. Its an entirely new idea of what a car can be. Exciting and would always come max and pto my rescue. Bookstore but as time passed, i started to notice max just wasnt himself. And i knew hed feel better if he lost a little weight. So i switched to purina cat chow healthy weight formula. I just fed the recommended amount. And they both loved the taste. After a few months maxs special powers returned. 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If there is something i dont like i [ bleep ] her out. There is always another one. He. Reporter he tells us how with the help of mamasan lucy underage girls work for him. She is a master at it. She has a lot of girls working for him. Reporter and how they avoided trouble when authorities stopped by the bar. Lucy showed them all the paperwork which is in order some creatively. They will get their older sisters birth certificate. Reporter just down the road at the preda center, shay cullen has been given word that the raid has been given a green light. Six months of investigating have come down to this. A team of investigators working with father shay have booked a fake Bachelor Party at crowbar to guarantee that benjamin will be there. Ive been invited to be a guest to be inside as it goes down. We head inside and the party gets into full swing. But, no benjamin. Mama lucy is there. You organized all the girls for tonight . Yes. Reporter and so is 1yearold princess who just got braces. After 45 tense minutes, benjamin finally shows up. I hate my job. Reporter even jade briefly makes an appearance. He has no idea that at that very moment we want to maximize the people we rescue reporter american i. C. E. Agents, and Government Social workers have gathered to go over the final plan for the raid. They will be all gone if we dont make a move there. Reporter after a long and chaotic meeting its time to move out. Were ready. Lets do it. Coming up here on the left. The bar is up here on the left. Crowbar. Thats it. Thats it. Stop, stop. Get out. Go. No talking. Quiet. Reporter benjamin looks stunned. At first he doesnt move. The girls are herded into one corner of the bar. Sit down. I want to see your hands number talking. Reporter none of the girls admit to being under age. Dentists start examining their teeth. Benjamin tries to slip out but is blocked by a filipina agent. Thats when we decide to reveal our identity. You told us you had underage sex with multiple girls and they work in this bars. What do you say now . I do not have sex with underage girls. You never had sex with underage girls and if none work here why did you tell us that . Its just talk. Youre just bragging . Pretty much. Reporter you just showed us your girlfriend. I dont have a girlfriend. Your girlfriend, jade doesnt exist . Nope. Reporter we tell him everything is on hidden camera. Does that change anything . Princess y princess cowers in the corners. Is benjamin a good man or an evil man . Hes a good man. Its not like the movies. Were not greeted with a hug and a kiss on the cheek. A lot of times they view us as the enemy. They have been here for a while and trying to get them comfortable enough to talk to us and we are here to help them. Its a challenge. Reporter an after hour the authorities have enough to arrest benjamin. But why . What did i do . For hiding minors. Theres no minors here. Where . Lets go now. There are no minors. Okay, fine. Ill go with you. Reporter were you surprised at his demeanor and how calm he was . We see that a lot. Kind of shock. And feels surreal right now. Hell go to sleep soundly and realize what happened tomorrow. He is in for it. Reporter we have one last chance to speak with benjamin. Six hours ago when the evening started did you think it would end like this . No. You were a nice guy. And now i find out youre an [ bleep ]. What do you think should happen to you . They should let me go and talk to me later when i am around. What do you think is going to happen . Theyre going to take me to manila and it will be a pain in the ass. Bye. You said your number two was bye. Deny it all . Absolutely. When we come back, as benjamin is driven away to a manila jail there is fighting over where the girls will go and uncertainty over what is next for them. [ male announcer ] how do you engineer a true automotive breakthrough . 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Were working to fuel america for generations to come. Our commitment has never been stronger. Tonights shows brought you inside the sinister world of trading young girls for cash and one mans tireless crusade to stop it. But for the girls being taken away from the bars doesnt always mean being saved. Reporter with Arthur Benjamin arrested the attention turns to the girls from his bar. 16yearold princess is in a van with the others. Do you think youll go back to working in the bars . No. Youre done . The authorities and father shay cullen argue about where to take the girls who need to see social workers. Father shay has dedicated his life to saving young boys and girls. He got the authorities to carry out the raid on benjamins bar. You dont look relieved. No, this is our work. Reporter amid the confusion there is also anger. Are you anger at benjamin . No. Reporter these young
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