law enforcement, the problem is by the time we get there the people are dead already. we d rather you take the website down. come on. the cook county task force wants americans to know that on-line websites keep trafficked women ensnared in a cycle 0 perpetual violence. choke hold. while most may view young women as tough individuals making bad choices, brenda meyers powell sees these women as the walk waing wounded. in desperate need of public empathy and intervention. i have had some girls say it feels like someone is using in the bathroom inside of me. will what age did you start to do this regularly? the average prostitute turns five, six, maybe ten tricks a day. if you calculate five times 365, how many men has she slept with? over 1800 men. how much trauma is that to her? i know about prostitution.
website. you have been prosty tutd out ever since. do you get my of the money. the woman was threatening her calling her every day saying we are watching you. you can t move. we have people that will come and get you. she s absolutely insane. i thought she was going to kill me [ inaudible ] that s the brain that they have that they use to have you brainwashed so you don t go, right? been there, done that. okay. after 25 years in the game, brenda knows all too well how hard it is for girls to walk away from their pimps. a lot of people think this is something they settle for that but these women are in survival mode. you don t have any peripheral vision.
life after a brutal attack by a john almost killed her. again, occurred with a customer who began to beat me up to take his money back after we got through and i tried to get out of the car to get away from him and he started the car up and was driving off and as i tried to get away from him, my clothes caught hold to the door and he drug me for six blocks and tore the skin off my body, my face. reporter: disfigured and near death, brenda was taken to cook county hospital. there, she says, she was pushed to the back of the line for treatment because she was a prostitute. i felt worthless and even people who took an oath to help people didn t want to help a prostitu prostitute. i wanted to die. now married with a family of her own, brenda said she is living proof that working girls like chanel can turn their lives
done, they had bonded out and they didn t just go home for the night they would go back out to the street. my name is brenda and your name is in 2008 one sheriff dart starting hiring counselors like brenda powell to connect women with social services and help them get out of the life. the hardst thing for women involved in this is to see they are victims. they don t look at themselves as victims, okay? you know how to pimp? no. brenda is not just a counselor, she s a former prostitute with 25 years in the game. and even though jenny admits nothing brenda can tell she s being pimped out. the girlfriend, husband and kids so you re staying with them, right? yeah. and the girlfriend and the girlfriend s kids and the girlfriend s man, he know, that s not a normal relationship. that s how i used to live with my pimp and my wife-in-laws. we all lived with him and we would do anything for him.
again, occurred with a customer who began to beat me up to take his money back after we got through and i tried to get out of the car to get away from him and he started the car up and was driving off and as i tried to get away from him, my clothes caught hold to the door and he drug me for six blocks and tore the skin off my body, my face. reporter: disfigured and near death, brenda was taken to cook county hospital. there, she says, she was pushed to the back of the line for treatment because she was a prostitute. i felt worthless and even people who took an oath to help people didn t want to help a prostitute. i wanted to die. now married with a family of her own, brenda said she is living proof that working girls like chanel can turn their lives around with help and support. chanel, you are a beautiful,