my daughter has been kidnapped. for three years bruce johnson has struggled daily with the trauma of dealing with the police department he says failed his family. it s across the street now. there s a guy beating up a man on the grass. this is the 911 tape from the witness on the night of may 23rd, 2005, when bruce went to rescue his eighth grade daughter from the house where she had been kidnapped and prostituted for ten days by a vicious pimp named derek willowby. the guy s sitting on him and the other people are beating him. okay. they re hitting him with a rock and a tire iron right now. the man being beaten is bruce just moments after he freed his daughter. bruce who still struggles from the aftereffects of the severe beating remains outraged. the police aren t trained to believe that forced prostitution of kids happens here. for ten days after his daughter laura and her cousin
and once i knew my daughter was safe, i said, god, if it s my time to go, you know, i ll go. i just gave up fighting. as his daughter ran to find help, a second neighbor called 911. hi. i live at [ bleep ]. and i m watching these people beat this man with a tire iron. oh, come on. we got everybody coming, ma am. they ve got to drive there. ooh. and now she s trying to fight the other girl with the blue jeans on. okay. oh, yeah. where is the police at? oh, my they re coming. they re coming. ooh. ooh. oh, my goodness. police finally arrived and broke up the fight. while bruce was being treated for severe con sugcussions he learned the toledo police had charged him with breaking and entering the kidnapper s home. eventually those charges were thrown out. toledo police have declined our request for a comment on the case. the michigan u.s. attorney convicted derek willowby and his two associates for trafficking the two teen girls.