threatened and constantly every day saying, if you don t get on the track i m going to kill you. i m going to stab you. i have my boys watching you. you can t do anything. you re scared. the odds of pulling a girl off the street are small but hoffman and the men of the oakland task force are undaunted. saleda says it s a race against the clock. the earlier they can pull a girl off the street the more likely it is that she won t fall prey again to the anxious men who only see children in terms of dollars and cents. they re total property. it s truly modern day slavery. with thousands of dollars at stake pimps keep a watchful eye over the girls they traffic. the pimp does not come up for her rescue. he just wants to make sure he knows how much money she s making. girls who are caught in sting operations often feel they are unfairly targeted.
using code words like roses or diamonds, photos show men just what they re buying for their time. with help from a federal human trafficking grant the oakland pd along with the fbi regularly conducts sting operations. oakland police. open the door so we don t have to use the key. on this night after officers spotted a pimp with two suspected minors, they entered his hotel room and find a pregnant teen selling herself. during questioning, the pregnant teen admits to posting craigslist ads for her pimp while the other minors walk for cash. were they supposed to work tonight? though she s been beaten and hospitalized multiple times, the girl who has been sold online since she was 15 says it s tough to escape. farley says the internet makes exploiting teens easy money.
exploited women is an unspeakable crime. who decides who s a good girl or who the bad girl is? who decides that? these are children. these are children. and they deserve protection. we are letting them be brutalized. these are advertisements for prostitution and craigslist is functioning as an on line pimp.
it was the worst. he beat me almost every day. i remember one incident i was driving in a car with him. i was going to an out call. when you re in a car with a pimp you re not supposed to look to your right. you re not supposed to look to your left. you re just supposed to look straight forward and i remember i looked to the right and all of a sudden his fist was in my face and we were going back and forth on the freeway and he was trying to choke me. and i thought i was going to die. he dragged me out of the car on the freeway and started hitting me and hitting me. he went in the trunk and grabbed a bat and just started hitting me, nonstop. whether it was giving someone oral sex in an alley or being tortured and sodomized by a john in a local hotel room britney says she was starved and sleep deprived and the men who controlled her had one priority. during that time it s money, money, money, money.
they do. okay. what s your pimp s name? see that s why they don t get arrested because all of a sudden the girls get real stupid. after arresting this 17-year-old who offered an undercover officer intercourse for $60 hoffman tried to urge the teen to let her get her treatment. i m going to call in an advocate. do you know what an advocate is? she has a program that will help you with school or, you know, just talk you to about your family life or lack of family life or do you you don t live at home i take it, right? you don t have a home? hoffman is concerned about the 17-year-old who explains away a large contusion on her head. did somebody hit you? you fell down the stairs? when did that happen? hey, this is debbie and we just had our first juvenile brought in.