and there needs to be at least a hundred dollars, $200 dropped off every hour of the day to him or there are consequences. like most enslaved young girls, britney gave all the cash to her pimp. i would make about over $4,000 to $6,000 a day. after two years of brutality, britney says she summoned up the courage to run after she found herself on an out call trapped in an apartment with a sociopath who planned to kill her. i remember i walked into his house and right off the bat i knew something was funny because he had, like, ten locks, bolt locks on his door. i walked in and he started bolting all the locks and i remember thinking, oh, my god. i m going to die. so she snuck into the bathroom to call her pimp begging for help. he ordered her not to leave without being paid.
just leave us alone. okay, what s your pimp s name? i don t know. 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 to you 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?
pimps will drive down the street in vans, jump out, and snatch girls up and throw them in the car. they ll take you to locations hours from oakland and make you work. britney grew up in an affluent suburb of san jose with a mother, a father, a house, and a boat. her nightmare started when she was just 15. she agreed to meet a guy she met online at a party. i remember he said, you re going to bust tricks for me. i said, well, what is a trick? and he said, i m going to post you on the internet and these men are going to call you. i m going to set these appointments up. you re going to [ bleep ] them, get the money, and give it to me. i said, no. that s the first night i got my ass beat. i almost died that night. for four years britney was an internet sex slave prostituted by three different men. but it was her first pimp who broke her spirit with a beating so savage she never considered
and when someone s life is 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.
waiting in his car and decides to approach the decoy on foot. listen up. we got a walkup. the john leaves thinking he s about to meet the girl around the corner. instead, he finds uniformed officers. he s not happy. it s still viewed as a minor crime but if it wasn t for guys like this, coming to victimize these little girls, you know, and making money for the pimps, these girls the girls wouldn t be getting victimized. as the operation draws into nightfall, johns and pimps looking to recruit the decoys circle in greater and greater numbers and it gets more difficult for officers to follow the action. then saleda notices something that doesn t seem right. the van had nevada plates and saleda immediately suspects it s a pimp from out of town looking for new girls and may attempt to kidnap the undercover policewomen. a man exits the van and walks toward the decoys. the second pimp is getting out of the van.