maloney s office, she s planning a federal piece of legislation that mirrors this, that gives consumers the tools to decide not to buy slave made products. i think one of the things i ve seen, it s a little more complicated than that. it s a function of the company saying, we don t control it. and what we have said with the bill is, okay, some of you say you don t control it, some of you are prepared to use your influence, we want to engage the consumer by disclosing the policy that the companies have, i believe the consumer will say, i want to buy the product of the company that s doing the right thing and growing best practices. let s take a look at another clip from dan rather reports on porn land, oregon. two girls caught up in the sex trade talking about the demand for under aged prostitutes. some guys are creepy. some guys d actually know how old i was and they liked that. i used to lie and say i was
it. how did you come across this story? we re always looking for good investigative stories. we went to maldova to do a story about the international trafficking in kidneys. and maldova it was very obvious that this sex trade traffic, particularly concentrating on young girls and in some cases boys was heavy. i came back home intending to do a story on international sex trafficking. what i found out very quickly, it s a big problem in this country. i know a lot of people are shaking their heads saying, i don t believe that. the fbi estimates, in excess of 100,000 american girls, american girls are involved in some form of the sex slavery trafficking business today. we look around, we found portland, oregon at that time, i think it may still be true, had the highest percentage of underaged girls involving
the wrong track. i think he overreached, i think he thought he had a mandate that really wasn t there. or missed the bigness of what was wrong with our economy. but he s out there still blaming george w. bush. well, and attacking boehner. major league spending. attacking boehner. he s doing things that i thought were kind of pitiful. larry: back with our topic, amanda was a teenaged runaway forced into prostitution at age 15, escaped the sex trade at age 23. she considers herself a survivor and not a victim. how did you wind up on the streets, amanda? hi, larry. when i was very young my mother gave me away and i wound up in foster homes and adopted two times. the last home i was placed in, the father in the home was sexually abusive. when i got the courage to run away i did, i was 15. and the place that i ran away to
thing and growing best practices. let s take a look at another clip from dan rather reports on porn land, oregon. two girls caught up in the sex trade talking about the demand for under aged prostitutes. some guys are creepy. some guys did actually know how old i was and they liked that. i used to lie and say i was 18, because i know that some of them would get freaked out. so i would lie and say i was 18. some of them, you know, i just kind of get the vibe off of them, so i d let them know my real age. one time i let this guy know my real age, yeah, i m 16. he said, oh, well you re not young enough, you need to get out. i was like i was so desperate for money at the time that i said, well, i can put my hair in pig tails. i can make myself look younger. and he didn t want it. he wanted he told me he was
i ve been a cop for 29. if you had told me three years ago, that a 14-year-old girl would go to a food court, meet a guy and three hours later be selling herself i would have say no way. it happens every day. an average pimp with one kid will make between 800 and 1,000 dollars a day seven days a week. 30 days in a month. and not much overhead? no overhead. you get a cheap hotel for 50 bucks a night. a bottle of booze. you take her to taco bell, mcdonald s, cheap food, that s it. how did you come across this story? we re always looking for good investigative stories. we went to moldova to do a story about the international trafficking in kidneys. and moldova it was very obvious that this sex trade traffic,