it is what it is. i ve had some discussions with some of the men that we ve brought into custody. it s abundantly clear to me that if they re going to continue to do this and i have no way what they re going to do, they certainly aren t coming around our area anymore. we do it so often that a lot of people are thinking twice about what they re doing. it s not worth the down side having their entire life thrown out there. in the two years since cook county police started slapping fines on jones, they have generated more than $100,000 for the women s justice program and have yet to encounter a repeat offender. the detectives turn their attention to the woman in custody, we ll calm they are jenny. what kind of tattoo? snake right here. a resident of minnesota, jenny tells police she s been in chicago for about a month. how did you get here? a friend dropped me off.
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
helping women make the same choice she did, to leave the life. give me hug. her goal, make a human connection and give women hope there is a real way out. give mae real hug. no fake hug. . so that next time the women are thrown a lifeline they may take it. thank you for talking to me. if i take prostitution away from you, i have to offer you everything in place of that. when i say everything, i m talking about a place to stay, food, clothing, all of your basic human needs have to be met. they need to feel safe. relax. don t be nervous or anything. okay. can i ask you, are you being trafficked or is the money going elsewhere or are you keeping the money? are you sure?
okay. uh-huh. 23-year-old jessica is more than 600 miles away from her home in arkansas. is this all you had on? yes. this high school graduate tells police sh this is her first run in with the law. have you ever been arrested before? no. never for anything? no. how long have you been working. not that lock. how long have you been in chicago. three weeks. where are you staying. at a friend s house. among jessica s belongings, they find condoms, receipts for stays in high-end hotels and more than $500 in cash. they suspect she maybe trafficked, but she insists she s acting alone. can i ask are you trafficked or are you keeping the money? all mine. are you sure? yes. when asked about the plight of other women in the life, jessica says it is a simple
police say most johns don t think too deeply about the consequences of buying sex until they get caught. police. let me see your hands. they are looking for one thing. the guy is looking for sex, they don t see the ramifications of paying someone and they don t see the outcome of a trafficked victim. i don t think they want to look at that. you want to walk with me? sure. if they realize what is going on in this girl s life, the background and physical and emotional abuse from the pimp they would have a different understanding 0 of what it is. while police may not be able to make johns feel the pain of women trapped in the underground sex trade, they can make them feel a pain deep in their own wallets. this is a nice wallet. is this leather? is this a leather wallet? it is nice. it became clear in certain areas of town people looking for