underground sex trade. i m not a prostitute. i m on sugardaddy i m on oh, my god. i m on a lot of sites with guys who are married and want to hook up and hang out and go to dinner. despite her arrangement with the undercover, kimberly bristles at the suggestion that she s selling sex for money. i m on a blind date. yeah. sure are. a date with us. and yeah, i give a false name to guys that i don t know for the first time. especially when i got a boyfriend. and you re on a blind date? [ laughter ] what woman doesn t cheat? what man doesn t cheat? me and my wife. yeah, i ve heard that before. the guy that s here, bring him up here. almost as if on cue, police apprehend kimberly s so-called boyfriend in the parking lot and march him upstairs to a processing room. how old are you, chief? 42. i ll be 46.
women working in the sex trade, stephanie was a victim of child sexual abuse. she says she was raped by her stepfather at the age of 8. it s hard. it s not like you wake up every day with the thought in big red letters, you know, i was molested, i was raped when i was a kid. but it s just it s always here. on top of recurring sexual abuse, stephanie says there was also physical and psychological abuse that prevented her from telling anyone about her predicament. i was really scared like if i did something wrong, like he would punish me like spank me. he would hit my mom. he would throw things at my mom, too. it just wasn t a good marriage. and then i don t know i guess i felt like if i throw more on top of this, what s he going to do to my mom, what is he going to do to me. it was just at 8 it s really hard to weigh it out. it s just hard to believe, you know, of course no more
girls before her, vee na was first lured into the game by a promise of easy money. after multiple run-ins with the law, she s beginning to learn there s no such thing in the underground sex trade. okay. he s coming in the front door. okay. take it. go. so what do you think is going to happen to him? i hope he goes to prison. you have someone that s going to travel to have sex with a child, they need to go to prison for a long time. jesse don t go! jesse.no! i m sorry daisy, but i m a loner. and a loner gotta be alone. heee yawww! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. jesse?
recently there have been two separate incidences where two young ladies in each incident have been discovered deceased in vehicles on the east side of detroit. we have four homicides of which a serial pattern is developing. the first set of women were found on december 19th, dead in the trunk of a car on promenade street on detroit s east side. investigators now believe three of the victims may have met their killer online in the adult services section of the website backpage.com. this tie for us is disconcerting. it s alarming. and obviously, women in the city of detroit, you know, were very concerned. the murders are a brutal reminder of the constant danger and fear that stalks girls and young women every single day they work in the underground sex trade. this is a dangerous proposition. there s no way to tell who you re dealing with, what their motives may be, and the ultimate risk could be loss of life. given the sometimes deadly
don t move. stay right there on the seat until i get your clothes, okay? tonight s arrest begin to provide us with a rare and unsettling look at the chronic drug addiction that often goes hand in hand with life in the underground sex trade. holy that s the most i ve seen in forever. the unfortunate reality of it is that we arrest hundreds and hundreds of girls involved in prostitution. i would say only a handful are the ones that are not involved with any type of narcotic. get your clothes on. but as time goes on, these girls need that numbness or that fix in order to continue to go on from the work that they re doing. in countless hotels and motels up and down the broad boulevards of the motor city, the same scenario plays out tonight and every night. a young woman sits in the dark, drinking or even shooting dope, trying to forget the last john and waiting for the next one. he s rolling in right now.