>> in polk county, florida, buyers and sellers of sex had best beware. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. oh, my god. i'm ruined. >> chances are that trick on the other end of the line is an undercover cop. >> yeah, they are our girls. >> i knew it. >> we were on tv? ain't that butt a pitch? >> are you kidding me? oh, my god! >> welcome to polk county. if you come to this county, you are going to get theel full effect and force of the law.

>> tonight, msnbc returns to polk county, florida. >> okay. take him. go. >> where investigators uncover a wayward minister's temptation for young girls. >> you have someone that's going to travel to have sex with a child, they need to go to prison for a long time. >> tough right to remain silent, sir. >> i'm going to look lock you up and i'm going to talk about how you were going to engage a child in sex. you are a bad person. >> have you ever had sex with a minor before? >> no. never. never. >> look in my eyes. never, i never do that kinds of thing. >> do you want to have sex with a minor? >> no. no. >> in central florida, msnbc was granted exclusive access to a human trafficking string ran by the sheriff's office of polk

county. what our cameras captured was a massive law enforcement effort netting some 90 arrests in four days, including 12 pumps, a juvenile, and this man, a 45-year-old youth minister named samuel uhn, who came looking to buy sex with a 14-year-old girl. >> what brings you to florida. >> a business trip. >> what kinds of business to you do? >> police hirono human trafficking is alive and well in the 21st century. >> it's scary. if you are naive enough to think it's just here, you're wrong. we dig it out here. >> the driving force behind sting operations like these is polk county sheriff grady judd. >> we wear them out. >> after some 40 years on the job as a cop, judd knows many people, if not most, see prostitution as a victimless crime. he tells our producer he's out to change their minds. >> grace, if they could spend one evening with you and with me in an undercover location, they

would change their entire attitude. they would find out this is not two consending adults. they would see the pump in the parking lot. >> sheriff's office, hands up. >> they would see how he takes advantage of her, how he has complete control of her life. she's property. she's property to be bartered with, to be sold. >> to begin the operation, sheriff's investigators set up in a polk county hotel. undercover male agents browse internet sites like back page for sex ads. >> is that you in the pictures? >> and invite women for hire up to the hotel for a date. >> can you come now? >> i think you want bear back or something like that it's going to be extra. >> at the same time, female undercovers post fake sex ads on line to lure would be johns into the sting. >> $70 is usually for 30 minutes. >> this undercover has a john on the hook. >> he's at the door. >> just before 5:00 p.m. he

arrived. the man enters the room in eager anticipation of a good time unaware that sheriff's investigators are watching his ever move. after some small talk a deal for sex is struck and arresting officers move in. >> hands out of your pockets. place them -- put your hands behind your back. >> the man in custody is a 55-year-old from nearby orlando. it's his second arrested for prostitution but his first opportunity to meet sheriff judd. >> welcome to polk county. where are you from, ray? >> orlando. >> you are not from polk county. >> no. >> people from polk county know better. we put you all in jail for this kind of stuff over here. when you get out of jail if you are going to violate the law, don't come back. >> the man is shuttled across the hallway for processing while detectives reset the trap for the next john. >> are you here? okay. yeah, i'm at 207. >> it is a little after 5:30

when he arrives. once again, all eyes are on a man unaware that he is about to be stung. as soon as the cash for sex deal is made, arresting officers move in. >> sheriff's office. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. oh, my god. >> you are going to be okay. stand up. >> i'm ruined. >> stand up. chill out. keep your hands -- place them behind your back. >> oh, my god. >> place your hands -- hey. >> stands up. >> take a look at me. >> oh, my god. >> chill out. chill out. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. oh, my god. i'm so stupid. >> you just made a mistake. calm down. take a deep breath. i need you to listen to me, okay? do you have anything illegal on you, any guns, weapon. >> no, i don't. i don't. >> okay. >> i don't. >> meet patrick, a 38-year-old man from orlando. unlike the previous john, he was

well aware that he was playing with fire in polk county. >> where are you from, patrick. >> right down the road. i'm so stupid. i don't know what i was thinking. something i wanted to try. something i'm curious into. >> i'm sheriff judd. >> i know, i see you on tv. you are an excellent sheriff. i don't know what i was thinking? >> are you married? >> just got engaged last week or a couple weeks ago, planning a wedding. i have a perfect girl. now it's all rundsed. i've lost that girl. >> as reality sets in, he turns on the charm in a last-ditch bid to avoid jail. >> i hope this is a good hard warning. i have learned my lesson clearly. and you are admin about this. i know you are. i commend you -- i'm not being a kiss up or anything. i know all polk county sheriffs you guys are just outstanding. >> you know we butt put people in jail for doing that in this county. >> i know. it's just something -- i don't

want to sound like -- just let it g. it's going to ruin my life. it really is. >> you know i don't let people go. >> my god. i'm so ruined. my -- it's over. >> his concern that his life will be ruined by a misdemeanor prostitution arrest is somewhat debatable. >> as long as you stay cool and calm you are going to be okay. >> yeah. >> it's true that sheriff judd wants to make one thing clear. >> you don't have an ounce of sympathy for the guy saying you are ruining my life, this is going to ruin my life. >> he is ruining his own life. i didn't handcuff him and drag him through the hotel lobby and throw him into the room with the prostitute and say pay her and have sex. you did that on your own. you sought that girl out. well, buddy, you are going to get the full effect and force of the law. complete with a trip to the county jail. and your picture on our jail website.

and a media release done about you. and quite frankly, maybe for every john i embarrass i scare off 100 more from doing what they shouldn't do at least in this county. >> just hang out. >> why would you have to pay somebody just to hang out? >> some people do that. some people just want the company of a beautiful female. we live in a pick and choose world. choose, choose, choose.

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on a warm evening in central florida, polk county sheriff's police have turned an ordinary roadside hotel in a trap for buyers and sellers of sex. >> yeah, they are our girls. >> these women have a date with a man in room 207, unaware that he is an undercover cop, and their every word and deed are being recorded by police.

>> as soon as the ground rules for sex are set, and the money changes hands, sheriff's deputies move in for the arrest. 20-year-old alexandria mcdlan and her friend, moore both came up from tampa. both have rap sheets for assault, arrest and possession of a firearm. tonight is their first arrest for prostitution. >> where did you put the money. >> in recovering the decoy money, police notice the women are flush with additional cash, an indication this was probably not their first appointment of the evening. >> he is in the parking lot closest to the building, yes. >> meanwhile, in the parking lot deputies spot a man sitting in the car that delivered the women. they suspect he may be their pump. >> hands up. >> 34-year-old wesley footman

appears to be stunned by the arrest. >> wow. >> police suspect he may be high. >> rolling a blunt? >> no. >> you know k-2 is illegal in the state of florida, right. >> he admits to smoking spice, also known as k 2, a synthetic marijuana, illegal in polk county. >> whoa. >> like the women with whom he travelled footman sports a long criminal history, including car theft, drug trafficking, and domestic violence. >> all right. take down -- edison is bringing the parking lot guy up. >> police march footman upstairs to join his female friends for processing. alex and degreea, also known as miss lady tells police she was unaware that anything sexual was supposed to occur. >> let me get it straight. you came up here to do what for $300? >> it was supposed to be for just time. supposed to be just hachking out. >> she says she was just tagging along with her friend renee who makes arrangements to hang out

with men for money. >> why would you have to pay somebody just to hang out? >> some people do that. some people just want the company of a beautiful female. >> i never specifically agreed -- i never did anything sexual out of my -- ask him, he'll tell you i never said anything sexual out of my mouth. >> i did ask him, and both of you offered to come up here for sex for $300. >> alexandria refuses to admit the purpose of why she was there tonight. >> i still need your name and address. >> her partner is equally res sent and reveals she is five weeks pregnant and claims the traveling companion wesley footman is the father. >> is that your baby? >> yes, yes. >> footman confirms renee's claim but says he has no idea what's happening or why they are under arrest. >> is that your girlfriend. >> yeah, that's her. >> 100% real and determined to please. >> i don't know nothing about

that. i don't get on computers. i don't know what they put on there. >> how many times have you ever given your girlfriends or these girls rides to hotels to meet guys, just randomly -- i'll saying you knew it was prostitution but how many times have you done that? >> never. >> why, if they were just coming up here to meet somebody and wasn't a big deal why would they need you to be security for them. >> like the girls before him, footman gives up nothing. if he is profiting from their labor he is not about to admit it tonight. instead he tries to disconnect himself from the women and their actions. >> you saying did i know what they was doing? okay. no. all they do is ask me do i want a ride? yes, i want a ride. >> wesley, do you know that that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever? >> without the cooperation of the women police do not have enough evidence to charge wesley with pumping tonight. >> my background don't say nothing about no pumping, nothing. >> but he won't be getting off scot-free.

>> when you drive with somebody whether you are pumping or not and you are providing security for them, that's aiding and abetting. that's illegal. that's why you are going to jail. >> even for a ride? >> yep, that's why you were going to jail. >> so not knowing where they was going. >> actually i was asleep in the car. >> youny knew where they were going. >> come on man, i'm being real with you all. >> no, you are not being real. >> footman and his female friends are bounds for the county jail. >> oh, my god. look at these beautiful ladies. look at these beautiful ladies. >> but not before our producer has a chance to ask them a few questions. what are you doing here, you are pregnant. >> renee is clearly not ready for her close up but alexandria has a few things she wants to make cloo clear. >> you are so pretty i'm sure you didn't get into this on your own. >> that's for sure. >> first and foremost she inists she is a free agent.

>> have you had a pump. >> no. >> never. >> never had a pump. never going to have one. never going to have it. >> investigators believe she may be telling the truth about not having a pump. >> do you know what a popcorn pump is. >> no, i don't want what that is. >> but also suspect she is being recruited by footman and his girlfriend, renee. >> i'm not familiar with human trafficking. >> that's not you? >> it's not in my blood. my mom didn't raise me that way. >> footman insists he is not a pump but he admits to a troubling history of domestic violence. >> oh, domestic violence. with your wife? >> yeah, had house problems, yeah. been with her four and a half years. >> but you did hit her? >> yeah. we -- but that's like in the past. but recent enough. >> have you ever hit a woman besides your wife? >> yeah, i've been accused of it. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> who accused you of hitting?

>> i can't say. quite a few females. but it only happened like once or twice. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> none of the females in the other room, though, right? >> no. >> whatever her arrangement with wesley and renee, alexandria is not asking for help tonight. headstrong and bounds for the county jail she soes little sympathy for other girls and young women caught up in the underground sex trade. do you have sympathy for them. >> it's their decision. >> really, they are responsible for what happens to them. >> i wouldn't say all of them are responsible but some of them are gullible and naive enough to put themselves in that situation. so that's what happens. >> i knew it. >> i knew it. >> and we're on tv? ain't that but a pitch. >> are you kidding me. >> oh, my god! tigers, both of you. tigers? don't be modest. i see how you've been investing. setting long term goals. diversifying. dip!

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>> sheriff's investigators in polk county, florida, are in the milling of a massive human trafficking sting. >> is that you in the pictures?

>> this undercover is in contact with two women, posting ads for what is known in the trade as a two-girl show. >> coming up now. >> shortly before 8:00 p.m., they arrive. >> two girls said they are coming up now. >> after some small talk a business deal is struck, $350 in exchange for half an hour of three-way sex. >> you got charges now on both of them. > >> i knew it. i -- knew it. >> we're on tv. >> ain't that but a bitch. >> are you kidding me. >> oh, my god. >> the women in custody are 21-year-old hayley from pennsylvania and 19 gerald jeweleny from miami. they both have possession charges but none for soliciting. hayley has a tattoo, a type of brandsing emblazoned on her right thy, a typical indication

she might be working as a pimp and ironically holds elevated status among his woman. >> going to jail. >> hayley takes the arrest harder than they are friend probably because she thinks her pimp will exact a toll on her. she skramibles into the bathroom to vomit. >> is she on any medication or anything like that. >> interestingly, it's the younger girl who seems to possess the cool to calm hayley done. >> the women are walked across the hall and processed for chargers. >> what was the deal for? he asked if he could touch us and we could touch each other. and we said yeah. >> for how much? >> $350. >> or so basically sex for $350. >> yes. >> hayley doesn't say much to detectives but she does respond to our producer's question about

her tattoo and her apparent pride in working for a pimp. >> this is what i don't understand. you are working so hard for your money, why would you let somebody else have sit in. >> because, they tell you a dream and you feel like you are part of something. >> her campaign onon the other hand is more forthcoming with detectives, especially when she learns that she has landed in polk county. >> why did you come all the way up here to polk county? >> this is polk county? ain't that about a bitch? >> what's that mean? >> tell me what you know about polk county why is that. >> you are always on tv for arresting. >> she tells police she is not proud of what she is doing but right now she says it's paying the bills. >> this is not a hobby. it makes ends meet. i'm only 19. i still have -- i wasn't planning on doing this forever. >> i know. and now is your time to stop.

it's time to turn around and go a different direction. >> like may hayley, she doesn't divulge much to the police. >> that's my baby right there. she got my name tattooed on her finger and everything. >> once the pair is together in the holding room they begin to relax and offer more details of their life in the game. >> this was -- we were going to take this call -- >> this was the last call. >> this was our last one, our last -- one. >> they say they were working without their pimps knowledge because they were trying to raise enough cash to ditch him. >> the $350 would have paid for gas, tolls, and food and we would have been on the road to her mother's house eating a [ bleep ] right now and we were going toly him. >> they say they first met about a year prior when one pimp sold her to the other's pimp. >> my pimp brought me down and he was going to sell me to her pimp. >> they had this whole ulterior

motive and nobody told me on the way down there. >> really. >> and then we go there and he is like okay, bye. and i'm like wait, where are you going. >> he was selling you for money? >> yes. >> how much money. >> he was going to get $5,000 every month. >> the women say they became fast friends when he move into the pimp's mansion outside tampa. they refer to the time fondly, almost like a sorority. >> how many were in a stable with you. >> at one time. >> there were 11. >> eight to 12 girls at the same time. >> you weren't all living together, were you? >> no. but we all had our own rooms and everything. >> we had our own rooms. a tv. >> i had a bathroom -- it was pleasant. >> nice foreign cars in the driveway. a clothes factory to make the stripper outfits. like we owned stores. >> we owned two stores. >> it might seem odd that these young women are so candid about their situation. one thing soon becomes clear,

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nikki and advertises that she is ready to play. it's 8:45 when she arrives and makes her way up to the sting room. while nikki and the undercover make small talk a would be john arrives at the hotel, creating an all too common traffic problem for investigators. >> there is a white male with a button up long sleeve plaid shirt and pants walking to the desk. >> you might have a problem. >> this john is overly cautious. he stops outside the door. we can only assume what he hears outside the door is enough to rattle him and scares him away. unfortunately, investigators do not have charges on him yet so they must let him walk. meanwhile the uncover and nikki agree to swap money for sex. >> alrighty.

>> go, go. >> and arresting officers move in for the collar. >> stands up. >> the woman selling herself as knicksy actually serena valdez arc 23-year-old from the suburbs of detroit. >> listen. what's going to happen, guys. >>ly has prior arrests in michigan for prostitution and possession of narcotics. >> it's not the ends of the word. lots of good people make bad decisions. >> he was too cute. he is not going to pay for -- he's too cute. he can go get it. >> how many girls do you guys catch? a a lot. >> serena has moved into the processing room where she reluctantly gives up the details of her conversation with the undercover. >> the guy called me and wanted me to hook up with him. and i came. he didn't give me any money or nothing. >> what did he say he was going

to give you. >> he said he was going to give me money. >> how much? >> like $220. >> what was he wanting in exchange for that? >> he -- well, he didn't say. >> you didn't talk about having sex and aim sex with him. >> he brought up aim sex with me when we were at the room. >> did you say that you would do that. >> i was like just go pay the cab driver i told him. >> getting the truth from serena is difficult, but slowly she begins to reveal more about her troubled history in the underground sex trade. >> how many times have you done this before? >> well, i mean how many times have i got caught? >> no, no, no. how many times have you done it. >> i don't know. >> how many times have you gotten caught. >> this is the third time. >> third time? >> yes. do you think the judge is going the give me time? >> i'm pretty sure. >> as reality begins to set in, the thout thought of a return to jail prompts serena's first expression of remorse. not for soliciting but for disappointing her mother. >> what is she going to say?

her heart is going to be broke again. >> why do you keep doing it? >> because it's such easy money. >> because it's easy money? >> at the same time, detectives combing through serena's purse discover something that appears to be a crack pipe. they swab with it a chemical reagent to test for narcotics. >> that's not mine. i don't smoke crack. >> who said there was crack in there. >> because it is a crack pipe. i'll not dumb. >> there could be meth in there. >> oh, okay. >> it only takes a minute to get the results. and they are not good for serena. >> it is a positive reaction for crack cocaine. right there, do you see it on the tip. >> yep. >> you know what, i don't care. i'm going to let you know, i'm a drug adichlkt i'm in recovery. relapsed. signed up on back page and my mom is going to kill me. >> relapsed on cocaine. >> i did smoke crack before, yeah. >> and just like that, serena

picks up one more charge for narcotics. >> so i'm getting a possession of cocaine? >> why do you act so surprised when you have this stuff on you and you do the things. and then when you get caught for it you talk to me like it's somebody else's fault but your own. >> no, it's my fault. >> you are just frustrated? >> yeah. >> i can understand that. >> do you know how many times i have been down this road? do you have any clue how many times i've been down in trouble with the law. >> why do you keep going down. >> with the [ bleep ] law. >> why do you keep going down that road. >> i can't count how many times i've been arrested. i can't even begin to tell you. >> when does it stop? when does it stop? how does it stop? is that maybe a decision you need to make for yourself? >> oh, my god. i need to talk to my mom. >> serena's predicament is all too common in the underground sex trade. many women work simply to

finance a drug habit. and many use drugs to numb the psychological pain of selling themselves. it becomes a vicious and tragic cycle. serena is placed in the holding tank with the others arrested tonight. the michigan native tells our producer that her attempts to restart her life in florida have failed. >> so you came out here to start all over? >> yep. >> what happened? you ended up in the same thing. >> i know. my mom's going to kill me. i don't even know where the [ bleep ] i'm at right now. i haven't even been here three weeks. >> why did you do it? >> it's easy money. >> like may hayley and her friend before here, serena was first lured into the game by a promise of easy money. but after multiple relationship run-ins with the law, she is beginning to learn that there is no such thing in the underground sex trade. >> okay. he's coming in the front doors. you should have him in the lobby. >> okay. take him. >> go. >> what do you think is going to happen to him? >> i hope he goes to prison.

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>> i'm richard lieu. 11 students from wes lean university in connecticut are in the hospital with overdose symptoms of the drug commonly known as molly. two are in critical condition and two are serious. >> congress faces a partial shutdown of the department of homeland security. funding runs out friday. first lawmakers must must have past a stalemate on immigration and pass a $40 billion spending bill for that agency. now back to msnbc undercover. we have got a guy here. >> in a typical human trafficking sting, undercover officers troll the internet to lure johns and women for hire

into a dragnet. >> can you come now? >> but this undiscover taking a slightly different tack. he's posing online as a pimp with juveniles to sell or trade. >> are you running an ad? >> yeah. >> what's the substance of it? >> kind of that i have experienced girls but i'm looking to bring in new girls. or if you are looking for girls, you know, that we can trade out, basically. my goal is to find girls who are being sex trafficked, and essentially bait the people who are holding them. >> i'm trying to just focus on trading girls. >> it's ann unchush strategy that first occurred to him during a previous operation when dealing with a john who was looking for sex with a minor. >> i explained to him that she was 14 years old. then i get approached with him saying something to the effect of, have you ever thought of selling her? the man on the other ends of the phone in that operation was 30-year-old warren white, an

active duty naval officer looking to procure his very own sex slave. >> he wanted to spend i believe it was $1500 and he didn't have all the money right there. and i jokingly said well you can make a blank check out to cash and i'll deposit it later thinking that surely this wouldn't continue, this conversation would ends, because he was joking. and he came up with the alternative of basically, you know, what about a payment plan? what about -- so, in essence, he was financing a human being for sex trafficking. we ended up agreeing on an installment plan, that he would come to the residence, and he would basically try her out. have sex with her, make sure it is what he wanted. and from there, he would take possession of her and give me a down payment, and we would arrange for future payments. >> on june 12th, 2012, white showed up at an undercover location thinking he was going to purchase a minor for sexual

servitude. instead he was confronted by polk county sheriff's deputies and placed under arrest. >> what brought you here tonight, mr. white? >> i came here answering an ad. i freektdly answer ads on back page. >> he was adjudicated in court where a judge sent white the prison for 15 years. still he the predator went down without expressing any remorse for his scheme. >> while warren white was being held awaiting sentencing he basically kept a journal basically confessing of everything he did and how he didn't feel that what he had done was all that wrong. >> braced by the knowledge that there are many more warren whites out there, these investigators routinely troll the internet. >> there is my guy. >> setting traps for any and all who would prey upon children. >> yeah, yeah. >> it's about 5:30 p.m. when sergeant daniel gets a call from an interested party.

>> i've got some experience girls that are pretty ying and i've got a couple of them. i'm not sure whether you want to take possession or are looking for a one night thing. >> the caller doesn't express interest in taking possession of a young girl but he is definitely interested in anna picture on the online ad. >> that's amy. she is my adopted niece. she is 14. i know what she does but i try to givehill her some protection and everything. >> in speaking with him. i told him, hey, the girl until the ad, she's 14 years old and the conversation went from there as to what services he wanted. he agreed. he asked for the address. we agreed on a price. >> all right. here's the address of the hotel. i can give you the address if you want so you can figure out how much it would be for a cab. >> a price of $300 is set in exchange for an hour of sex with a juvenile. the would be john says he will think it over and call back. >> he may just be wanting to

come and get a blow job from her? >> from a 14-year-old? >> yeah. >> it's not shocking. it kinds of is the routine, if you will, as to when we do these operations. it's just a matter of time before you have that person that you are talking to that wants to enter into that type of a relationship. >> he's calling. >> it's just before 9:30 p.m. when sergeant daniel finally hears back from the would be john. >> hey, man. >> and this time he means business. >> walking around the front of the building, asian man. >> the surveillance team spots a man talking on his phone. >> facing up at the second floor. >> we are up in room 207. >> it's the john, and he's asking for the room number. >> he is on the phone now. >> all right. we'll see you in a minute. >> coming in the front doors. you should see him in the lobby. >> police already have the evidence necessary for charges against the man because of his prior conversations with the undercover. >> we are going to let him in the room and just take him. >> yes. >> as soon as he enters room 207, the trap will spring shut.

>> that's your guy. >> i opened the door for him, and he walked in. and because everything -- all of our conversations prior to him arriving amounted to probable cause for his arrest, once he entered the room, the takedown team took him into custody without incident. >> okay. take him. go. >> have you got anything on you? any guns? >> the man in custody is 45-year-old samuel uhn from the san francisco bay area. uhn initially claims he works in computers. >> what brings you to florida. >> a business trip. >> a business trip. what kinds of business to you do? >> just talking to people. computer and stuff. >> as it happens nsnbc learns that uhn is no businessman. he is in fact a korean youth minister attendsing a conference in orlando where he gave a presentation about using social media to connect with young people. a quick check of hits pockets

yields this crumbled admission ticket, indicating the minister spent his afternoon in a nearby religious looem theme park before coming here to allegedly buy sex with a minor. police already recover $332 cash from uhn's pocket more than enough to cover the $300 price for sex that he nernlted over the phone with the undercover. >> it was there any doubt in your minds when you made that date that he knew she was 14 and a minor. >> no doubt in my minds because i started the conversation that way. i said that's amy. she is 14. she is my adopt niece and i have custody of her. and he said okay, okay. and i reiterated throughout my conversation with him, she is in 8th grarksd i need you to wear a condom, i don't need her getting pregnant. >> as a youth minister, samuel spends his days teaching teens about heaven. tonight he is getting a taste of

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>> okay. take him. go. >> everybody's police in polk county, florida, are conducting a human trafficking sting. >> guns or weapons. >> no, nothing. >> okay. >> the man in custody is samuel uhn, a 45-year-old youth pastor from san leandro, california. he was arrested for making a deal with an undercover officer

posing as a pimp selling under age girls. the deal was $300 in exchange for sex with a minor. >> is there any doubt in your minds when he made that deal that you knew she was a minor. >> there was no doubt in my minds because i started the conversation out that way and reiterated it throughout the conversation saying what grade she was in and the fact that i didn't need to get her pregnant because she was in 8th grade. >> after processing uhn is placed in the processing room to await transport to jail. there he finds himself on the hot seat with our producer grace congress and some of the other women arrested tonight. >> can i ask you what you were doing trolling back pages and reading ads looking for underage of girls? >> police, i don't want to be ruined. i don't want looi my life to be ruined like this. i made a mistake. and that was a one-time mistake. >> wait a minute. so you don't want your life to be ruined. but you were coming here to have

sex with an eighth grader. >> no. no. i already talked to -- i didn't hear what he was talking about. and i didn't hear it. that was the case. >> i heard him say that she was specifically underage. >> uhn claims he didn't understand the deal he was making for 300. and he says he was only browsing sex ads on back page because he wantsed a massage. >> i came back to my own hotel and i was looking for a massage. >> the other women in the room aren't buying it. >> let's take this to a jury. you guys are professionals. do you believe this man. >> his first time in. >> it's not his first time. >> this is not his first time. >> is this your first time paying for -- >> yeah, it's my first time. >> yeah, right. >> what's that -- but that's true. i had one experience in a massage of -- >> aha. >> happy ending. >> happy ending. but that's my experience. >> is this normal for you. >> okay. >> uhn admits to one wire

experience in a massage parlor and goes on to admit he was hoping for something similar tonight. >> initially, i wanted one was massage. but then i got curious and i remember that one time i got the happy ending. i thought okay maybe i can get a happy ending there. >> and you wanted a minor at that. dope you have kids, man. >> i'll never do that kind of stuff. >> uhn admits to seeking sex for money but denies he was seeking sex with a minor. >> you assumed she was 18 or 19 years old, right. >> yeah. >> why is it okay for a 45-year-old guy to have sex with an 18 or 19-year-old? >> that's wrong. >> why does that make it appropriate. that's a child. you are 45, that's the age of a child you could have. >> i just want to get a massage. i don't think this was a really big problem. >> have you ever had sex with a minor before. >> never, never. look in my eyes. i never, never do that kind of thing. >> did you want to have sex with a minor. >> no, no.

>> let me ask you, what do you think should happen to men who go on line and deliberately buy a 14-year-old girl. i'm skpg you. >> severe punishment. >> severe? what punishment would you suggest. >> i don't know. >> uhn says he is married and has two young daughters. when asked what he might do if someone were to prey upon his own girls, uhn suggests the ultimate punishment. >> i probably kill him. >> right. >> yeah. >> the girls who are giving you a happy ending they are not doing it because they want to. they are doing it because they have to. >> grace urges mr. uhn to stop and think deeper about the business his patronage is helping to prop up. >> do you have any sympathy for ladies like this who have ended up selling themselves? >> yes. >> or do you think they do it willingly because it is a career choice? >> i don't think that they are career choice. >> did you know that on back pages they sell women who have about tattooed and ho are

exploited and who have to bring in a quota for men and who beat them and subject them to all kinds of violence? >> you can understand where the sheriff of this county takes the buying and selling of girls and women like these women very seriously. >> that's good job. you guys should do that. >> you think he is doing a good job? >> yeah, i think so. that's an important job to do. >> samuel uhn's arrest is just one of 22 made here tonight. but for veteran cops like lieutenant steve ward, the wayward minister is a significant catch. >> yeah, they are our girls. >> to me, if we had not gotten anybody else but the guy that wanted -- that came for the 14-year-old that would have been successful to me. >> what do you think is going to happen to him? >> i hope he goes to prison. obviously, he knew he was going for a child. i mean, he was told several times that she was 14. so -- and you have someone that's going to travel to have sex with a child, they need to go to prison for a long time. >> the poster child today is samuel uhn.

>> shortly after his arrest, samuel uhn was front center in sheriff judd's press conference. in part to highlight the work being done by polk county investigators, but also to alert authorities and the public in and out california where uhn had be working as a youth minister prior to his arrest. >> the question is -- and we don't have the answer -- if he was willing to have sex with a child here, was he grooming and trying to have sex with children either in his church or in his community in california? >> tough right to remain silent, sir. anything you say can be used against you. >> on may 12, 2013, uhn posted bail and returned to the san francisco bay area. pending trial and further investigation, he was relieved of his duties by the church and prohibited from contact with minors. uhn and the congregation refused our requests for further comment.

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