>> in is city that prides itself on anything goes, tens of millions flock to las vegas, a destination of dreams. >> we are at sin city right now. >> where fantasy meets reality and then some, but beyond the bright lights and big busted women, live the broken lives of high-class call girls. >> we lie and say we love what we do. we sell the fantasy. >> tonight, msnbc embeds with las vegas metro pd. >> today you're being arrested for sole lististing of

prostitution. >> as they crack down on the predators that fuel the fantasy of the happy hooker, drawing a hard line on those who benefit from the illegal sale of women and trafficked girls. >> let's be real about it. it's a slave trade. >> he beat me so bad that both my eyes were almost shut and kept yeling at me, screaming at me this is pimping [ bleep ].lit me this is pimping [ bleep ]. every year 40 million pleasure seekers from around the globe converge on this iconic strip, las vegas known as the city where literally anything goes. >> this is fantasy land. it's a place where you can come and be actually free, drink all night long, it's 24/7.

it never closes down. get any drug you would like and basically glamble your life away. >> the city's tourism agency promises what happens in vegas, stays in vegas and every year, tour rests and conventioners spend billions pursuing their personal pleasures. >> in las vegas, you can basically do anything you want. what can't you get here? that's what i like to say. you're going to be in a market where everything is for sale. >> including humans? >> humans are very much for sale here. >> to experience vegas in full bloom, msnbc attended the annual avn adult entertainment expo, the world's largest porn convention. >> we are in sin city right now. >> the convention is not for the faint of heart. every january, 25,000 vendors performers and gawkers converge here to romp around and take the pulse of america's thriving

culture of commercial sex. thoupss of men fly in from all over the world for precious one on one time with their favorite porn star. >> hi, how are you? >> our producer grace kong attended the expo to see how the industry has evolved. >> why are you guys in vegas today? tell me the point. >> it's a promotional events company and we travel around the world in search for the best bottom in north america, and so we do like booty contests, booty pageants. >> wait a minute. your job is you guys pack down from very cold canada and travel around the country to look for the best bottom? >> yes. >> and how does one go around the world looking for people's butts? >> well, we host a contest and like trade shows and it's the crowd that judges whose bottom is the best. >> okay. does your mother know that you're doing this?

>> yes, yes. she owns a pair of these underwear, actually. >> booty contests are little league compared to some of the other businesses on display here. by far and away the most popular booth is my free cams.com, connecting members to more than a thousand live models who will chat, strip and play for you live via webcam. >> it's a live streaming website and we have a lot of fun on it. we get naked and play games. >> the website demonstrates just how aggressively the sex industry has evolved with the rise of the internet. instead of passively watching porn, one can now get a personalized experience where the viewer directs the action. >> best part is i get to work with her. >> we get paid to have sex. >> pretty much. >> dozens of free cam models come to vegas to promote their website and give attendees a live in-person show.

frenzy men seem to be on the verge of a break down. >> so you look like you're having a good time. >> yeah, i am. >> do you come here every year? >> yeah. >> what's the fun of coming here? >> the one and the two. >> yeah. >> what do you find so appealing? [ laughter ] >> what are you going to do with this video? are you going to do with this video? >> nothing. >> so you see sights you don't see elsewhere? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> like what? >> huh? >> like this? >> here is a prime example right here, you know, girls put on a great show. >> if a one on one webcam fantasy falls short, men can hire a personal exhibitionest at sexy jobs.com. >> how old are you? >> 21. >> oh my gosh, you look like you're 18. >> i've been doing porn since i was 18. >> really?

>> yeah. >> you've been doing porn since you were 18? >> yeah. >> sexy jobs.com is like monster in the regular professional field. you can hire a naked made, you can hire a masseuse, you can hire an ex court or just hire a really hot girl to take pictures of. >> are there really men in america who want to hire a snake maid? >> yeah, actually, all over the place. there are men who work in the government who hire girls to take sexy photos of. it's really more common than you expect. >> what do you think about people who actually sell sex versus being naked. >> i just wish that some people would be more safe with it in the escorting world it's rare to find safe sex. but that's all on the individual. each girl decides what she's comfortable with, what her own feeling is on all that. >> have you ever been

propositioned? >> all the time. >> but you don't. >> i don't, no. >> do you ever worry about that all of this sex is maybe inviting more human trafficking or, you know -- >> no, i think that's porn girls aren't different from regular girls except for the fact they like to have sex openly. >> okay. >> human trafficking takes place in areas where people don't have freedoms and they can't stand up for themselves, which luckily we're in a country where we can. >> while most might consider veg to be harmless fun and games, a former call girl annie warns there is a dark side. >> even though you might not see bars or the chains on their feet, they are in slavery of their pimps. i believe vegas is the crown jewel. that's why this is the place where the best girls are. the prettiest girls. the youngest girls.

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in the titillating wirl wind that's the ultimate vegas def nation, the avn porn convention, men wounder the maze of eye candy seemingly in a sensory overloaded daze. >> i think they are like kind of like scared to walk up to us. >> there is one booth that clearly doesn't belong with the others. the naked truth ministry, led by pastor ron veitti. >> what is the naked truth and why are you here of all places in las vegas. >> number one, we're a church and tired of doing the religion thing and as we read the bible, we kind of feel that jesus might be in a place like this. >> do you see a lot of need in

las vegas? when you walk around and look at all of this. >> yes, i think this is the product of losing parents. families splitting up. moms going this way, dads going this way, the kids are left to raise themselves, so we feel if we can just friendly up to them, maybe get them to trust us enough to give us their name and then kind of follow up on them and maybe they will trust us enough we can help them. >> this is what we do here. this is hookers for jesus to help women get out of prostitution that are with bad pimps. >> hookers for jesus is run by annie lobart a former high-dollar escort. they offer support to women toiling in sex work. their goal to give women a place to turn when they find themselves ready to get out. >> i see the person deep inside, and that person is a person that just wants to be loved, and that just needs to know they are valued and that they are a

person of worth. >> you know, you're so beautiful. look at your little dimples on your face. have you ever been in the sex industry? no? >> yeah, my first was in the sex indust industry. >> i used to be in the industry, i used to be an escort. >> annie feel as unique kinship as a former escort and survivor of beatings, rape and abuse, annie says her mission now is saving women. >> i got out of it because i overdosed on drugs, and my ex pimp was beating me on a regular basis and i couldn't take it. >> annie has had a very challenging life. that's why we like to put annie in these places because a lot of these girls have to talk to someone that's been there. they look at us and they go you don't have a clue. but when they see annie, they go you know what it's like, so we really like to use her in these kind of situations. >> here is women that are

prostitutes, women that are escorts, women that are strippers, women that are from the brothels, porn stars. there are the johns that buy the girls, addicts, the porn producers, pimps, everybody from the sex industry. this is where everybody is meeting today and this week and we need to pray. >> the details of annie's 16 years in the vegas sex industry would horrify the most experienced therapist. annie says she's just grateful to be alive and able to spread the message of redemption to other women in need. >> this is the industry that i've come from, lord, and i'm just so thankful, thankful, thankful that you've brought me out and i'm safe and now we're here to hook, help and heal ladies and men that are in the sex industry in whatever way we can. we lay this whole day and out reach at your feet, lord, and we thank you. >> every year the bright lights and glamour draw thousands of young women to the casinos and

strip. the promise of fast cash can temporary blind young minds to the dangers that go hand and glove with the business of sex. for the estimated 30,000 sex workers in vegas illegally selling themselves online or through agencies, annie says it's only a matter of time before a pimp tries to wedge himself in to take control of a girl. >> if you're selling your body, i don't care if you're independent or not, you're going to eventually meet your pimp and he's going to capture you and abuse you and rape you and beat you into submission. >> where is your guy's booth at? >> this single mom pays her bills by dancing on the side at one of vegas' 30 strip clubs. she tells annie about a pimp that's constantly trying to recruit dancers to his stable. >> my best friend has a pimp. i [ bleep ] hate him. >> really? does he do to her?

>> he belittles her. tells her he's going to take her daughter from her. >> is it their daughter? >> no. >> that's not right. >> her daughter is four. she's so brainwashed stupid in love. >> that's illegal if he does that, that's kidnapping. he can get 20 to life for that. >> i've threatened to turn him into the police. >> every night that i look at the las vegas strip and see those beautiful lights, i also see something deeper. i see someone almost dying. i see a girl in a beautiful casino crying after she's turned her trick in the bathroom and trying to wash up and she's bleeding. okay? because she's turned so many tricks, that her bottom is worn out. >> annie wants the public to know the myth of the pretty women move is a lie. >> we fake every orgasm and we

lie and say we love our clients, i'm fall income love with you and we sell the fantasy. >> as a former high-class escort that made $1,000 an hour, she was subjected to the same beatings and exploitation as a run away streetwalker working the strip. >> there is pimps out there that will kill girls and hurt them. that's why i do this because i'm fighting for them and i want them to be free. and i don't care if they quit, i just want them to know god loves them and there is a support group and a sister hood that will wrap their arms around them and say listen, if you're ready to get out of this and start your business, go to college v a life and be normal again, away from these men abusing you, call us. we're ready for you. so tell your friend that. >> there is probably thousands of women that want to get out at any time in vegas, and if they could, they would. and they just need to know that it's available, and that it's

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with adult players willing to spend billions, out of state pimps converge bringing hundreds of exploded women. annie lober the rrkslobert says game where women always lose. >> it may be choice in the beginning but once you get in, there is no way out. >> in 1985 teenage annie arrive in vegas, a fresh faced blonde and her boyfriend convinced her moving to vegas was their ticket to success. >> he totally encouraged me. he was like wow, you're so intelligent. you're going to make it in life. you're a businesswoman. i like you. he made me feel really special, made me feel like we were an elite couple and that, you know, people should be jealous of us. >> the once supportive boyfriend

transformed the very first night she worked as a las vegas call girl. hermann demanded that she hand overall her earnings, when she refused, he brutally beat her. >> he pulled me in the kitchen and slammed head in the cabinets back and forth and dragged me by my hair to the porch and shoved my face in dog feces and said this is pimping. this is what we came here for. you have to submit to me. >> in the dark alone, annie cried herself to sleep and it was in that moment she realized her boyfriend was actually a pimp and he had been intending to prostitute her all along. from that point on she lived the life of a high-class call girl under the thumb of a brutal pimp. >> we had to date rich white men. men that were international, that were oil moguls, judges,

senators and athletes and musicians and actors. the whole millionaire, billionai billionaire genre. >> she says her top tier clients would pay thousands of dollars an hour. she made over $3 million in five years and every single dollar went to her pimp. >> when you get this money in your hand, you bring it home to your daddy because that's what you call your pipm and lay it at his feet and say look, daddy, look what i did and he puts you on the head, kisses you on the forehead and says okay, get some rest, shower, we'll go eat and you go back out there and get more money for me and that's what all the girls do. you don't surrenderer one-third. you don't surrenderer 10% or half. you give them everything that you make. >> many call prostitution even though it is illegal in vegas a

victimless crime, the belief is that sin city's high-class hookers hold all the cards, but survivors of the strip's most exclusive escort services want the public to know, theirs is a life of pure pain. whether girls are hustling high rollers, working the five-star casinos or pulling car dates along the track, most women are sex slaves pure and simple with no way out. >> i had 13 friends that died so far and they were all high-class escorts. so if this is so great, and if we're having such a great time according to the ads in the yellow pages and what hollywood does to us makes us look like this is such a great empowering lifestyle, where does the violence stop? >> for women who do try to escape, vegas can be cruel. annie says with tens of

thousands of dollars at stake, pimps work together to keep their women in line. when annie tried to run, her pimp made sure she would never try it again. >> there was one time that he kidnapped me and put me in a trunk, and brought me to a pimp slayer, six other pimps were there and cut my hair off and stripped me nude. they call it serving. and he beat me so bad that both my eyes were almost shut. broke my nose in several places. fractured my clav vehicle and my leg with a poker from the fireplace, an iron poker and that was for about sex, seven hours kept yelling at me, screaming at me. it's pimping. >> it's a slave trade. >> a 30-year veteran leads the

vegas metro vice unit. her team is out every day cracking down on those involved in vegas' illegal sex trade. >> let's be real about it. it's a slave trade. pimps aspire to be respected within their culture. they sell women from one pimp to another. >> it's not just the tir knee of the pimp, inevitably violent and twisted johns are also drawn to vegas and it's bounty of women for sale. despite being at a five-star hotel, annie says her life has been threatened and that she's been beaten on more than one occasion by abusive johns. she remembered one angry man that wanted his money back after he was too drunk and high to perform. he proceeded to beat annie unconscious and stole all her money. >> when i came to, he was carrying me to the window and

back then the windows opened all the way. there is no restraint on them. there was no balcony so you open the window wide to throw me out of the window, and i bake sical clawed his eyes out. thank god for nails. >> annie says it took her ten long years before she left the life for good. with the help of a local congregation, she formed her own ministry, hookers for jesus. their mission to reach out to women who are trapped in the game and help them find a way out. >> put yourself in your shoes and you're at the lowest point in your life, man, i'm just so tired, i'm done, i left my pimp and someone walks up to you and hands you and open up the card, what is this? religious stuff. what would it say to get your mind so say oh my gosh, god is looking out for me. >> we look for girls that are drowning in depoverty and depression and in the dark, dark city lifestyle of sex

trafficking. the ones that want to get out. the ones that will grab the line, the hook and say help me, i'm drowning. >> now married to a member of a prominent christian rock band, annie is now known as the god girl on the strip. it's an identity she embraces with pride. >> i used to have nightmares every single night trying to escape my pimp, trying to escape the john, the trick, trying to escape the rapist, you know. but as you get stronger and as you reestablish yourself slowly in society, it starts to be a distant past faded, and you start to really believe in yourself again. sir, today you're being arrested for soliciting for the purpose of prostitution.

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visitors come here and think vegas has legalized prostitution, that couldn't be further from the truth. >> it's tuesday morning and the vice department is preparing for an undercover sting. >> we have two females posing as prostitutes. >> detective charlie directs the team to west tropicana, a prostitution track minutes from the glittering strip where pimps turn out the most desperate victims. >> the truck lot, lots of postconstitution going on. those of you in that parking lot seeing the truckers, give us a heads up if you have an eyeball on the parking lot and we got working girls in that parking lot. >> we're identifying girls as young as 12, 13, 14. >> lieutenant hews says the notion of prostitution as a victimless crime offends her. >> many of the women involved in the life of prostitution frequently become victims of

homicides. >> with everyone in place detective charlie sends the undercover officer or uc as a decoy. >> uc is out. >> after making a deal for sex, the female decoy will deliver the john to this motel. officers test surveillance equipment and get ready to make arrests. >> hey, just waiting on the control room, guys, set. >> let me know when you guys are good to go. >> copy, looks like we're up and going. >> as always, these operations depend on the decoy's ability to play the part. >> you need to act like those girls out there on the track now. there is this dem meaner you should have out there like okay, this next date could be my last date and even though we're working undercover capacity, you need to have that awareness. >> the operations that we do very, very dangerous because that individual does not know that that's a cop, and if there is an abduction he has in his mind he's going to abduct that

girl because he thinks she's a prostitute, we've got to have those safety plans in place. >> we have the uc. she's almost to the corner. as is typical when the uc exits the vehicle, it's usually 30 seconds to a minute and she's approached just like that. >> as if on queue, the first catch of the day pulls up. >> she's up at the car. >> the man wastes no time and quickly makes a deal for sex. >> for what? what are you looking for? okay. 40. want to park down here? >> the deal is down. she gave the signal but looks like he's going to park. all right. sean, you're probably going to have to follow him. he's eastbound. >> the decoy heads to the parking lot but sensing a setup, the gray truck drives off causing detective charlie to order a chase. >> black and whites, we need you to jump out on a demark. >> officers arrest the driver

and haul him over to the patty wagon two blocks away from the operation. >> what are you looking for? he goes you. i said you found me. i said what do you want? he said [ bleep ] you in the butt. i said okay, it's $40. and i said okay, come to my room. he said well, why don't you just get in and we'll go around the corner. and i said well, i just want to be safe and go in my place with my stuff. so he said okay and then continued through the lot. >> with one john cooling his jets in the police van, detectives send the decoy back out on the track. >> uc back at the corner. >> like shooting fish in a barrel, it takes just minutes before the decoy catches the interest of a curious well-dressed john. >> an older white male with a purple shirt is coming back walking towards polaris now. >> the dapper john keeps his eye on the detroy as she strolls up the street and out of view of

the cameras. >> he's just standing here. he can't see the uc but now he's walking back. looks like he's going back towards her. >> detectives listen closely to the the radio as the man starts selling the decoy on a familiar sob story. >> he's talking to her. looks like they are trying to make a deal. >> it's clear to officers by his confidence and blunt manner that this is no first-time john. >> really? okay. >> i have $41. >> do i get a tip? [ laughter ] >> all right. well are you staying here? >> no, i live -- >> oh, you do? that's cool. >> she's not giving the signal but i heard $40.

>> so for $40? >> yeah. >> all right. >> after agreeing to the deal, jen leads the john to the hotel where detectives wait. >> she's out of my view but she's walking northbound along the west side of the building. >> let's go this way. >> all right. they are coming up the south stairs. >> as the happy couple heads toward the room, lieutenant hues and her team keep careful watch from the surveillance room. >> i think that it's a very, very dangerous stop. when you bring them into the room, you never know what switch gets flipped in their head and then now they want, they want to take the sex as opposed to paying for it or they want something else that you didn't negotiate and now you're safety is compromised that way. >> all right. they are at the door. >> behind closed doors, police prepare for the unexpected, they know all too well that violent predatory men come in all shapes and sizes.

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this well-dressed man thinks he's about to have sex with an attractive young blonde he just met on a busy vegas street. what he doesn't know is that she's actually an undercover metro police officer, and the $40 deal he has negotiated with her will buy him a date with the law. >> all right. sit down, i got to go to the bathroom real quick. >> as the john locks the door behind him, officers move in for the arrest. >> police, keep your hands up

and turn around and relax, okay? palms together, please. >> meet 71-year-old raymond smith, a retiree living with his wife in vegas. >> the first guy was a walkup, seemingly news, looked like everyone's grandpa. took him a little while, a little courage to come up and talk to me, and actually total made three passes until he got the courage to talk. >> detectives march smith next door to meet lieutenant karen hues who heads las vegas metro's human trafficking operations. >> this is a real high crime area we're trying to beat down crime in this area because of the residents, make it a safer place for them and prostitution and cot tinarcotics is a big pi >> this is the first time i've done this. >> that's not the first time i've ever heard that, okay? >> that's all i can tell you. it is. >> i hope that's the truth, and

i hope it's the last time. all right? >> bust after bust as police agencies in cities across the country increasingly target the men who buy, the excuse johns often give once they have been cuffed is familiar. >> you know, you just trying to pick up a prostitute, right? >> no. >> wasn't you? >> i never buy the first time story that might work for family and friends, but it doesn't work for a vice detective. >> with over 30 years under her belt, lieutenant hues knows all too well with the human misery fueled by the demand for cheap sex. she reserves her simple though for the shatter lives of those forced to sell themselves, not for the buyers like smith. >> we're dealing with very, very crafty individuals that frequently solicit women that are involved in prostitution. that's the demand. if there wasn't that demand, we wouldn't be policing it. >> i do a series on human

trafficking. i don't know if you've ever seen it on sunday night. >> this army veteran retired firefighter and grandfather of two now faces a misdemeanor solicitation charge, but as he tells our producer grace kong, his real problems await for him at home. how long have you been married? >> 47 years. >> 47 years. have you ever thought about the consequences of what you might bring home to your wife if you were engaged in this kind of behavior. >> my wife and i haven't had sex in 15 years. >> is that why you're out here? >> no, not really. i mean, i just, i go down to the orleans near lie every day and lose a little money and i come down here two or three times a week and i was just leaving, getting ready to go home and i saw this young lady out there on the sidewalk and i just started

talking to her. >> it's tempting, right? >> evidently. >> sex for cash is really easy these days. >> i don't know what i can do to make you believe me, but this is the first time i've ever done this. >> doesn't it make you nervous? >> it kills me. it's going to wreck my whole family. >> protecting his family seemed to be the last thing on his mind just moments before he offered $40 to an unknown streetwalker. >> when you're bringing a complete stranger that's as young as your granddaughter back to your room to engage in an act of prostitution, what makes you think she's not going to steal from you? makes you think she's not going to harm you? makes you think that pimp is not going to come in through those doors? >> do you ever consider the risk you take when you walk into a hotel room with a complete stranger?

>> well, i hadn't because since it's my first time, i mean, i hadn't. >> would it surprise you to know that a lot of these girls are beaten, tortured, burned, water boarded and forced to go out and work and hand their cash over to a pimp? would that change your idea about, about how safe it is or the responsibility of the person when they are actually feeding that industry and paying for that sex? >> yeah. >> will you go out and buy sex again after today? >> no. >> you said that it's going to ruin your family. what do you mean by that? >> my wife and daughter will never speak to me again as long as i live. >> because they know what sex trafficking is, don't they? >> i'm quite sure they do.

>> 71-year-old raymond smith will have plenty of time to consider the consequences of buying illegal sex. with the police wagon hidden around the corner, metro officers cover smith's handcuffs to preserve their undercover operation as they co-hertly transport him from the hotel to the clark county jail. >> go have a seat in the front three rows. >> smith shares a ride to be booked with 42-year-old richard ch christian, the driver of the gray truck that offered to buy sex with the uc. both men will be subjected to the humbling reality of arrest as their information gets logged permanently into the public record. >> they may be very disheartened about the fact they have been found out or that they are going to jail and not going to get a warning or they are not just going to get a slap on the hand and somebody chastising them but it may be their lucky day because had that not been an undercover decoy and it had it

been somebody that had the worst intentions for them, we'd be responding under a whole different circumstance. >> have a set on the left hand side. >> for safety reasons, the booking officers ascertains the mental state of the new arrestees. >> have a seat, sir. have you ever been arrested in other states before? is this your first time in jail. >> yes, sir. >> yes. had psychological issues? thoughts of suicide? are you having thoughts of suicide? >> no. >> were you in the military? >> yes. >> what branch? >> army. >> that's it. you can have a seat where you are. >> raymond smith booked as a clark county inmate joins several hundred other pleasure-seeking men caught in las vegas man dragnet every year. >> i think people need to know that it's important that the demand drives prostitution. >> lieutenant hues says targeting johns like smith is

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during this early morning sting, las vegas metro pd are cracking down on the men who fuel the black market sale of women but to clear the streets so that the decoy can do her business, officers must also arrest working girls parading up and down the strip. >> looks like we have another working girl in the area. >> our cameras caught half a dozen working women strolling this part of the trapicana aven avenue, a strip of pimps and traffickers.

>> our worker girl is back, she's about ready to cross. >> what this woman doesn't know as she brazenly flags down potential dates, is that undercover detectives monitor her every move, and now officers have enough to make an arrest. >> as our uc is out here, we've seen at least two other working girls, one right in front of us now with the yellow tights. she's going to be taken into custody here soon. they will interview her. she'll get stop in main. looks like she's walking westbound on trop. >> we'll let her walk a little bit before we stop her. >> as patrol offices arrest the young woman down the street, detective charlie keeps tabs on a thin women with flowing tresses who appears to be making a deal with a tracker in the parking lot. >> the girl in the gray pants, she's walking through the semis again if you can keep an eye on her for me. >> she's back at the green truck. >> she just got in the green

truck. >> truck driver. haven't done one of those in awhile. >> 30 minutes later the woman emerges from the truck and starts working the corner by waving at passing cars. detective charlie orders her arrest. >> if you have a black and white available, gray pants is far enough out of our view they can stop her westbound. >> copy that. i'll send seven ocean one. >> she's waving at the cars and been to a semi twice and probably turned a date. she was in the tractor for about 15 to 20 minutes, so she's going to get stopped here in a minute and that's typical. we'll have young ladies, other proo prostitutes are out and they are usually right in the same area. >> out of view in the cameras, officers quiet lily take the wo into custody. the two female arrestees are booked for soliciting sex for

cash. without wigs and street clothes, the two are barely recognizable. the woman in the yellow tights with frizz see hair is 21-year-old chanel smith and the thin woman with flowing stresses that officers initially thought was a young black female is actually very disheveled 47-year-old man. karen hues wants the men who pay for cheap sex to take a long, hard look at women like chapin snell and joel and consider the years of abuse that led them to walk this walk. >> we know the that most of these women that are involved in prostitution are not there because they grew up envisioning they wanted to be a prostitute for the rest of their lives. >> understanding each women's personal journey into a life of daily humiliation serves as a reminder why metro police persevere in this troubling line of work.

>> we know it's just a matter of time before they will be somebody that we respond to at a county hospital because they have got a lace rated spleen from a beating, a third degree burn from a torture, staples to their head. their jaws wired shut because their teeth have been knocked out. they will be one of those kind of victims. >> turn right. >> with over 70 criminal charges dating back to the at least 2002, life of addiction and exploitation spans four states originating in michigan. today's arrest is strubel's seventh prostitution charge in the last four years. >> we arrest prostitutes every day and those are crimes that law enforcement will enforce, but for them to be able to part

out a victim and treat her as a victim in order to provide her strategies to exit that lifestyle is, that's a fine, that's a fine science. those are really, really significant skill sets for law enforcement to have. >> though she's only 21, smith has already been arrested six times for prostitution-related offenses in clark county. in late 2013, a federal court handed her then pimp vernon a 14-year prison sentence for trafficking another girl from bakersfield, california. smith was identified as an accomplice but was released after she agreed to testify against her pimp. >> where do you have them? >> forearms, my chest, my face, my neck, my stomach, my back, my legs. >> any of them gang-related?

>> no. >> while no one knows the particular circumstances that led smith to be selling herself on tropicana avenue, lieutenant hues knows about the visible psychological chains that keep women shackled to their traffickers. >> when you're looking at women that have had their tattoos, the very brandings that the pimps use are intended to keep her from talking or speaking or cooperating with police or anything else that might care enough to ask, can i help? >> back on the vegas strip, like a voice in the wilderness, annie lobert vows to continue to reach out to the working girls whose sufferings she knows too well. >> i'm trying to bring the girls to the realization that just because someone in her life treated them like trash and threw them away doesn't mean they have to throw themselves away. that they are loved and they are

valued and that god has a plan for them. a first-time inmate says he must turn to violence to avoid becoming a victim. >> i was tired of them trying to gang up on me. >> an accused rapist gets into more trouble in jail. >> wanted to kill both his alleged victim and a witness.