these are real humans that are no different than our children and the reason that they're doing what they're doing now has a long history and it's an ugly history and people need to understand that. >> you okay now. >> in the task force in cook county is one of the more aggressive local law enforcement efforts aimed at rescuing trafficked women and arresting the traffickers and johns that exploit them. >> what's going on at the hotels? >> special operation's commander mike anton takes the lead on today's investigation. >> we're doing reversal. prostitution stings. our goal is to try to find the girls that are being trafficked

and pimped out on the internet. so we'll answer ads and the girls are come to us. we have a couple of dates. one date set up and we'll also do an operation where we answer the ads and we go to them so we'll have two teams going out. we'll also post some ads of our own and try to have some men answer the ads to come to the hotel. >> today's operation is comprehensive, attacking both the supply and demand sides of the sex for sale equation. and focusing primarily on the digital street corner that is backpage.com. >> there's hundreds of sites out there. backpage has taken a hit because they're the largest. they make millions. they know and have acknowledged what's going on and they won't make an effort to stop it because they're making so much money. >> and then i go down to rush street -- >> the cook county task force includes crisis counselors like brenda powell, a former prostitute, who now works the other side of the street, reaching out and offering

guidance to girls and young women trapped in the life. >> in the 25 years i was in prostitution, i've been shot five times, stabbed over 13 times. beat, kidnapped, held against my will. lots of things happen when you're in prostitution. >> every time you go out there and somebody pulls a gun to your head or something like that your chances get lessened, you know what i mean? i understand where they come from. i understand who these women are. who better to send in and talk to them than swup that's been through it and that's what i do. >> it's a little after 1:00 p.m. with the task force sets up in a hotel near o'hare airport. this strip of hotels and motels is a well-known hot spot for the business of sex for sale in cook county. male undercovers in one room begin making contact with women advertising sex for sale on back page.com. >> i'm looking at your ad on

backpage and i'm hoping you're available. would you be willing to come to me? i'm at a hotel in schiller park. >> meanwhile, in a room across the haul female undercover post fake ads for sex on backpage and lure johns to the hotel. >> you coming to visit me? i charge $90 an hour for full service. he's calling for a date tonight and wants to know if i do greek which is a common term for anal sex. i'm in the o'hare area. i can't wait to see you. >> female undercovers make contact with the eager john. >> right now he's going to be here in two minutes. >> meanwhile, a male undercover in the room across the hall has a subject under way. >> you're not the police, you got to tell me that, right? that's why i want to give you my number. i don't want your dudes kick in my door. >> the team scrambles for two simultaneous takedowns.

>> you good? >> it's always feast or famine. we'll have nothing and make the phone calls and put the ads on and in the space of a half hour we'll have five people show up. it's critical when we take this guy down we bring him in here immediately. >> arresting officers huddle in the next room. eyeballing the john's aprooich in the hallway and waiting for a hick on the panic pager the deal for sex has been made. [ beeper going off ] >> hands out of your pocket. you're under arrest. >> these stunned john is quickly cuffed and hustled into a processing room. >> get him out of here quick, hurry up. >> while officer rest set the trap for a call girl who is only moments away. [ beeper going off ] >> hey how you doing? >> police. >> police.

>> what's going on. >> i need my phone real quick. >> all right. we're the police. okay? so you know. you're under arrest. >> okay okay. >> the team has two in the bag and they're operation has only just begun. i don't think we should get in trouble for this at all. >> that's what they want to do. you know?

investigators are conducting undercover prostitution stings in a hotel near o'hare airport. >> get them out of here. >> the team quickly make two arrests that illustrate both sides of the sex for sale equation.

a call girl is arrested moments later. detectives want to know more about the young woman's situation to see if she's in physical danger or in need of social services. but first, they must dispense with the john. a married man on his way home from work. the john seems to be on the virge of tears. he tells the police this is the first time he bought sex. he has one concern. keeping his wife in the dark about his so-called "experiment." >> they got a lot to lose. most of them are married. most of them have children.

they're doing this and they all say this is the first time but there's no way 'tis first time because most people don't get caught the first time doing something wrong and they're all apologetic and they're sorry they got county. >> in cooke county, the law griffs them a choice. fight the case in court or pay a steep fine and have the arrest wiped from their record. >> freedom here. we can talk about it. >> we have the ability to write tickets to these guys and it will cost them $500 cash and it's another, so it ends up being about $1170. the money we get from the fine goes to the women justice program and these guys, right away, almost all of them pay within 24 hours, cash. >> in keeping with the county's request for discretion, we have agreed to obscure the identities of the johns arrested today. >> 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. a resident of minnesota, she tells the police she's been in chicago about a month. >> how did you get here? >> a friend dropped me off. >> police september jenny may be trafficked but she's reluctant to open up about her situation. >> how many dates did you have today? how many you got planned to do?

>> none. >> i'm not trying to trick you into saying anything. it has nothing to do with why we have you here. we're trying to ascertain right now if you need any help. that's what we're trying to do because we can put you in touch with people that can help you out. it's simple, right. >> slowly but surely, commander anton begins to break the ice. >> you got kids? >> one. >> learning the woman has left a 3-year-old son behind in minnesota. and that she travels a lot. >> just -- i've been everywhere. vegas, chicago -- detroit -- texas. >> details that deepen his suspicion that she's being trafficked. >> i'm 27. i like to live life. >> yeah, but in order to live a life you have to have a job. people have a misconception. if you don't come from china or thailand or somewhere else you're not a victim of trafficking. if you use threat or coersion you're being trafficked. >> when's the last time you saw your son?

>> -- since he was -- >> how long ago was that? >> the manipulation is so great a lot of these pimps won't be in the state. we have girls that come from texas, minnesota, iowa -- and they won't even be in the state. >> are you supposed to get mad? >> which leads you to believe, how can you be that manipulated but the girls might have something hanging over their head. a lot of these pimps get the girls pregnant and they have the baby and the baby is with the pimp's people or his parents so now you can't get out because you're worried about the baby and they use that as coersion. >> you're going to have to talk to someone right now. not going to be law enforcement, someone that helps people that are in situations like yourself. right? >> with over 20,000 women being sold for sex across chicagoland, sheriff tom dart realizes arrests and jail time did nothing to stem the revolving door of women flooding the system. >> a police officer would arrest someone for prostitution and they would be back on the street before the police officer filled out the paperwork. literally, by the time you were

done, they had bonded out and they didn't just go home for the night they would go back out to the street. >> my name is brenda and your name is -- >> in 2008 one sheriff dart starting hiring counselors like brenda powell to connect women with social services and help them get out of the life. >> the hardst thing for women involved in this is to see they are victims. they don't look at themselves as victims, okay? >> you know how to pimp? >> no. >> brenda is not just a counselor, she's a former prostitute with 25 years in the game. and even though jenny admits nothing brenda can tell she's being pimped out. >> the girlfriend, husband and kids so you're staying with them, right? >> yeah. >> and the girlfriend and the girlfriend's kids and the girlfriend's man, he know, that's not a normal relationship. that's how i used to live with my pimp and my wife-in-laws. we all lived with him and we would do anything for him.

>> you can benefit from kicking it with me. >> in the jargon of the underground sex trade, wife-in-laws are the women working in a pimp stable. the pimp is the daddy and the whole group including children, is called the family. >> but i know how the game go because i was in the game for 25 years. i know that it ain't easy to get out from under this game. a huge rule is not to snitch or talk about what goes on in that family. any systems that come at her trying to damage that family system, is an enemy. i can offer you all kinds of services to help you get a job. >> for now, brenda can see that jenny is not ready to accept the help the women's justice program can offer but brenda has opened a lifeline tonight and she will be there for jenny if and when jenny is ready to change her life. >> give they a hug! thank you. >> thank you. >> but one thing i leave them with, i don't care what happens tonight. later on, give me a call.

she's ready to go back. i can stand here with her. just let me know you're okay. and i do get calls from all over the country and they'll say, hey, you remember me? you talked to me at that place? i know it's late. but you got a minute? and i have to take a minute to listen to her because that's something that no one is doing. no one is listening but i do. i will listen. >> do your parent know where you are? >> no but they know what i do. i've been on my own since i was like 17.

it's just after 2:00 p.m. in chicago and action inside heats up for cook county investigators. the unit prepares to in on a young woman advertising herself as an out-of-town special. dan plays the decoy and secures a date.

>> no problem. i'll head that way. i'm probably like 15 or 20 minutes from there. okay? >> the out of town target? a self-proclaimed si sicilian, hotty teen, who promised men pleasure for the night for $160 an hour. working as backup, officer bob follows decoy dan to an undisclosed location. >> all right, i'm just going to follow you. >> detective bob explains this in-call operation is a more complicated game of cat and house. the seller of sex is completely in charge. >> they tell you general vicinity where they want you to go. you get to that spot and that intersection and you have to recontact them and then they'll give you the hotel they're at, or motel. >> call girls like alexis don't give up their resize location for two reasons.

one, it ensures the john is close and ready to make the deal. and two, it gives pimps or women time to check them out. >> room 327 and she's watching out the window and she's telling me to pull in. 327. >> within minutes of arriving at the hotel, dan signals that a deal for sex has been made. alexis has offered oral sex and intercourse in exchange for $250. >> danny. >> yes? >> we're coming in. >> officers quickly i.d. alexis suites as 21-year-old shall nell ve last questions of california. with the click of a house, internet site backpage makes it possible for this sacramento college student to sell herself 2,000 miles from home. >> you're under arrest for prostitution. we're taking you in. >> calm and cooperative, she claims she operates alone. >> you use the lobby computer to

post? how are you poers something. >> either posting on the that computer or have my best friend post from my iphone or i post from my iphone. >> a quick search of the internet reveals, thanks to backpage, alexis suites has logged a lot of miles. channel tells them she commutes from california to chicago because there's a higher demand for latino women in the windy city. >> how did you get this money? >> some i made and some i already had. >> we're going to count it, all right? >> that's $200, three, you have $408. >> the sheriff says backpage knows all too well their site is used by pimps and traffickers, not just people looking for massages. >> we have arrested like upwards of 500 people. they've all been in response to ads about massages and the like and guess what? every single one of them have been prostitutes.

now, come on. i couldn't conceivably be that lucky that i get all the prostitutes and keep misses the masseuses. that's inconceivable. >> before the officers transport her to lock-up they tell her to prepare for what will be a long day in jail. it's clear this california girl knows the drill. this is her third arrest in two years. >> we're all set. come on. while being cuffed, she wonders allowed if other women selling sex in the hotel will also be arrested? >> i don't know who they are. i dated a guy that said there was a girl upstairs. their like older women though, i guess. >> we'll check it out. do your parents know where you are in. >> no, they don't know where i'm at but they know what i do. i'm independent and i've been on my own since i was like 17. >> during her walk of shame across the hotel parking lot. she plays the cool customer. but on the ride to lock-up, she begins to tell the police an all too familiar story.

struggling to make ends meet on minimum wage, she was lured into prostitution by a smooth-talking romeo pimp. >> he lied. he sold me a dream and told me that he would make sure i have everything that i need. >> that's how they get you. >> i know. >> they always promise you everything and in reality you get knotting. >> you get nothing. i ended up making 20 or maybe $30,000 for him. >> she says after being beaten badly by her pimp in los angeles, she ran and has been on her own for over a year. >> a lot of times the girls start working and then a pimp approaching them on the street and in her case she's claiming she never worked before. >> dan finds her story especially tragic. >> if a girl chose to work and she's out there working she eventually gets picked up by a pimp that's table but the girls that have never worked before and they start working because they get recruited those are the worst ones to hear.

>> while dan heads out to play decoy channel loses her call-girl cool and get a much-needed reality check. >> have a seat, come here. >> it's okay, baby. >> how many months pregnant are you? >> i'm due next week.

every day in america, tens of thousands of people go online looking to buy and sell sex. >> yes, are you calling for a date? >> sometimes the voice on the other end of the line is an undercover cop. >> i think it's river and lawrence. >> investigators with the cook county human trafficking task force are en route to a location where an undercover officer has arranged a date for sex with a woman doing in-calls from her motel room. >> once the officer is inside the room with the girl, he'll make the deal. we'll go to the room and he'll let us in and we'll arrest the girl for prostitution. >> police say this particular motel about a mile from the airport, is frequently used as a rendezvous for buyers and sellers of sex. >> okay, we just got text now

that he's going to room 307. we'll give him a couple of minutes to get up there. >> inside room 307, the undercover has just made a deal for sex in exchange for $200. >> you have no identification, right? >> right. >> you sure? >> i swear. >> the young woman has no identification but she tells the detectives that she's been arrested for prostitution before. she tells our producer she doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. >> i don't think we should get in trouble for this at all. like, if my boyfriend gives me money and buys me stuff i don't see a reason why i can't do that. so -- it's the same thing to me. that's it. >> even when you arrest the girls a lot of times they're so well trained, especially the young girls to talk about, no, it's my boyfriend. talking about the pimp or there's no force involved and this and that so when you start peeling back the layers you find abuse or this person is the victim of trafficking. >> detectives are finishing up at the motel when they knows the a curious couple hanging around room 307 and watching them work.

police suspect the pair may be connected to the girl in custody. so they decide to introduce themselves. >> have a seat for a minute. come here. >> the woman has no identification but she tells the police she's 21 and lives in the neighboring state of wisconsin. police learn she's nine months pregnant and has a prior arrest for prostitution. >> how many months pregnant are you? >> i'm due next week. >> she's due next week. >> the couple denies any wrongdoing today and police are unable to connect them to the earlier arrest in room 307. once the male is identified, he's free to go. but police can't release the young woman until she's identified. >> is that your boyfriend you were walking with. >> yeah. >> he's a friend of mine. >> i'm not in a room. >> the woman jenna heck, is uncooperative but was arrested for prostitution a month ago. managersays she's been in the motel for 23 days. >> what room is she staying in.

>> taking me to go and get rent money. >> 208? >> what's up in 208? >> that's not my room. >> there's no proof that jenna is selling sex today. but police say there is actually a high dollar demand for sex with pregnant women. >> she'll get guys. that's what they're into. i don't see it but. >> i'm not lying. >> the young woman is eventually identified by the record of her previous arrest for prostitution. >> i'll meet you guys back over there and you're pregnant so don't be doing anything you're not supposed to do. >> the police offer her the chance to speak with the crisis counselor from the women's justice program but she declines and she's free to go. >> so what time are you looking at? >> back at the hotel it's a little after 4:00 p.m. when business begins to pick up. >> guys are getting off work now. and they're looking for, maybe,

something to do before they go home. you know? you can check us out and we can go from there. follow your lead. >> female undercovers have an unsuspecting john on the line. >> he's in the parking lot. >> now all they have to do is reel him in. >> go ahead. >> turn around, turn around. put your hands up. put your hand behind your back. put your hand behind your back. >> inside the room, the police find a big bear of a man with alcohol on his breath. the detectives say he was hoping to party with all three women. but now, the party is over. >> if you haven't noticed we're running a prostitution sting right now. a resident of indiana, the man tells police he's in town on business. detectives say they see his kind all the time. >> businessman, doctors, lawyers, you know, career guys. >> and we've looked at the demographics and it's across the board. >> we have a guy coming up, guys.

economics doesn't make a difference. race doesn't make a difference. >> turn around, police, you're under arrest, turn around. >> age doesn't make a difference. from 18 all the way to, i think, it was 74 years old we arrested one guy last year 74 years old. he's looking for sex from our undercover girl. the guy gout out of surgery two weeks ago on bypass and he's looking for a girl. >> this officer will take care of you. >> men think about it all the time. it's the manner in which they're going to go to get it and the risk they're willing to take. >> they don't seem to care. a lot of them are married. moist of them are married. they all have jobs and they come and they just want to have good time with someone in private and something discrete and nobody will know about it. >> sam is going upstream. shh! >> police say that most johns don't think too deeply about the consequences of buying sex until they get caught.

>> of coursely, a guy is looking for sex. they don't see the ramifications of paying someone and they don't see the outcome of a traffic victim. they don't -- i don't think they want to look at that. >> if they realize what's going on in this girl's life, her background, the physical and emotional abuse she's getting from the pimp i think they would have a different understanding of this. >> while they can't understand this women feel trapped they can feel a pain deep in their own wallets. >> this is a nice wallet. leather? this is nice. >> it became clear in certain areas of town, the people looking for prostitutes, they better not go there because there's a strong possibility it might be us and if it is, if this whole menu of things we can and will do to you starting with really making you poor. >> this is the fine.

if you don't want to pay the fine this is it. >> collectively, we've driven down the demand definitely in certain areas. it's abundantly clear. all the local people tell thoughts. >> in addition to that we utilize the people we're dragging in to fund all of our programs to try to help the women who have been victimized. the average prostitute turns five to six and do ten tricks a day, right. how much trauma is that for her? i've had some girls say it feels like someone is using the bathroom inside of me.

>> put your hands behind your back. >> clearly the party is over tonight for these men seeking sex for sale. across m chicago, day or night, men continue to order

girls to go with a simple click of the mouse. from anal sex to oral sex, to three on on one, investigators say women and under-aged girls are sold on websites like back page. >> their site exists so traffickers and pimps can have a place to sell women. >> i'm fed up and tired. this is going to stop. >> in 2009, cook county sheriff tom dart was part of the legal effort to shut down the erotic services section of craigslist. >> calling to see if you had anything available for today. >> reporter: his troops are taking aim at back page which he says makes millions off of the misery of others. >> if we had a website where people put on hits against their spouses, the website will say we're not putting hits on spouses. we just set up the website with. the fact these people are doing it -- and then we are telling law enforcement, the problem is

by the time we get there the people are dead already. we'd rather you take the website down. come on. >> the cook county task force wants americans to know that on-line websites keep trafficked women ensnared in a cycle 0 perpetual violence. >> choke hold. >> while most may view young women as tough individuals making bad choices, brenda meyers powell sees these women as the walk waing wounded. in desperate need of public empathy and intervention. >> i have had some girls say it feels like someone is using in the bathroom inside of me. will what age did you start to do this regularly? >> the average prostitute turns five, six, maybe ten tricks a day. if you calculate five times 365, how many men has she slept with? over 1800 men. how much trauma is that to her? i know about prostitution. i was a prostitute for 25 years an you have no idea what you are

in for. >> brenda's own hard-life lessons learned on the streets of chicago make her the perfect lifeline for girls and young women in crisis. >> in the beginning of my prostitution as an upscale prostitute, escorts, strip clubs, only the best and at the end of the road i was turning the tricks on the street corner for $20. >> like many women who fall in to prostitution, brenda's own sexual experience began with rape as a child. >> being molested since i was 4, 5 years old, constantly happening in the household that i lived in, from my grandmother to my aunt's house. every time i thought i was safe, i was never safe. >> reporter: raised by an alcoholic grandmother in housing projects on chicago's west side, her first exposure to prostitution was right outside of her front door. >> me being 9 years old, living

in a community where prostitutes worked in front of our window and looking ought the window at the prostitutes getting in and out of cars and having shiny dresses on and be very beautiful and asking my grandmother, what are those women doing and she told me. she told me those women take off their panties and give them money and me relating to because men had been taking my panties off and i said, wow, i didn't know they were supposed to give me money. >> her grandmother encouraged her to sell herself at 14 to add money to the family purse. >> i sat on the corner and that night i made over $400. those guys knew i was a minor. they knew i was young. they paid me more because i was young. >> after 25 years of surviving exploitation and violence, brenda was forced out of the 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 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 around with help and support. >> chanel, you are a beautiful,

special girl. >> thank you. >> i can look in her eyes. i can talk to her and i understand what she is feeling because i have been there. and the questions that come from me are not like the questions that come from the police. >> it takes just a few minutes for brenda to crack chanel's tough girl act. >> i don't remember what i was like before this. >> wow. >> i have no idea. i can't remember my personality or anything like that. >> wow. >> that's the worst part of it. i'll never be the same person. you know what i mean? i know how bad it is. i know some girls probably say i know some girls are on drugs and do it but after meeting so many girls i'm one of the smarter ones. i'm one of the smarter ones. this is ridiculous. >> today brenda devotes her time 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?

as night falls in chicago, the day's stifling heat gives way to thunder and lightning at a cold, hard rain flushing the street. >> police. how are you doing? >> put your clothes on. >> today's investigation by the cook county human trafficking task force continues to uncover women from across america. >> what am i going to be under arrest for? >> prostitution. >> we had a girl from minnesota, a girl from wisconsin only one girl from chicago. it says a lot for the girls, they are not staying in one location. they are moving around. they have people behind moving them around. >> the team is about to pack it in when they get one last visit from a woman hoping to trade sex for cash. >> relax, okay, sweetie. don't get nervous or anything, 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 matter of free will.

>> it's what they want to do. nothing to say. >> the majority of those women were being controlled. they would never tell you that, but i hear things that a lot of times in interviews other people don't hear. >> come on in. have a seat. my name is brenda. >> while jessica is noncompliant, another young woman opens up to brenda, revealing she is in crisis. >> if anyone sees my face i could get killed. >> okay. because i don't know what's going on but i feel you, okay. >> the 22-year-old tells brenda she's been working for a pimp from new york who despite his distance controls her every move. >> the guy you are with now, how did you meet him? [ inaudible ] >> she was recruited by another woman in new york. her situation was bad any way already.

>> when she met me i had $20 to my name. >> she said she knew what she was doing was not right but could not get out of it because she didn't have a pot to piss in if she didn't have mst prostitution. she had family. her family had given up on her a long time ago. >> i never have been able to ask anyone for help. i was not able to keep up the charade with my parents. pretending to be christian and straight and by the time i went to college everything fell apart. >> the daughter of missionaries, nan dropped out of college and hopped a plane to america hoping to find work with a modelling agency in new york. what she found instead turned out to be a trafficking operation. >> you flew out to canada, got your hair done, put you on a website. you have been prosty tutd out ever since.

do you get my of the money. >> the woman was threatening her calling her every day saying we are watching you. you can't move. we have people that will come and get you. >> she's absolutely insane. i thought she was going to kill me [ inaudible ] >> that's the brain that they have that they use to have you brainwashed so you don't go, right? been there, done that. okay. >> after 25 years in the game, brenda knows all too well how hard it is for girls to walk away from their pimps. >> a lot of people think this is something they settle for that but these women are in survival mode. you don't have any peripheral vision. your tunnel vision tells you these people are right here and

this is what i see and this is who i am and i can't get away. >> do you want to be with this pimp? it is not physical bondage. it is mental bondage. if someone can control your mind, they can control you. this is what traffickers and pemps and predators do. they control you mentally. >> i can get you somewhere very safe. you hear me? [ crying ] >> where you will be safe, where you will be protected, where no with one will bother you. listen, this is what i do for a living, okay. least for tonight, anna's traffickers have met their match in brenda powell. >> i cannot sleeve sleep tonight if i let you go back to there. you understand. >> her lessons ring loud in the woman's ears. >> i want you to be safe. >> at last, anna sees a genuine

opportunity to get away from the pimp and agrees to take ref jew v fuj in a shelter for girls and young women struggling to escape prostitution. >> you let me do that give me a hug. you ain't going nowhere. sometimes i believe that things happen if for a reason and it is divine intervention. i feel that is what just happened now. >> brenda says there's no guarantee that today's intervention will turn anna's life around, but at least for tonight, anna will be safe and warm, securing shelter from the storm of the underground sex slave. >> we're trying to find that piece of them that's left, the best of them. so we can help them bring it out. because they are not a lost cause.

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