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ready. the young female is refusing to unlock her cell phone without a doubt so that she can protect her pamper but the tattoo on her hand has caught the detective's attention well explain to me what these that doesn't mean i mean. it's times out of you don't know what. if you have to. earn. their property. people don't know that's who you with. but about the crown. you know who we know and that's with us now for him to like the that's who they were for the crowd he's up there so if it was just this is common practice among pimps if they brand their girls like cattle upside down you know as pimp is called shy stevie meaning ruthless. and the whole dizzy 20 someone to them he just turned 21. this is. in tears only his
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have taken girls here life in general because they were watching if they're out and they found i for growth in the house now many girls do you think yes he would tell you know me i mean and i wouldn't want to tell. the same about the baby what this baby is. is you know. who by choice you have my 1st now are 14 ready to do me tell me he also focus on me and letting off steam and so when the baby comes. the police officers now want to know how much money danielle is earning. well much as he made it over to them in 2 weeks we use it all week that is who we are only better if you tell me you make $10000.00 and all you know is hair and nails and food. there isn't that upset sure that you're working so hard you're putting your life in
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danger for somebody who's promising you i don't know what that's where my frustration comes out despite danielle's statement police are enabled to read shy stevie the teen claims she is no longer working for him by this. book i thought because i had just left the hospital and i thought oh she's working for herself now i think she i can just get up and get out of if that i think i think there is that they've. 'd done you know has been in a foster home since the age of 13 and her mother left her and her father is violent and a drug addict after running away she ended up in the hands of her 1st pin the 1st child she had with her pimp was placed in care she never saw it again she's now only 16 years old but already expecting her 2nd child. being pregnant.
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good ok. she will be taken by social services who will try to help her out of this vicious cycle of sexual slavery her cell phone is confiscated detectives will analyze it to get more information on her pimp. and tell e.p.d. headquarters erin has been given danios case he knows this girl very well as he put her 1st been behind bars.
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interest so this is mr. he was convicted. of the resident 2070. and so he will do this 5 years and he will be able to be released sometime in 2022. thanks to dan yost had to and the information on her cellphone erin and his colleagues sammi have confirmed the identity of her new trafficker. rational in it's evident in the face. consistent with the best educated yet on and. his criminal record is already pretty full. as human history. arrests for robbery fasts or burglary. he has 4 felony arrests in the past and usually only area yes war. the man is around 21
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years old their text conversations clearly show the nature of their relationship to . anything you do for daddy so he's telling her that she appreciates everything that she does for him and he is refrain himself daddy which is our number one term . so he wants to know where she is why you're not responding when. very common term they never call by the 1st name they don't call him by their street names in the 1st on. the. air and now wants to know if her pimp has posted online to sell danielle services for this he uses spotlight and online database they've groups together sex ads from across the country this software was created by a charity that fights against the sexual exploitation of children and has identified . over 10000 under-age victims since it was created 3 years ago after putting in
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dunn ios phone number 3 ads appear. they sound. i found are. they some of those pictures are are also on all. 15 of the good evidence of course and that's a good job so she posted her advertising of all my. name all new baby pimps tend to exploit minors more as they bring in a lot more money some of them are even willing to be even more money if they know that they have a grows under the age of 18 on an average night for most of our growth if they're working just the streets in los angeles they make anywhere between a $11500.00 per night and that's anywhere between probably 5 and 10 different clients or are johns per night so you have men who are purposely looking for pregnant women the reason why they are one of their fetishes are pretty women is the fact that they don't have to or a condom because the girls weren't pregnant so they don't they can't have it. by
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having unprotected sex sex workers are at risk of catching sexually transmitted diseases shockingly despite all of the evidence build up against him police officers are still unable to arrest dunn yos pimp the young woman deny still working with him probably because she fears the repercussions big cash is ongoing. in 2018 police officers in the human trafficking unit dealt with 76 cases of sexual exploitation of a female minor which led to 40 arrests. to make sure the traffickers are sentenced and end up behind bars erin and sammy often have to make witness statements during hearings at the courthouse. today we hear from him an airy fairy no mr
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mcconnell wants it. to be true thoughts. trying. to see how. the judge wants to hear testimonies from all parties the 4 victims as well as the accused wearing the blue jumpsuit they will all be questioned by the prosecution. this is. your only authorized to film sammy's questioning it's a crucial testimony for the prosecution in this case. and she says she's a rich. merchant she said. king. and i think. when you are there now.
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the judge will now give his ruling. proves. this man will be charged with human trafficking with increasing sentences in force here in the united states he could spend a lot of time behind bars something sammy is reassured about the case will move forward to try and ease the tension it can get there 35 years and 8 months to prison. i felt really comfortable because i knew that i was talking about the truth and what i was told by these victims. in 2018 erin sammy and his colleagues succeeded in sending 12 sexual traffickers to prison. to prevent young girls. from falling back into prostitution and to tear them away
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from their pimps police officers rely on the help of former victims of sex trafficking. kiko was a prostitute on the streets of l.a. during her teenage years it's a possibility that she might have a. she is rapping heads but she's not really being cooperative so what i'll do i'll contact actor today i think that sounds very promising i'll see you yeah hopefully in our t.k. is part of the charity journey out which is made up of former trafficking victims she comes several times a week and talks to the women in their cells about her personal experiences to help get them off the streets but when i disclose that i used to be in the life myself they're like they're willing to listen and i always tell them it's the very easy to
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change something that has been a part of you since you were a child. but i let them know that if i can do it then there's so no reason or a way that they couldn't do it because i don't want a special. 30 years old it's a miracle that has survived growing up in los angeles she was raised by a mother suffering from depression and a violent father who was addicted to crack cocaine and 12 years old after running away from home she agreed to get into a stranger's car. and he noticed that i was nervous and he offered me some marijuana i tried it for the 1st time and i i passed out or blacked out and. next thing i know i was waking up in this strange place full of pain because i was being raped at the time and that i would come to i would. you know scream for help or scream to let me go and i will be you know punched in the face
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repeatedly when i would. you know yell and the beatings and the rapes continued for probably about 2 weeks. then surely managed to get away she spent days wandering the streets alone. at that time i was suicidal i didn't want to live anymore so i knew the longer i stayed in the streets so it would take my life i knew that hopping into anyone's car drive walking around the streets a middle and i that someone would eventually abducted me and take my life. under the control of a pimp who took advantage of her vulnerable state and he says oh well you've done it before now you can do it again under. with with a little bit more guidance and you know as long as you do what i tell you to do i will have to be.
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a 100 other bottles referred to. that . i'm not. tika was only 12 years old her abuser didn't sell or on the streets and she was scared of the police instead she would be sent to motels or the customer's home her ordeal would last 2 years. one guy told me that i was too i was too old i was probably about 14 years old at the time so obviously they were in that they wanted someone that wasn't as physically mature but wanted someone to look at the young as possible so i started to go to figure our which was a famous track in los angeles and i started to work on the streets. for 4
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years it was passed from one pimp to another around 10 in total she managed to get away by leaving california and finding love however her years of prostitution were so violent that her body has been left permanently damaged i can't imagine any children because of that. because of the stuff that i've been through. it's very hard for me to. you know because my harmonise are telling me that i need to reproduce but at the same time i see what i'm able to give to other people and other children and i probably wouldn't be able to do the work that i do the way that i do it if i did have children so it's a hard pill to swallow but it's it's a. the reason so many women are falling into the hands of pimps is probably because
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in the u.s. pimping has now entered popular culture. pimps are appearing more and more on social media they show off their new recruits and tattoo their name on them to show that they are their property. tonight the hollywood vice squad are leading an operation that is turning getting sex traffickers sergeant. mario's has been in the squad for 13 years and knows their techniques well. these women get dropped off by men who pretty much run them and we call them because they meet their supervisors or pimps and they are the ones who pretty much stick with these women and put them on the street to work and they take the money from them. the
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supervisor oversees dropping off and watching the girls who are working the street they also collect the money to give to the pin in general they hide in darker side streets close to the intersections. so they stay out here because they have the western corridor which is to the east and then figure which is farther west. and used both. back and forth and this is where they treat women we are going to go with sergeant laurie is on the lookout for any unusual behavior coming from drivers in fact prostitutes are often followed from a distance by their supervisor or pimp to protect them. go for it. i'm not going to. go on about the heart of our
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home just a few streets away his colleagues have just stopped a prostitute who is getting into a car with 2 men in the front both the woman and the 2 individuals are arrested for sergeant this is unusual and they have these males driving around she made concept of them had some fits and once she got in a vehicle that it's not uncommon for a female to be picked up by 2 males in one car it's a safety issue for that. the driver is saying that the girl is who. cousin and he's dropping her home after a family get together. for somebody. who was able to visit a very. young woman however gives
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a completely different story. it's hard. to. say i was. present. when searching the prostitute police find several condoms in an inner bra. in the man's car they find bundles of dollar bills and empty alcohol bottle and boxes of pills which they also find the same brand of condom as the girl sergeant laurie oakes concludes that the evidence is overwhelming for these 2 guys and what they have right now basically is a supervisor and this and them being the supervising the feel now that she is ok and taken a different locations that are managed by somebody else which will get. the 3
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suspects are placed into the cars they will head to the police station where detectives will attempt to clarify the specific role of each person. sergeant continues his patrol. another young woman has just been arrested in a street adjacent to western avenue where your id. i think. her supervisor or pimp has definitely just dropped a gun. further away from the scene surgeon laurie is thinks he spotted a suspicious vehicle. frequency at the. pier institute in the dodge magnetic lincoln mixer all through 6 years watching the whole time we took his 1st girl down and he is now
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going northbound on western and the number one made number to leave. me here and stop at the stop sign that is. so let me get units to take this guy down. show you where at the santa monica i've tried my western at santa monica danforth response from a viewer named take me down. after being cheap the driver pulls over and doesn't resist. a lot he was there keep backed up watch the still. doing it and as we were driving
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off he was looking to make sure if she was looking so he gives it like a sort of a signal like don't say nothing and don't speak and then he gave me the which training and experience of so much time on the job i know what that means he's involved. in his trunk the police find items that leave no doubt about his activities. or the phone. no women to see other people's ladles. see just the fact that he beats out here. working. closer ching the car they find the i.d.'s of 2 young girls one of them belongs to the blonde girl who was arrested earlier. now we also found the girls i've been in there with
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they did together so now we've got it all going up together so now the investigation begins about human trafficking. this expected pimp is taken to the police station despite the evidence he is denying everything he insists that he doesn't know the young woman. for. his daughter doing nothing you know. is very sort of their own daughter choose to stare at their water or at their disposal in a series but i want to say something to your marriage you know marriage is your warm enough and you know you're serious i'm sure warm in the. mirror was
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richard doing the other. work for kate this. is this very. very big you know i mean i was going to put this in there girl mart 000. 000000 fear the operation has been a success for sergeant laurie house pimping is punishable by 6 years in prison this man who had 2 girls under his control was there for at risk of 12 so yeah phones that we found are going to get there we called her phone this phone answers what her i.d. was and her car was. it's car right so we know there's stuff going on i'm going to wait he's going to go down threat the very least supervisor trust to show no i think very nice and big to fit. in 2018 more than 106 traffickers were arrested by the l.a.p.d. . 6
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this morning on simple vito boulevard a corner that is rife with prostitution journey out the organization that supports victims in the legal sex industry has organized its annual march tika the former prostitute is one of the protesters. behind the age of 14 i might have worked this mary street so they have found a lot under aged girls in the one to scary block on the spirit corner so that's the reason why we make sure that we pay homage to the women that have been victimized in this area so let me stop for chris know that we're not going to take it any more . mike tika several of the women here have been forced into prostitution during
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their teen years. they've come today to tell their stories. so this is to me the truth that. some people say. it's a t.v. show because it's not like it's not. my mother she told me i was 14 when she told me so in full disclosure this moment that i would like to check out to the young i work minutely she is still one cool. that means so many. jews as a whole slew of staying safe thank you. despite the efforts made by authorities the sexual trafficking of minors continues to grow in the united states here in the most economically powerful country in the world it's estimated that 300000 children are involved in sexual slavery.
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russian government announces tougher preventative measures for curbing the spread of covert 19 including steps to track those who've had contact with people who've tested positive. how to stay at home when you've no home to go to the plight of migrants not the people living on the streets leading medical charts he tells all tell you about the scale of the problem from. we have the can all 500 people who are in the streets in a very bad. condition of course amps and we have the risk to have. some issues regarding the coroner.
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