. >> illinois state's attorney anita alvarez is lead prosecutor for the cook county human traffickingask force. >> and i think the public, we need to be more aware of yes, it does happen here, it is happening in our own back yard. >> increasingly, the business of sex for sale is moving off street corners like the track in oakland and onto the internet. >> who's going on little barbie? you? >> with profits in the millions alvarez says selling juveniles online is relatively low-risk nearly anonymous crime for the numerous syndicates that traffic in american children. >> i was just calling to see if i could get some company. you'll come to my hotel, right? >> it is frustrating because it's so easy. and when it's out there on the internet on all these websites, it's just so quickly being able to pull it up on the computer, it's frustrating. >> even more frustrating, says alvarez, is the growing number of good kids from loving american families that are bought and sold online. >> and it was extremely easy. i mean, you take pictures, write a few words, and there you have it. >> meet raleigh

. >> cook county state's attorney anita alvarez leads the county's human trafficking task force. a joint effort between local police and prosecutors to crack down on slavery rings in chicagoland. >> what we've seen here in cook county, the trend that we're starting to see really are the gangs. the gang structure. >> gang members are not just selling drugs any longer. they're selling children. >> and the gangs are getting involved in this because they have discovered that this is lucrative. >> alvarez's task force is one of the nation's most progressive law enforcement efforts in the fight against traffickers. >> today we are announcing the result of a long-term undercover investigation. >> in the summer of 2011 operation "little girl lost" culminated with a massive takedown of a gang-related pimping ring. it is the largest human trafficking case in illinois's history. >> this operation targeted gang members who sex trafficked children and young women, some as young as the age of 12. >> each of the ten defendants faces over 20 counts of human trafficking. >> this is something that

. >> illinois state's attorney anita alvarez heads up the cook county human trafficking task force a joint effort by local police and prosecutors to combat the booming underground sex trade in chicago and the surrounding suburbs. >> do your parents know where you are? >> i really think we are not going to get anywhere or make a dent into this crime unless we as local prosecutors do more. >> in 2011, the illinois safe child act became law in the lands of lincoln. giving local police and prosecutors a new set of investigative tools to identify and rescue trafficking victims, provide them with social services, and punish the pumps who exploit them. >> i'd like people to think about that this could be their daughter. >> cook county sheriff tom dart commands the task force in the field. he says part of his job includes changing the public's misperception about the girls and young women who work the streets of chicago. >> every single one of these girls at one point was someone's little child. at one point was held in someone's arms and thought, you know, this child is going to be somethin

anita. >> a ti tambiÉn. la que estÁ feliz es nuestra querida elizabeth Álvarez. fue coronada. y quÉ creen?ge va a terminar la novela. siempre hay tiempo. pero hay que buscar las mejores condiciones. yo ya dije, no voy a responder la pregunta hasta que no de la noticia. hacemos un pacto. yo creo que para ser felices, hay que hacer lo que sea muchachos y con tan buenos deseos de su parte, que bueno. yo a la gente, lo que necesite para ser feliz, para complacer tus sueÑos y anhelos, se vale todo. >> allÍ estÁ, siempre está en sus planes. muy bien por elizabeth. >> asÍ es. y felicidades por esa coronaciÓn. yo quiero decirles que hay que hay una comida deliciosa. >> yo no sÉ ustedes pero yo voy a desayunar con la doÑa. >> les guardamos tacos, tostadas, lo que ustedes quieran. >> yo quiero uno. venga la doÑa. seguimos con mÁs de despierta amÉrica desde california, felices de la vida, gozando con todos ustedes. >> gozando de nuestra gente hermosa, de nuestra cultura. vamos una pausa y al regresar, no se pierda... inicia el reportaje especial de nuestra reportera yali. >> ademÁs, anoche ricky mart