. >> your children were beatete by these traffickers? "yes," she said. if they cried they were hit. >> if i wanted to be trafficked out of here how much would i pay? >> reporter: he said it would cost $2,000 u.s. dollars. to escape they must travel several miles at night to the last camp at water's edge. from here they g go to the beach. the problem is that is the police post. they need to be paid $1,000 just to give these people a chance to flee. once they clear the police, they ve a long trip ahead. we traveled part of the route. >> a smaller boat that holds about 20 to 40 people will take them out to sea along this route. for about four to fiv hours out to a much larger boat waiting for them in international waters. those boats are, in many cases, operated by transnational criminal syndicates that are buying and selling thousands of people. >> reporter: yet the risk of being trafficked by smugglers or dying at sea is a risk many here are willing to take toscape the reprsion. experts say this is about to happen all over again, as soon as t the rainsnd.