. >> sergeant mike barnett says traffickers lure thousands of girls by the busload from south of the border and then force them to become prostitutes in houston's cantinas. >> you have people's daughters being raped, basically, in bars, under threat of force. >> translator: i was put in a room and a man came in. i told him that i wasn't a prostitute, that i had been tricked. and he told me they all say the same thing. then he forced himself on me and did whatever he wanted. >> more often than not, the story behind sex slavery begins in a small latin american village with young girls and big dreams. that was true for a woman that goes by the name of wendi. at 16, she was recruited by wealthy men in honduras for what she thought was a well-paying textile job in the u.s. >> translator: they said they would pay us $150 a day and that they wanted to help people from our country with jobs in their factory up north. they said they wanted to help poor people. >> in january 2003, wendy and her friends, 16-year-old sue and 14-year-old ana were eating lunch at their school in a remote village i