on the streets of detroit, the fbi is taking a hard line against those who sell underage girls. >> i'm kind of looking for some young girls. >> police. >> how old are you? >> hands over your head. >> investigators are scooping up more and more teens. >> so, is he underage? she's 17? >> from rural michigan to the suburbs, romeo pimps sell dream toth the naive. >> you're a victim in all of this. >> and even the girl next door. >> don't judge a book by its cover. just because i live in a nice house doesn't mean i live a nice life. >> hello, mom? >> it's an uphill battle for

investigators trying to rescue children trapped and scared. >> we really are trying to help you. >> they have nowhere else to go. so for us to say to them, we want to get you out of this life, i don't know that they necessarily believe us at that point. >> tonight msnbc goes undercover in michigan, to rescue those lost in sex slavery in the motor city. >> tonight, we visit the streets and suburbs of detroit, michigan, joining the mbi, state and local police as part of "operation cross country five," a nationwide dragnet to crack down on those who exploit juveniles in the sex trade. in the process we came across

the destroyed lives often left in the wake of human trafficking. >> thanks everybody for coming out. as you know, today is the kickoff for "cross country operation five." >> oftentimes there's a number of different web portals that we use -- >> today much of the underground sex trade has moved off the street corners and on to the internet. >> is this kim? >> investigators begin the operation by browsing the online ads and setting up dates. >> calling to see if i can get some company. >> juveniles will never be listed as underage so police keep their eyes open for girls who look younger than 18. >> these are runaways that we'll make everybody, the team aware of tonight. >> fbi special agent. >> they end up running away maybe at the bus stop, pimp looks at the bus stop, looks like she needs to eat, needs some food, offers that, less than 24 hours they're working for the pimp.

i don't think the general public knows the extent of the problem and the issues and i'm not sure they want to see that for there isn't a lot of the answers for, how do we help? >> the first step for helping the girls in the life, finding out who they are. >> we're on boulevard 275, 696 -- >> undercover officers make contact with one woman who seems quite young. >> i just pulled off that civic drive, whatever that is. where am i going once i get here? >> the woman directs the undercough tore a clean and quiet motel complex in the suburbs. >> okay, it's building 9 room 12. it's going to be a black -- >> the lead team spots a male subject lingering in the parking lot near the room. they suspect he may be the girl's pimp.

backup officers listen carefully to the undercover's wire. >> all right, follow us, i'm going to take the male, drop him down, spanky's going to go to the door. >> police department, let's see your hands! >> keep your hands on top of your head. >> the male suspect is quickly cuffed in the parking lot. but inside the room, investigators make a troubling find. >> do you have anything with your name on it here? >> no. >> a very young-looking girl with no identification. >> how old are you? >> i'm 19. >> where are you from? >> i'm from arkansas. >> who else is here with you? >> right now i'm here by myself. >> whose shoes and stuff. >> whose shoes? they're mine. >> you have some big feet. who's the guy outside? >> i don't have no idea. i was asking him -- >> just be honest. >> i'm being honest. >> no, you're not. >> the suspect outside is a little more willing to talk. he provides police with a first name for the girl. >> she came into the room -- >> who is she? what's her name? >> alicia. >> alicia, what's her last name?

>> she said alicia. man, i -- she told me she was 19. so, you know. like i said. >> how old are you? >> i'm 34. >> now, first things first. i need to know who you are. okay? do you have any type of identification? >> no. >> nothing? >> alicia claims she left her i.d. home in arkansas. but she also says she flew to detroit. >> how, if you're flying back and forth, how are they putting you on an airplane? >> i had a i.d. for down there. when i do this, i don't have no -- nothing on me. >> so where's that i.d. right now? >> actually, i threw it away, i don't even have the i.d., i ripped it in half and threw it in the garbage so it's gone. >> the lack of an i.d. and the transparency of alicia's lies are hints she may be underage. >> yeah, there's no pimp, no nothing. i'm going to have the money for myself. if i'm going to sell my ass i'm going to sell it for me. >> what's your connection with the guy out there. >> god's truth, i don't know who

that is. >> for now, alicia will admit to nothing. not even after detectives point out that the room she's in has been paid for by the male suspect under arrest in the parking lot. >> so you don't know the guy outside, right? >> no. >> then how come this is in his name? >> i don't know. >> she's protecting what -- >> i'm not protecting nobody, i just don't know. >> you're going to protect that guy right there? >> i'm not protecting nobody. i'm protecting myself, so. >> but you can do a whole lot more to help yourself than this. >> i am helping myself. like i said, i don't -- i just need extra money, that's all it is. i don't -- >> again, you're protecting this guy right here. >> no, i'm not. >> he's got your room rented, he knows you. >> i don't know him, so. if he knows me, i don't know how he knows me. >> so it's just some crazy thing that hour in this room and his name's on the room, paying for it? >> i don't know who he is, so. and that's just my answer. >> nearly an hour after arrest,

alicia's real name, age and address are still unknown. it's a story that's all too familiar to veteran investigators like the fbi's victim specialist katie connel. are these girls, do they consider themselves victims when they come in? >> many times not, they don't are again, that's your initial hurdle when you're asking them to tell you about what's happened to them, they don't want to, they want to protect the pimp, whoever's exploiting them. >> so a lot of the girls you see aren't necessarily going to raise their hand and say, i need help? >> no, absolutely not. pimps work on breaking those girls down, beating them down, physically, emotionally, to where they're so dependent on that person, again, that's their family, that's who they think cares about them even though that's not what's happening. they have nowhere else to go. for to us say to them, we want to get you out of this life, i don't know that they necessarily believe us at that point in time. so it's going to take some trust and gain that trust from them to say, we're really here to try to help. i am not a prostitute so i

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online ads for adult services in metro detroit. >> you want to try this chicky baby? >> what's her name? >> crystal. >> over the course of an hour, they make nearly 100 phone calls to book dates with prostitutes. >> two hours for three? wow, that's not bad at all. >> i'm looking for a two-girl outcall. anything for me? i'm looking for young girls, if you've got anything. >> the team is hunting specifically for ads like this one for daisy oliver, a very young-looking female who may likely be a juvenile. >> does she look like a juvie? >> i would say so. let me pull her up again. says she's 18. that's her right there. >> yeah, we got to try her. >> yeah, i'm trying to get ahold of daisy oliver. >> a female undercover makes contact with daisy's agency and makes an unusual request. >> yes, i was hoping -- it's mine and my husband's anniversary, i was hoping she'd do couples. >> a couples date is double the money, and the booker seems

interested. he tells the undercough tore sit tight and wait for daisy's call back. >> she's going to call back on a blocked number. >> hopefully we'll be able to obtain an underage girl that's involved in prostitution or may be able to assist in our related cases we have open right now. >> yeah, that sounds good. >> that would be the benefit out of all of this tonight. >> it's a little after 7:00 p.m. when the first date arrives in the hotel lobby. >> oh, really? okay, yep, i'll be on the way down. we got one. >> all right, he's going to walk down there, see if that might be her. >> the undercover goes down to the lobby to retrieve his date while arresting officers set up in the surveillance room and wait for the show to begin. >> make yourself comfortable. you look good. >> thank you. >> an unsuspecting young woman going by the name nicole is the first to take the bait tonight. >> $200? all right. what do i get for my $200?

>> full service. >> officers next door listen carefully for the bust signal. good deal. >> all right, good deal. >> arresting officers move in to make the bust. >> police. >> do you have any guns, weapons, knives or anything in there? >> no. >> how about on your person? >> no. >> hands over your head. >> a quick search of nicole's pockets turns up $380 in cash. a records check shows nicole is not a juvenile. her arrest is barely five minutes old when detectives learn their next date is on the way. they stash nicole in the bathroom while they lay a trap for daisy, the girl they suspect may be underage. >> you're going to be very quiet. >> okay. >> we tried this once before and it didn't work out. >> daisy has been lured to the room by a female detective on the pretext of providing sexual services to a married couple. >> if it makes you feel better, you're my first couple. >> really? >> yeah, i've only been doing escorting for a few months.

>> after a few minutes of small talk, the male undercover enters the room to complete the illusion. >> hi. >> this is my friend daisy. >> hi, daisy. >> for our anniversary. >> clearly daisy has bought into the three-way setup. now all that remains is to negotiate a price. >> how much is it? >> $600. >> good deal, that's awesome. >> it's another good deal and another bust. >> police. >> you got nothing in your purse at all, nothing in your pockets? >> a quick search of daisy's purse and pockets yields no identification, another possible sign this young woman may be underage. >> so our girl doesn't have an i.d.? >> no. >> how old are you? >> 18. >> okay. we just need to verify your age. because you look pretty young. unless we find out your age and

that you're over 18, you'll be all set. >> daisy provides an address to run a records check. in the meantime she provides our camera crew with an impromptu interview. >> hey. >> hey. >> what's up? >> not much. how are you holding up? >> pretty good. >> a little surprised? >> a little bit. then again, not really. >> no? >> no. i mean, i knew i was going to get caught either way. you know? >> seriously? >> yeah. i mean -- >> our initial interview with daisy is interrupted by word that yet another date is on the way to the room. >> i've got one coming too. >> all right, i'm going down. >> you got one? >> yeah. >> this time, however, the business transaction does not go quite so smoothly. >> full service here? >> that will cost you. >> the undercover has two female prostitutes on the hook but he can't seem to reel them in. they are perhaps more experienced than nicole and daisy and they seem to sense

that something's not right. >> can we all just get comfortable? okay, because we are like -- >> what are you guys tripping about? >> i have no idea. okay. >> what's going on? >> if they start to get ready to leave, we'll hook them. >> the women ask the undercover to get comfortable, their way of saying take off his clothes to show he's for real. >> just come here. >> what you want? >> i don't want you to be shy. that's all. >> what you want? >> take off that. how about that? >> the bust signal never comes, but detectives have seen enough to pull the plug on the show next door. >> where's your shirts at, real quick? >> how old are you? >> 18. >> i've seen you before, haven't i? >> no, you haven't. >> i've seen that face before. i haven't seen that one. >> the young women go by deshonte and diamond. neither is a juvenile. >> i am -- >> she's 18. she's of age. yes. >> yes, i'm of age. >> that's our main concern.

>> michigan state trooper richard sanchez recognizes deshonte from an earlier sting. diamond insists they have done nothing wrong. >> over and over. i've done nothing wrong today. like i said i was an adult entertainer. when i walked in the room, i didn't take any money, no agreements for money, no sexual favors or promise. nothing was agreed upon. i am not a prostitute so i don't even know what this is about. >> in all the team makes four arrests in less than an hour. >> does she have anything on her record? >> a records check turns up troubling news about daisy. >> so is she underage? she's 17? >> with a juvenile in custody team two decides to pack it in and head back to the state trooper's station where they hope to learn more about the person or organization that is pimping out this teenager. hello, mom, could you possibly come down and pick me up from the police station? is it africa? the middle east?

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teams of the fbi's human trafficking task force converge on their michigan operation center in the state police station.

team leaders, troopers ed price and richard sanchez, try to get an accurate head count of the underage girls they have successfully for now pulled off the street. >> you've got one you don't know and then the one -- >> through the evening we recovered three juveniles confirmed thus far. there's two additional possibles that we have. total for the evening we're looking at three, possible five. >> that is a juvenile? >> yeah, 17. >> fbi agent mike glennon and his team have already clocked a long way, 12 hours. but the hard work of identifying the girls and building cases against the predators who sold them has just begun. the team members now begin to process the evidence and pool information as the first steps towards uncovering the criminal network profiting and enslaving these juveniles. often the best source of information can be the girls

themselves. but securing their cooperation is not easy. >> what we said when we walked in today, essentially we're here to help you. >> the girl we found turned out to be 16. we went through a couple birth dates before she finally admitted she was born in 1994. >> 16-year-old alicia was the first juvenile pulled off the streets tonight. >> who's the guy outside? >> i don't have no idea. >> she was caught working in a room rented by this man. >> who is she? what's her name? >> but alicia denies he's her pimp or that she even knows him. >> she has no idea who he is, what he does, can't tell me anything. i said, i don't believe you. i told her what his record was. and i said, you are going to put yourself in danger with this guy, and have. she doesn't care. >> it's not a great situation at home and she's had definite issues over the past couple of years. so now we just have to work on trying to figure out where she should go tonight. what kind of help we can offer

her so hopefully she doesn't return to this kind of life. >> alicia's silence is all too familiar. detectives suspect the 16-year-old has muzzled herself out of fear of reprisals from her alleged pimp. just one jail cell down, there is a teenage girl more than ready to talk. meet daisy oliver, not her real name. a suburban girl next door who made a wrong turn and ended up being sold for sex for strangers. the teen's arrest for prostitution is less than an hour old when she sits down with detectives who want to know more about her pimp. >> so what'd he say about the money? >> he gets 40% of everything the girls make. >> did he look at your i.d.? didn't care to look at your i.d. at all? how did he find your ad or tell you about your advertisement? >> they just told me, they were like, well, we need some pictures so we can advertise you

an line. i said, go on facebook and get whatever pictures you think are cute. >> despite her youth, officers find daisy to be remarkably cool and poised. >> just write out what your interaction with him was, just what you told me. >> she provides information that will lead to a search warrant later tonight. >> okay? hey, what's up? >> you don't fit the mold for the type of girl that we're used to dealing with. >> yet they're getting used to it. girls from the right side of the tracks ending up on the wrong side of the law. >> i think a lot of people think that the girls involved in prostitution are those, you know, involved usually don't stem outside of the inner city. however, here's a prime example of a young lady from a pretty prestigious area. >> okay, this is the situation. who do you live with? >> i live with my parents and my brother. >> okay, your parents and your brother.

>> nicole mcgee is an fbi victim specialist working with the task force. >> because you're still a juvenile under the age of 18, we have to contact your parents. >> okay. >> how do you feel about that? >> i'm not so happy. >> that's where we are with this. i'm just letting you know ahead of time. i know it's uncomfortable. i'm sorry that this is the way it has to go. but unless you would like to call them yourself. >> hello, mom. could you possibly come to downtown detroit and pick me up from the police station? >> understandably, daisy is nervous and doesn't want to give her mother her full story. it's 2:30 a.m. and daisy's mother, awakened from sleep, seems too disoriented to comprehend what her daughter is telling her. >> i'm at the police station. because. will you just get down here and pick me up?

the police station. just come pick me up. christ. >> hello. >> yes, ma'am. can you hear me? >> it's a phone call that will change daisy's life. >> okay, no problem. are you able to come down here and pick up your daughter? >> her mom's coming. everyone is under arrest. period.

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still don't have pow area week after an ice storm rolled through and there could be another winter storm on monday. now back to the program. it's a thursday night in detroit and investigators with the fbi's human trafficking task force are in the middle of "operation cross country," a national crackdown on the juvenile sex trade. >> they should in the command center have a packet on each individual that's been brought -- >> so far the team has already pulled two underage girls off the street, then they get a lead on another possible juvenile. >> okay, she's got a girlfriend. she's going to send a girlfriend for a walk. >> undercover officers set up a date with the girl and then move in for the arrest. >> hello, police department. >> what's that? >> are you here by yourself? >> inside the room, detectives find a young woman who goes by the online name of tonya. >> how old are you?

>> 18. >> how long have you been 18? when did you turn 18? >> january. -- it's tonya's first arrest for prostitution and she's willing to tell investigators everything she knows. >> who's the person that left the room recently before your date? >> [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> tonya says that she and her friend ellie, not her real name, work for a woman named victoria who's in the room next door. >> how many rooms you guys have? >> i think she only has two. >> so three of you girls total here? you all working? >> hello! >> police pay a quick visit to the room next door. >> nothing. pair of boots. >> ellie and victoria are absent but their effects remain. at this point it's not yet clear to detectives whether the women have fled the scene or just stepped out. >> where did you meet her at? >> i met her at a bus stop one day. >> tonya tells police victoria

recruited her a month ago at a local bus stop promising her a career in modeling. >> she got a company -- she say she got a company, her investors rich and all this stuff like that. we done did pictures and everything. >> then she says victoria began to change her tune, explaining success in model would go not come overnight and tonya would have to bide her time from becoming an escort. >> she said you have to pay the magazines to even get me in, so she said till then i have to be in this area. she said she a manager in adult entertainment. so it was like different fields, i guess. like porn, escorting, modeling. >> tonya's story is sadly one that detectives hear all the time. a young, naive girl chasing the glamor and fame falls under the spell of an older, more sophisticated predator who promises the world and delivers nothing. >> you could tell there was a relative newness, if you will,

about her. it really was evident she was brought under fraudulent terms, if you will. a bait and switch where she thought, i need to earn some extra money in order that i can go to school. that turned into something else which turned into something else which turned into prostitution. >> how long are you going to continue to do this until you realize that she's just selling you that dream or lying to you to get you to sell your body and make money for her? seem like after a month it's got to start to sink in at some point. >> the interview is briefly interrupted when tonya's phone rings. >> tell her you need to be picked up. don't tell her we're here, though. >> it's victoria. she's unaware of the arrest and calling to check on tonya and the status of her date. >> he left. >> tonya informs victoria the deal did not go down because the john rejected her. that's all it takes to set victoria off.

>> for you to pull that as an excuse -- don't play with me like i'm retarded -- >> the scolding gives tonya a painful opportunity to see the true nature of victoria's character and agenda. >> what's she mad at you for right now? >> i don't know. she never talked to me like that. >> you didn't get money for her. the only thing she cares about is you getting that money. >> she never talked to me like that. >> i just heard it. >> she's exploiting you. she's using you to make money. if she really had connections or a model agency, something like that, investors, she wouldn't have you at the extended stay and all the other hotels that you've been at selling your body. you're a victim in all this. but the thing is we need to get you to see that and understand that. >> the team is about to wrap up when the undercover officer gets

a call back from tonya's partner ellie. >> she said, i'll be back here in an hour, you want to see me. >> detectives clear out of the room and lie in wait for her companions. agent glennon makes a quick stop to retrieve a few items from victoria's room. when he tries to open the door, he finds the chain locked from the inside. >> there's somebody in there. hello! do i have to bust the door down? police department. >> it turns out that the room was still empty and the chain lock simply malfunctioned. the incident left tonya shaking and hiding behind our cameras. >> looks like our vehicle is pulling up, too. >> that might solve this one. take the vehicle down. >> detectives get word that victoria's car has been spotted pulling into the hotel parking lot.

>> i'm not like that, sir. i'm not trying to be mean -- >> do me a favor, be quiet, let me talk to him. >> victoria is arrested along with ellie and a young male friend. >> what is that? >> arresting officers bring the trio inside for questioning. >> hold on. ready? >> sergeant ed price can sense this situation will be better handled downtown at the state police station. >> we'll talk to everybody down at the police station. >> have you to tell us why we're under arrest. >> you're under arrest for pandering. >> what is pandering? >> pimping, prostitution, being an escort. i'm not going to sit here and we're not going to have a conversation. everyone is under arrest, period. >> i'm just asking. >> we'll talk later. >> that is not fair. >> there's nothing to talk about. >> that is not fair. >> make sure you grab her phone out of her hand. >> victoria protests her innocence to police, our camera crew and everyone else on the hotel's third floor. >> i'm on my period. who have you seen up in here [ muted ] with us?

>> victoria will seemingly change her tune down at the police station when detectives reveal one of her working girls is underage. >> she's 16. >> i didn't want to abandon her.

the fbi's human trafficking task force, working with state and local police, are out on the streets of metro detroit looking for juveniles and the pimps who exploit them. >> everyone is under arrest, period. >> i'm just asking. >> we'll talk later. >> that's not fair. >> there's nothing to talk about. >> meet victoria, an outspoken 26-year-old who has just been arrested on suspicion of pimping out two very young-looking females. >> who have you seen up in here with us?

who have you seen [ muted ] us? pleat let me know -- >> at this point she obviously state shets has nothing to do with anything, she's innocent, she doesn't understand why she's down here, is very irate the fact we've even brought her down here for any type of questioning. >> back at the headquarters investigators confirm one of victoria's girls, tonya, is 18. but in the case of the other girl, investigators make a troubling discovery. >> what's your name? >> [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> ellie is only 16. >> are you going to be nice to me? >> what? >> are you going to be nice to me? >> i'm nice. >> ellie tells investigators she's only been in the game for three months. she claims victoria lured her away from her previous pimp. >> tell me what's up. >> we all close, we all close. we all get money together. >> under questioning victoria begins to back-pedal saying she works with the other girls but is not their boss. >> i am not an escort service. i'm legitimately a female companion. we all work together.

they're all female companions. i'm not trying to pimp nobody, you know what i'm saying? if something wrong with any of them, i'm there for them. we pray together. we're all together. you know what i'm saying? that's just what it is. >> but victoria's three musketeers narrative does not square with the statements of tonya or ellie, nor from the evidence pulled from victoria's laptop. it's clear she handles the posting of ads and the production of explicit photos of 16-year-old ellie. >> we all do what we got to do. >> the problem with [ bleep ] -- >> i don't know nothing, when the police ran her name it looked like everything was good. >> she's 16. do you see the predicament that puts us in? >> oh my god, man. i just didn't want to ant her. i had a feeling because of how she be acting sometimes.

she's so immature. oh, my god. >> while the gravity of the situation appears to be sinking in for victoria, investigators down the hall struggle with their next move with ellie. >> where would you go if we let you go? >> with my friend. >> with your friend. so you don't have anybody who has guardianship over you or anything like that. >> uh-huh. >> who is that? >> my mom. >> your mom, but you left her house? >> if we take her home to her home at this moment in time tonight, she will be gone an hour after we leave and she'll be back on the streets again. so we have to figure out, what's the best-case scenario for her that we can try to keep her safe? >> as bad as this feels and looks, we really are trying to help you. it's not to punish you or anything like that. but the problem is, if you don't want to go back to your mom, we

can't just let you go back out there. >> what police would like for ellie is some sort of alternative to a juvenile detention facility. but unfortunately, those sorts of social services are few and far between. >> that is the biggest deficiency we have in the system for our juveniles is there isn't enough programs that would support these girls to keep them out of the life. >> okay, well, our only options are to take her back home. i mean, that's it. >> i think so too. >> because they don't have -- they didn't have an active case because of neglect. >> right, no, no, no. >> right. >> right. okay. >> it's very frustrating. >> this is -- this is the typical story. this is not the exception. this the typical story. >> it's not like i'm trying to pimp this girl. you get what i'm saying to you? nothing like this is happening. >> as for victoria, she's on the hook for a federal juvenile trafficking charge, but investigators may cut a deal that will help them dig deeper into detroit's underground sex

trade. >> these pimps just like anywhere else, they are very intertwined with others involved in the industry. they have a lot of information. they have a lot of connections. >> he's going to have to talk to you later is what's going to happen. >> while investigators weigh the pros and cons of a deal with victoria, detectives just down the hall are scrambling to secure a search warrant based on a tip provided by one of the juveniles they recovered in tonight's operation. 17-year-old daisy was nabbed just hours before at a hotel sting. and before she called her mother to come pick her up, she i.d.'d her pimp. >> where did he take you after he picked you up? >> to the loft. >> what's the loft? >> daisy directs investigators to the pimp's primary place of business, a place in downtown

detroit that she calls the loft. >> how many dates have you done at the loft? >> at the loft, i'd say about six or seven. >> whenever you're ready, just let me know. >> is that detroit, the loft in detroit? >> just after 1:00 a.m. when a judge signs off on a search warrant. >> just briefed the plan, everything's good to go. >> okay, we're rolling. >> this is a location off grand boulevard lofts area where known prostitution happens, where one of the juveniles said she's conducted dates. >> what floor? >> 60 seconds later, the team is coiled up outside the security door. >> we good? >> we're good. >> when verbal commands to open up go unanswered, they go to plan "b." >> clear. >> see a switch, anybody? >> the loft is empty, but the search turns up valuable evidence.

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to be a girl unlikely to have been sold into prostitution. but the 18-year-old wants people to know that living in a professional two-parent household in a comfortable detroit suburb doesn't guarantee a life of happily ever after. >> it takes, like, a certain person to do what i've done. it's more of like, well, you know, i've lived such a [ muted ] life and i don't think that much of myself. >> like many girls trafficked into the sex trade, daisy's road to exploitation began when she was raped as a child. at a family gathering, 12-year-old daisy was in the bathroom of a relative's house when a 23-year-old man who was dating her cousin violently raped her. >> then my aunt came barging in or whatever, ripped him off me. >> but her family's lack of action after the crime left her angry and confused.

>> it was just brushed off, all right, we kicked him out of the house, he's never allowed to come back, it's over with. but it's like, no, it's really not done and over with. who has to go to bed every single night thinking about that? who has to look back on their childhood and remember, oh, this happened to me? it's like, i do. >> for daisy, the trauma of rape turned to despair and a deep sense of worthlessness compounded by her mother's refusal to tell her father about the incident. at 13, she ran away and fell in love with a high school senior. to make ends meet, daisy worked at a coffee shop while her older boyfriend spent all their money on drugs. to fund his cocaine habit, her so-called boyfriend began selling daisy for sexual favors. >> at first i was just like, why is a person that loves me, supposedly, asking me to do this? but then, like, at the time i didn't have anywhere else to go. >> michigan supreme court justice mary beth kelly, expert

in family law, says she has seen too many teens like daisy. >> being safe is something that these young people really don't have a sense of. there's no sense of boundaries when a relationship could be dangerous, could introduce them to a dangerous set of circumstances, and so the decision-making process that even a healthy adolescent could make in terms of what would be a good choice, a bad choice, is really not -- it's not even present in these young people. >> trapped in a downward spiral and estranged from her family, daisy says her darkest hour was when in a drug-induced rage, her boyfriend and now pimp choked her until she blacked out. >> all of a sudden, next thing you know, they're putting their hands on you, calling you a worthless [ muted ], telling you, you mean nothing to nobody. you don't get over things like that. >> a court granted a restraining order against daisy's boyfriend. he eventually went to jail, but at 16 with no income and no place to go, she fell into

prostitution again. at a party, a woman told daisy she could make big money as an escort. >> one one of them goes, i'd really like you to meet my boss. and i was like, you know, why? she's like, because you're really pretty. she said, compared to all the other girls who work with ultima, you're really pretty. >> daisy agreed to meet the smooth-talking pimp who picked her up in his shiny bmw and took her to a loft downtown. daisy says she was blown away by the upscale glamour of the escort service he ran. >> and they just like obsessed over me. like, first day i was their vip girl. like, i wasn't just their vip girl. i was the bait that got all the guys to come in. >> you realize that they have been preyed upon and their psyche is so weak that they simply can't withstand the lure of what is going on here. >> for a month, the escort service consumed daisy's life.

she worked in the club or did outcalls every day from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 a.m. the next morning. compared to the abuse she had suffered from her first pimp, the ultima club seemed like a dream come true. >> it was kind of like my second family. >> but it was a dysfunctional family. >> he ruled everything. it was like you disrespect me, you're going to get your ass either beat our you're going to get your ass kicked to the curb. and he ruled everything. like, he was the pimp. >> today, daisy agrees that the night she got arrested altered the course of her life forever. it was a chance moment that almost didn't happen. >> literally 20 minutes before i was supposed to go home, i got a phone call from a couple saying they wanted to meet me. >> i was hoping she'd do a couples. >> the call was from a female undercover agent, posing as a wife who was looking to buy her husband a young girl for sex. but when daisy entered the room, she felt nervous.

>> if it makes you feel better, you're my first couple. >> the second i saw two beds in that room and a double door, i kind of got the feeling, i was like, maybe i should just leave, this is sketchy, definitely. >> what you did is wrong, you understand that? >> yeah. >> but deciding to go through with this particular date, daisy ended up taking the first steps back towards her real family. >> hello, mom? >> the look on my mom's face was just so heartbreaking. like -- because like i'm her only daughter. and, you know, for her to find out that her only daughter is selling her body and that's how she's like paying for everything, you know. it was just really hard. >> the shock of being arrested in a federal sting succeeded in scaring daisy straight, and forced her family to deal with the rape and abuse that led her on a path of self-destruction. and now daisy says she is finally able to communicate with her father. >> he finally started opening up to me and, you know, telling me

how sorry he was for never doing anything when i got raped, telling me he was sorry for never, like, doing anything to my ex-boyfriend. he just wants to be there for me. so it's been like a lot better. i'd say so for sure, brought my family a lot closer to me. >> today, daisy is living at home with her family and working towards her ged. she has hopes of going to college. she has a message for girls who might think the life of an escort is glamorous. >> your dignity and pride and like everything that you've ever once stand for is just down the drain. because it's like, the second you lay down on your back it's just like, you know, pure disgust. >> and what about that love she thought she felt from her second family? >> when you think your pimp cares about you and he wants your safety, no, he wants your money. you're an object, and you're a tool, and that's all it is. >> ultimately, daisy's grateful to the fbi for the arrest that she says saved her life.

>> and i just got lucky, you know, i got blessed. i can walk away from it, you know, and never look back. most girls can't. they either wind up dead or they wind up worse. >> the detroit task force, which rescued daisy, is just one of 26 the fbi operates with cooperation from local law enforcement agencies. investigators spend months, sometimes years, gathering evidence to make state and federal cases. their goal, to end the network of criminal syndicates, big and small, who profit from selling women. >> it just further shows the need of the task force and why a lot of these -- everyone on there, is so diligent and they pour their heart and soul to it. as you can see every night. >> what time we rolling tomorrow? >> 3:14 for ucs, 4:00 for everyone else. >> it's very worth it. the guys and girl hot do this

job, we do it for the kids. we do it because it needs to be done. on the streets of detroit someone is hunting and killing young women two at a time. >> we have four homicides, of which a serial pattern is developing. >> the first set of women were found on december 19th, dead in the trunk of a car on promenade street. >> it was extremely brutal. >> i'm just tired of us losing our children. >> lurking in the online ads for sex. >> is this kim? >> and luring the unsuspecting to a rendezvous with death. >> hey, how are you doing? >> while pimps and hustlers sell young women on a promise of protection. >> let me holler at you for a minute. >> somebody that's involved in this business should be able to protect anybody that gets down