The TurnOut

In 2008 while in Pomona, a southern California city of Los Angeles county, Eric was on his way to a local swap-meet when he encountered a young black woman crying at the bus stop across the street from where he was headed. Eric himself was a couple years younger than the woman at 19, her being 23. He asked her what was wrong in a gentle voice, yet the woman did not respond right away. Eric almost walked away, but as a man could not find it in himself to leave a woman's side who was obviously in some kind of emotional turmoil. He again asked her what was wrong and asked if she needed bus money and pulled out a few dollars. This time the woman looked up at him and said she was Ok, but she was still sobbing. Eric sat next to the woman and put an arm around her. She sobbed for a few more moments and then asked him if he lived in the area. He told her he lived in Las Vegas and that he was just visiting. She asked where he was headed just then and he told her the swap-meet across the street. She asked if she could go with him and he said it was cool. So they went to the swap-meet together, Eric actually held her hand as they walked.
Once in the swap-meet they engaged in small talk, Eric learned the woman's name was Rena but she liked to be called Star, and Rena learned Eric just liked being called Eric but would be Ok with just "E". Eric was a window tint installer, and auto detailer, very good at what he did and was naturally a people person. Star said she was an exotic dancer and masseuse. Eric was impressed and told her she chose a wonderful field of work because she's literally paid to make people feel better through sight and touch.
They stayed in the swap-meet for close to an hour while Eric bought a few things to last him while he stayed in California for the next week, and he also bought Star some stuff that she picked out. Two cute outfits and two pair of heels that were on sale for $15 for both pair. Star seemed to be enjoying herself and she could tell Eric enjoyed their time together as well. She decided at that moment that she wanted to be with Eric but did not say anything about her decision at the time. Instead she had to find a way to tell him first that she was really a street prostitute, and the real reason she had been crying when he saw her at the bus stop was because she had just left her abusive pimp. Again. She had already left him twice in the past and vowed to herself this would be the last.
Neither Eric or Star had a vehicle but Eric offered to walk Star home, which much to his surprise turned out to be a hotel in Montclair, a bordering city. So they took the bus. Once there Eric told her he should get back to his family's house before they start getting worried. He had left his phone at the house charging. He and Star exchanged numbers and they parted ways for the night.
The next day Eric woke up to see several missed calls and text messages from Star. In her texting she just said, "top of the morning", and another said, "hope your day is awesome". He text her back and let her know he had just waken up but would hit her again when he was dressed and ready for the day. She replied back and told him to take his time.
As he showered and dressed he couldn't stop thinking about her. He pictured her yellow skin tone, light brown shoulder length wavy hair, small frame, about 5 feet 4 inches tall, no more than 105 pounds, nice shape. Her dark brown eyes enhanced by freshly sculpted eyebrows. He wondered why she even seemed to like him so much, because other than dressing nice, he didn't feel there was anything special about his appearance. 5'7, 150-155 pounds, almond color skin tone, slim build. He was handsome, but just as in he wasn't unattractive.
They met up a few hours later at her hotel. From there they caught two buses to get to Ontario Mills, a mall in the bordering city of Ontario. The plan was just to go to the mall, hangout a while, eat, and then catch a movie later in the evening. Eric only had about two hundred dollars on him and was hoping it would be enough for them to really enjoy the day, just in case Star wanted an outfit or two. While he busy thinking about this he felt a tap on his forearm, she was trying to get his attention and apparently had been trying for a few seconds because she laughed when he looked over and said, "wow, what's on your mind?"
He laughed and then noticed she was holding a stack of hundred dollar bills, gesturing for him to take it. He asked her if she was serious and when she insisted he accept the money he took it. Not knowing it came from prostitution, or even suspecting that it could have.

Some info about Eric before I continue; he had never been in trouble with the law before, graduated college with an AA in math & science, and was studying mechanical engineering at the time he and Star met. He had learned how to work on cars from an early age with his father who owned an auto detailing shop in Las Vegas. He was affiliated with a Las Vegas gang, and although he was a gang member he was not a gang banger. He did not come from a sheltered life by any means, but one thing he was not was a pimp. So he could not read the warning signs.

Star had been involved in prostitution since she was 16, turned out by a man in his 40's who was supposed to be dating her mother. When her mother was killed in a robbery at the convenience store where she worked, the older man told Star he needed her to help with funeral expenses by prostituting. I don't think anyone would have been able to make clear and intelligent decisions in such a time of grief, let alone a 16 year old. So she definitely experienced a mentally and emotionally brutal manipulative entry into the life. That's how it started. That same man was caught transporting minors over state lines in violation of the federal Mann Act, and he was sentenced to 240 months in federal penitentiary. Star was 17 when he got caught, but was in the arms of another pimp within 24 hours of the sentencing. She continued a pattern of bouncing from pimp to pimp until she met her last pimp Fabulous Rick at a truck stop in Fontana when she was 21. He was the second oldest pimp she had ever been with after her turn out (her mother's boyfriend), and she immediately took to him as a father figure. He was also the most abusive pimp she had ever had, subjecting her to beatings with little to no provocation, ice baths, and torture tactics like hanging her out of windows as high as 24 floors up. Once he actually had two men in the room directly below and dropped her. The men caught her, but she had no idea they were there. At that moment she had been psychologically broken. Thoroughly. She left a couple of times only to return shortly each time, welcomed home by a beating on both occasions. This last time would be the last she swore. She had no intentions of leaving the game alone even after all she had been through, but this time she felt that maybe if she had a hand in molding her next pimp from scratch, things would be different. Eric could not have come along at a more perfect time.

As Eric began to count the money, Star stopped him and told him it was $2500 and it was his, just enjoy the day and they would talk about it later if he wanted.
The day went well. On top of doing all they had planned to do at the mall that day, they also both got a few new outfits and some accessories for Star. When they left the mall they caught a taxi to a seafood restaurant not far away and spent almost two hours in there just talking and laughing. Star enjoyed hearing about what Eric considered a boring life, but she felt bad that all of her stories left out the parts where she was paid for sex, replacing those details with massages and dancing.
They head back to Star's room after midnight and she tells Eric he is welcome to stay the night if he wants to. Not wanting to disturb his family so late he accepted the invitation. During the night they made love several times and Star told him she wanted to be with him for real. Eric was single and felt blessed and a little unworthy, but gladly took the opportunity to be with someone so beautiful. She also seemed like a nice person and he still wanted to find out what was bothering when he met her the day before. When he asked she just said it's complicated but that she would tell him soon, she didn't want to ruin the mood. The same was said each time after as well.
They hung out day after day, she even would rent another room on some days for Eric to relax in while she saw her clients in her own room. As far as Eric knew she was either dancing or doing massages. He had no reason to suspect otherwise and never asked. She tried to give him some money but each time he rejected it, which is the only time he would see her in a bad mood for a little bit. What she did ask him to do was get a reloadable credit card from a check cashing place nearby and put the money on there for safekeeping. She would give him the money and he would put it on the card. They did this every 3 days, anywhere from $2000-$4200. He did accept gifts and they went out a lot like a real couple.
Eric decided to stay a full month in California and they planned to go to Las Vegas together afterwards. One day while out walking to the pool hall close to the hotel a blue Dodge Challenger pulls up on Eric, an older man with sunglasses asks if Eric is Star's "new folks". Eric, like many normal Americans thought folks meant family and said yes. Thinking maybe someone had seen them together enough to think they were in a relationship. The older man asked Eric where his phone call was. Eric had no idea what he meant. Normally when one pimp takes a girl from another pimp, the pimp who took the girl will call the ex pimp to let him know the girl chose to be with him, the new pimp. Called a "serving" in pimp terminology.
The older man wanted to know why he hadn't been " served" for Star. Eric told him he didn't know what he meant. The older man told Eric that he was going to "beat the brakes off that bitch when I catch her!" Eric got angry and called the man out for a fight, but he drove off.
Eric went back to his room and text Star to tell her what happened because she was busy at the moment. When she finished with her client she immediately responded and said they needed to talk.
Eric walked out of his room on the way to Star's room when a San Bernardino County Sheriff's vehicle pulled in, followed by several local PD vehicles and unmarked cars. Eric wasn't bothered knowing he had done nothing wrong so he continued to Star's room. As he knocked on her door officers pulled up close and asked him to turn around and place his hands behind his back. He argued why and the officers only continued to order him to comply, offering no explanation why he was apparently under arrest. He was forcefully placed in handcuffs and taken into a local PD SUV. Other officers walked Star to another vehicle. Eric was confused about the whole thing but felt it had something to do with the older guy in the Challenger. He decided to use his right to remain silent.
When he got to the station for booking he saw that the older man was also there in a holding cell already. The older man told Eric, "don't worry youngsta they ain't got nothin on us, our whole operation tight". Keep in mind Eric had never met this man. He said as much but the man continued acting like they knew each other. In an interview room officers told Eric they had been watching the older man whose name was Rick, for about two years. He was going to be indicted for several women. Aside from federal human trafficking charges he faced multiple counts of torture, assaults, kidnappings, and other dangerous crimes. Some against children as young as 14. Some of those children had been around Star. They arrested Rick on a traffic stop to bring an end to their investigation. When Rick was stopped they inquired about the man he was seen talking to near a hotel earlier, referring to Eric. Apparently Rick told the officers Eric was one of his runners. A runner is basically an assistant pimp. They watch the girls, make sure they are safe, and collect money. They are not allowed to be intimate with the girls or violent. Of course Eric was no runner, but as officers explained the situation further and he found out Star was actually a prostitute, the reality set in that he had been watching over prostitution this whole time. Because she was considered a victim they told Star she would not have to testify against the men because they had a confession from one and had enough visual and audio surveillance on Eric to convict him for the minimum of pimping and supervising prostitution. She would only get that deal if she plead guilty to one state charge of endangering the welfare of a minor by aiding in prostitution, a felony, for one of the juveniles in Rick's case. She would receive 3 years probation. She said she would accept that deal, but told them Eric had no idea she was a prostitute. The officers said it didn't matter they had enough evidence to make the case appear any way they wanted to against him. They told her Eric would most likely only do 3 years for his role in pimping her, they weren't buying the story of him being a runner for Rick. Star felt guilty knowing Eric may go to jail when he actually wasn't aware of what was going on so she declined the deal. She said she would testify against Rick and also testify that Eric honestly believed she was a dancer and did massages. Officers then told her that she would be charged in a conspiracy to traffic minors, federal charges. They told her that her credibility would be ruined, and any chance she had of helping Eric would go out the window. They would just paint her as a confused whore torn between loyalty to two pimps. Eric would get just as much time as Rick when they got through with it. They reasoned with her to just let them give Eric the 3 years and move on with her life. She reluctantly agreed.
A few months later Star was sentenced to 3 years probation. Rick took his all the way to trial, which lasted a year, and lost. He was sentenced to a total of 77 years, plus a life sentence. Eric took his to trial believing justice would prevail. He also lost and was sentenced to 8 years on state charges of  pimping and pandering on a minor under 16, by use of force. She was one of the minors from Rick's case also. Eric still doesn't know how they were able to make the evidence so believable. He was also found guilty for pimping Star and sentenced to 6 years. A gang enhancement added another 5 years. Based solely on a tattoo representing a west side Las Vegas gang whose projects were torn down more than ten years ago. Top add insult to injury he was fined half a million dollars total. Mostly for the 16 year whom he had never even met.

To the Victim Goes the Spoils

It's the same exact story time and time again.
The victim says she was beaten, threatened, and raped by her pimp or trafficker. Rarely do these women admit to being involved with prostitution before they met their so called trafficker. Whether she is a juvenile or an adult these stories sound eerily familiar and some would start to wonder if these women and girls are being coached by authorities. Make no mistake, there are some very bad men and women out there who will jump at the opportunity to victimize these vulnerable individuals, and it does happen. What also does happen is corrupt law enforcement that will stop at nothing to guarantee a conviction in these cases, with definitions so broad they can instantly turn an ordinarily law abiding citizen into a criminal unwittingly.
I am a firm believer that if you force someone into a life of prostitution, especially a minor, you deserve prosecution. I just don't think all women who are claiming to be victims truly are. There is a such thing as a renegade, those are prostitutes who have no pimp. Should they not face human trafficking and pimping and pandering charges on themselves in those instances? In essence they are living off the earnings of prostitution which is a crime, correct? Or does it only become a crime when the money goes from their hands into the hands of someone else? The initial crime is the same and the end results are the same, so when does someone turn into the monster? Someone has to be the monster right? I'll tell you who some of the worst monsters are. The women who become victims when it's convenient. The girl who has been involved happily and with absolutely no desire to leave the life alone, until she gets caught by law enforcement. Then suddenly they have been forced, kidnapped, beaten, and raped daily. Suddenly they haven't eaten in days, never get to see their family, and have been aggressively fed drugs to incapacitate them to the point of no escape.
They can only leave the hotel room to go turn tricks, and only then when the tricks aren't coming to them. Those, ladies and gentlemen, are criminals who are more devious, cold and conniving than your average pimp, if for nothing more than the fact that they will be believed fully, and they know it.
The moment their so called slave master enters into a court room he or she has already lost. There is nothing they can say because the innocent angel who was performing blow jobs for molly before she met them has said she was drug free and maybe even a virgin until the vicious creature exposed her to a life she would have never known had it not been for that person.
This is happening all over the United States and I have been paying attention, and not all cases are as cut and dry as they would have you believe. The biggest issue is the fact that most people who face those kinds of charges never want to fight them because law enforcement will sit them down and tell them there is no way they can win at trial. It is simply the girl's word against theirs. The jury will look at you like even more of an animal if you choose to fight for your freedom by dragging this poor innocent virgin angel through a trial that will remind her of the terror she was put through, at your hands. They will use force, fear, fraud, and coercion to effectively terrify you away from even wanting to tempt your fate at the hands of jurors. What they won't tell you is that the state or US has to prove every element of their case. That means it should never simply be her word against yours, but corroborating evidence that shows not only are you responsible for her prostitution activities, but that you also received earnings from it. They have to prove she was unable to move about of her own free will, and that she was actually forced into it. These are things that have to be proven, not just said. At the end of the day what's to stop some girl who gets mad at her boyfriend from saying he pimped on her? What's to stop a girl who may have even introduced the guy into a life of pimping and prostitution, from saying he turned her out?
Yet there are convictions every day that will lead the masses to believe we have an epidemic, and many don't make it to trial, instead taking a plea deal based on threats made by authorities who convince them there is no way they can win. Guilty or not. Evidence disappears, smear campaigns run rampant throughout the process, and of course the "victim" shows up to court looking like she can't even spell the word condom let alone describe what intercourse is. She will look like she just came from picking fresh vegetables in Amish country. While the accused will enter the same court room most of the time in custody, which in itself is enough to prejudice the jury. Because of the nature of the charge bail is usually too high to post, and unless you want to take a deal good luck on finding an attorney who is actually willing to put some work in when it comes to these kinds of charges.
There has to be some change to the way these charges are pursued and prosecuted because as of now a female can almost put names into a hat, close her eyes and reach in and build a pimp. It must be investigated more thoroughly from both ends. It's almost as if they completely refuse to acknowledge even the possibility that the so called victim just may have been selling sex already. If you have any connection to her at all then you're already ten steps under.
It seems impossible to me that none of the girls are ever found to be lying, ever found to be the actual brains, or ever were happy even for a second. It strikes me as odd how many of these victims cannot escape until police show up.
This isn't to say that there are no legitimate victims of prostitution because there are. This is to open your eyes that sometimes the victim may not be who they want you to think it is. Does it not bother anyone that authorities are perfectly alright with a hundred men running through a woman for free, regardless of the mental, physical, and emotional damage it can cause, but as soon as she receives anything of value it is a huge crime that should have all kinds of tax payer money thrown at it, unnecessary manpower that can be used for much more extreme crime, and generally ruins someone's life? This war on prostitution is one of the biggest lies and miscarriages of justice this country has allowed. Entrapment abounds and officers make up complete bullshit stories that go without opposition because of their position. I personally know women and girls who have been sexually abused by officers on duty in exchange for no arrest.
Johns, while they face no real jail time do have to worry about having their vehicles towed in some areas and being blasted on the news or local law enforcement websites in an effort to either humiliate or extort them. If caught with a minor the stakes are higher whether she lied about her age or not. That is not a typo. A minor can lie about her age and that is not a defense to protect from prosecution.
Which brings me back to those victims of convenience.
Let me ask you a quick question, if you knew you could rob bank after bank and when you get caught just say someone else sent you to do it, avoid jail time, possibly even be paid for your "suffering" from the person who you say sent you, would you not at least view that as an enticing endeavor? Free money and a get-out-of-jail card. It becomes too much to resist for some.
It's the same with prostitution. Lawmakers have systematically given women and girls involved in prostitution, whether actually forced or not, a get-out-of-jail free card. And they know it.
Funny how a teenage girl can run away from parents who have raised her for 16+ years but can't flag down an officer to report a pimp she's known for a month. I just find it hard to believe in some cases. Some of them seem coached, like they know how to connect all the dots in the exact order, and I'm just not naive enough to not raise any questions.
When you put someone's life on the line you must be sure to be sure. You have to check all areas for loose ends and inconsistencies. Prison time is nothing to play with or take lightly, and some of these women will watch their accused fry as long as it saves their own ass. Or worse, some may be lying to protect another pimp.

There is a current case which I can't speak on in specifics because it is still ongoing, which involves just this scenario. I will summarize.

In the last week of September, 2013, a 17 year old (of course she lied about her age) girl in California, we'll call her B, was working as a street prostitute in Hemet on Florida Ave when she saw a black older model Mercedes-Benz drive past her slowly and pull into the nearest parking lot. She approached the car thinking she had a customer and paused when she saw the man was black as he got out to walk to a BK that was in the same parking lot. We will call him C. She asked if C was a pimp and he said no but said he wasn't a customer either. He went in the BK to get something to snack on and use the bathroom, and B was still waiting when he walked out. She wanted to talk. They talked and walked to his car. B asked C how old he was and he told her he was born in 82 (but did not say an actual age), B responded that C was almost ten years older than her as she was born in 89, she also didn't say an exact age but neither seemed to mind.
At the car they continued to talk and she mostly complained about life working the streets, how much her pimp did not care about her, and how scared she is of the streets sometimes. Maybe B, even though C said he was not a pimp, felt like he had some kind of connection to what she does. After hearing how hard she was having it on the streets C eventually told her his wife used to be trafficked on the streets but had bad experiences and just posts online now. B showed some excitement and said that she wanted to work online but her pimp didn't respect internet work as real work so would not let her. She asked C if his wife would show her how to post. Just post she said, she wanted to see what kind of response she gets. He agrees to ask his wife about it and the girl asks for a ride near her pimps house from where they were. C agrees and takes her by her pimp's house, where he drops her off down the block because she didn't want to be seen getting out of his car. They exchange numbers and separate. The next day B contacts C and asks if C can take her to Moreno Valley to get a tattoo, which C agrees to. He picks her and a friend up from B's apartment in Hemet and takes them to Moreno Valley where B gets a tattoo on her stomach of a cross with a rose over it. Her friend also gets a tattoo on her shoulder. He drops them off for the tattoos and picks them up later. C killed time at the mall in the meantime. He picks them up later that night and takes them back to B's apartment in Hemet. In the car she told C that the tattoo guy was a pimp and he wanted to take her to Las Vegas in a week or two. C drops B and her friend off. C goes back home. A couple days go by and she calls and asks if he has asked his wife about showing her how to post online yet. He hadn't asked at the time but said he would get around to it. He asks his wife (we will call her K) that night and tells her about all of the girls complaints and sad story, and K agrees to show B how to post when she has a day off. K has a regular job but C did not tell B because their story was complicated. So B goes over to the house where C and K live with C's mom and step dad the next time K has a day off, and K shows B how to post and show her postings of other girls on a popular escort website. She makes one post for B but B didn't want to use her own phone number because she said she would not be able to explain the extra calls to her pimp. So K puts her number instead. When asked by K for her age so she can put it in the post B says she is 22. B suggests taking new pics because she only had one or two selfies she had K use for the post. K tells her that she usually takes pics in a hotel room because those pics look more real. B asks when is the next time K was going to take pics at a room and K says she can get a room for an hour just to take pics the next day. So they go get a room the following day to take pics, some together and some separate, but they use B's phone to take all of the photos since it was for B's benefit ultimately. C took any pics with both of them in it. They took individual pictures of each other. All photos were fully clothed, but B wanted some suggestive poses and seemed to be having fun. The evidence shows a very happy and smiling B and an obviously uncomfortable K. B leaves after they take pics but says she will send the ones she likes and wants to use. She will also come up with a name to use for the internet. A little before midnight that same night B sends the pics as well as a few extra selfies, and a couple of name suggestions. Through email. Using her own email address. She sends pics with and without the new tattoo.
K posts either that night or the next day. B did not come by but instead calls and texts over the next few days to ask what kind of response she's been getting. She calls a couple or more times a day just to ask about her calls. At home because K works so much, she normally catches up with her toddler daughter, laundry, and relaxes, she would answer the phone but only sometimes. At work K can only answer the phone at certain parts of her shift but she is able to let B know that a lot of the calls and texts are for B. She suggests B use her own number, but again B said she doesn't want to. B doesn't like how long K takes to respond so she starts asking C about the calls instead, figuring C could get faster answers out of K. B also would just pop up at the house C lived, which was his mother's house. In the same house lived his 2 year old daughter with K, his step father, and a few grand children which were C's niece and nephews. B met everyone in the house. She would pop up when she was supposed to be working the streets for her pimp, and would just chill at the house. C didn't mind and B seemed happy to be off the streets even for a little while. Besides showing up in skimpy revealing clothing she was respectful to the household. Sometimes she would walk there from where she lived in an apartment with a roommate a couple of miles away, bypassing street work to go straight to C's house. She made that trip 3-4 times throughout the course of their contact which only lasted a couple of weeks. One time she was said to have told C she walked from her pimp's house after working for the day. She would not go to the house on the days K would be there. Maybe coincidence or out of respect knowing she wanted to spend time with her family. She didn't know exactly where K would be when she was away, only being told K was seeing a regular.
Over the course of their contact B has K do a few posts for her trying different titles, and even using the pics with them both on one or two posts so she can see the response with direct competition. She never uses her own number and because of K's job never actually got the see K answer the phone. And besides seeing each other those first two times K and B only had phone contact from then on. B also never took a call while she was around. On one of the occasions when she called to ask about the calls C told her he would not be able to find out because K had left the phone at home, but that it was ringing and messages were coming. B asks if C can pick her up and take her to a nail shop. K has their car most of the time when she works and had the car on this day also, so C had to see about using his step father's SUV. He gets the SUV and goes to pick up B who was at her pimp's house. He picked her up down the street from the pimp's house. He takes her to a nail shop in a shopping center not far away. Once there she asks if C has K's phone with him, he does, and if she can practice answering the phone while she waits at the nail shop. She promised to return the phone when C picked her up from the shop. C agreed and they separated. That was the last time he ever saw B. He was in a panic and text her the next day asking her to bring K's phone back. That was K's only phone and he was responsible for losing it. She did not respond. This was at the beginning of October.
Over a month and a half later in December B texts out of the blue saying she had been caught up in some BS, it was a long story, and asked about some papers she may have left at C's mother's house. C told her his family had moved out of that home but he would ask them if they saw anything. C did take her to get transcripts from and old school once so B could enroll in college and figured those were the papers she was referring to. He also took her to Moreno Valley with a friend of hers on two occasions, once to get the tattoo of the cross with a flower on it, the second time to get details added to that same tattoo. On that second occasion when he took her to get the details added to the tattoo she again told him the tattoo guy wanted to take her to Vegas and was supposed to be leaving soon, like within the next couple of days. C told her she should go and that she would like Vegas because she was always talking about going to parties and clubs, and that Vegas had a lot of clubs and bars (obviously thinking he was talking to an adult). C said he just thought she went to Vegas when she disappeared with the phone at the time.
When he took B to get the transcripts mentioned it was somewhere in a city called Perris or Mead Valley.
Twice he took her to pick up her roommate's daughter from an elementary school in Hemet, where B actually lived (C's mother lived in San Jacinto a nearby city). The last time he saw B was the day he took her to the nail shop.
Now C believes her whole objective that day she asked for a ride to the nail shop was to get the phone. Most likely to take to her pimp and prove to him that online work was just as good as street work. He believes she tried to actually work off the phone with absolutely no knowledge of how to even take or screen a call, set up a date with an undercover, got caught and lied to protect herself and/or her pimp.
C's wife had never been caught in a sting because unbeknownst to B, K did not actually see anyone from the calls. I'll explain.
In 2006 K was brought to the United States by a family member who sponsored her. She entered the country legally as a student. Once in the US her sponsor told her she owed him $100,000 for bringing her, and put her into prostitution, first taking her to see men he already knew, and later having her work the streets where she was arrested on multiple occasions. K says she would get caught on purpose hoping it would scare her sponsor into letting her out of street work but he never seemed to care. She met C in 2008, they weren't married until 2011, but she kept what she did from C until she confessed in 2010. C made her promise to stop working and she did, but it ruined things between K and her sponsor. She graduated from Fullerton College in 2010 with her AA in Math & Science and needed a bank statement from her sponsor to continue her education. K had even been accepted at one school while they waited for the bank statement. Her sponsor told her he would not provide the statement unless K continued to work as a prostitute. She refused and her sponsor did not provide the bank statement.
K always had real tax paying jobs, so she continued to work hoping her sponsor would change his mind. He did not. In 2011 K discovered she was pregnant and her and C got married. K did not mention to C about petitioning for her citizenship because she still hoped to gain it through her education, and C was unaware of the process. She continued to work and pay taxes. In 2012 K, C and their baby girl moved to Las Vegas because they heard it was cheaper to live than California and also more stuff was in walking distance. Less than a week in Vegas K was in a casino where she was on her way to a nightclub, she says two white men asked her if she wanted a drink as she passed them at a bar. She declined. She went to the nightclub and paid to gain entry into the club. She says she was in there less than a full minute when the same two men from the bar went in and arrested her for "trespassing". She believes she was racially profiled because of her skin tone. K says the charge was later dropped but she had an immigration hold for failure to comply with Visa requirements. Not being in school. She spent a year in a Henderson, NV detention center because her bond was too high to be taken serious. She says the judge set the bond so high because he did not believe her employment history which showed she had worked two jobs as well as went to school during the same period. Although it was indeed factual he said he did not believe it and raised her bond from $7,500 to $30,000 the first day she went to court. He made no attempt to verify her work history whatsoever.
After a year he eventually lowered it to $5,000. During the time K was detained her husband had started the petition process and they had done all of the paperwork, C would be her sponsor and his mother would be her cosponsor. There was an issue with his mother's income because it came from foster children so she would either have to use a different source of income, or they would have to find a different cosponsor. C's income alone did not cover it.
K went in in April 2012 and was released June 2013 on bond. She had to hint at revealing their secret in order to get her current sponsor to bond her out. He promptly bonded her out, but now felt he held her freedom in his hands and told her he would have the bond revoked if she did not start back working for him as a prostitute. K agreed to work for him again as a prostitute. However she did not intend on actually working as a prostitute. She got a job as a live in caregiver in Riverside. It was her first live-in job and worked perfectly for the plan she had. There were two convalescent homes down the street from each other and she would be at either one.
She would post online and show her sponsor the posts, but the money she gave him came from her employment. Even C would give her some of his earnings to help pay her debt to her sponsor. C did not mind his wife posting because he knew she did not actually work and it kept her safe from threats of being sent back home to Tanzania from her sponsor. Everything was going ok. K went to work, C worked mostly at the house and stayed with their daughter who had grown closer to him than K in the year K was in detention. C had a business where he made business cards and other print items for people. He also did a lot of writing assignments and homework for others for a fee. They wouldn't get rich but they lived Ok and they were happy.
When they met B she had no way of knowing any of this and they did not tell her. C also did not tell her that day she called after disappearing for over a month that the reason his family did not live at the same house anymore is because his mother had killed his step father in the home. He says she said it was done in self defense but that's not this story.
The event of his step father's death took place in December, early in the first week. He had been dead for a couple of weeks when B contacted C out of the blue.
That same December because of threats from his step father's family members, and some of those family members just popping up at the house, K and C moved out of state. Over two thousand miles away. K and C had another daughter while out of state, in March 2014 which means she was pregnant when she was in California and the entire time they knew B. B was aware of K's pregnancy and even asked if she could use the same name they were planning to name their next child if it was a girl, as her online name.
Out of state K worked a legal job even up to the day she actually gave birth. After the baby came, another baby girl, C worked mostly, still mainly from home.
K and C and their two children returned to California early in 2015, tried living in California for a couple of months but it was too expensive, so they moved to Phoenix. In May they moved into an apartment that required a background check which they both passed. In June 2015 K was arrested for a warrant out of California, which she and C both thought maybe had something to do with her immigration hearing which is scheduled for December 2015. She had an immigration hold and the actual charge said FOJ hold. Or fugitive of justice. C was not arrested at the time, but later turned himself in once they extradited K to California and named C as her codefendant. Later they learned that B had been arrested in a sting some time in 2013 (after the last time either one of them saw her) and told officers that she was working with K and for K's husband at the time, and that she also gave some money to K. They both believe she had some kind of coaching. Authorities were able to find postings with her and K of course, and charged K with 236.1 and 266h. Human trafficking and Pimping basically. They could not directly link C but still based strictly on B's word C was given the same charges. Now C and K will have to go through a trial, have no idea what's going on with their children, as well as K is currently pregnant with their 3rd child. From what I can tell this is just a regular family. C has no tattoos and says he has never had one, he is not in a gang, and just does not seem to fit the mentality of someone who would commit the crimes he is charged with. K has a tattoo of her own name on her back, and one for her first daughter on her forearm. She has an accent and is soft spoken. There is no way they can believe she is capable of being anyone's pimp. Yet she sits, a victim of trafficking herself, because of someone protecting either herself or her pimp.
I did visit them both in jail. I asked K why she never turned in her sponsor and she says it's because her family would disown her back home. If she is sent back home on deportation she would have no one. If she gets him locked up and just wanted to visit home she would have no one. Her family is more important than her own well-being. The courage and strength she shows is remarkable. She is more scared for her husband because she said law enforcement attempted to coach her into saying he was her pimp. She says her husband not only has never pimped on her but he has used his own money to help pay her sponsor. So she believes authorities know how to cover all of the necessary bases to solidify a conviction.
Her husband seems less worried, for some reason he believes that justice will be done and says he has evidence that shows the girl was very in control, lied about her age, stole his wife's phone, and never actually worked online while they knew her, and never saw his wife work or even answer the phone. The only evidence he did agree to show me was of the so called victim, in one picture she is forcefully pushing K's head down because K was uncomfortable with the pose. In many of the pictures K looks uncomfortable while B is all smiles and apparent happiness. I don't believe the charges against K and C will stick, but I am aware of how corrupt the system can be when it comes to these cases. I have sat at a trial where the victim took the stand looking like something out of Little House on the Prairie, only to walk into the hall and throw her arms around another pimp and tell him, and I quote, "daddy he a bum now, I don't know why I ever even got it up for that lame".
But these are your victims.
Or are they?

Head Down Heels Up

The mentality of the average pimp shown is sickening to say the least. Some have a misconception that the ladies they pimp on are expendable. Almost as bad if not worse than the way our women and girls are viewed by cops and customers. The street pimp mantra of head down heels up has been replaced by happy hookers with head up heels down. While this show of empowerment is indeed empowering, it is disheartening to see that the men they dedicate themselves to wholeheartedly refuse to acknowledge them as the precious jewels they truly are. I realize some on the outside looking in will wonder, why, if these women are so precious, don't the pimps try to talk them out of working completely? While that is a very sweet sentiment there is this thing called reality, and this reality being most of these women are going to continue to be prostitutes no matter who they go home to at the end of the day. In fact for some the mere mention of wanting them to quit sets an immediate defense barrier against you, because now she can no longer be sure you except her in every way. She is aware that you being with her is risky legally even without paying you. Even her asking for a ride to see a customer, while a misdemeanor for her although she will do all of the work and commit the crime on her own free will, is a felony for her significant other. Which leaves them in a position to want to be sure that man really wants to be there.
It is hard emotionally to cater to a prostitute without learning the game from all angles. Meaning you have to be able to understand the frame of mind of Johns, pimps, and prostitutes, and engage with her on all levels socially at least. Then you must also be able to engage with them as a friend, lover, critic, and even therapeutically. A pimp and prostitute relationship should go beyond her getting money from a john and in turn handing that same money to a pimp in order to be with that person. What is being done when the order remains this way is just a cycle of total prostitution. The prostitute becomes a bigger John than her Johns, thereby turning her pimp into a bigger prostitute than she is. She expects sex, love, affection, attention, companionship, full support, protection, intelligent guidance, answers, and so much more from her pimp than she would from any John and makes that clear by wanting to give him more at one time than any John gives her. Also, while the Johns are more likely paying the prostitutes to leave, she pays her pimp to stay. If the relationship only consists of her getting money just to give away with no return on her investment in the ways I described, she will most likely seek that elsewhere. If she stays you can almost be sure there is some sort of force or fear involved. Or she may be tired of starting over and will stick it out hoping for a change that deep down she knows will never manifest.
The pimp culture that is shown on TV, in the news, and even in most songs only show the negative side, but will not reveal that there are less negative pimp/prostitute relationships than there are positive. Only the positive side never makes the news because it is not sensational enough. They could not get funding to fight all of these phantom abuse and kidnap human trafficking victims if they came out and said that MOST women are in prostitution voluntarily. Not all are on drugs, and most hookers advocate safe sex whereas a lot of square girls will have bare sex just to get her phone turned on. There are men who allow their girl to work and do not take any of the money. No different than a stripper or porn star who has a boyfriend. The only difference is if a porn actress gets a ride to a porn shoot, even though she is being paid to have sex with a stranger on her own free will, the same as a prostitute, her boyfriend will never get in any trouble. So for a prostitute finding someone who actually wants to be there for them and not just the money, is extremely important.
There is a stigma that comes with being a pimp who actually loves his girl/s. They are outcast and called simps, meaning overly sympathetic to the feelings of his girl/s. So it becomes almost embarrassing to express any feelings that would indicate any love and affection. This causes a pimp to talk to his girl/s any kind of way, calling her out of her name, using menacing tones, refusing to allow her to refer to him as anything not pimp related. This especially occurs in front of other pimps and prostitutes. While a pimp may be the sweetest person to his women behind closed doors, you may only see a side of him that makes you wonder why his women stay at all. I have witnessed a pimp lose his mind because his girl called him babe in front of a new girl. I almost had to stop the interview (and would have had it gotten physical), but was honestly eager to see how it played out. The girl, while referred to as multiple different kinds of bitches, hos, maggots, and faggots, never lost her composure and aside from a soft spoken apology, offered no other retort. I was speechless. I was speechless because maybe twenty minutes earlier while we were waiting for the new girl to arrive for the interview, his main girl called him babe many times and he never flinched.
I feel that many pimps purposely follow a stereotype because they truly believe that persona is what attracts the most prostitutes, or a certain kind of prostitute. As crazy as it may sound some of these women want the hardest pimp they can find. Even to the point of provoking violence to seek out an answer as to whether or not her pimp actually cares enough about her to risk his freedom to show it. The same way she risks not only her freedom, but her health, sanity, and life for him. I believe pimps and prostitutes take the same risks for each other. True the dynamics are different, but you can search and see how many pimps have been killed defending their girl. How many pimps have went to jail picking his girl up or just watching her as she works. Yes, you cannot even watch her to make sure she is ok, that is a felony in most places.
When you understand these risks, from both sides, it makes you wonder how a man who has been gifted this dedication from someone who is mentally and emotionally fragile, could possibly not have love and appreciation for her. How can he not feel excited every time she calls, every time she walks through that door alive and well. How can he not want to show the world that she is an amazing addition to his life? In short the truth is they believe they are not supposed to. That's not "pimping".
On the other hand a prostitute will leave the same man who has risked it all to be there for her, at the drop of a hat, for a pretty car, an out of town trip, or just because she likes the way another pimp looks. There's a reason for the saying, " colder than a hooker's heart ", and I honestly think the women in the game can be just as cold as the men if not colder in some instances, but that's another story I may actually write about soon.
So when you see the pimps who do show that love publicly, who doesn't have to be called daddy, or king so and so, mac such and such, and who can just be himself, what you will be witnessing is someone who has accepted his true position in her life as everything, because it takes everything to save and protect these ladies. If you're not willing to be everything then you are not worthy of being anything to these women. I'm not foolish enough or dirty enough to want to separate prostitutes from pimps because I know that is an actual natural combination and no one can complete one like the other. However there is a duty that must be upheld, and it goes far beyond just having your palms out. Definitely much further than keeping her head down and her heels up.

No Prayer for Prostitution

You can go on your search browser right now and type in human trafficking, select news, and even narrow it down to the last 24 hours in the search tools, and what you will see is what appears to be a legitimate fight against trafficking, against pimps, against johns or patrons of prostitution, and even against access to prostitutes. If that is what you see then you have been successfully deceived. What you truly see is a new war. The war on prostitution. The reality is officials actually do not care about prostitutes as a whole, but only those who they themselves can pimp out for grant money, traffic for votes, and exploit for attention to their own agencies and campaigns. On an individual basis these women are considered less than human by many authority figures. In fact it seems as though they do not want anyone at all to show these women affection other than to be screwed for a few minutes at best. You are not allowed to live with one, help one in any way, accept any gifts from one, buy any gifts for one, give one a ride, or aid them in any way, even if it's to save them from harm. Essentially other than just being screwed, prostitutes should have no actual existence in the eyes of the law.
I have watched the way police in certain areas talk to prostitutes and it is much more demeaning than anything a pimp can say, because you expect officers to actually be concerned. Oh don't get me wrong, they will appear on the news very concerned for the well-being and safety of these women and girls but when the cameras go off they are the biggest victimizers of these vulnerable people. Often they will use force, fear, fraud, and coercion to induce a woman into lying about her activities. Threaten them with long jail terms if they don't give them a pimp (just a pimp or someone to take the fall as one, it doesn't matter if there is any truth in the accusation and allegations), and sometimes even sexually abuse the same victims they swear to protect. I have done extensive research and have become aware of an outlook from society and officials that will make your blood boil.
Prostitutes are not human. To anyone. They're not allowed to be. If you decide you want to accept one for everything she comes with, all the emotions, pain, depression, insecurities, fear of abandonment issues, inferiority complexes, and general lack of self worth and inherent value, then you are a pimp. You must be, because to authority and society there is absolutely no way these women deserve to be loved just because. There is no way any man should be able to find it in his heart to love what should only be considered a disgusting, bottom barrel, disgrace to human nature. If you're with her then you must be being paid to be there. There's no other way. They are hell bent on scaring these women out of any human contact other than that from johns. For example a prostitute can go out on her own and service a thousand clients and it is always a misdemeanor, but the moment there appears to be someone in her life who she goes home to, her misdemeanor becomes his felony. Until or unless he's proven innocent of course. The goal is to make you not want to be with these women much past 15 minutes. The john can actually get caught with his penis in her mouth, a $50 bill taped to the back of her head, with a hand written note that says, "I just paid for this bj", and it is a misdemeanor, maybe even an infraction. The message is clear. They now even have laws in place that can see families of these women facing criminal charges for accepting any part of money or gifts that come from sex work if they are aware of what the woman does. So even if a prostitute does not have a pimp in the traditional sense, lawmakers have found an ingenious way to create one for them. Thereby severing the last of a prostitutes ties to being able to do at least something positive with her earnings.
That is where the violent pimps come in, the drug use, the depression and lack of self worth. Society has forced these women to shut out anything good because no one who is not a criminal or criminal minded would dare dedicate any part of his life to one of these walking prison sentences. Whether you accept her earnings or not, whether you are unhappy with what she does but knows she will do it with or without you and you just choose to be in her life, you will be deemed a monstrous pimp, human trafficker, and general scum. Because how dare you care about someone who has been cast out (yet kept close enough to still be usable by the very same people who label her undesirable) and left to rot alone?
They claim to be hard on sex work because they want to stop illegal sex work as a whole, and that sounds awesome right? Well do me a favor and take a moment to see how many public officials are busted for patronizing these women. I'll wait.
From local law enforcement to secret service these women are merely seen as products, not much different than drugs. Only they are worth less than their weight in cocaine when it comes to the men in power who abuse them. All over the world athletes and entertainers, even judges, use the services of these women illegally. With no regards to the actual person. I promise these men see it with the same perception as snorting a line of high priced Peruvian flake, or even some of the cheap stuff depending on who they are patronizing.
There are online worlds of customers of these women who discuss the flesh trade as if they are describing bacon at their local grocery store. Complaints of women who use protection, those women are actually talked down about and negatively reviewed, which hurts business enough to compel some women to want to shun protection themselves. This is happening every day. Prostitutes are not allowed to care about even their own safety.
Riverside County, an Inland Empire area of Southern California has been known for its corruption and greed when it comes to the way they treat (or mistreat) sex workers. The way they falsify and enhance charges, actually watch and allow prostitution to occur in order to make an arrest, and in some cases use force, fear, fraud, and coercion to retain guilty pleas for pimping and human trafficking. They don't care who is actually guilty, they just want a conviction. More convictions mean more revenue. Which is what this war on prostitution is really about. Revenue. Grants. Funding. There is no actual reform. Not enough anyway, and the effort for actual reform is miniscule compared to the loud cries for reform.
Recently in an effort to curb online prostitution several credit card companies have stopped processing payments on a popular classifieds site's adult entertainment section. The idea was to shorten the access to being able to engage in illegal sex work online. However, this site in turn made posting ads free temporarily. If I need to explain the obvious and immediate danger then you haven't been paying attention. Even those who may have had no previous interest in working online may now feel enticed and intrigued by the prospect of free. Especially with the potential earnings to be made. Any high school girl can post an ad as she walks home from school.
Until society, law enforcement, and public officials actually start caring about the person a prostitute is and not just the product, there will be no real change.