How pimps con their child prostitutes

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The pimp’s buddies will carry out the body, the man who plays dead, and wrap him in a blanket. The pimp then explains to the girl that she’s killed someone and that in this state, the penalty is typically the electric chair. And so the only way he can help her now is give the police $20 000. But if he gives the police $20 000 so she doesn’t get arrested and go to jail and be killed for murder, she must pay him back. And one of the ways to pay him back is through prostitution. I have worked with many young women who have been victims of this kind of con game. I have learned over the years that it is easier for them to believe that they killed a man who wanted to sexually abuse them, a trick, a customer, than it is to believe that the pimp conned her. Because the customer, the man who pays a child or a young women for sex, represents all of the people who have sexually abused her since she was a little. So he deserves to be tricked or fooled or hurt or manipulated.

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Lois Lee, PhD, JD

Founder & President Children of the Night

Dr. Lois Lee is a pioneer and trailblazer in rescuing America’s sex trafficked children right here in the United States. She is the founder and president of Children of the Night and has rescued over 10,000 children from prostitution—that is more children than all of the other sex trafficking organizations combined. Since 1979 she has raised more than $40 million in private donations to support her groundbreaking programs. Diplomats come from all over the world to observe Lee's ground-breaking work at the Children of the Night home. Dr. Lee has received countless awards for her humanitarian work, most notably the prestigious President's Volunteer Action Award, presented to her by President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1984, and permanent memorial portrait at the Frederick Douglas Museum honors her 1994 National Caring Award. Her life story was portrayed in a CBS Movie of the Week “Children of the Night” in 1985 and she was profiled on CBS “60 Minutes” in 1987. Dr. Lee was lauded by singer/songwriter Richard Marx in his song "Children of the Night," which appeared on his 1989 Repeat Offender album.

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