Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world

On just one station, a former pimp talks about his victims and the sex trade.

“There’s gonna be monsters like me. They’ve been there since the beginning of time.” He doesn’t want to share his name, but he will share his story.

He’s a former pimp. A sex trafficker who spent nearly a dozen years convincing young women in Massachusetts to sell their bodies and give him the money. He tells us it started with his first girlfriend.

“I remember the first time. When she brought me the money she was disgusted. But with all her hate and disgust for herself, she just went and did it again.” And how, exactly, did he convince a young woman to prostitute herself for him?

“Persuasion,” he says. “It was like ‘I know when you walk into a room you feel that nobody notices you, but that’s what makes you the most beautiful person in the room.'”

He says he would find his victims at tanning salons, gyms, bars, and nightclubs, and was always on the lookout for girls who seemed to have low self-esteem. “You dress them up. I might have to spend $5000 on breast implants, which is worth it to me. You make them feel rich. Alive. Who doesn’t want to feel pretty?”