THE LIFE: Sex Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery

01) 01;00;35;23 - 01;00;42;13
(dialogue; violence)
[trafficked female teen]
From age four till I was 12, I was blindfolded and raped and abused.


02) 01;02;37;10 - 01;02;49;18
(dialogue; violence)
[Cynthia Rivera]
I was trafficked from 15 to 17. I was taken for two years and tortured for two years.

[Angel Carter]
Four years ago, my daughter was trafficked. She didn’t make it. She was murdered. She was 18 years old.


03) 01;06;04;11 - 01;06;08;19
[Bob Sanborn]
(dialogue; sexually provocative)
The Internet has really facilitated trafficking. You can go on the Internet and order up a young girl faster than a pizza could get to your house.


04) 01;07;39;21 - 01;08;33;27
(dialogue; bad language)
[Kathy Griffin]
Because all the s*** that you kept secret.
[s*** is the only word that was actually bleeped in the program]

[Narrator]
(dialogue; sexually provocative)
She was sexually abused as a child, but now rehabilitates victims of human trafficking.


[Kathy Griffin]
(dialogue; sexually provocative)
And the buyers of sex think that all prostitutes love having sex, one of the biggest misconceptions known to man. It’s not true.

[Female Trafficked Victim]
(dialogue; sexually provocative, violence)
I would usually sit in one room or I would have to duct tape my own eyes. I never tried to tell somebody, only because I thought nobody would believe me. He was retired law enforcement. The first time I realized that it was bad and he was the perpetrator was my freshman year in high school. That was like what I thought love was. I had a great therapist, her explaining, like, that’s not love. This wasn’t supposed to happen to you. It’s not family.


05) 01;10;28;28 - 01;10;32;17
Visual – photograph, Nissi in a provocative outfit.


06) 01;10;42;14 - 01;11;10;18
[Nissi Hamilton]
(dialogue; sexually provocative)
My grandmother trafficked my mom. My aunt and uncle’s father slept with my mother from age eleven to thirteen. Not only did she sleep with him, she pretty much slept with every man in our family. Back then, it was okay if you were a fifteen-year-old girl to be in a sexual relationship with a thirty-year-old man.


07) 01;11;30;16 - 01;12;07;01
[Nissi Hamilton]
(dialogue; sexually provocative, violence)
I was working at a strip club and I remember grabbing the door to go into the club, and I had said, like, a really smart remark to my trafficker, and he leans over with his hand and he knocks the crap out of me.

[Nissi Hamilton]
(dialogue; sexually provocative, violence, bad language)
This is one of the clubs that I was at here. And, god, this brings back so many horrible memories to me. I mean, I was a little girl. I was sixteen. Just being here now creeps me the hell out.


08) 01;12;17;14 - 01;12;24;27
[Nissi Hamilton]
(dialogue; violence)
I had gotten beat up by the dude that was pimping me out, and you was, like, it's time for you to go. It's time for you to get out


09) 01;15;10;26 - 01;15;19;06
[Cornelius A. Pratt]
(dialogue; bad language)
I came up in the game thinking I was doing such a great thing. I thought I was just the big, you know, I’m making all this money. I thought I was just a cold-ass pimp. I just feel like, you know, yeah. I was mistaken on a lot of stuff.



10) 01;16;31;10 - 01;16;48;05
[Kathy McGibbon Givens]
(dialogue; sexually provocative, violence)
And then literally, men just started coming to the room and I was forced to do whatever they wanted me to do with them. And I remember hitting somebody over the head with a bottle because I was being raped and he was strangling me. I remember a gun being pulled on me. I remember being held hostage in a hotel or motel room. .

11) 01;19;24;27 - 01;19;33;15
[Kathy Griffin]
(dialogue; sexually provocative, bad language)
I don’t care if you had sex with dogs, frogs, fish, flies. It does not matter.


12) 01;20;11;07 - 01;20;23;08
[Kathy Griffin]
(dialogue; sexually provocative, drug reference)
You try having sex ten, 15, 20, 25, 30, up to 50 times a day, and you do that sober. It's virtually impossible.