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What's your pimp's name? see that's why they don't get arrested because all of a sudden the girls get real stupid. >> after arresting this 17-year-old who offered an undercover officer intercourse for $60 hoffman tried to urge the teen to let her get her treatment. >> i'm going to call in an advocate. do you know what an advocate is? she has a program that will help you with school or, you know, just talk you to about your family life or lack of family life or -- do you -- you don't live at home i take it, right? you don't have a home? >> hoffman is concerned about the 17-year-old who explains...

Done they just go to work. so a lot of them tell the guys at work, hey, guess what i did on the way to work kind of thing. so it spreads, you know, word of mouth. >> five nights a week as the light of day fades debbie hoffman of oakland pd's see care unit heads out to the track on a mission to seek and find the forgotten girls who sacrifice their health and welfare to pleasure johns for the brutal men who control them. >> hey, honey. can i talk to you for a sec? >> it may take months or years but for a decade hoffman's been there trying to save one life at a time by simply letting them know sh...

Just quick head. >> oh, that's going to be a hundred. >> i don't know -- all right. where should i meet you? >> we can go over here. all right. walk over there. i'll meet you. >> moments later officer saleda tells officers to grab the young woman for soliciting prostitution. >> in the old days it was a sweep. you just swept these girls off the street and didn't give a damn. you threw them in jail and you weren't attacking a problem. you weren't solving the problem. the girls would keep coming back out and keep doing it. by attacking the pimps and making them pay, they don't victimize other gir...

>> just leave us alone. >> okay, what's your pimp's name? >> i don't know. see that's why they don't get arrested because all of a sudden the girls get real stupid. >> after arresting this 17-year-old who offered an undercover officer intercourse for $60 hoffman tried to urge the teen to let her get her treatment. >> i'm going to call in an advocate. do you know what an advocate is? she has a program that will help you with school or, you know, just talk to you about your family life or lack of family life or -- do you -- you don't live at home i take it, right? you don't have a home? >> hoffm...

Happening right here in our own back yard. it's happening from county to county and from state to state. this is my cell phone number. okay. i want you to call me when you get out. okay? even if you don't want to get into a program. just let me know you're okay. okay? >> hoffman tries to make an emotional connection with the young girls in an attempt to wrest them from the iron grip of their pimps. >> they'll probably make around maybe a thousand dollars a night off of one girl. and if he has six girls that's $6,000 in one night. >> hoffman says many of the 13 and 14-year-olds she sees are ame...