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>> thank you guys. >> unfortunately, the task force can see heather is either too scared or paralyzed to make a change tonight. >> we'll go this way. >> before heading out the door and back to miko, heather agrees to sit down for an interview. >> so when we first entered the room, you were screaming. >> yeah. i was screaming. >> so you screamed that he raped you. >> well, he forcefully pushed me onto the ground and i didn't know what that was at first. and then he says, you're under arrest after he's on top of me. it was, like, get off me, get off me. so i thought, okay, this is some weird guy...

Torture, agony and sorrow. among the confessions there are angry rants against the police and love letters to miko, begging him never to leave. >> is he your pimp or your boyfriend? >> he's my boyfriend, not my pimp. >> but in your letters you call him daddy. >> because he's like a father to me. he takes care of me. >> how long you have been in the life? >> about a year and a half. >> so since you were how old? >> 17. >> did you not graduate from high school? >> no, i didn't. >> why did you leave high school? >> to be in the life. i wanted to be in the life. i like the life. i thought it was, ...

>> we want to make sure you're safe. >> this is your choice, heather. if you want out now, we'll make phone calls and nobody will know where you went and you'll be safe. >> if you want to make the choice later, that's okay. >> thank you guys. >> unfortunately, the task force can see heather is either too scared or paralyzed to make a change tonight. >> we'll go this way. >> before heading out the door and back to miko, heather agrees to sit down for an interview. >> so when we first entered the room, you were screaming. >> yeah. i was screaming. >> so you screamed that he raped you. >> well, h...

>> miko denies the pimp label and claims to be nothing more than heather's driver and bodyguard. >> technically, i feel i'm doing a good thing by protecting someone. >> and how much do you make doing this? >> on average, i can get -- like on a $200 call i can get 50 bucks for driving a $200 call. on an in-call, it varies on what they want to give me. >> how much does heather make? >> whatever she wants. 75% usually and she gives me 25%. >> while miko tries to paint a rosy picture of his arrangement with heather, the 19-year-old gives police the real deal. >> how much do you get to keep? >> it'...

Back at the command post, the young woman known to police as lil barbie must decide whether or not to cooperate. >> we're going to sit down and talk, okay? >> all right. >> don't worry. i'm not a bad guy. all right? >> investigators determine barbie's real identity. despite her initial claim, she is not underage. she is 19-year-old heather jiardan. >> you got kicked out of the house. how old were you? >> 18. my grandma kicked me out because i called her a bitch. >> like her and thousands like her, their path to prostitution began with desperate circumstances. >> i wanted to go to school, they ...