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Trove of letters and childlike drawings. heather confirms she is the author of the stories which describe a daily life of torture, agony and sorrow. among the confessions there are angry rants against the police and love letters to miko, begging him never to leave her. >> 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 d...

Briefly interrupted when police walk miko down the hallway. his very presence seems to affect her demeanor dramatically. >> i don't want to take sides on this. i can't -- it's dangerous to take sides on this. >> what do you mean? >> life or death. can we redo that part? >> what do you mean it's life or death? as in, like -- like people i know could get hurt. >> could you get hurt? >> no, no, no. not -- no. >> are you on anything right now? >> no! >> to appreciate the devastating reality that is heather's existence, one needs only to look carefully at the place that serves as her home today. am...

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 and they prevend me from going to school because i didn't have a...

Actually beat their girls up bad. >> how badly? >> so bad they'd be in the hospital. it's not worth it. >> those who advocate against human trafficking know that the outcome for victims like tina and heather is often grim without meaningful intervention. >> to those people who are preying on these young women, who are on the internet and trolling and looking for an easy target, what do you say to them? >> i say that it is violence. i say that you are hurting girls. i say that you are hurting women. >> oh, my god! >> you're hurting her inside, and the hurt that is there inside will be there and...

>> heather told police she tried to run away from miko twice in four months but each time he's tracked her down and pulled her back into the game. >> he don't hurt you unless you mess up. >> what do you define as messing up? >> by not listening. >> so if you don't listen to what he says -- >> you get hurt bad. >> okay. >> so you have to obey. especially a girl my size. >> officers will now offer the teen a different way out. >> if you want out, if you want us to get you in a shelter, get you in a program to get you out of this life, we can. you have a choice. if you want to do that, we'll do t...