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Johns school. >> these guys that are first offenders are given an opportunity, if they choose to do so, to go to a class on saturday for eight hours and get educated why they shouldn't do this. the health department teaches ramifications if you interact with girls you get those diseases. if you get those diseases, guess where you're bringing them. you're bringing them home with you. get educated by that. if you learn from their mistake, they won't be out here again. >> you're under arrest for soliciting prostitution. >> i do anything. i'm not here tomorrow. you're comfortable here,

>> we are on dickerson road. this is a known area of prostitution. >> so this is the track of nashville, dickerson road. >> dickerson road, yes. >> kenny baker is program director for the johns school. >> over the years, have you seen more or less girls out here walking the track. >> you know, as times change and the technology moves forward, we are seeing less street-level prostitution and more the stuff on backpage. so they are really using the web a lot more. >> 13-year-old salina's pimp sold her to men on backpage.com out of cheap hotel rooms near las vegas. >> we snuck in some contraband,...

[ bleep ] >> these guys would try to have sex with you? >> yeah. >> did they know you were 13? >> no. >> men buying girls barely into their teens online. >> would you say they were 14 or 15? >> i don't know. >> the sex trade has moved to the web and the girls are getting younger and younger? >> she's a child. it's disgusting. >> this is how the girl next door gets sold. >> las vegas, nevada, 35 million americans come here every year. it's a non-stop party on the strip. if you look past the carefully marketed glitz, you will find one of america's dirty little secrets. >> $89, how? >> ...

They have been sentenced to these schools in certain counties within the state of tennessee, right? so do they feel like they are getting a second chance, whereas we'll learn in your documentary, young women under age or otherwise when they're busted for being prostitutes, they're looking at jail time detention centers, these guys are getting a second chance. >> reporter: they really are. if they go to the johns school and fulfill a couple other requirements they get their records completely cleaned. so these john schools face a lot of criticism. however when i spoke with the director of this ...

>> we are on dickerson road. this is a known area of prostitution. >> reporter: so this is the track of nashville. >> yes. >> reporter: kenny baker is program director for the johns school. >> they're only thinking about themselves and not about anything else. only their immediate needs. >> reporter: and obviously not about these girl. >> no. no. it's just an object. >> reporter: did you ever suspect that any of the girls that you found were under age and lied about their age? yes? did you find those girls on backpage.com? yes. and by being under age, would you say they were 14? 15? >> i don't...