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He's a victim of his father. he didn't have a father who took him, you know, and taught him how to throw a baseball or was involved in his life. his father's a criminal. he taught him how to be a criminal. >> while alex receives 14 years for the crime, trafficker michael erenhoff received a reduced sentence of seven years for testifying against his former partner. katya says neither sentence is long enough. >> i feel that when -- that she told judge that they will sit for that period of amount of time, i feel it wasn't enough for them. what they did to us, it was terrible. >> even today, with ...

She says the girls knew that maksimenko had recently firebombed the car of a girl's sister who tried to help her escape. >> alex and michael told her if you try to leave, we'll kill your family back in ukraine. these are women who were taken from everything they knew, thought they were going to something completely different, thought they were going to be waitresses in virginia beach for the summer and go back to university in ukraine. so if these men could do that to them, why couldn't they kill? >> katya says the constant fear and humiliation led to depression and worse. >> you know, 12 hour...

Rather than take his chances with a jury, he pled guilty to trafficking and was convicted of rape. the owners of the strip clubs were not charged with trafficking. michael rataj says despite his client's treatment of the girls, alex maksimenko is also a victim. >> i think in some ways, in sort of a perverse way, alex is a victim. he's a victim of his upbringing. he's a victim of his father. he didn't have a father who took him, you know, and taught him how to throw a baseball or was involved in his life. his father's a criminal. he taught him how to be a criminal. >> while alex receives 14 yea...

They spent all our money for their well-being. >> there was no armed guard outside of their door, okay? there was -- maksimenko didn't sit inside the bar, you know, the entire 12 hours and -- with a gun in his pocket. >> michael rataj, maksimenko's attorney, argues the girls could have left any time. >> if you make any false moves or try to run out of here, i'm going to kill you, there was none of that. >> bridget carr, katya's attorney, scoffs at that notion. she says the girls knew that maksimenko had recently firebombed the car of a girl's sister who tried to help her escape. >> alex and mi...

For almost a year, 20-year-old katya, a university student from ukraine, was forced to work strip clubs in detroit by two men she thought were taking her to a waitressing job in america. alex maksimenko and michael erenhoff imprisoned her and 15 other women in separate apartments around detroit. >> we couldn't keep any money in our apartment because the guys has keys that have -- i believe they would listen to us in the apartment and we could not hide nothing. if we try to save at least a dollar, it will be something bad happen to us. >> those 12-hour shifts yielded up to $1,000 a day, but the...