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Trafficking victim. i didn't even know what that was. i didn't learn that i was a human trafficking victim until i was about four or five years out of pimp control. the reason that is is because you're so brainwashed and manipulated and beaten down physically and mentally that you really don't have an opportunity to feel sorry for yourself or even try to escape. >> how did you get out? >> i actually was able to go on a vacation with my mother, which was really odd. but the pimp just let me go i think because he was extremely cocky and pretty much thought that i would come right back. and i wen...

Prostitution. >> in the middle of my conversation with chris, a member of the team all of a sudden comes up with footage they had recorded. >> and what do you know? yep. yeah, definitely is with him. no doubt. he stops, she stops. he moves back, she moves back. they walk in, they walk out together. so i think -- >> she's under pimp control. >> definitely from both of our experts. >> aaron cohen is the host of "slave hunter, freeing victims of human trafficking" and also a human rights activist. good for having you here. >> thanks for having me. >> you've been doing this for ten years. it's dan...

Stockholm syndrome, you develop this emotional bonding to the perpetrator of the abused and that is why so many women under pimp control in our country don't seek help. >> this is a series that debuts on msnbc this weekend. people should watch. we have this vision that this is happening far away and it is eye opening it is happening in many of our communities and right near us. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back.

That's just a couple of blocks from where we're sitting right now. you went into the apartment of a prostitute who was trying to get out. >> you know, these prostitute girls, a lot of them are under what we call pimp control. so i was shocked when i began investigations with my partner, detective chris bofman out of las vegas, he's a retired detective, he's pioneered all these techniques for conducting an investigation. sure enough we started doing the work here in manhattan and the majority of the women that we saw, i'm the undercover in one room and in another room is a security detail heade...

Compartmentalizing to create a fantasy in their mind that this is somehow not real. they call it the life because it's a life sentence. when a woman comes under pimp control, even in our country enter in very early, age 13, age 14. when we encounter these victims in the room, what we're looking to do is find out, first of all, if they're a victim. if they are a victim, then we're going to look for their dreams and we're going to begin to win their trust and try to find a pathway out of that enslavement into freedom. >> well, enslavement doesn't even hardly begin to describe some of the things ...