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Sad like so much of life when your young and confused. One theme that keeps running through all these individuals is an unhappy childhood. You only have one opportunity to grow up. If it's marred, your pretty much scared for life.

The one where the girls ran away from home 14 times illustrates a very dysfunctional family.

Society will always have a job picking up the pieces where families fail, like we see here it will not always be pretty. Society's response will always be reactive, never proactive and that's where it may not get any better anytime soon.

The cure is prevention of family abuse and not having runaways. Everything else is the dog chasing his tail.

what a catastrophe.

Seriously the repeated parts get extremely annoying. How do you people stand that stuff? Happens all over too.

If you don't take the annoying repetitive clips/comments in to account, this was really worth watching.

very nicely done. I live in the bay area and it was very interesting

My daughter is at home, in her own bedroom, in her bed, with the flu. I am so grateful, after watching this film, that it's her only problem. She's a senior in high school, and she's also an honor student, preparing for college at ,(God knows where).

Thank you so much for this important piece on a modern day American embarrassment.

wow this really happens...great story to open eyes to see what really going on in our country ...

very disturbing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and then some,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

It is troubling to see the situations some of our nations youth are in. Teenage prostitution is an issue that needs to be made aware of. It sickens me to know that there are adults out there that are taking advantage of our troubled and lost youth.

Pimps who hustle in teenage prostitution should be prosecuted as pedophiles. The are predators and need to be treated harshly without remorse.

The 1999 Swedish Law on Prostitution. This law is a brilliant example of how a truly progressive society addresses prostitution: the law decriminalizes the prostitute but criminalizes customers, pimps, and traffickers.

I think this is a fascinating video. It's a very sad situation. However I went and posted an ad on Craigslist to check, and they don't require ANYTHING to post. I went to casual encounters and made a post. This is obviously not helpful.

I only caught the last part of this broadcast on television, but what I saw was amazing! It was very intense. Very sad. And it sucks when near the end it was said that even though one of these girls is taken off the street, there is always one to replace her.

All these Men should be castrated

I have to say it was an interesting story... but also sad at the same time. Good job Cerrisa

Brilliant piece of journalism Cerissa. I can't believe prostitutes are starting as young as 11 or 12, so young and easily brainwashed by the pimps and they risk ruining their lives before they've really started. Scary stuff.

Prostitution EST. The first day the dollar was introduced lol

I grew up on The Strip and it's no joke. It's so hard to see your friends, neighbors and girls from ALL over come here to be exploited. It's depressing. HBO is trying to get a tv series by the Hughes brothers started called Gentlemen of Leisure, which will glorify the life of pimps. Oakland City Council has been trying to vote it away because none of us want press like this about our city. The problem is so bad it's painful. If you've never gone to the taco truck and seen a girl that's only 13 that used to be your student, avoiding eye contact with you as she sells herself, then you're in no position to glorify the life of a pimp or have a commentary on how it was her choice.

Im a hooker :D

make drugs legal= no drug dealers

This is an incredibly important issue and a masterful journalistic job.

I honestly wish I knew what to say, I honestly wish I knew what to do. If I had it my way the pimps would all be beaton bloody on the floor barely hanging on to life right now. I know that gets me nowhere but is truly how I feel. It sickens me that anybody would pimp out anybody but to take inosince away from a child is truly sickening

So to the pimps I say. May you lay awake hunted by what you have taken from others, may it sicken your hart till you can not breath may you die a very painful death and if nothing elts may your nuts get slammed in the car door! (this goes for the johns as well)

''In an effort to crackdown on teen prostitution craigslist now requires a valid phone number and a valid credit card to post an ad for erotic services''. Um, hello? credit cards and phone numbers aren't difficult to get.....

so as long as craigslist get's paid, it's ok?, and in a sense, craigslist is actually taking dirty money, given the fact that if a prostitute is using a credit card, the money in her account is likely to have been generated by prostitution, Hello!!? what a way to prevent this problem!

This is fucked up. we really need to concentrate on this issue rather then the pointless war on drugs.

This is unbelievable. I hope the best to these girls. Thank you for this submission.

Just watched this program, about the prostitution on the streets of Oakland. It's an endless cycle here. What's interesting is that HBO wants to create a full program about a old-school pimp getting out of the business. The time seems to have passed already.

While I do feel that child sexual exploitation/human trafficking is a very serious issue that needs to be addressed through supportive agencies, and that people who are forced into prostitution need support and a way out, I also feel that people who choose to be prostitutes shouldn't be shamed and solely looked at as victims or as people who have no agency that could only have been duped into doing this because supposedly they wouldn't have otherwise done this.

Check out my pod on "Life and Sex Work in Portland,OR" for more perspectives on prostitution. I know I am talking to older prostitutes, and that this pod (which is very good!) is kinda more specifically about underage prostitution. Still, it seems that people want to generalize about this kind of work regardless of the age or work situation.

truely sad, and Kool-Aid doesn't need a bad rap, Jamestown people drank flavorite... Not Kool-Aid. Truely sad video still, shared the link a few times with friends.

wow sad

great film. horrible story.

does it really pay enough to endure it?

Excellent job Carissa.
sad, true, courageous of you to tell the story.
keep up the good work.

"it's harder to get convicted when you sell a child than when you sell dope"

that shows where our priorities are...

i knew someone who prostituted himself on craigslist. it was sad because he had a middle class family supporting him and friends wiling to help him out. he left home and friends to be a tranny prostitute. he stole from us to support his drug habit and now he's going to l.a. to be a porn star. some people you just can't talk them out of it.

Outstanding. Chilling. Illuminating. Thank you.

What's so crazy is how the internet is helping. So instead of standing on International Blvd., they get to whore themselves out on Craigslist? It seems that not only do we need to take care of our streets, but regulate what's being done in cyberspace.

Very sad. What future do these girls even have after going through this? It's hard for them to go back to school and if they even thought about starting a job like at McD, the money they make there could never compare to what they make out on the streets. It seems there is no way out but I do wish these women luck.

This is completely heartbreaking. What a catastrophic failure of our society to protect these young women.

American media has so much attention on international sex trade and prostitution organizations that people don't discover the terrible situations in the U.S. Lets fix and protect these girls' lives. Prevent young Americans from falling into these holes.
I blame poor city/neighborhood management.

Its sad when young girls are manipulated and brainwashed into these situations. It's even more unfortunate when it becomes so normal they don't want out. Great pod though.

good job on bringing this world of pimping to light keep up the good work !!!

This is so scary. Wow.

Grant story, one of the best told and awareness story for the 2009 year. So now after we seen this story, what plans do you have for your cities? Me, I plan to make some time too work more with my church & other out reach program for kids in my town. How about you?

Fantastic Job. Really captured the situation these girls are in.

Keep up the great work.

I live in the Bay Area and I didn't know this was happening in Oakland.