Marketplace: New help quitting the oldest profession -
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Published on: 8/8/2006
Last Visited: 8/29/2006
And everybody says 'Well how do you know 'em?' Carol, tell him how you know 'em.
CAROL WILEY: They don't carry purses.Carol Wiley, CCV's Director of Victim Assistance, is in the back seat.She says pimps don't allow purses.And that they check in on the women every hour to collect the money. WILEY: They have quotas that they have to make.We had one girl, she had a little baby boy, and she had to make $1,000 a day or the pimp would take her son away from her and she wouldn't know where he was 'til she brought him the $1,000.Citizens for Community Values started as an anti-pornography organization in 1992 and began ministering to strippers three years later.Now it helps all sex workers leave the business.Carol and George get referrals.
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WILEY: You can't talk to em very long.The pimps are watchin'.And they'll come up and beat 'em up because they don't have any money for 'em.Carol and George tend to talk about prostitution and stripping as one and the same.
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Also, Carol encourages them to go to church, but she doesn't force them she says. WILEY: And my faith-based motivation for this is that I believe with my whole heart that every human being was created with a dignity that nobody has a right to touch.Not even themselves.And so we come in and say 'you don't have to go out here and make $1,000 a day and not have a dime to your name.It would be better working for minimum wage wouldn't it and having a little money in your pocket when you get right down to it' and see they don't see that.A couple of days later Carol takes me to a house that CCV helped set up for one of the women.Her name's Melinda. WILEY: Melinda everything is looking great.
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Again, Carol Wiley. WILEY: And actually in this particular arena.