Let's talk about the escort part.
Your daughter is hooking.
Right.
Yeah, she is.
What do you think about that?
Well, for one, I think calling it escort
is kinda making it sound nice.
I mean, at the end of the day, she's a prostitute.
She goes and she claims to make $7,000 a week,
but I don't see any of it,
and she could be killed.
She told me that she had a gun held to her head.
Does it bother you that she's selling her body?
Absolutely.
Yeah, because...
'Cause that doesn't seem to come up.
I mean, you talk about the danger,
you talk about the money,
you talk about her being a deadbeat mom.
It doesn't seem to come up in the conversation
the moral aspect, the demeaning aspect,
of her selling her body.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
She says that she only sees regulars,
that she doesn't like go with strange people,
that she just knows some people.
So?
And she goes with them.
Well, that doesn't make it okay,
but then, actually,
we've gone online,
and she actually does advertise for strangers.
She says, "My place only.
"Inappropriate language or questions will get you blocked,"
so like she does have standards here,
but these are her pictures that she puts up,
and we had to blur some of these.
Where does she meet these people?
She bounces from hotel to hotel.
Okay, and she doesn't know anything about them.
Oh, no, nothing.
Well, supposedly, there's this site that you can go to
where you can read their reviews,
the tricks' reviews.
You can see if they're good, what they're into,
you know if they're safe, if they're a weirdo,
so this is like, I mean, that's good to know, right?
And who rates them?
(laughs) Escorts.
You say that she got into this
because she says she doesn't have a pimp
or someone that represents her.
She says she's independent, but you don't believe that.
I know that to not be true, because I've met them.
Okay, well, she says right now she's independent,
and you said the first time she had someone
that she said they promised her the stars,
just told her everything. Oh, yeah, yeah.
How great they were gonna be.
Oh, baby, we're gonna make all this money.
You'll be able to take care of your son.
You can do this, you can do that.
We'll be living, like, you know,
they're gonna be in Beverly Hills or something,
and they're in a ratty old motel.
And you think that relationship got to be abusive.
Oh, yeah, uh-huh.
'Cause you saw bruises and that sort of thing.
Yes, yeah, she would come before with bruises.
And these are the bruises
you were talking about.
That's when she was run over by the car.
Okay, that's when she got hit by the car?
Yeah.
And the car was another girlfriend
of one of the pimps?
I wouldn't call it a girlfriend.
I mean, she was an escort. Well, okay.
It was one of the other girls.
Correct.
Okay, and she didn't press charges?
No, he talked her out of it.
They just ran over her with a car.
Yes.
Okay, and did you call the cops?
Yes, I did.
I drove her down to the police station.
Okay, but she didn't press charges.
Right, and because she was over 18,
there's nothing I can do.
She has to be the one to do it.
The black that you see there was...
Necrotic skin. Dying skin.
They thought that they might have to do skin grafts.
Okay, so what'd this cost?
Oh, I mean, I just threw an average out there,
probably about 100,000.
The bills came in.
And who paid for that?
Nobody.
They're sitting there, unpaid.
Have you told her that you think it's wrong to do this?
Yes, I have.
And what does she say?
She says that it's no big deal.
It's perfectly fine.
She knows what she's doing.
Oh, but, Mom, you made mistakes when you were young.
What kind of mother were you?
You're talking about her being a mother.
What kind of a mother were you to her?
I feel like I was a good mom.
I love my children, but I failed to protect them,
so I was not good at all.
I failed her miserably.