Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

him. On the flipside, if the girl doesn’t meet her nightly quota she is often beaten and made to go back out on the streets until she has made enough money to hand over to her pimp. On a slow night, the working girl is out the entire night turning tricks. The pimps often tell the girls they are useless, no good, the only reason God created them is to be a prostitute. (I’ve cleaned up the language that they actually use) They tell the girls in their stable these things continually so that they can control them. When they beat the girls, they sometimes use a wire clothes hanger and beat them on the back of their legs or anyplace on their body with the exception of their face. Most of them try to leave the girl’s face alone so that she can make him more money. Bobby and I got a quick education about how the babies of young Hollywood street prostitutes were cared for. It was really heartbreaking. I realize that I have used the word “heartbreaking” more than once while telling street stories. I’m sure you will agree that these stories are, indeed, heartbreaking. We found that many of the girls would leave their babies in the motel room while they walked the streets and would bring their “johns” back to the room and conduct business right there with the baby in the room with them. One night Kimberly had a client in her motel room, as well as Cleo, and he had a knife. He ended up pulling the mattress off the bed, dropping the baby to the floor, and lunging at Kim with his knife. She was so very frightened. She realized the danger she had put Cleo in.

Many nights, Kim would hire a babysitter to watch the baby after that. Our telephone rang in the dead of

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