I Am Jane Doe

I dropped her off at school that morning like I always do,

and expected to pick her up about 5:30 from track practice.

She snuck out of the house with her friends to a back-to-school party.

They ended up at a Hardees

not too far from where I was living.

Later that afternoon,

about four o'clock, I got a phone call from one of her friends,

and he said that he had a note for me,

telling us that she loved us

and she needed to leave and go find herself.

One went back home,

the other young lady got into a car with several men,

and M.A. did not want to get into that car.

And that is when a woman approached her,

told her that she was going to help her to get back home.

And what she did was she...

brought her into a life of hell.

Kubiiki's daughter, M.A., who is 13,

and Nacole's daughter, J.S., who is 15,

are now among the 1.6 million homeless

and runaway children in America.

Within hours of dropping off the radar,

thousands of them will be sex trafficked.

A polite term for being repeatedly raped.

This is the story of the girls and their parents,

and their fight against a legal and political system

which protects a website earning millions of dollars a year.

A website where children are bought and sold,

with little more than a click of a mouse.

It was the third link from the top.

It had stars and hearts.

And it said, "Young and new."

But those stars and the hearts caught my attention.

And so I clicked it and...

there was the pictures of my daughter.

I called and asked to purchase the services myself.

We got her back, but she was addicted to drugs.

She had been very abused.

She ran away two more times.

I said, "Why are you running away?"

And she said, "Well, mom, I have to go and get these pills."

And I'm like, "What pills?"

And that's when I learned about the other things that,

you know, that she had shot her...

Next thing you know, boom.

My daughter was stabbed and burned,

and her head shaved,

and she was beaten.

The trafficker was prosecuted.

She was given a five-year sentence.

She was held responsible for her part of the crime.

Once I told her

about all the pain and suffering that I went through

and that I wanted revenge, she also did.

For the company that assisted by advertising my 13-year-old child for sale,

they were not held responsible.

We used it for buying and selling couches, TVs, video games.

I just never knew

that there were also humans for sale.

She calls them repeatedly,

asking them to remove the pictures of her 13-year-old daughter,

which still remain online.

They refuse.

This sets Kubiiki on a collision course with Federal Judges,

special interest groups, and corporate money,

all clinging to a law which has been interpreted

to provide a safe haven for many things online,

including the purchase and sale of children.

Because her daughter's photos are still online,

Pedroli and Gauthier, how may I help you?

I believe we were the first people to sue Backpage

on behalf of a trafficked minor.

I was thinking that everyone that played a part

in the damage to my child should be held responsible.

And that meant everyone.

We would find pornographic pictures of sexual acts,

and it was all open and obvious.

It doesn't take much common sense

to figure out what the deal really is.

That number is just the tip of the iceberg.

It is a crime that happens against children

in every neighborhood, in every city and state in the country.

I think I was like anybody else that hears about it for the first time.

There's that disbelief.

There is no possible way this is true,

because this is the United States.

It's an incredibly profitable,

as horrifying as it is to say, business.

Here are the economics.

You're a drug trafficker, you can sell drugs once.

You're a human trafficker,

you can sell a kid over and over and over again.

A lot of the data on underage trafficking is very difficult.

And there's numbers all over the place.

We think it's around the 100,000 mark.

Twelve to fifteen percent of the kids we serve

were victims of human trafficking.

There are estimates out there that 1.6 million homeless kids

are out on the street at any given time.

You could be talking about 100, 150,000 kids

who have been victims of human trafficking.

Our kids are not visible. The number could be even higher.

These children, who were once visible on street corners,

are now quickly, efficiently, and anonymously sold online.

Wherever you look, however you slice it,

the numbers are huge.

And the demand is huge.

The majority of children that we see trafficked online

have been trafficked on Backpage.

Across the country in Seattle, at roughly the same time,

Nacole is desperately trying to locate her own daughter, J.S.,

who is 15 years old.

Forty-five days into it, I got a phone call from her.

It was my birthday.

She called to tell me that she loved me.

It's kind of a blur. I was just...

in shock. I just couldn't believe what was happening.

My first instinct as a dad, you want to go out and look.

You feel out of control.

Hopeless.

I went out and started searching every day.

I was becoming angrier and angrier.

I couldn't stop the tapes in my mind, the...

I couldn't stop thinking about what was possibly happening to her.

I was really frightened for her and I was determined to find her.

She told us that she was being hurt,

that she wasn't a good daughter,

she wasn't a good person,

and that we wouldn't want her.

You don't know whether she's alive or dead,

you don't know what's happened to her.

I went to every bad neighborhood and I went to motels.

I canvassed where I thought they could have her.

It was really hard.

I remember a detective called sometime after the 45-day mark

and asked for dental records,

and you can only assume

that they're trying to identify a body.

Every day that it went on, I just got more angry.

Then I went to the liquor store

I grabbed a bottle, and I started drinking.

And that's how I dealt with it.

She started advocating, and doing advocacy work.

And praying.

I was the opposite. I was angry.

I wanted to hurt a pimp. That's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to get even.

In September of 2010,

several months after filing the lawsuit,

Kubiiki's attorney, Robert Pedroli,

receives a phone call from Village Voice Media,

the parent company of Backpage.

They contacted me to feel me out,

and to tell me what wonderful people they were,

and how their founders were really cool guys from Greenwich Village,

and what did I know about that.

The conversation swings around to, you know,

"What are you guys looking for? You looking for a little settlement?

"We might be able to get you a little settlement

to help the girl out."

And I told him, "I doubt that that would work."

It wasn't about the money, it was just about the anger.

At that point in time, they issued a press release

talking about how we're just looking for a payday.

That was not what we were looking for.

We were looking to prevent them from doing what they were doing

by having a judgment rendered against them.

I didn't even recognize her.

She had long, beautiful brown hair

and now she had very short, choppy red hair.

She had different clothes on.

On the ride home she told us that she had been raped and sold.

As bad as it was having her missing,

it was so traumatizing to hear these words coming

from your 15-year-old child.

It was devastating.

It took me a long time to realize

that I wasn't at fault for what happened to me.

I don't think everybody goes through life thinking

about child sex trafficking in the United States.

I know for me I didn't, not until it happened to my family.

I always believed it was something that happened in foreign countries.

You hear about it on the news.

But to find out that it happened in my own backyard

and that it can happen to the most normal of families

and the most normal of children,

and how quickly it could happen.

That's when I decided to take up the fight

I am on a mission.

And in recent weeks, we've reported on growing pressure

by law enforcement officials and anti-sex trafficking groups

for Backpage to shut down its adult services section,

the section where authorities say underage girls are sometimes sold for sex.

In October of 2010, Craigslist shuts down its adult section

and the number of sex ads on Backpage skyrockets.

Backpage offers to meet

with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,

or NCMEC,

to discuss the issue of child sex trafficking.

Well, there was a period of years