Matt Parker

Can we go get her?

And the police looked at me and said, Matt, we don't know this person who gave you that information.

And I'd been working with them for about a year.

I was pretty close with this unit.

They said, but if you would go and verify it, we trust you.

This is something we would act on.

And really, my whole life changed because I went to my wife, Laura, and I'm like, hey, babe, I never really –

anticipated going undercover to verify a child was for sale police are asking if i would do it what do you think um and i knew early on i really wanted her if i were to do something like that um i'd want her buy-in because i've never been in a brothel before i'm married we have kids you know brothels typically aren't where married men should be anyone should be

and she said something that was really powerful.

She said, Matt, what if this were our kids?

We had three kids, and we still have three kids, two daughters and a son, and what if this were one of them?

And we knew just enough to know that these girls were trafficked,

lost to the darkness of a back alley and that their parents had no recourse to find or free them.

And if that were our kids, we would hope that someone would go on behalf of them to advocate for their freedom so they could come home to us.

And so I went undercover for the first time in 2011.

And when I walked in to that brothel, you know,

First off, if you guys could imagine with me a red-light district, and I think most of us can imagine that.

There's parts of Vegas that feel like this.

It's bright neon lights.

Tourists from all around the world are there to buy people for sex.