This is the story told by Vanessa who, after becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol, was forced into prostitution in central Ohio. She started out prostituting to earn money for drugs but after being arrested several times, a friend introduced her to a man who could help her out. He started out nice, giving her drugs and not making her work when she was sick, but soon he was trafficked her and she was forced to have sex with up to a dozen men a day who answered an add on Craig’s List for erotic massage. She was helped to escape a life of forced prostitution through an unconventional court.
In the CATCH program started by Judge Paul Herbert who heads the court, rather than jail time, these women are put through a two year program where they go through drug rehab and therapy while on probation. Vanessa, the girl in the first part of this story, has now been sober for almost 500 days.