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4 days ago

Momo was 13 when a 19-year-old man started picking her up from school every day pretending to be her boyfriend. He was the first man who ever told her she was special. Her real father had never visited her once in her life - just wired money from Alabama every month instead of showing up. One day she was walking with a boy from class. Her "boyfriend" pulled up and punched her in the face in front of everyone she knew. While she was still bleeding he shoved her into his car and drove her to Figueroa Street. Handed her clothes from the trunk and said "you're gonna work for me tonight and give me every dollar." She didn't know what a pimp was. She didn't know what a hoe was. She was 13 and too terrified to call her mother. Her first night she performed oral sex on two strangers in their cars for $50. When she brought the money back his other girls warned her - don't give him that little, he's going to beat you. She didn't listen. He beat her until she bled. She went home with a bruised eye, busted nose and split lip and told her mother she got into a fight with a girl. He came back the next day. Posted outside her school waiting. And the next day. And the next. She lost every friend she had because none of them could understand why a grown man was picking her up every afternoon. Her grandmother was a crack addict who ran naked through the streets at night screaming about snakes crawling on her body. Her uncles came home carrying guns and cash. She grew up on Figueroa and 75th watching women sell themselves on the same corner she walked to buy groceries. At 14 her pimp gave her crack, crystal meth and acid to keep her working longer hours. At 14 she got jumped by a group of girls who kicked her face open and left a permanent scar. At 14 her best friend got shot in the leg standing right next to her. At the end of the interview she looks at the cameraman and whispers "I see you as my dad." Then she breaks down. Because a stranger with a camera gave her more warmth in 25 minutes than her father did in 14 years. Is Momo a girl who chose the streets - or a child who was never given anything else to choose from?