Quick! Call A Whore, I See A Cop

I work in the legal department for a child welfare agency. Our office is across the street from a motel that mostly rents by the hour (or the minute) and has several "drive thru" windows.

One day, a number of my co-workers were crowded around one of the windows looking at the motel parking lot. I joined them and realized that there was an incredibly young girl who appeared to be strung out and she was trolling for customers. I kid you not. This girl could not have been over 13 or 14. We were sickened. Even worse, there was a creep hanging out in an SUV in the parking lot. Every once in a while, he'd pull up and give her some pointers or he'd give his horn a little beep and point out a potential customer. The creep was clearly her pimp.

We had to get this little girl off the streets before someone actually picked her up. One of my co-workers called down to our intake departement and they called the police. We all stood at the window, waiting with bated breath. Would the police get there in time?

No, they didn't! Little Miss Innocent got into the SUV with her pimp. Best we could figure is he had figured out we were watching and he was going to take her out of there. Two of our intake department workers decided they could not wait for the police. They ran out to the SUV and, while one of the blocked the path of the car, the other banged on the passenger window and begged the girl to get out of the truck.

On the second floor, all of us were crossing fingers and saying quick prayers to our respective higher powers. Yes! Yes! Yes! She got out of the truck and started to speak with our intake department. We all cheered and were jumping up and down with joy. We had saved a little girl from a scumbag pimp. What could be better? I'll tell you. The young girl had been speaking to a driver of a pickup truck and he had decided to take her up on her offer and he had gone around the corner and pulled into the motel lot. So, we also saved her from a pathetic low-life customer. YIPPEE!!!

Our joy was shortlived. Our intake workers walked away from the SUV and the girl got back in the SUV and the scumbucket drove away with her. We were crushed. A couple of us were actually teary at this point.

Then a couple of cars pulled into the motel parking lot very quckly and they blocked the pickup truck (the potential customer). The men in the cars got out and pulled the guy out of the pickup and put him up against his truck and held him there. Now, we were very confused. Then one little voice from near the back of the office said, "Holy shit. They cops". And our intake workers confirmed it.

We had just tried to save one of Hamilton's finest in the middle of a sting operation.