Dots on sex-trade picture largely went unconnected (January 10, 2006)Just last month, about 21 children - at least one from Toledo - were recovered in a similar national prostitution sweep.
The Primetime story starts on a rainy day before dinner in May, 2005, when Kimberly, then 15, and her cousin, Carol, then 14, were walking to a fast-food restaurant.
They accepted a ride from a man Kimberly first thought looked familiar, and only realized her mistake after she was in the vehicle. The man was convicted pimp Deric Willoughby, 41 of Toledo, who was sentenced in March to serve eight years in prison on charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation of minors for prostitution.
The girls became nervous as the car rolled past the restaurant, but never imagined what they'd be forced to do. When they tried to escape Willoughby's Downing Avenue home, he tossed Kimberly through a glass table and pulled Carol up the stairs by her hair. Terrified when their captors threatened to hurt their parents if they escaped, the girls didn't try to run until they were rescued.
Two women - Jennifer Huskey, 25, and Brandy Shope, 20, sentenced last year to
6 1/2 years in prison - supervised as the girls they dubbed "Heavenly" and "Ambrosia" performed sex acts and collected the cash.
Willoughby was "Daddy" and paying customers never asked how old the girls were.
"I didn't want to do any of this. I wanted to knock 'em out and run," Kimberly tells McFadden in the special.
Kimberly said on television she gave up hope on the fifth of the 10 days she was a prisoner.
The police first dismissed the girls as runaways, but Kimberly's mom told Ms. McFadden she knew her daughter wouldn't leave without "Moo-zers," the stuffed cow Kimberly couldn't sleep without.
Her rescue came when she was arrested for soliciting at a truck stop in Dexter, Mich. She was reunited with her family but had to leave her cousin behind.
Kimberly remembered the name of Willoughby's street, and recognized his house. When police didn't show after two of her mother's frantic 911 calls - which are included in the television special - Carol's dad charged the house and struggled with Willoughby. It took police about 90 minutes to arrive, the television special states.