"I want to do my part to clean up Houston, clean up Texas," said Beavers.Īs for McGibbon, she now calls herself a survivor leader. It's a sad reality that Beavers said can happen in any Houston neighborhood, and it's why she'll continue to make her recovery missions. They get to learn your fears and they get to learn your vulnerabilities and they prey on that," McGibbon said. "(These pimps) are master psychologist without a degree, and so they know your weaknesses. "And (drink) alcohol to try to numb it after your shift."īut on the verge of a mental breakdown, her pimp found her too much of a liability, and she was able to get out but not without losing herself. "(I did) ecstasy to stay awake," she said. "I got to the hotel room, I walked in and I saw other girls, and I knew that it was just going to be really bad," McGibbon recalled.įor 9 months, she was sold online and then walked the streets doing what she had to do to survive. He eventually convinced her, she said, to move to Dallas to start his own record label, but he needed to make some cash. She said for an entire year her pimp groomed her and alienated her from friends and family. "I'm thinking that I'm in this relationship with this guy and we're going to like have a future together," said McGibbon. She was an honor roll student and a church-going girl, but her life turned upside down when she met a guy coming up through the Houston rap scene. "I was out there, 30 to 50 men a night almost," McGibbon explained. "A lot of them get with guys they think love them, and they think that, you know, really want to build a sort of life," Beavers said. I mean, it's, you know, it's painful."Ī lot of the young girls who need rescuing, she said, come from affluent families "(You see) naked women walking down the street at one o'clock in the afternoon. "(It's on) Bissonnet, east 59 to the beltway," Beavers pointed out. She said the biggest hot spot in Houston, where sex is clearly being sold, has its own Wikipedia page. She said most of her clients are underage girls. She was using advanced programs looking for clues, phrases or images, anything that shows a victim is underage or doing this against her will. She even helps law enforcement track down wanted pimps and their customers.Įyewitness News spent time with Beavers in her Heights office as she trolled internet sites like. "It's one of the most exhilarating feelings to call (a family member) and say she's found or he's found," Beavers attests.Īlong with connecting victims with a network of services, ATA does recovery missions, finding victims whose families believe were forced into sex trafficking. She's gotten so good at tracking down victims that she and a few others recently launched the Anti-Trafficking Alliance or ATA. I tracked down where she was, the hotel and everything." "I found (her) within three hours' search. "I was tipped off on this case by a family member of a child who they believed was being trafficked and she was filed as a runaway," Beavers said.
She's been working for years to rescue people from the life of sex trafficking, and her work comes recommended through word-of-mouth. The woman who recorded the video is Rebecca Beavers.
Eyewitness News got video of the woman, who is actually a young girl reported missing, and eventually found in a hotel room where she was forced to have sex for cash. It's a side of the sex industry most of us may never see.
Grainy cell phone video shows a woman sitting on a bed, coaxed by Houston law enforcement to leave a dimly lit hotel room.