By Rick Sallinger. CBS4 - Children as young as 11 years old are being removed from Asian brothels through undercover work by a Colorado-based organization. It's called The Exodus Road. The organization does its work collecting evidence in brothel-filled streets including in Thailand and India. Matt Parker of Colorado Springs and others pose as customers. They seek out children employed as prostitutes. CBS4's Rick Sallinger spoke with Parker upon return from a recent trip asking, "When you go into a brothel, what do you do?
What do you say? The mamasans will come up and try to sell you a girl. You have to get to know them a little bit and say 'I want something a little different,'" Parker said. He uses an array of electronic devices to gather information. A hidden camera recorded one disturbing transaction in Thailand.
In that instance, a Thai man working undercover for The Exodus Road went into a brothel and spoke with the woman in charge of the girls. The woman replied "Yesterday a customer reserved one of these and I told you you could have her after him. They work with local law enforcement authorities such as in that case in Thailand.
Police moved in to make arrests and free the children who often are then sent to government homes. LINK: theexodusroad.
They have collected of these stones. Matt Parker and his wife Laura started The Exodus Road after living in Thailand running a home for impoverished girls. Matt Parker recalled, "One of the rumors was a girl, a pretty girl was going to be shipped to Bangkok and sold into the sex industry. He figured as a foreigner he could pose as a "john" to give information to the authorities. Since then word of their operation has gained notoriety in part through an unusual celebrity connection.
