the pimps who control them . `` It really makes me angry , '' Seyffert said . `` I think everybody on the team has different reactions to it , but I just flat out get really angry that some guy thinks he can take this girl and basically deprive her of her freedom . '' It is not uncommon for the officers on the unit to put in 30-hour shifts . Oftentimes , their work is heart-wrenching . Watch how investigators work to catch pimps '' Child prostitution is even tougher on the parents of these girls . Roslyn and Sergio 's daughter had been missing for more than two weeks . They waited for hours at police headquarters in hopes that their daughter would be found . Vice squad officers found her in a downtown apartment with Bruce William Carter , a 21-year-old man who police said had posed on the Internet holding fistfuls of cash . He pleaded not guilty to charges of statutory rape and was held in lieu of $ 35,000 bail . The couple 's daughter , who had just turned 17 , was detained but not arrested . `` It hurt , ''
SACRAMENTO , California -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- For more than two years , undercover cops on the Sacramento Police Department 's vice squad have been working one of the most draining beats : trying to crack down on online child prostitution . Sacramento police have nabbed nearly 70 underage girls for child prostitution since 2005 . Police have nabbed nearly 70 girls under the age of 18 since 2005 . Most of the girls were released to foster or group homes . Those are just the official figures ; investigators think there are many more child prostitutes out there . It is no easy task . `` We 're asking these girls to do a big thing ... which is to stop what they 're doing , '' said Sgt. Pam Seyffert of the Sacramento Police Department . `` Stop what 's working for them . Surviving is basically what they 're doing . '' Sacramento police are working with the FBI as part of a nationwide campaign to combat underage prostitution called Innocence Lost . The goal of the program , which is now in almost 30 U.S. cities , is to decriminalize the girls and concentrate on catching