If you operate four or five girls or boys you achieve status. If you miss the first week's payment you're beaten up with iron pipes. The pimps pay or they die. So they take a very dim view of kids coming into our center. They take an even dimmer view of us taking kids away from them.
Armed guards watch the doors of the center around the clock.
In practice Bruce Ritter was born in 1927 in Trenton, New Jersey. After stints as a freight-car loader and in the Navy, he became a priest in the Order of St. Francis and received his doctorate in medieval theology. By 1968 he was comfortably settled at Manhattan College. The student-body president stood up and literally challenged him to practice what he preached. One snowy evening, a knock at the door changed his life.