[0]24 year old Alecia Driggins has spent a quarter of her life behind bars. She's 6 and a half months pregnant and still working as a prostitute.
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"I mean it's like this: If you're going to cheat on your wife or whatever, I'll be there for you to pay me for it," says Driggins.
"No I'm just kidding."
She isn't kidding.
[0]For the last two years Driggins says she has sold herself on the streets of Chattanooga and Cleveland.
"I used to work at an escort service in Chattanooga. I had the same customers all the time and I made a lot of money," she says.
"For the first call [I got] 140 dollars."
Driggins grew up in Cleveland. She has no high school education and has been arrested countless times.
In a few months she will become a mother. She's expecting a girl. The father is an ex-boyfriend.
[0]She says her pregnancy has hurt business.
"You know it's not easy for a man to see a woman pregnant and be like lets go do this.
"The three guys I usually mess with just come by and drop me off money now. So that makes it a lot easier...I just call them and tell I need money and they come here because they have wives.
"The Police know that I do it. They know that I'm careful. And they really don't mess with me."
[0]Actually, Cleveland Police are not just leaving Driggins alone, in fact just last month she was picked up for soliciting a ride and prostitution. Detectives say they are well aware of her activities and very concerned about the safety of her unborn child.
"It's an unfortunate situation that we have a young female that's pregnant, that's prostituting here in Cleveland. If she violates the law here in Cleveland, she will be prosecuted," says Detective Brian Smith.
How much is Driggin's rate now?
"That's kind of personal," she says. "I make enough money, believe me."
Her honesty is as startling as her line of work.
In two and a half months she won't be alone.
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