Furious Father Armed With Baseball Bat Goes After His 12-Year-Old Daughter's Alleged Pimp. Then Cops Get a Strange Phone Call.

Once this dad found out where his 12-year-old daughter was — and who police said had forced her into prostitution — he did what just about what any father would do in such a circumstance and went after her alleged pimp.

For good measure, he brought along a baseball bat.

Brian Jones (Image source: Shelby County Sheriff)

According to a police affidavit, the girl's father struggled with the suspect who refused to let the girl go, WMC-TV reported.

Then police got a phone call — from the suspect.

Brian Jones told police someone was trying to kill him and lock him in a van at his apartment, according to the affidavit. Fortunately for Jones cops arrived on the scene in Memphis, Tennessee, and the girl's father flagged them down.

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The little girl's dad told police Jones forced her to have sex against her will with several men inside his apartment. The affidavit of complaint says Jones told police he did allow someone to bring the 12-year-old to his apartment; he also said he was aware she was involved in sexual activity in one of his bedrooms.

Jones was booked early Sunday on charges of trafficking for sexual servitude and two counts of rape of a child. The 33-year-old is in Shelby County Jail on a $200,000 bond.

"It's shocking though, when I heard he did that," Curtis Nelson Jr., who lives next door to Jones, told WMC. "He was a person always trying to demand women around and stuff, but I didn't know he was that type of person, but I guess you can't trust nobody out here."

The men who police said had sex with the girl weren't yet arrested as of Tuesday, WMC reported.

"Yeah, they need to catch them," Nelson added to the news outlet. "Give all of them 50 plus. Life without the possibility of parole."

TheBlaze obtained a copy of the affidavit from Memphis police on Wednesday, which indicated the girl had been reported missing last Friday. It's still unclear how her father found out where she was, but police told TheBlaze that "apparently he was checking the complex and someone advised him that they had seen her."

This story has been updated.