That's bad enough. What makes her angry is she told police about what was going on there with young girls years ago.

"It came to us several years ago -- we heard that young girls were selling their bodies for drugs," said Beth, a pseudonym she is using to protect her daughter.

Police seized more than 1,300 sex-related videotapes from the hotel apartment of Wing Lee on May 30.

RCMP say the find was a co-incidence, something they stumbled on to while raiding the Five Aces Social Club, a poker club operated out of Lee's Gold Range Hotel residence.

The resulting investigation into what police viewed on the video tapes is expected to take several months to complete.

RCMP told years ago

While Beth didn't know her daughter was involved at the time, the single mom went to police two years ago when she was at a community meeting with the RCMP on problem teens.

Around the same time, Beth's VCR went missing from her home and the RCMP found it at the Gold Range Hotel.

"My daughter told me where it was and then I called the police and they went and picked it up," she said. "My daughter said she took it there so that a bunch of girls could watch movies."

While she isn't sure how significant that incident is now, she's adamant that police could have found the tapes if they had busted the gambling ring several years back.

"They were told about it time and time again," she said. "But this gambling has been going on for years, and they didn't do anything about it. What are they here to do anyway?"

Mother is disappointed

Beth is disappointed that the RCMP didn't do something earlier about the gambling.

"I feel frustrated that the RCMP has been telling us over and over there was no prostitution ring going on in the Gold Range," she said. "They said there was nothing to be done."

Beth has suffered from severe depression because of her daughter's troubles and knowing that her daughter may be in the videos causes her great pain.

She said her daughter is no angel and has for years been a troubled youth. Those troubles began after her daughter was sexually assaulted at 11, and again at 14, that she began to have some serious problems.

"After that first sexual assault, she got into drugs," she said. "I saw it in her arms -- that was when she was 13 or 14."

The second assault happened in a trailer where girls used to go to get drugs.

"I knew back then that she was on drugs, but I didn't know where she was getting the money for drugs," said the visibly distraught mother.

"That really damaged her -- up to now, she still has problems. She's gone missing for as long as two or three months."

No help available

Beth said that the RCMP and Social Services knew what she was going through because she had gone to them for help, but didn't have much luck.

"There's no help available for young girls who have been sexually assaulted," she said. "And once my daughter started to have problems, there was nowhere to turn."

She doesn't know what to do right now, doesn't know where to go to get help.

"There's a limit to one's strength and endurance," she added.