Posted on 04/30/2016 10:47:17 AM PDT by huldah1776
She was back.
Back where she was held captive. Back where she feared she would never see her family again. Back in Imperial County, California. But this time she had shifted from defense to offense.
In 2002, Elizabeth Smart made headlines when she was kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake. Smart, only 14 at the time, spent nine months held captive in the mountains near her familys home and later in Imperial County, California, which is where she returned 12 years later for a special mission with Operation Underground Railroad.
Operation Underground Railroad
For 12 years as a U.S. government agent, Tim Ballard worked with an undercover operative to save American children from sex trafficking, child pornography and sex tourism. But because he worked for the U.S. government, he could only rescue American children everywhere else was outside his jurisdiction. On multiple occasions, his team was forced to leave innocent children from other nations behind.
In my last couple years of working for the government, I had to walk away from operations where the foreign governments wanted to work; they wanted help, but they didnt have the resources and they didnt really have a plan. I finally just decided that I would try a new approach and go private and take the tools we learned, Ballard said.
Ballard left his job and Operation Underground Railroad came to fruition in 2013. The nonprofit organization is very similar to what Ballard was doing before going on missions to rescue children only now Ballard can save children in countries around the world. (We do) not worry about which jurisdiction its under or about what courtroom the case is going to be prosecuted ... we just go save the kids and get the bad guys in jail, Ballard said.
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