Posted on 01/10/2020 5:25:03 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ilonka Deaton was trafficked into sex slavery at the age of 12. She suffered for six years before finally getting free. Now, her brother, Jaco Booyens, runs a film company that brings the darkness of sex trafficking into the light. He’s out with a film called “8 Days.” Read the lightly edited interview, posted below, or listen on the podcast:
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Rachel del Guidice: We are joined today on The Daily Signal Podcast by Jaco Booyens. He’s the president and CEO of the film company After Eden Pictures. He is also the founder of SHAREtogether, a nonprofit organization fighting against the global crisis of sex trafficking. Jaco, thank you so much for joining us today.
Jaco Booyens: Thank you, Rachel. It’s great to be here.
del Guidice: Well, it’s great to have you. Can you start off just by telling us about your film company, After Eden Pictures, as well as SHAREtogether?
Booyens: Yeah. After Eden Pictures was born to transform culture through uplifting entertainment, so that’s our mission statement. We’re going to take social issues and then produce entertainment content, film, television, docuseries, books, media, broad spectrum media to speak to culture, to transform it positively through uplifting entertainment.
So it’s yes, family-friendly values, for sure. Yes, I’m a Christian, so that’s my root and my foundation. But we’re going to speak for big issues like sex trafficking, tackling heavy issues, because if a picture’s a thousand words, then a video, a film, can be so much of the start of a conversation, and then we can do our real work after that. So that’s the purpose of After Eden Pictures.
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PING!
Why did the brother not go Charles Bronson on the pimps?
One of the first things I wanted to know is where did this happen. Since I can’t figure it out then I am not reading the whole thing.
Agreed!
Where did this happen? Mexico? Uzbekistan?
I listened to him at TPUSA SAS2019 here in West Palm in December. He’s the real deal. He spoke powerfully, had young guys in the audience standing up to renounce porn, also not be ashamed if had suicidal thoughts, but to be real men of Christ. Told of the realities of connection to porn and trafficking. Said if you don’t give it up then I’ll be the one knocking down your door and pointing an AR-15.
Great work!
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