Posted on 02/16/2015 8:00:56 PM PST by Colofornian
A team of former Navy Seals and CIA operatives splash beer on their faces as they prepare to play the part of American sex tourists. They’ll have to maintain laser-sharp focus as they engage in negotiations with some of the world’s dirtiest criminals.
One suspicious move or remark could put their whole team at risk and prevent the rescue of dozens of innocent children.
This team, known as Operation Underground Railroad, works to prosecute child sex traffickers and to rescue the victims. Heading the team is Tim Ballard — a husband, a father of six children and a BYU alumnus.
Ballard has run multiple sting operations in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua and the United States, all since he founded the organization in January. Ballard worked undercover as a government agent for 12 years before founding Operation Underground Railroad but is now speaking out to raise awareness about 21st-century slavery.
“It was the darkest thing I had ever seen or witnessed or felt in my life,” Ballard said. “We have to show people, because it’s not going to go away until everybody sees it and is so repulsed that they rise up.”
Equality Now, a human rights organization that seeks to protect women and girls, estimates there are at least 20.9 million people bought and sold into commercial sex servitude. Two million of them are children.
Equality Now stated on its website that even though international law and 134 countries criminalize sex trade, “Trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at universe.byu.edu ...
Note: There's an "Operation Underground Railroad" link embedded in article...but apparently not active.
Dec. 1, 2015
News of the future?
Oops
Put wrong year for this post
Glenn Beck has had this guy on several times. He’s done great work.
When do you think they will raid Bill & Hillary’s house?
Our nation is governed by a class of depraved, immoral and corrupt people who look upon the rest of us a stable of cattle to be used as nothing more than a resource.
Good for these guys. Hope it works, and I hope this journalistic exposure doesn’t endanger their mission.
Maybe they will catch all the government people, senators and reps, and former senators who are in bigger positions now, who partake in that behavior. And they are there!
There are plenty of boys enslaved in the sex trade for homosexual sex tourists.
And it's doubtful that you'll be able to get every adult woman out of prostitution (whether it is voluntary or forced servitude).
There is also slavery in Africa in the agriculture industry (parents even sell their children into slavery).
Thanks Colofornian.
Praise these people... maybe they should go to the middle east to rescue children who are being taught to murder innocent people as homicide bombers...
The sex tourism biz is large enough without expanding their focus.
(Except for Israel, I haven't noticed a continued big tourist push in the Middle East of late. Have you?)
It is happening in pretty much every city in America, right under our noses. We probably won't be able to rescue all of them, but even if one is rescued...I keep thinking, what if it was MY daughter who was kidnapped and forced into this. It makes me sick to my stomach.
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