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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I have not made any crude comments.
You’re crude.
You know, you could do a Google search yourself without resorting to big bold letters.
You’ll have to excuse the anti Mormon crowd, they tend to get a little deranged and don’t pay a lot of attention to intelligent questions.
Here is a link to the trial testimony, some pretty interesting stuff in there
http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/home/50581382-76/smart-tolman-yes-steele.html.csp
The meeting did occur, but it was a “Hey, just wanted to make sure you absolutely knew this wasn’t your fault and you have no guilt” thing, not a “Because we are you leaders we have the power to declare you clean” thing. I can’t find any news stories about it though but I am pretty sure it happened
Interesting. . . But the guy is a psycho. He acts and talks and looks, and probably smells like any other psycho drifter. Maybe he sprinkled Mormon dust on his piracy, but he's a pirate. Most Mormons I know don't act like that or support acting like that, and you didn't hear Mormon elders or whatever clamoring to his defense and pointing to their laws. Did you? I didn't.
Interesting counter-example: If he were a Moslem, we couldn't say any of that. Lots of Moslems live all middle class and suddenly act that way in the name of jihad. Surveys of their populations in the West keep showing 20 percent or more admitting openly that they support it--and pointing to the Koran to justify it.
She didn’t “leave” because she was a scared, innocent child far away from home! No telling what those horrid, monstrous people threatened her with.
You are putting blame on the wrong person. I was hoping someone would find that evil you-know-what and torture him like he did her! She is fortunate to have turned out as “normal” as she has, and it sounds like she is putting her nightmare to good purpose.
14 years old is not a child.
Any other teenager I know would be doing everything they possibly could to get away from these “monstrous people”.
Why didn’t she?
She was photographed with them in public and made no attempt to escape.
Yea, I could have but I successfully relied on you LDS bigots to provide me with the information I needed
Smart said she heard the chewed-gum analogy from a teacher.
And that's all you have to go on......
Your attempt to link her captor and her compliance to the LDS is a pathetic joke!
As far as this site being Christian based, you're a pathetic joke too....You're a classic example of the hypocrisy that is rampant here........
14 years old IS A CHILD........I don't know where the hell you come.
But using your logic, if a 14 year old is not a child then you have no problem with a 30 year old male having sex with that 14 year old ADULT.........Am I correct?
I apologize for calling you hateful. You are correct that I do not know you.
What I meant to say is that what you said was hateful. I still stand by that. As I said, this poor girl was traumatized by what those animals did to her.
I seem to recall that she eventually did speak to someone in a public place in order to get herself help. Cannot imagine the state that this child was in all that time.
14 year olds are charged as adults for crimes quite often in many states, they were even executed for capital crimes within living memory.
Don't know why you would believe I'm excusing statutory rape unless you are off medication, Capslock boy.
I'm still wondering why she made no attempt to escape from this "monstrous person" who was constantly raping her even when she had many opportunities in the 9 months she was captive.
Maybe it was your post#47
14 years old is not a child. Mr. Snickering pedophile.........You're sick..........
I'd be very afraid if I were your neighbor.............
Reported nutcase...
Sorry, I just don't know what you think I said was hateful.
Didn't know she actually asked for help once. I'm just wondering why when that "monstrous person" was asleep in the 9 months she was held, she wasn't pounding his skull with a claw hammer, teenagers I know certainly would.
Back stepping on your ignorance are you?....LOL!
When the voices talk to you is it in your head or do you talk to your finger like that kid in ‘The Shining’?
Nope, no voices. I merely respond to the ignorant posters such as you...........
And you've been both busted and spanked..........now go to bed........
Shhhh, the voices will get quiet when the Thorazine kicks in. And the jacket is so you don't bite yourself, you know, like you did last time.
...and stay away from that 14 year old child porn that you claim are adults, you’ll eventually get busted.........just my 2 cents of advice.
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