A STARTLING film about the evils of sex trafficking in America (+Spanish Subtitles)

hi I'm Nancy Stafford in the five years I worked alongside Andy Griffith on Matlock I played a lawyer whose job was to defend the innocent that of course was fiction but the reality of innocent human beings needing to be defended from Evil and evil people has never been greater right beneath our noses all across America in every Community large and small there's an epidemic and I don't use that word lightly of young girls and boys being sold and bought as sex toys they're trafficked like drugs inanimate objects for the pleasure of the buyer it's become a 38 billion dollar a year industry these children are contraband and America has become Contra land the most publicly known child predator is a billionaire Jeffrey Epstein the children that he was using reportedly ages 12 to 14 years old these children come from our families that's where it impacts America his connection with International political figures Financial figures and industry made him a threat to them that may be why he's dead today [Music] Hi how are you good how are you good are you available yeah I got two girls sorry Kelsey and Carrie both 13 both real fresh how much is two girls for a half hour two girls for a half hour normally be 200 I'll do it for 150. [Music] with the other girl and then then maybe the two of them together well [Music] I just feel I'm very good yes sir we are but the girls are sleeping right now we won't be open until a little bit later on um I believe that we should be able to make ourselves available for you at about one o'clock if that is if that's okay the normal rate is 100 half an hour 150 for an hour unless you want both girls and then you know I'll be willing to bargain with you about that because you seemed like such a nice guy yeah these are physically my own girls I've got a really small operation but I take real good care of them yeah it gets confusing this is like in the middle of nowhere it's super weird um you can go ahead and sit on the couch I'm gonna get a drink um do you want any water or water okay I take really good care of my girls I like to make sure that they're safe be nice to them they'll be condoms on the bedside table so you don't have to worry about that is that a problem no okay foreign [Music] [Music] Christopher [Music] Craig Sawyer is the most qualified individual to handle the mission for interdicting child predators and child sex traffickers former Marine former Navy SEAL not just special Warfare seal but a member of SEAL Team Six federal law enforcement officer from the standpoint of being a federal air marshal plus working on an individual basis with other government agencies I feel like as a warrior you know I've been a marine I've been a Navy SEAL I grew up as a fighter and and I realized that man yeah I'd spent the first half of my life going up against terrorists serving as a counter-terrorist operator and counterterrorist unit and that was a worthy contribution but as I learned more about child trafficking and the harm and abuse of the most precious and innocent and helpless and defenseless I just realized that I couldn't look myself in the mirror without doing what I could to combat those who are harming the children who am I if I can't stand up for the smallest and most defenseless and most innocent and precious Among Us who what kind of warrior can't even look after a child I was freshly 17 and grew up in a single parent home so I never met my dad so when I met this guy who said all the right things and he took everything that he knew about me and used it against me like I had to do it or else I was gonna lose something that I felt like was holding me together because I was still a kid the most horrible things that happened when I was out there was at the hands of the buyers and they prey on that and they just do whatever they want they're hurting people and they're doing years and years and years of damage foot as a former Navy SEAL I'm wired for direct action and I know that for this kind of work the specially dealing with cartels I'd need a team of guys I could depend on for high threat security so put together what I called the Viper team veterans interdicting pedophile Rings former special operators all very highly skilled and highly intelligent every one of them wanted to stop child trafficking yeah nice after a couple of days getting dialed in at the range we were ready to deploy [Music] when I discovered that thousands of children little boys and girls were being brought across our Southern border to be sold for sex [Music] I felt this is where I needed to go first to be cold valley [Music] I'm going to show you these Scout Hills here this would be extremely difficult to find these Scouts hiding in these mountains you know there's little caves and stuff up in there they tuck themselves back in there and they're very good at what they do the better they are the more they make from the cartel so not this peak but this one right over here and mostly on the South Side yep I'm gonna put it out your side and we're going down [Music] between 2006 2012 75 000 children are brought into the United States and probably put into the pedophile pipeline when author Tom Clancy created his legendary spy character Jack Ryan Clancy based him on a composite of four real-world intelligence operatives but Jack Ryan was mostly inspired by one man Jack farmer he is one of the top intelligence counter-terrorism and criminal investigative specialists in the world drugs and alcohol are used by pedophiles in a grooming system for these children they're used to groom them to initiate them into pedophilia for the purpose of rape and also to control them after a while they develop addictions and from the addictions then they see a way to cope after a certain period of time though some of them just can't cope they will commit suicide if you don't have it after completing their aerial reconnaissance Craig and his Viper team coordinate with Federal and local law enforcement who are first-hand experts in how and where traffickers are exploiting our borders we're wearing all that camouflage was try to conceal his key signature on Fleer the Viper team then works up a mission plan in their tactical operations center then it's off to the border to do some more Recon expecting to encounter the traffickers in action all right we're about to roll into the vehicle Valley in Arizona close to the southern border goes from Arizona to San Diego California it's the most significant hotbed of activity of illegal migration and narcotics and human trafficking into the continental United States so even our federal and local law enforcement won't roll into there without multiple vehicles and significant support so we be able to get a look at what's going on there but we'll definitely have to watch our six I don't think I could ever make my way across here next to Impossible yeah it's impossible do you have a five-year-old daughter you live in the United States this is what stops her from going to Mexico and being brief if you live in Mexico and you have a five-year-old daughter is what stops her from being trafficked into the United States for these perverts to rape her it's that simple that's reality the Viper team's goal is to locate the cartel spotters and make it harder for them to get their human cargo across the border and into the U.S for many young kidnapped boys and girls coming through Mexico this is where their Journey Begins to drop them off and pick them up if they are living there here in town or something to have them up there watching but otherwise push them further back with them with high powered Optics to see the dust Trails of the vehicles coming in and they'll be able to count vehicles and see if it's law enforcement you know either what kind of activity that they could expect from that there are about 75 cartel organizations that are controlling and trafficking women and children now this is slavery something that we had controlled and gotten rid of 150 years ago Craig and his team move in to conduct Recon in an area where all major mountaintops are occupied by Cartel spotters this is uh where we're camped out right now there's two drops on the North side and there's one drop on the South Side this is where the Scout's sitting and we were told about fish today right if he's sitting up there that's a good sign that uh there's groups being pushed through [Music] oh okay that is a warning for the gangs really which game it was 13. almost 13. American soil a warning by MS-13 that this is their territory I gotta clean this up [Music] a bit farther down the team arrives at an active border crossing spot here's one area U.S Mexico border that uh there's literally a gate you walk straight into the United States it's gate so if I were to step right there that literally would be Mexico um now last time I was down here see this rickety little barbed wire fence this Hillside there was literally little to no barbed wire at all just a couple strands almost laying on the ground that actually has been repaired a bit since I was down here there are some minor improvements being made I mean this is you know this is our border and in moments they spot the cartel traffickers with their human contraband for now the trafficker's operation is disrupted as they have specific schedules to keep but once the Viper team leaves they'll eventually complete their Journey straight into the United States Craig and the team continue their Recon Patrol into the night to observe more on how the traffickers play their game in that area using night vision and thermal image devices the Viper team was able to report signs of heavy traffic to law enforcement [Music] this this is what they refer to as flat top and it's another cartel Scout location where they keep Scouts up there year round and also right here where I'm sitting but uh right off the back side of it right here it runs the U.S Mexico border so this is Mexico and on this side is the United States but that's it folks I mean little barbed wire fence there he is you see him walking up on them rocks oh [ __ ] yeah there he is got it boy Just Turkey Pig right there in his head let's see yeah I gotta tell you one of the things that really angered me as a warrior an American citizen was seeing that there are cartel Scouts that are allowed to live on the mountaintops inside the United States and Report with radios and and circumvent our law enforcement and that these cartel Scouts live up on these mountains year round and they're resupplied on a regular basis and they're allowed to stay there it's Unthinkable it's ridiculous since when do we give the enemy The High Ground and just allow them to operate in our own home how does that come about I don't I don't get it there's a wide range of child trafficking victims and perpetrators that we're seeing we're seeing everything from MS-13 gang bangers moving kids and teenagers to high-end sophisticated networks and individuals and then even families sadly enough mothers and fathers sell their own kids all of it's heartbreaking the kids lose at every turn we just got to figure out exactly what we can do about it looks like we just missed dinner as we were coming up they were watching us probably over here and as we got up they moved back down the mountain and we followed suit into their main camp area which say stage and uh the all three had big packs on carrying nope did shut down this little route for a few I mean for a while I think the most important thing man is we ran across the little kids uh tiny backpack man put things in perspective little shoes the network is very powerful criminals are organized and I think it's time that we good people organize to fight back for our kids after all who are we if we can't look after our own offspring foreign there are multiple things that cause this culture of child rape one of the things is pornography another is Alfred Kinsey back in the 1950s he was a self-described Sato masochistic pedophile whose own genitals were mutilated due to what he preferred sexually so his mind was sick child sex trafficking in the United States really begins back earlier than than most people understand in 1970s we already had a major campaign in the United States on the issue of child sexual abuse and trafficking but we didn't call it trafficking at that time Dr Judith riesman is the founder of The riesman Institute which is dedicated to exposing and debunking Alfred Kinsey's fraudulent so-called science regarding child sexuality she is internationally recognized as an expert witness on human sexuality I would have to say the Kinsey reports laid the scientific foundation for abusing kids in 1948 the groundwork was laid there was sexual behavior in the human male which was Kinsey's Alfred Kinsey wrote sexual behavior in the human male funded by the Rockefeller Foundation supported across the board by Planned Parenthood all came together with that so sexual behavior in the human male then in 1953 sexual behavior in the human female there was no field of human sexuality education before Kinsey none we had the common law that was based our laws on it was biblical okay it when Kinsey came on board half the states in the union gave the death penalty could give the death penalty for rape the other half life in prison now we have all these feminists you know properly complaining that that rape is treated uh you know in a casual way well that this all comes from something it all emerges out of something and that something that kind of of of dehumanization that is picked up by the media from the academic world pushed through the schools through first just the universities then the junior high schools the high schools then now the kindergarten yeah all that then lays the groundwork for Where We Are seems like a percentage of Americans perceive Kinsey as someone who opened up the discussion for sexuality and that that was a good thing but what I think they a lot of them fail to see is that he was a Sato masochistic pedophile and what he did was horrific and so his studies were falsified and since they were it seems to me like his his studies and the doctrine that have followed need to be gone back reversed denounced disavowed and replaced by more wholesome and healthy real science whatever that actually is but not to take the the the falsified studies of a sick mind and accept that as as science you're talking about a man who he didn't just use images of children he used real children he used real children and he had charts and graphs of orgasms that these a child was supposed to have an orgasm a five-year-old a four-month-old one was a four-year-old that had allegedly had 26 orgasms in 24 hours now that's around the clock experiment right so this was this was research that was established and was believed by the American public by the whole world really and the whole thesis behind his research was the children of sexual home birth children are sexual from birth which then gets funneled into the mindset of the public and it becomes the foundation of human sexuality education Hugh Hefner at age 22 he was a virgin in college he read Kinsey and that radicalized him he said oh Kinsey's the scientist I will be Kenzie's pamphlet tears so what comes out of Playboy is the stream of pornography which is at the base of your trafficking World absolutely the stream of pornography 15 years later we got Penthouse ten years after that we got Hustler and then it hasn't stopped right but the impetus for that came from the academic world came from Dr Alfred Kinsey's fraudulent data and look at all the harm it's cost enormous arm Alfred Kinsey should have been arrested so should all his teammate mates have been arrested the Kinsey institute's still alive and still educating the public and now we are seeing the explosion and the end result is the massive abuse of children as well as directly related the trafficking of children because you can't separate The Grooming of children from the trafficking of children most of us start out in the business as children because what adult would make that conscious decision not very many my mother had a drug problem and she wasn't pretty enough make any money but I was I really wanted my mom to love me and I also didn't want her to be sick so that's how it started when people talk about sex trafficking it's always what the image of a young girl but in reality young boys are targeted to a disturbing degree as well horrifically there's a National Organization that specifically targets young boys its name is NAMBLA NAMBLA is the the North American man boy love Association it's a group of men that are sexually attracted to to boys Bob Hamer spent 26 years in the FBI much of it working undercover as a Hitman drug trafficker International arms dealer professional gambler and pedophile I literally sat to a meeting with the members in which they discussed having oral sex on 18 month old boys I was able to attend two of their kind of top secret national conferences once I got to the meeting I realized that it was more about celebrating your love for boys where to go to find boys how to seduce boys it was those type of things that the members were talking about most of the men that I dealt with were high functioning individuals I think a lot of us think we can identify who the Pervert is uh you know we think oh they hang out at the public park with a trench coat and fly somebody but that's what that's not what I ran into I found that the men in this organization ran the socio-economic gamut one of the men that we convicted had a Corvette and that was that was sort of his entree into to the boys because he would allow the boys to ride in his Corvette they liked they liked his car it varied with each person but it really is it's a grooming process I mean it's a it's similar to the dating process where it begins with uh with a glance with a kind word with a conversation and and pretty soon you've developed this relationship one of the members was big into Frisbee and it allowed him to kind of come behind the boy to hug him and get close to him and show him how to how to toss this frisbee they sought out that child that was seeking a father figure and that once they were able to identify that person that's how they were successful in in their seduction I will only apply this to NAMBLA I am not an expert on I'm not a child psychologist I'm not trained in psychology but in my experience with NAMBLA three years not on a daily basis but three years in the organization participating at a high level writing for their magazine communicating with 165 members that were in prison not one child was successfully targeted by an Ambler member that had a strong loving father figure in the home and one of the members told me you can never cure us but you always tell the court ordered counselors what they want to hear if I had the ability to communicate directly to child traffickers and child Predators it would really be two parts number one it destroys the lives of the children it's not okay if you try to tell yourself just because you're getting off on it it doesn't make it okay for the victim because I interview the surviving victims all the time and their their lives have been shattered [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] if you're out there preying upon the children we're out there looking for you and we're probably going to get you [Music] the Viper teams research has discovered a spike in underage prostitution in a suburb of Guilford Connecticut teaming up with local law enforcement they plan to send a message to the pedophiles of the city you seek out sex with a child you go to jail they head to the police station meet the chief of police along with the D.A liaison with them coordinate and map out exactly how we're going to operate together to get this this operation done you know there's multiple agencies helping out here as well we're the only ones sitting at the table but uh we have uh several surrounding agencies we have the Madison police department the Clinton Police Department the Brantford Police Department the North Haven Police Department the Milford Police Department uh West Haven Police Department Fairfield also yeah so uh you know it's not just us and everybody's on the same page with what we're trying to accomplished so uh I'm doing the the background side of it as far as the legal aspects the charges uh what we think we have I've already been able to screen uh this stuff as provided in terms of the texts Brian Sibley is the local district attorney the prosecutor he will monitor the conversations and texts to determine at exactly which point the team can make an arrest in most cases they won't even have to wait for the perp to arrive at the house you know the second they start going past and starting to force and trying to walk past you or something just give me the code and we'll come or them so yeah if we can if we can stay in your truck yeah somehow where it's kind of severing off the back side of the driveway it forces them to park in that area then it's only logical to go up on the deck yeah the deck's going to be lighted perfectly they might see the decoy inside the window anyway yeah if we know that they're coming up then I'll be in the door and motioning in a woman working undercover is pretending to be the pimp selling a young girl to men who are answering an ad on backpage.com Backpage is a virtual shopping mall for all things sexual including access to underage girls and boys since this recording Backpage is now illegal and offline once all that's done Matt's going to reset his team back at the house bring the transport vehicle back and secure it back in the garage and we're going to reset up for for the next round [Music] Target house that we're going to use for the operations figure out how to hide the cameras there the lay of the land so to speak and coordinate what we're doing there I'd say it's so common that no matter what town you're in that by now you could probably go within a couple blocks and find a victim or a perpetrator of child trafficking is that pervasive and that many people finding out that they can Prey Upon the children and benefit from it so it's it's very widespread moved after posting online ads for sex with a young girl they received the First Response within 15 minutes within 30 days they received over 5 000 responses locally hey good come on in law enforcement and the Viper team are at the ready but everyone's concern is is this Predator armed is he violent is he a trafficker coming to kidnap the girls and run nobody knows good yes sir so can I get you a water or do you want to start on the wine no I'm going to do it no you sure is bottled okay bottled okay Craig and his team wait for Brian the D.A to give them the word so what made you interested in this why'd you answer my ad I don't know I'm I'm a boring person I need to do something fun with my life all I do is go to work and go home I'm gonna do nothing else I mean I'm not gonna lie at first I I was thinking it was kind of sketchy but that's why I kept late not like have somebody but I just wanted to make sure that I was all right because right there ain't nothing in this world where my freedom you know yeah no I feel the same way it's a risk putting an ad like that out on Craigslist yeah yeah because you see a lot of excuse my language you see a lot of crazy people up there yeah so I hope you don't mind that um I actually invited somebody to to come along what's going on how you doing buddy you're here to party ah not so much you doing well if you let me know uh what you got in line maybe I can I can be of assistance I don't know I not really like I said I I get a little nervous you know and trust me I don't want no problems no I understand that I understand that but I understand a few more things too yeah uh I know you're into Family Play I did that one time with a cousin of mine she she got so drunk one time and it was just like oh she came on to me and I was just like yeah well I'm not into it and it's the end of the Third and then she like started grabbing me and touching me or whatever and I'm like nah bro I can't and then I got [ __ ] up with her and then that was that all right well what drove you here today what made you decide okay I'm gonna come and do this nothing just like I said man I'm I'm sorry I have your hands on your pockets no no it's just my phone yeah yeah keep your hands out of your pockets and have a seat please you know what I don't even feel comfortable right now and even when I first walked in I felt a little awkward yeah well I think it felt awkward because you've been a bit of a bad boy bad boy that's the code word I am listening and again you shouldn't have weapons turn basement give me a circle [Music] the first Predator is taken away to be booked with attempting to have sex with a minor he's potentially facing eight years in jail plus a ten thousand dollar fine and an average lawyer fee of 175 thousand dollars he'll be a Marked Man for the rest of his life registered as a sex offender the fact is he was guilty of this crime before he even got to the house but v4cr operators and the police gave the perp plenty of opportunity to fully Express his intent to have sex with a minor by letting the sting play out statistically we're learning that each child predator harms an average of 70 children each some of them it's hundreds of children because they've worked themselves again into positions of authority and access and some of them sadly never get caught others get caught very early on so the average is about 70 children each and so they they tend to never stop as Darkness Falls and the temperature begins to drop a second Predator arrives yeah that's fine thank you so how would you try cold yeah but I like it so so so um hope you don't mind I am I have a little surprise I kind of took it for myself because what was what we've been talking about okay connected such things yeah so I asked him to to come over and tell us about some of the special deals that he could get us on like more experiences with this that's cool how's it going hi I am someone who you can consider like your recreational activities director okay I know a lot of people around here if you let me know what you're after maybe I can help you out um how about we try this if I do end up coming again yeah can we do it then would that be possible well I mean well what I I don't help me understand I'm not sure I understand why you're here I don't wanna I don't want to miss out on anything well why are you here I'm here to help you man I'm here to help you um find a 12 year old girl apparently what was it that that drove you to come and see and see them you know I think I understand based on the communication but yeah can you help me kind of understand your your thoughts a little more I've been depressed last two years now that of being secluded alone and really any form of communication kind of raises everything up um it's being depressed brought you into a bad place what do you think it might do to a young child having sex with a with a grown man and having his left inside of her and her mother I don't think it would be good but you were willing yeah you were willing to do that though to a 12 year old girl to say my personal to me to uh too high I gotta tell you somebody that does this this was difficult for me to do as an adult it was difficult for me to talk to you with the way that you were talking about my 12 year old stepdaughter and I do this all the time the entire ride here I knew that I was making a bad choice and coming here knowing that this is probably gonna end horribly but the fact that the sexual drive in me kept on pushing forward so I guess I just pushed everything to the side and just kept on going or uh well I think that because the the fact that you've been a bad bad boy yeah this is where the road is for you so you're standing up right now to me face me handy man you back can you bring them wait yeah our undercover agents make themselves targets for the Predators online they don't have to work very hard at it because these predators are out there looking for their targets already it's not really like going to a pond and throwing a hook in and pulling in catfish it's more like going to The Ponds dropping a stick of dynamite in there and they all come up there are thousands of them that will respond certainly hundreds within one night okay slow down and look because the next Predator made a mistake with his directions and has gotten lost way up [Music] he begins to panic yeah what knowing he's a repeat offender with a propensity for violence the external surveillance team who's been tracking him decides to end this right there [Music] this Predator chose to include a friend to give him a ride to a 13 year old's house and commit a felony sex act with a minor what a piece of work [Music] you guys can get evidence go back to the house and talk to you in a minute what's your name all right [Music] the last Predator of the night arrives bearing a gift for the girl he's there to have sex with a birthday cake for a 12 year old who just turned 13. [Music] a little little treat here extra chocolate cake right [Music] the Predator also brought some lingerie for the girl and her mother to wear while they engaged in his perverted sexual fantasy how old are they uh so have you always enjoyed younger I've never experienced it right I visit something you've ever been curious oh yeah absolutely absolutely absolutely Carrie how old are you I'm 13 13. you just had your birthday yes sir well happy birthday thank you so and we actually have them um have them ready if you wanted me to develop and change sure yeah sure okay hi everybody hey how are you good good uh I have a seat for me don't don't worry I'm uh hands up do not move also anyone from the car what was that yeah we're in Egypt what kind of Asian federal agent with what agency you have a weapon on your car he worked for the treasury Department specifically it was the IRS criminal investigation division the man had children of his own and he showed up at the site wanting to have sex with 13 year old girl after just dropping his own children off he was even so sick as to bring a birthday cake because he was told by our undercover agent that the girl was having a birthday and so he was going to use this cake to help groom her to whatever his specific desires were if this individual was with you with your children had seen your children it could have been the same thing if he's willing to jeopardize his oath to the country to the point where he wants to break the law like that he'll do it with anything in accessing these pornographic sites and dealing with child pornography on government computers they're opening up our I.T infrastructure to our nation's enemies the industry itself is run by criminal organizations many cases foreign governments even the images that are passed can have embedded code in them which will further jeopardize our I.T infrastructure we're talking about government agencies here all the way from the Department of Defense DEA Department of Justice the treasury Department the IRS they're actually compromising those infrastructures to the point which makes it a national security issue it's nice a man as he might think he is putting him in jail is the best thing for him there he'll have time to get counseling and perhaps change his life for the better the running the hiding the guilt will finally end and he can get the help he needs Brian I I have a genuine appreciation for the contrast the difference of what we've got with you here and your willingness to face this which is obviously a very difficult and tricky issue to face it's ugly what we were trying to do is to basically rip that can off the ugly top of the camera off of the ugly and say look inside and go it is open and you got to reach down you're gonna have to get dirty yeah this this sucks to face it sucks to deal with but it's got to be done it's like cancer you know you can't wish it away you have to address it you've got to deal with it one way or another and so it feels good to be part of the process of it exposing it while uncomfortable that's the only way that can really be addressed and foot to bed as we leave Connecticut here I I'm left with a sense that man this was an important first stepping stone and this style of joint operations between an organization of veterans and law enforcement to create a model that we can replicate to to expand across the United States to address this on a wide scale basis and really help put this pedophile nonsense to bed well at the time I'm you know 11 12 years old somebody approached me and says you can um you can actually get your own place in less than a week and I thought get my own place in less than a week are you crazy I'm 12 years old and the guy said you can I can make you rich he says I know this man that lives up on the North side of town and he'll pay you big money if you go and see him I said well how old is he at the time like I said I'm 12 years old well how old is he well he's 75. so that day he took me in his car and we went up to this house a butler answered the door he ended up paying me 500 and the guy that took me up there gave me fifty dollars and boy I thought I was the richest thing in the world of my fifty dollars I would say from the week I lost my virginity to the end from Monday to Monday I probably seen 15 guys that's how it all began [Music] Thailand is known for its ancient ruins and ornate temples but it's also known as the top destination in the world for sex trafficking while we were in Thailand we learned that 7 out of 10 westerners that step off of an airplane participate in the sex trade there in one way or another Craig is on a fact-finding mission in Southeast Asia which has many of the oldest and most permissive sex trafficking countries in the world he wants to find out how local anti-traffickers are dealing with the problem and how their Solutions might translate to his work in the United States the sex trade here in Cambodia has been around for millennia Ted Albrecht is the head of Foursquare Children Of Promise one of the largest providers of orphanages for sex trafficking survivors the whole value of a woman is based upon their virginity and once they become broke and quote unquote which is the term that they use here they are not considered marriageable so that's a big issue then you have these women they've come out of the countryside in a huge percentage of the girls especially that grew up in the rural provinces were never considered worthy to educate and so when the factories opened up many of the workers that come in are illiterate young women and they find that they can earn more money in that sex trade than they can working in a garment Factory you [Music] know and that time she want to jump from the guest house to to the ground floor like when she she want to kill herself Shanae was trafficked until she was 19. her family didn't have enough money to feed themselves so they locked her in a guest house and brought men to her there and sometimes she go out with the father sex and they just pay her for 50 dollars and some sometimes the mother need the money so she has no choice just go with the man and take fifty dollars thankfully destiny Rescue is one organization that is doing something about it working closely with the police their undercover agents contact girls who want to get out and then stage fake raids so no one suspects the girls are leaving for good once we get the Intel obviously then it's passed on to the to the cops here and then the case will start that's what we're pretty much doing tonight is trying to locate the miners get as much information as we can and then put a case together armed with a list of girls who desperately want to escape destiny Rescue and the police strike late that night [Music] the destiny Rescue undercover agents cameras capture the chaos as the police raid the club the girls believe they're going to jail but it's really a doorway to a New Life really well got the girls it's great to see The Raid was a success but the learning curve has been steep is there a lot of trial and error you know guns in our faces fights in clubs and and just learning how to do things smarter and better to protect ourselves is where we are today and we're in for the long haul you know like it's we've got there's so many kids out there estimated 1.2 million kids being trafficked so you know it's a it's a big job and we're we're all committed to seeing it and you know we have to be after the raid I wanted to know how some of these organizations helped the girls to get back to a normal life and it came across a truly unique Ministry called SWAT Ministries International led by John and Chrissy Espy SWAT stands for Spiritual Warriors against trafficking The Rescuers come from all over the world a lot of them from the U.S some are local but they're plumbers electricians fathers Brothers regular people that aren't Superman superhero they don't have law enforcement or seals and human background and stuff so they need something something while they're in because they're not in the best of situations they're as you've seen going into the backyard of the Emmys territory you know and it's not always safe and what we do is we come alongside organizations that go undercover to bring children from prostitution From Slavery and we give them the skill sets that that they need to protect themselves to protect the kids to do their jobs more safely and effectively besides training current and future undercover Rescuers they also provide self-defense training to traffic survivors giving them back some of the power they lost heart for the kids everybody you know you know has a has a burning desire to see these kids rescued and we I do as well for my heart is really like I just burdened my heart for is the guys going undercover The Rescuers that's my heart is like that's who that's my boys and if anything happened to them you would it would break me more ways than I could possibly imagine I learned a lot from running operations with Destiny and from SWAT Ministries International about how to take my team to the next level and after a month of running joint operations with them it was time to go back home and apply this new knowledge with my own team I grew up in a very sheltered household both of my parents were pretty successful just unhappy I had a very low self-esteem and I ended up running away from home when I was very young and I met a 30 year old man who asked me if I wanted to go to a party and I told him yes at the time I was still a virgin so I was innocent and he took advantage of that innocence I don't ever feel like I'm going to be the same I feel marked some days I just want to sit there and just not be present anymore my wife woke me up in the middle of the night crying saying oh my God baby it's Aspen she's been raped and I could hear Aspen screaming into the phone in March of 2017 I was held hostage at knife point and taken and I was sexually assaulted over the course of around five hours as you might imagine with my background and capabilities I had all kinds of things rushing through my mind and I got on the phone with my daughter to try to get her to stop and pull over so we could get sheriffs to intervene and react and respond to where she was and she wasn't stopping for anything she was hysterical this guy just came up to me and started talking to me and that's when he pulled a knife out of his pocket and he said if I don't do what he said he was going to kill me and so we start walking across the road and along the way he would stop and pull into like a lot and sexually assault me multiple times down the road I knew I was gonna die he told me by the way like I'm gonna kill you I just kept asking him um if he could let me go I was trying to say anything that I could think of I was like oh I'll come back tomorrow even though clearly I wasn't going to I was just trying to say anything that I could to just get him to let me go after that he actually walked me back to my car and I drove home and so when we got her back it was just a matter of deciding what what we were going to do about it as a family my family did their best that they could to be there for me and support me but I just felt like there was nothing that anybody could do to make what happened go away she was seeing demons in her room at night she was it was giving her hallucinations the doorbell would ring and she would start shaking uncontrollably I was scared to leave my house I was scared to do anything and I was having nightmares and it was just horrible I didn't even know if I wanted to even be alive because the after effects on my brain was just it was a lot this person didn't just rape our daughter this person assaulted our entire family we will never be the same he was arrested pretty quickly after I can't remember exactly how long it took them but it was within a few days I was happy knowing that he couldn't do that to anyone else anymore yeah what our family has put through I don't want anyone else to go through shouldn't happen that's not that's not part of who we're supposed to be what our goal is is to take this really ugly experience and to do in our power to keep it from happening to another family no family deserves to have this happen in their life it it you're never the same never our family was tearing apart we were just pretending that we were all okay and then Aspen surprised us all I heard that they were going to be doing a sting operation and right away I was like I'm in I immediately declined the idea I discredited it and threw it off my own wife whom I thought was on my side said you you Craig you should let her do it when Craig first asked me about Aspen being a decoy and he was really conflicted over it I immediately knew it would take some power back and he was really apprehensive at first because he didn't want me getting into any kinds of trouble we have to wear bulletproof vests because we don't know these people that we're encountering and it can be very dangerous and so he absolutely did not want me to go I don't think that my daughter should have to be in a place where she needs a bulletproof vest ever I said no I'm going this is a way for me to take back my power and for me to look in the eyes of the Predator when they're in handcuffs instead of the other way around when I was the victim I was like oh you little scrapper you okay so at the end of the day I I decided all right all right we're going to do this and so he said all right let's go [Music] okay we're stopping at the Parowan Police Department for liaison and morning briefing with them on our joint operations all right that's going to be here man we're happy to have you plenty as law enforcement we're very concerned about children and children's rights in making sure that we're we're doing everything that we can in order to take care of our citizenry and this has been a great opportunity for us to be able to come in with their resources and give us the opportunity of being able to work with them to be able to take these perpetrators off the street you know I think that this uh is very important for our communities to know that we're Progressive in very active in doing what we can in order to protect our our communities we already knew that our operational template was effective we knew that it worked so we went in there with confidence met with law enforcement briefed in on how we conduct our operations and set up the house accordingly I'm 19 years old and working for the first time with law enforcement as a decoy to take down a bunch of pedophiles an ad was placed in an underground website last week and dozens of men have responded to it eager to sexually assault a 13 year old it's scary but it's important for me to be here every time there was a knock on the door I got a little bit of butterflies but I don't think it was necessarily for nervousness I think it was because I was excited to take these guys down mostly and um I was all in and whenever the guys showed up I was like let's do this right keep coming keeps coming straight and then you'll take the right we need to see my truck yeah I see you you can just pull right in there behind my truck okay all right shall we do it all right we agreed on a hundred dollars to get them in the door Alexa play classical for focus you remind me my grandpa Hi how are you can you take my shoes off uh if you like you sure can Kelly very nice to meet you uh we don't get hurt get hugs um so let's take care of the hundred dollars okay awesome thank you so much so can I ask you to tell me you know just a little bit about yourself well uh I am married I have a family my wife and I are happily married but haven't had any intimacy for for years although she's a very good woman right you have just the two girls for now yes in this location when we get back to the southeast we'll have more girls but but these are the two that I like to travel you're physically you're a girl's there um I take care of them okay I understand right yeah I was thinking that it's your own daughter's bed oh no okay they're like my daughters I mean they're my favorite girls okay so a half hour I'd like them to choose which ones first okay okay and then a half hour with the other girl okay and then things are going well we'll agree on that right in front right and so you've already paid me the hundred dollars for that yeah and then if if everything is fine then we'll do the two together okay and then that'll be an extra 50 at that point no an extra 75. oh look how honest you are oh that's nice you're very sweet you actually remind me a lot of my grandfather and he was a great great man um I really have a little sir good how are you I'm I'm all right um my name's Craig and I run an organization called Veterans for child rescue and we pay attention to what goes on with the kids and I appreciate anything that you can share with me on your journey here I heard a little bit about your wife and understand the lack of intimacy lately and so I get that that part of it let me be very candid I I don't want any sex at all I mean that isn't my interest at all I've been lonely I'm very happily married are you with police or something I'm not police I run a veterans organization called Veterans Hotel rescue that's for myself I was an officer in the service Military Intelligence linguist well is there anything else you could share with me about what you what your understanding of of the the girls of what your interaction with them how that would have been how that would have really impacted them did you consider that or was it absolutely absolutely what do you think what do you think your impact on them is as third are they both thirteen yes and I actually won't even interact with them if they're only 13. well that was in the air that was something that we that we talked about in a greater or no I'm sorry not in the ad but in the text that that we had back and forth was their age and then looks like he just made a hundred dollars and I'm on my way there well unfortunately it doesn't work quite that way because you've been what we would refer to as a naughty grandpa so put your hands up in the air put your hands up in the air slowly face away from me face away from me interlock your hands behind your head interlock your hands behind your head for your safety mind do not move do you understand say again do not move D how come you didn't tell me the truth Military Intelligence linguist and now works in construction so he's a veteran officer military linguist when these guys will get arrested I would walk up to them and I would stand a couple inches away from them right in their face and I would just stare at them she would just stand there watch them turn from Predator into prisoner and she confided to me papa I have to let you know that this has been more healing than any counseling I think could have ever been I got to reverse it and I got to put these people in the position that they should be in instead of me and they were powerless they were being taken down they were being hunted instead of me they were not going to be able to hurt anyone else anymore ultimately it was the right choice it was the it was so beautiful to see her fight back you're my hero you're starting to become mine there are two basic working types of pedophiles what we call Gutter pedophiles these are the individuals that you would normally associate with low level Street crime uh uh people that you would picture in a trench coat hanging on a corner trying to lure children in with with Promises of candy the other are elite elite pedophiles these are individuals that are in positions of Authority or positions of community respect we're talking about government officials we're talking about police officers judges School teachers Church eldermen people that you would trust your child to be with that you have faith in that's what makes Elite pedophiles so dangerous [Music] okay it's coming up the driveway guys stand back I was hoping I have the fireplace going because it's so cold but it's broken it's broken I had just talked to my Army recruiter a couple weeks prior actually and then this guy shows up and he's an army recruiter and you know he has a wife and kids and he had just dropped a kid off that he was trying to recruit and then he came over to try to sexually abuse who he believed to be a 12 year old girl did you want that kind of Lifestyle I've always been interested in it but it just never actually met somebody that's done it or been into it that's why we're married yes and so she's not not into it no have you ever talked to her about it or him or no yes sir you know how she is yeah so uh was it like a religious thing or is it just like one of those taboo things that you just don't do I guess she doesn't feel comfortable with it yeah I don't understand why most people don't it's it's not yeah it was hard enough for me to find you so and the people that we've arrested I don't think that this is the first time for any of them when you listen to their phone calls and the way that they talk and they they act this is something that I think that they've been doing for a long time and they've really been leading a double life and have just always felt that they could get away with and they they don't care about their families any more than they care about these 13 year old girls that that they want to victimize hey hi Jason how you doing I'm doing good I'm Craig Sawyer I founded a Veterans for child rescue organization pay attention to what goes on with the kids that's why I'm here and to tell me why you're here just interested you know I understand you got your own kids I've looked at your Facebook page with like fine little young people I'm sure you'd want them protected as as I would yeah um Let me let me ask you what was it Jason that you were looking to do with this girl here I don't know it was for her but I think I was pretty clear from the beginning yeah yeah well I've got all the transcripts I mean I know I know everything that's happened I was deeply disappointed because in the back of my mind I was thinking my gosh there are countless fallen heroes buried in Arlington and all over the rest of the world who have given everything honorably and sacrificed for our country and for others selflessly I just thought my gosh do you know how many good people you're dishonoring with your behavior what's wrong with you you think that this Behavior reflects honorably upon the US Army I'm a veteran too I mean I I think I could understand how that would be looked upon yeah so I think it's unfortunate that you've chosen this this path tell me about your kids man all right seven and four both doing great in school yeah have they been involved in any sex with you know with adults you or anyone else no would you want them to be no excuse me what what children I don't know yeah that's that's the scary part is I don't know either that's the way it's got to go Jason unfortunately you've been a bad bad boy that's where it is for you today cheers please stand up stand up walk towards me face away slowly go down put your hands behind your head get off your ankles no keep your hand up on your head cross your ankles for your safety mind do not move do you understand look to the left I have more disdain for those who abuse positions of authority than anything else and I think that they should be judged more harshly even than the other Predators because there's a position of public trust that is abused by these some of these Predators they work themselves in a position as a judge or a chief or a or a teacher or a coach or or something that that we traditionally want to give respect and credibility to and sadly the Predators work their way into those positions children are they're not thinking at all about how it's going to affect their families or anyone else until we come up out of that stairwell and they realize that they're under arrest and one of the things to me that's been really quite heartbreaking for me is to have to call their wives and say we just arrested your husband for two counts of child rape and it's it's very heartbreaking for me to have to tell them that their husband is a sexual predator my gosh he's supposed to be serving and protecting he's got kids of his own Scott I mean he's got the responsibility to protect the little ones and so if our officials are in on it we've got a problem the sexual exploitation of children has increased exponentially for instance between 2003 and 2006 it doubled it doubled again between 2006 and 2008 and then it doubled a third time from 2009 to 2013. it used to be that when we arrested a pedophile we would find images that he was dealing in maybe maybe 150. today though we're up to 150 000 that we routinely find and they go as high as 1.5 million why so high because they use it to trade they use it to invest and they sell those images to other pedophiles this is a going industry that's why it's making so much money globally especially here in the United States the child pornography being watched is being performed by somebody there is a perpetrator that is committing the offense there's a child which is a victim whoever is watching that pornography is facilitating that child's rape it's Criminal it's evil hey good come on in [Music] sorry um give me just one second please I want to set the door turn around turn around go down put your hands in the air go down on one knee go down on one knee go down on the other one being there with the law enforcement and the pis and actually getting it done and it was so empowering and I finally felt the power that had been taken from me I know that I have a long road to recovery but after what happened to me I can't look away I will keep fighting against the exploitation of children and I will keep fighting for a positive change [Music] we removed The Branding tattoos that are forced on victims of sex trafficking a lot of these girls that are traffic their pimps will brand them to show ownership it's a sign of ownership and so they come here and we either lighten and remove them or we have Affiliates where they can go to get them covered with something beautiful the tattoos can come in a form of a name a symbol numbers dates crowns the it all signifies the ownership of the pimp some do get branded with hot knives some on their genitals I have a daughter that was sexually assaulted and I seen the trauma that she went through and magnify that over and over again it keeps me driven to do this a lot of these girls are trafficked at a young age 11 12 13 14 years old it is such a manipulation they're seeking something that maybe they're not getting from home or maybe they are bullied in school the foster care system insistence like that and these men know how to groom them they're called Romeos or groomers and they will say and do anything to gain their trust they will even have dinner at their parents house as the boyfriend to gain their trust and once the trust is there it's over they go to a different state or however this particular person does it I feel anger Sadness the whole thing um try I try to give Grace and forgiveness and when we see these girls a lot of times they're just happy silly and you wouldn't know other than that we do know and other times they're so traumatized they're either angry or mean even towards us me and the technicians or they're sad and quiet and when they beginning when they start to open up after we've known them for a little bit the stories are something that the general public will never even imagine could happen and it I get angry I get sad there's days that I lose sleep the ultimate goal would be to end my business but for now we're doing about 500 procedures a year and we like to get in every single City in every single state to offer what we do because it's not laser it's a lot safer and it can be handled much easier so we'd like to be in every state and every city and have technicians everywhere so when these girls are ready and sometimes boys when they are ready we can help them remove this painful past v4cr has built a coalition of non-profits and non-governmental organizations or ngos each addressing a different aspect of the child sex trafficking problem sold no more focuses on education and prevention equipping children in schools with the knowledge of how to avoid falling victim to child trafficking SWAT Ministries International is an NGO that trains volunteers to rescue children from traffickers and helps Empower survivors with self-defense skills Soul Survivor Inc removes The Branding tattoos from survivors to help them recover their own identities Veterans for child rescue exposes the threat to Creative Media campaigns and directly combats child sex trafficking by running joint operations with law enforcement to arrest predators the Rancho Milagro Foundation helps bring healing to trauma survivors in a unique manner by using Equine Therapy Aspen Sawyer has received healing at Rancho Milagro our comprehensive Coalition does more together than each organization could do by itself each using its unique gifts and skills to help overcome the trauma of child sex trafficking [Music] I think we've been conditioned too much so in the United States to be tolerant tolerant of everything but there are things that we must not be tolerant of you must not be tolerant of that which will kill us or that which will destroy our children foreign and so what I want people to know is that this is a situation that we can defend All American children and really all the children across the globe I would like for this to grow into a global cause I think it's super important for guys to just realize that you know women are not sexual objects we're not property we're human beings and you know you might think looking at you know Playboy or whatever is innocent and it might seem that way but oftentimes what can happen is these guys start to venture into more things because they get bored with the usual naked woman and they want to venture and that's when they can get hooked onto child pornography and things that can be really harmful and that's when they start to kind of think in their brain that women are sexual objects and they start to treat us that way real men don't buy kids real men do not buy children for sex real men are strong and we are Protectors of the defenseless and we certainly do not Prey Upon vulnerable women and we certainly don't do it against and upon the defenseless and precious children knock it off or we're coming for you there's too many people that watch porn at a young age there's these games where they're act they actually get points for raping someone and it's they're desensitizing that these are human beings they're not toys that you can't buy them and and hurt them like this but as long as there's Supply demand it will never end the demand starts with the individuals that are lonely that feel like they're not doing any harm the demand starts with individuals that have sexual addictions that they're not willing to address and the demand starts with individuals that feel like it's okay to buy men women and children it's just disgusting and we need you know fathers to teach their sons right from wrong and it's just really important because the victim is not at fault the the people who are at fault are the rapists the kidnappers and you know one in four women I mean that's just way too much there's a problem stop objectifying women need to be respectful objectification of of women who uh it's not just their looks that we should value them for it's what they bring to the table in a relationship into our lives some of the most important people will ever encounter are our mothers and our wives and our daughters and I think we just need to get back to valuing people for being who they are rather than just the visual of what they look like and the sexual gratification that they may bring when we lock our doors and our windows at night we lock up our vehicles and we Retreat to our master bedrooms with our children in their rooms and we think that they are safe but we might as well have left the window wide open because they're on their phones they're on their computers they're on their Xbox games and predators are interacting with them and stalking them asking them for video and pictures of themselves that they used to then blackmail the child and scare them into giving more and then meeting them in a place and it just leads to harm so the Predators are reaching right through the airwaves into our children's bedrooms and we do have to safeguard them in that way get in that phone get in that laptop have your kid open up their XBox content they're the con who their friends are you've got to see it do it once a week we used to want to respect our child's privacy but what we realize that the Predators are so adamant and they're so good at tricking the children and the the Young young men and women to get what they're ultimately after that we have to take that privacy in order to ensure that they are safe if we suspect something need to be all about it and get into it and find out what's going on be the adult that every child needs be that person be the person who's going to save somebody the public needs to hold authorities accountable for going after these pedophiles that are abducting assaulting and raping children we need stronger laws and stronger politicians who will enforce those laws in order to make this happen never hesitate to stand for good and speak the truth because the light out shines the darkness every time and that's kind of been a an evolution for us a we've grown in that respect of having such strong faith that that good over overcomes evil and fear not you should stand up and do right and there is no decision to be made by running these operations I can have an influence and I can prevent Untold numbers of victims by getting their attackers getting the Predators off the streets by running larger and larger programs by warning the people that the threat exists and how to defend their children from it and that's my healing that's how I fight back and that's what I've learned that I can do through v4cr together we are quite literally what we can't be alone we can't be a network of people that says no more by ourselves but we can together their strength in numbers we understand what's going on now and by alerting each other and by linking and networking and gaining power and momentum we can beat this back and we must and we will we will together we can make the change take action go to vets4childrescue.org [Music] [Applause] on some

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Length: 96min 26sec (5786 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 07 2023