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Mary Sanya

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Mr. Tapa, not here.

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We will come in front of you to say thank you for your benediction.

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We say thank you for your responsibility and to save all of us.

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And we say thank you for your ability to achieve our mission.

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Come on, Father.

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We ask you with all your heart, with all your strength, to protect us, to help us, to stop you.

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Because we need to stop you.

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Please guide us. Please march with us. Please protect us, and please make sure that we will accomplish the mission that we have decided to accomplish.

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We thank you for your health and safety. Please be seated.

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We have a story that we love to talk about.

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A young boy on a beach who's throwing starfish into the ocean.

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An older man approaches the young boy and says, boy, what are you doing?

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He says, tide is low. The sun is high.

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And if I don't get them all back into the ocean, they're going to shrivel up and die.

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The man points to the boy and says, look down the beach.

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Look down the shoreline. There's millions of them or thousands of them.

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There's no way that you can get them all back.

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Do you think you can really make a difference?

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A young boy thinks for a moment, then just starts tossing starfish back into the ocean,

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turns to the older gentleman and says, I don't know, but I know I just made a difference for that one.

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Yeah, it's right here, right here. OK, ready?

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OK, ready?

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On, two, trois.

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Go, go, go, go, go!

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Go, go, go!

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Go, go, go!

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Go, go, go, go!

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Get up!

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Go, go, go, go, go, go!

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thank you very much ladies and gentlemen thank you thank you good morning it's great to see

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this many of you out thank you each and every one of you who came out today to support utah's

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efforts in the fight against this horrible evil institution that we call human trafficking with

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over 40 million modern-day slaves worldwide thousands of them throughout the united states

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and many of you have known about this issue and have been fighting against it and working here

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for years some even decades this is an institution that's been around since the beginning of time

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but it's really only now that the mainstream that the public is starting to gain awareness and so

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a little over four years ago a dear friend of mine who was a superstar in the law enforcement

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community who was a specialized agent with a very special set of skills left his law enforcement

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career everything that he knew his pension his security to start a non-profit called operation

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underground railroad they've done jumps everywhere throughout the world rescued kids and then help

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them get to a safe place with their aftercare programs tim ballard are you here can you come on

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up so we can recognize you in operation underground railroad

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i'll be very brief um to invoke history in 1791 when the the haitian population rose up and destroyed

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slavery in their country that was led by to saint l'auventure and then the abolitionists in america were

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watching frederick douglas was watching and used that inspiration and when slavery was finally eradicated

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legally because it has not been eradicated in in actuality frederick douglas said let us not forget

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the sons and daughters of haiti who are the true pioneer abolitionists of the 19th century we'll turn the rest over to

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to god and pray for us all as we take our flights this this in the next 24 48 hours and and execute

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uh this this operation and um i am certain we will have success thank you so much

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just ring for your word

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well i think we should do two arrest teams i think we should do two arrest teams

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and pick them up as simultaneously as possible

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well ladies and gentlemen welcome we're here to discuss uh preparations for what we are uh so excited

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for it's a day that we've waited a long time uh for and we want to thank my colleague attorney general

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who's here with his team and then our friends at the dcpg the judicial police for haiti

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our philosophy is it doesn't matter what country the kids belong to or were born in they're all our kids

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and we want to protect all of them but sometimes people in our own country ask us why are you going

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to haiti why does oh you are why would the attorney general spend time in another country we need you

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here and our response is on global crimes like human trafficking we can't pretend that it just

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happens in the united states so we work on it here domestically so that we can protect our friends and

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allies and also protect ourselves so it never comes in to the united states borders the u.s creates the

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demand that the highest the highest producer and consumer of child pornography is right here in the united states

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so we know that we it's our countrymen that are causing this and because we look like those evil

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countrymen of ours we can get access quickly to the dark to the evil and so the police asked do you have

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operators who can go undercover into the belly of the beast into the darkest places and find these kids

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and i said yes we we do

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something happened to me once um this was after i'd quit the government and i was already

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with operation underground railroad and i was about to go into this compound in port-au-prince haiti it

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was a trafficking center it looked like an orphanage from outside it had orphanage on the wall and so the

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police asked us to go in undercover like we're gonna go buy kids and i remember sitting outside the gate

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and i always fight with this you know see the problem with me is i have seven kids so any kid that

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we're looking to save the minute i see that kid oh he's six i've got a six-year-old oh he's 10 i got a

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10 year old and so it's so easy for my mind just to put you know basically superimpose my kid's face

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my child's face on this victim's face and i'd fight it and i'd fight it and i'd fight it

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um and that's how i would move on because of those first kind of couple experiences that just almost

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destroyed me but as i was standing outside the orphanage something happened i looked in

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and i saw 28 kids

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and that was more than i'd ever seen

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and and it happened again oh my gosh there's there's there's there's blaine there's jimmy

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there's sam you know all my kids are here and i remember being outside that place

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and i thought i'm not gonna do it

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i'm gonna try to embrace this i've got to buy a kid these people think we're here to buy kids and

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they made it very clear within the first five minutes you know you know we don't adopt kids

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right you know we sell kids like oh of course yeah that's that's why we're here you know uh and

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i see this little boy walk around from you know this this dark outbuilding

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he walks into the yard of this place it's dirty place it's it's stinky it smells like

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urine and feces and just it was just horrible and i and i

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i went up to this kid and i picked him up

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he was my kid you know i i saw my kid and he became my kid

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so i'm holding him and and my partner is negotiating with the bad guys

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about the price and oh i think you guys want that one okay and

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and these horrible people are trying to you know they're they're telling us

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tips on how to evade the police and how they've done this before how to get them out of the country

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so i picked the kid up and i want to go into the the dark kind of outbuildings that are around this

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compound but i don't want to look like i'm being overly curious so i kind of i have kids so i know

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how to i know how to communicate with kids i think i get him to point

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in the in the room like as if he's going to show me something and i look over the bad guys and i can

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tell they're like oh he's gonna he wants to show that guy whatever

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so it worked so i got in there and it just got stinkier and darker

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and as i kind of walked into the belly of this dark building

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it got quieter and quieter as i got further away from the sounds of the street

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and the other kids playing outside and the quieter it got

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the better i was able to hear what was always there right behind me and it was the

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footsteps of this little child who was following me and i flip around and and there's this little girl

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and she's looking at me and i i don't want to cause more attention so i give her a candy bar now

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again these kids are starving she takes that candy bar and she looks at me and then she looks

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right back at her at that little boy in my arms and without taking her eyes off him breaks it like

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muscle memory breaks it in half and gives it to him and i'm just thinking this is not normal

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um and then it hit me oh my gosh they're they're brother and sister

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and she's horrified because how many westerners have been here

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and picked up a child and that child disappeared and was never seen again

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and this is all she has the only adults in her life are trying to sell her

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how how old is she

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nine nine you're nine

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how long how long has she been here

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every 30 seconds a child is sold they're sold for for sex they're sold for labor they're sold

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for organ harvesting which is something we're now getting into

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there's six million children that are forced into one of those three categories right now

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kids

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modern-day slavery really is the plague of our generation when you consider there's more people

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enslaved today than ever before in the history of the world and the world doesn't know we need to

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wake them up

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what's up guys

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how do you handle the victory?

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ok, wow

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these girls are going to get naked right away

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we've had experience, they are crying, they don't want to

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if there's one girl that says that, you go and you go and they'll be like firing squad

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quince, quince, quince

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what the is this?

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it's a subject that nobody wants to think about or talk about, that's part of the problem, right?

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it's so ugly, it's so, it's the worst part of humanity, and yet you've got to do something about it, it's kind of a catch-22, nobody wants to talk about it, nobody wants to have it, nobody wants to talk about it, nobody wants to talk about it, nobody wants to do anything about it

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everybody, it just, it drives me crazy how much everybody is arguing on they would be the biggest abolitionist going back in time

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well, would you? because you're not doing it now, and it's not that you wouldn't, you just won't look at it

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because I imagine a lot of people like, oh yeah, that's good, man, that's awesome work they're doing, but they really, sit down, man, like sit down, sit still for 10 minutes, you know, and really look at it

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if you did that

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it rocked me to my core, to think about, in this day and age, people, adults and children are being held against their will, and sold by the hour to strangers, to get raped, and this is their life

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people ask me, who are these dirtbags, who are these people, and I have to tell them, it's anybody, anyone you can imagine, anyone you see on the streets, it's professionals, it's doctors, lawyers

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judgment day, for former MSU doctor Larry Nassar, for sexually abusing gymnasts under his care

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you are a doctor, you took an oath to do no harm, and you have harmed over 256 women, and that is beyond comprehension

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the judge also said Nassar was able to get away with his criminal sexual conduct for 25 years

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here's the thing that's mind-boggling, right, is that, it's estimated that there's over 2 million children

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I'm not even talking about the adults, 2 million children, currently forced to be sex slaves, raped for money

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2 million, what kind of demand, and this is a scary question, what kind of demand justifies that number, 2 million kids

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a lot of sick, twisted, pedophiles

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Jared Fogel arrived here at the federal courthouse this morning, he had nothing to say

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he is pleading guilty to conspiracy for receiving and distributing child pornography

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and also traveling out of state to engage in commercial sex acts with minors

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these guys want 10 year olds, 11 year olds, that's who they want

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the answer to this question is not popular, people don't want me to say it, they don't want to talk about it

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but what is happening in this country, especially in this country

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the United States is the highest consumer of child pornography

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or what I call child rape videos, because that's what they are

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and it's the western world

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Jared Salvis, we have a search warrant

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the highest consumers, it's us

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I'm getting cancer, if you're talking about your computer, okay

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and this is why, they're sex addicts

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their minds are twisted and sick to want this

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I've interrogated dozens and dozens and dozens of these guys

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over the last 16 years that I've been working in this field

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no one wants to accept what it is

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they don't want to believe it

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how did you get here?

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why do you want this?

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why do you want kids?

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and they all have the same story

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I picked up a Playboy magazine when I was 12 years old

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and then I got into more hardcore

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and then more hardcore

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and then the internet came along

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in my 30s

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and oh my gosh

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like I could just

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with the click of the mouse

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I could see anything I wanted

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and then the stuff that I had enjoyed since I was a teenager

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started to wear off

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I wasn't getting the fix

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I wasn't getting the feeling

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that I used to get

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when I was just watching an adult man and an adult woman have sex

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barely legal

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that's when I start searching into the queue

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to the Google string

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well, that's not doing it for me anymore

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okay, 16

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I'm going to stop there

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I'm going to stop at 16

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see what happens

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all of a sudden they're at 10

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they're at 9

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they're at 8

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they're at 7

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and you think you can find this stuff online?

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absolutely

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and that's what's creating this demand

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that's why

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John's get on an airplane

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and fly to Haiti

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and Columbia

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and Thailand

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because

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the child porn

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isn't doing it for them

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and they need the child

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this is why

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there's 2 million children

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forced into the commercial sex trade today

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people weren't talking about human trafficking like they are now

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and really it's because of the work and efforts

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by organizations like Operation Underground Railroad

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he will never talk about himself

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but Tim is a well respected author, lecturer, professor

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and he could have a quiet life doing that

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kind of like Indiana Jones

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but he has another side to him

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and that's his law enforcement career

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he was a respected law enforcement agent for many years

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and because his heart is so big

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and he's so compassionate

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and wants to protect every child

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and man and woman that he possibly can in the world

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he left the comfort of his badge

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and his pension

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and his way of life in law enforcement

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to several years ago

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step out with a lot of faith

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to create Operation Underground Railroad

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and the time he and Catherine did it

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they had no promise

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that anybody was going to care

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you don't just jump on a plane

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and traipse into a country

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and say here I am

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where can I go save somebody

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there are so many things that have to be considered

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you're shedding your badge

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you're shedding your firearm

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you're shedding your authority

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you're shedding all the jurisdictional limitations

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that prohibit people from doing that very thing

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but Tim had the courage to do that

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I think there's something to say about Tim's persistence

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I guess is the word I would use for him

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he wants to be a consistent influence in your life

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and he's dedicated

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and I noticed the same thing as he got into government work

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that he wanted to get in and make a difference

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and shake things up

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and you could tell he wanted to get in there

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and make something happen

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I grew up in Southern California

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I always knew that I wanted to be a federal agent

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I just wanted to do that

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I don't know why it was just like inherent

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my family wasn't excited about it

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my parents thought it was crazy

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no one in our family had been military

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or even generations back

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or law enforcement

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but it was just something that I just wanted to do

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so I pursued it

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everything I studied

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I studied political science

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I studied international relations

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my first job after graduate school was the CIA

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and I worked in the operations center

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and my study had been around terrorism and weapons

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I graduated from graduate school in December of 2001

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so the government was wide open for terrorist experts

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and that's what I wanted to do

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and as I was learning about what happened at 9-11

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I learned that one of the terrorists

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had come from Mexicali, Mexico

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and came through the port of entry into California

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and there back east

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and then helped launch these attacks

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and I wanted to get on a border

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I spoke Spanish

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I thought I want to help investigate and defend against terrorists

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potential terrorists that would hurt our country

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I got to the office in Calexico, California

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I had my dream job

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I mean I was sitting on the border

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my office was on the border

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I could see the Mexican flag waving outside my window

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this was the time when we were finding a bunch of tunnels

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through San Diego

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and all the way through the border in California

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I was crawling through tunnels

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and it was great

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but it only lasted for about six months

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and I was called in by my boss

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and he told me that we're starting a new

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anti-child trafficking group

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we knew that bad people were transmitting and receiving

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exploitive information

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very, very dangerous information

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and they were violating children

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literally, real time

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Julia?

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How many years are you?

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36?

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Is that good?

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And exchanging those imageries and videos

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on cameras with their cohorts around the world

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I realized how absolutely pervasive

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the problem of child exploitation was

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Can you say hi to these guys?

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Say hi

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Hi

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Hi buddy

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Wow

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Sweet

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A supervisor contacted him

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and said hey, we're thinking about

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starting a child crimes group

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and we want you to do it

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He came home and told me about it

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and we were both like

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there's no way that we will ever do that

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we had two little kids at the time

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it just sounds so horrific

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we didn't think that that was something

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we wanted to bring into our home

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my husband has just this light

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he's able to see good in the world

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you know

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and he has a lot of optimism

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a lot of strength

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I didn't want to see that taken away

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I didn't

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we were raising a young family

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I didn't want to see that gone

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and so

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so we took it very seriously

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My wife and I had vowed that

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the one thing I wouldn't do

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was child crimes

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so we said no

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and I remember going home that night

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to my wife and saying

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you won't believe

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what they just asked me to do

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and she said

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well you're not doing it

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I said I'm not doing it

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absolutely not

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and she said

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we have kids

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you can't do it

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and I remember

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a sleepless night that night

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and then getting up the next morning

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and kind of looking myself in the mirror

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practicing my rejection talk

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and as I was preparing my speech

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my wife came up to me

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emotional

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tears in her eyes

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and she said

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we're making a huge mistake

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she said

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for the very reason I thought

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we couldn't do this

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or shouldn't do this

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is the reason we need to do this

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because we have kids

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because we know what childhood

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is supposed to be

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and if it's true

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that there's millions of kids

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that are forced into that hell

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how do we say no

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because we're afraid of our own

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pain

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which is nothing

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relative to that pain

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but I told him that I had

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automatic veto power

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that if I ever saw anything in him

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that I didn't

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that just the dimming of the lights

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or anything

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that I got to automatically pull the plug

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no questions asked

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and he would

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he would leave that group

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and so I reluctantly went

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changed my speech

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and it was just one word

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yes

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and we got into it

402
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and then something happened

403
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that was completely transformative for me

404
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we were doing these child pornography investigations

405
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and one of the kids from the video surfaced

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and happened to surface right on the border

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where I was working

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not long ago

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a horrific video

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of a 5 year old boy being sexually abused

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in the worst way

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was discovered by US authorities

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the boy and his 12 year old sister

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they had been kidnapped

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and they had been trafficked back and forth

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between the US and Mexico

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both were sex slaves to a monster of a man

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well something happened

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divine providence stepped in

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and it took place at the US Mexico border

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the boy was seen by a US official

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who knew who he was

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identified the boy in the video

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it was the first time

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that I was actually seeing

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one of the kids from the videos

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it was an American man

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who lived in the LA area

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he had a big warehouse

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and inside his warehouse was a house

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a residential home

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and inside that home

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there were cameras

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hidden cameras everywhere

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porn everywhere

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toys everywhere

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and he'd bring these kids in

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to desensitize them

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and he'd make child rape videos

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and as the dust settled in the investigation

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this kid ran to me

442
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and I remember

443
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he jumped into my arms

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and just held me

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00:27:02,380 --> 00:27:03,380
and he was shaking

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00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:05,380
and he just said to me

447
00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:06,380
with tears in his eyes

448
00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:08,380
holding me and shaking

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he said

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I don't belong here

451
00:27:12,380 --> 00:27:13,380
I came home

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00:27:13,380 --> 00:27:15,380
and I walked through the door

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00:27:15,380 --> 00:27:17,380
and I saw my kids running around

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playing

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00:27:18,380 --> 00:27:21,380
and I couldn't handle the dichotomy

456
00:27:21,380 --> 00:27:23,380
my brain couldn't handle it

457
00:27:23,380 --> 00:27:25,380
and I just

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I shut down

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I mean this is embarrassing

460
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and this is what happened

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I remember my knees gave out

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00:27:30,380 --> 00:27:32,380
as I sat there

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the room was spinning

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and I collapsed

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like I fell down on the floor

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and my wife

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thought I was having a heart attack

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or something you know

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and she ran over to me

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and just wrapped her arms around me

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and just held me

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I had a knock on my door one day

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and of course

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I usually keep my door open

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but I think I was on a phone call

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so I didn't answer the door immediately

477
00:28:00,380 --> 00:28:01,380
but I went to the door

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I saw Tim leave

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and I asked him

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hey Tim I'm done

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00:28:04,380 --> 00:28:05,380
come on in

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he was very very concerned

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00:28:06,380 --> 00:28:07,380
I could tell he was perplexed

484
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I could tell he was emotionally drained

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00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:13,380
I could tell that he was needing someone to talk to

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and he said listen

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I really feel like I can do better

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leaving the government

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well if you lost one of your children

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to one of these evil people

491
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and you'd do anything to get even

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00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:44,380
and get your child back

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which some of our folks are trying to do

494
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good afternoon Mr. Chair

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and esteemed members of the committee

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thank you very much for this opportunity

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00:28:54,380 --> 00:28:55,380
my name is Tim Ballard

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I'm the founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad

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00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:00,380
you know I think our own law enforcement

500
00:29:00,380 --> 00:29:03,380
in this country needs to get more involved

501
00:29:03,380 --> 00:29:04,380
than they are right now

502
00:29:04,380 --> 00:29:08,380
in 2006 with the passage of the Adam Walsh Protect Act

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00:29:08,380 --> 00:29:10,380
Congress opened the doors for US agents

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00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:12,380
to better investigate these cases

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00:29:12,380 --> 00:29:14,380
especially internationally

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00:29:14,380 --> 00:29:16,380
it's hard because a lot of this is offshore

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00:29:16,380 --> 00:29:17,380
where they may not have jurisdiction

508
00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:20,380
however I often felt helpless

509
00:29:20,380 --> 00:29:22,380
by the fact that the vast majority

510
00:29:22,380 --> 00:29:24,380
of the child victims that we would find

511
00:29:24,380 --> 00:29:26,380
fell outside the purview of the United States

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00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:29,380
it's very difficult because we in the United States

513
00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:32,380
have a lot of protections for privacy

514
00:29:32,380 --> 00:29:34,380
especially when it comes to financial transactions

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00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:36,380
but how do we get the information

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00:29:36,380 --> 00:29:38,380
to see a pattern of sex trafficking

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00:29:38,380 --> 00:29:41,380
before this law was passed

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00:29:41,380 --> 00:29:42,380
it was passed in 2006

519
00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:45,380
in order to prosecute on the US side

520
00:29:45,380 --> 00:29:48,380
an American who was sexually abusing children

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00:29:48,380 --> 00:29:49,380
in other countries

522
00:29:49,380 --> 00:29:51,380
you had to prove that that person had intent

523
00:29:51,380 --> 00:29:54,380
to rape that child while standing on US soil

524
00:29:54,380 --> 00:29:57,380
so you can imagine how many prosecutions we had prior to this law

525
00:29:57,380 --> 00:29:58,380
like zero

526
00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:02,380
unless I could tie a US traveler to the case

527
00:30:02,380 --> 00:30:07,380
I would not be able to rescue the children

528
00:30:07,380 --> 00:30:10,380
even the ones that we were able to identify as being victims

529
00:30:10,380 --> 00:30:12,380
but I could find the kids no matter what

530
00:30:12,380 --> 00:30:14,380
it's outside of the jurisdiction

531
00:30:14,380 --> 00:30:15,380
and I understood that

532
00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:18,380
however that doesn't mean that we couldn't be doing more

533
00:30:18,380 --> 00:30:20,380
it takes a little bit of an effort

534
00:30:20,380 --> 00:30:21,380
but that's what we've got to do

535
00:30:21,380 --> 00:30:23,380
and we've got to fight like hell

536
00:30:23,380 --> 00:30:25,380
to try and get these kids back

537
00:30:25,380 --> 00:30:27,380
and get them back on track

538
00:30:27,380 --> 00:30:29,380
but in a lot of cases

539
00:30:29,380 --> 00:30:30,380
once they're gone, they're gone

540
00:30:30,380 --> 00:30:36,380
we need to find some partners

541
00:30:36,380 --> 00:30:38,380
that are like-minded

542
00:30:38,380 --> 00:30:41,380
is there a way that, you know, we can help each other

543
00:30:41,380 --> 00:30:44,380
because we're in the same kind of business

544
00:30:44,380 --> 00:30:47,380
you know, who's got big, big lists

545
00:30:47,380 --> 00:30:50,380
that we can leverage me

546
00:30:50,380 --> 00:30:54,380
and say, we'll help you, you help us

547
00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:59,380
I met Tim through, I think a series of coincidences

548
00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:01,380
that led me to one of his books

549
00:31:01,380 --> 00:31:04,380
he's a tremendous writer

550
00:31:04,380 --> 00:31:05,380
a tremendous researcher

551
00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:07,380
I mean, he's really bright

552
00:31:07,380 --> 00:31:09,380
so I knew him as an author

553
00:31:09,380 --> 00:31:12,380
and we became friends

554
00:31:12,380 --> 00:31:15,380
and I didn't know that he had this secret double life

555
00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:17,380
I was coming in

556
00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:18,380
I don't remember where it was

557
00:31:18,380 --> 00:31:19,380
but I was coming into town

558
00:31:19,380 --> 00:31:20,380
and he was in town

559
00:31:20,380 --> 00:31:22,380
and he said, hey, do you mind if we meet?

560
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:23,380
and talk

561
00:31:23,380 --> 00:31:24,380
I said, sure

562
00:31:24,380 --> 00:31:25,380
I said, I'm going to be staying in the hotel

563
00:31:25,380 --> 00:31:26,380
you know, this hotel

564
00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:27,380
why don't you just come up

565
00:31:27,380 --> 00:31:28,380
and he said, well

566
00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:30,380
why don't we meet in a conference room?

567
00:31:30,380 --> 00:31:31,380
okay

568
00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:34,380
Wanting the world to wake up to what's going on

569
00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:38,380
and two million children are sexless

570
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:40,380
and he reached under his shirt

571
00:31:40,380 --> 00:31:43,380
and he pulled a federal badge out

572
00:31:43,380 --> 00:31:45,380
on the chain and sat there

573
00:31:45,380 --> 00:31:47,380
he looked at everybody and said

574
00:31:47,380 --> 00:31:49,380
am I in trouble?

575
00:31:49,380 --> 00:31:51,380
am I going to prison?

576
00:31:51,380 --> 00:31:52,380
what is this?

577
00:31:52,380 --> 00:31:54,380
it's the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world

578
00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:56,380
I go back to 19th century America

579
00:31:56,380 --> 00:31:57,380
to the slave problem

580
00:31:57,380 --> 00:31:59,380
and we congratulate ourselves

581
00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:01,380
we eradicated slavery

582
00:32:01,380 --> 00:32:03,380
it's bull crap

583
00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:05,380
we've not eradicated it

584
00:32:05,380 --> 00:32:08,380
and he explained what he was doing

585
00:32:08,380 --> 00:32:15,380
and explained that he needed to get out of working with the government

586
00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:18,380
and he had a way that we could really make an impact

587
00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:20,380
but they needed a million dollars to start it

588
00:32:20,380 --> 00:32:22,380
ten thousand dollars to put a junk team together

589
00:32:22,380 --> 00:32:24,380
go on a team

590
00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:25,380
if it's overseas I'm assuming

591
00:32:25,380 --> 00:32:26,380
yeah, we have junk teams that do this

592
00:32:26,380 --> 00:32:27,380
they're X Navy SEALs

593
00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:31,380
there are people like me who are willing to do this

594
00:32:31,380 --> 00:32:33,380
and I happened to be with an attorney

595
00:32:33,380 --> 00:32:35,380
and he was sitting with me

596
00:32:35,380 --> 00:32:36,380
and I asked a whole bunch of questions

597
00:32:36,380 --> 00:32:38,380
and my attorney said

598
00:32:38,380 --> 00:32:40,380
no, you can't

599
00:32:40,380 --> 00:32:41,380
you can't

600
00:32:41,380 --> 00:32:42,380
you can't

601
00:32:42,380 --> 00:32:43,380
what happens if something goes wrong

602
00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:44,380
blah blah blah

603
00:32:44,380 --> 00:32:45,380
if you're raising money

604
00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:47,380
and it's on the border

605
00:32:47,380 --> 00:32:48,380
and these guys are

606
00:32:48,380 --> 00:32:49,380
you're in Texas

607
00:32:49,380 --> 00:32:53,380
Glenn, aren't you doing

608
00:32:53,380 --> 00:32:56,380
real good spying on people

609
00:32:56,380 --> 00:32:58,380
and isn't that what this is

610
00:32:58,380 --> 00:33:00,380
that people are using the internet and privacy

611
00:33:00,380 --> 00:33:01,380
they don't know about them donating the action

612
00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:02,380
I'm just saying that

613
00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:04,380
you have a child pornography

614
00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:05,380
you're damn right I would

615
00:33:05,380 --> 00:33:07,380
I would do it through law enforcement

616
00:33:07,380 --> 00:33:10,380
and I would do it exactly legal

617
00:33:10,380 --> 00:33:14,380
but, I mean, this is child trafficking

618
00:33:14,380 --> 00:33:17,380
Tim is the most sincere

619
00:33:17,380 --> 00:33:19,380
most honest honorable man

620
00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:20,380
I think I've ever met

621
00:33:20,380 --> 00:33:21,380
and I said

622
00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:22,380
I'm in

623
00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:23,380
we'll

624
00:33:23,380 --> 00:33:25,380
we'll raise your first million

625
00:33:25,380 --> 00:33:26,380
we're not saying you become a police force

626
00:33:26,380 --> 00:33:27,380
no, no

627
00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:28,380
I'm just worried that

628
00:33:28,380 --> 00:33:29,380
you know

629
00:33:29,380 --> 00:33:30,380
it's down the wrong door

630
00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:31,380
and then yeah

631
00:33:31,380 --> 00:33:32,380
bring it on

632
00:33:32,380 --> 00:33:34,380
I will promote

633
00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:35,380
I will do

634
00:33:35,380 --> 00:33:36,380
I will

635
00:33:36,380 --> 00:33:38,380
I'll help develop with you

636
00:33:38,380 --> 00:33:39,380
I mean

637
00:33:39,380 --> 00:33:40,380
my time

638
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:41,380
my network

639
00:33:41,380 --> 00:33:42,380
everything

640
00:33:42,380 --> 00:33:44,380
is at your disposal

641
00:33:44,380 --> 00:33:45,380
I had a great

642
00:33:45,380 --> 00:33:46,380
great

643
00:33:46,380 --> 00:33:47,380
great uncle

644
00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:49,380
and a great great grandfather

645
00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:51,380
who both died

646
00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:55,380
in the notorious concentration camp in the south

647
00:33:55,380 --> 00:33:59,380
they were fighting for the north

648
00:34:03,380 --> 00:34:04,380
I didn't know that

649
00:34:04,380 --> 00:34:05,380
nobody in my family knew that

650
00:34:05,380 --> 00:34:07,380
they were fighting

651
00:34:07,380 --> 00:34:09,380
to free the slaves

652
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:12,380
they did it

653
00:34:12,380 --> 00:34:16,380
why can't I?

654
00:34:16,380 --> 00:34:26,380
you know Abraham Lincoln when he was grappling with the emancipation proclamation the nation didn't want him to do it even in the north they didn't want him to do it and he went through something like that

655
00:34:26,380 --> 00:34:43,380
and he went through something in 1862 his son died and he got extremely empathetic and he started even turning to God and praying like he never had before historians have called it a Damascus road experience for him then he just said you know come hell or high water I'm doing this.

656
00:34:43,380 --> 00:35:00,380
no one in his cabinet really wanted him to really wanted him to and he says I'm doing it and he changed the course of the war and changed the course of history by making the war about human freedom liberating the captive and then the whole thing changed which led to the war to change the course of history

657
00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:07,180
and he changed the course of the war and changed the course of history by making the war about

658
00:35:07,740 --> 00:35:13,740
human freedom liberating the captive and then the whole thing changed which led to

659
00:35:13,740 --> 00:35:19,900
the 13th amendment and so forth this is what we all need to do stop putting the walls up these

660
00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:24,140
are real kids and they don't have anybody and if we don't open up no one's going to open up but

661
00:35:24,140 --> 00:35:30,860
when you do open up it hurts a little bit but then you become so much more effective in what

662
00:35:30,860 --> 00:35:35,740
you're trying to do and ideas and inspiration i'd argue even miracles start happening when you do that

663
00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:50,140
operation underground railroad is a fairly new organization just over two years old

664
00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:54,540
but it's captured a lot of media attention with its missions to rescue child slaves throughout the

665
00:35:54,540 --> 00:36:02,540
world india haiti mexico they go into the darkest corners of the world

666
00:36:04,540 --> 00:36:11,660
and work with law enforcement to rescue children from slavery since its inception a little over two

667
00:36:11,660 --> 00:36:18,540
years ago they've helped authorities arrest 157 people in 12 different countries most of that work

668
00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:24,380
i never dreamed that i would work in haiti um i didn't know anything really about haiti

669
00:36:27,980 --> 00:36:37,100
until uh i learned about a little boy who was born in utah u.s citizen and was kidnapped in

670
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:44,140
haiti from his church where his father was the pastor and that little boy was taken and he was kidnapped

671
00:36:44,140 --> 00:36:51,500
i read about it in the local newspaper and i just had to do something about it i thought that i could

672
00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:57,660
make it into a u.s case and i and i couldn't because it wasn't it was a haitian case the man

673
00:36:58,380 --> 00:37:06,140
the father of this boy who i met who changed my world is gesno marty and guess i was sitting right here

674
00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:13,260
guess what just stand up this is guess the marty yes no and i have so much to say about guess no

675
00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:21,180
we went to haiti to look for his son but the only way to for us to go to haiti would be to i we had to

676
00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:28,620
leave our jobs i had to leave my job because i didn't have enough leave from work i loved my job i

677
00:37:28,620 --> 00:37:33,420
love working for homeland securities i mean these are the best people on the planet doing the best

678
00:37:33,420 --> 00:37:39,900
work and all the colleagues i had floated this idea to before in the weeks leading up said you're

679
00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:45,100
crazy don't do this you're crazy and john lions looked at me and he started off with you're crazy

680
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:53,020
and i'm like here we go again you know but he said something he said you're crazy if you don't try this

681
00:37:53,020 --> 00:37:59,020
i was encouraging overtly but in my heart of hearts i thought that's going to be a tough go

682
00:37:59,020 --> 00:38:03,900
that's going to be a tough go to leave the you know the security of the u.s government

683
00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:05,340
and go save children around the world

684
00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:16,460
three years old gardie his name was gardie they kidnapped him from the church where

685
00:38:16,460 --> 00:38:22,780
guess no was the pastor they took him this little boy and they they trafficked him and this happens all

686
00:38:22,780 --> 00:38:32,620
the time in haiti i remember reading the story and i there was a picture of guess no and my heart

687
00:38:32,620 --> 00:38:38,220
just melted as a father just melted for him and i thought i know i have enough experience to know

688
00:38:38,220 --> 00:38:50,220
very little is being done to find this little boy he was three when they took him now now he's 10.

689
00:38:52,780 --> 00:38:59,500
when that first happened i couldn't sleep at night i couldn't even get into my house and sleep

690
00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:04,620
because as a father my job is you know getting my son back i spent months

691
00:39:05,660 --> 00:39:16,780
before i could even get into a house and sleep inside

692
00:39:22,780 --> 00:39:32,620
in haiti you know one of the suspects i i know him usually you know in i don't know for everywhere

693
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:37,580
but in haiti people who kidnap others they don't do that randomly they know their victims you know

694
00:39:38,780 --> 00:39:42,540
even when the legal authorities say there is nothing they can do about it

695
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:48,700
one of the time i talked to them they asked me to bring them a solid lead and they will come and

696
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:54,940
destroy whatever to get him back to me but i have to get the lead this one and i have no means for

697
00:39:54,940 --> 00:40:01,580
doing that so if you know sometimes when people are in the holidays and i took my vehicle going into the

698
00:40:01,580 --> 00:40:08,700
mountain trying to in a public open market trying to see if my you know my boy might come there you know

699
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:22,700
ain't a big long trip

700
00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:59,980
i feel that it is my duty it is you know my responsibility to you know to to get him back

701
00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:02,700
and i will not let go

702
00:41:07,340 --> 00:41:13,740
we we got to haiti and we worked with law enforcement and we went in there looking for

703
00:41:13,740 --> 00:41:21,020
guardi and we never found him uh what we did find was two things we we found that this child was

704
00:41:22,060 --> 00:41:28,300
trafficked through what looked to be like an orphanage it wasn't an orphanage

705
00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:36,780
and we were asked by the haitian police to go undercover with hidden cameras and go into

706
00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:43,900
this place that was selling children they were selling children for ten thousand dollars and then

707
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:48,700
they raised the price to fifteen thousand dollars the traffickers were selling kids and we were able

708
00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:56,220
to dismantle that organization and we had to buy two children in the process we had to buy two children

709
00:41:56,220 --> 00:42:00,380
and they were the key to getting the other kids out

710
00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:05,260
you want this

711
00:42:08,380 --> 00:42:09,580
be careful with this okay

712
00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:11,980
okay

713
00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:16,460
after we got those kids out and his son was not there

714
00:42:17,180 --> 00:42:18,700
and i said guest i'm so sorry

715
00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:25,180
your son's not there he's not there's 28 children that were rescued but his son was not there

716
00:42:26,780 --> 00:42:31,820
i started to cry and guess no was crying and but he only he only cried for a little bit

717
00:42:32,460 --> 00:42:36,540
and then he popped his head up and he said don't you realize what just happened

718
00:42:38,540 --> 00:42:43,900
and i said what yeah you know what just happened he's smiling now and i don't know why he's smiling

719
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:48,060
because he's a very smiley guy and he has a light about him and i learned what that light was

720
00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:57,820
because he said he said if if guardy had never been kidnapped then your team never would have come

721
00:42:57,820 --> 00:43:06,140
here and these 28 kids would be for sale or be sold and i said yeah i guess i never thought of it

722
00:43:06,140 --> 00:43:11,180
that way and then he said maybe the most profound thing that anyone's ever said to me he said

723
00:43:11,180 --> 00:43:22,540
if i have to sacrifice my son so that these 28 kids can be rescued he said that's a sacrifice

724
00:43:22,540 --> 00:43:33,100
i'm willing to make and that's when i knew that we would never leave haiti because of the spirit of

725
00:43:33,100 --> 00:43:39,100
that haitian man who then by the way went to the police station the next day and he said i will

726
00:43:39,100 --> 00:43:46,060
take home any of those children that were rescued in the name of my son i will take them home and he

727
00:43:46,060 --> 00:43:53,660
took eight of those children home that day and he is their father today in haiti and so you see

728
00:43:54,220 --> 00:44:00,940
we could never leave haiti after that we decided we had to do more operations we had to dig deeper

729
00:44:00,940 --> 00:44:07,580
look for guardy dig deeper the more we go looking for guardy a funny thing happens every time we look

730
00:44:07,580 --> 00:44:14,060
for him we find other kids i mean guardy is the kid whose story created operation underground railroad

731
00:44:14,060 --> 00:44:27,660
that's what's in the video what's in it how old is going on the video huh 14. we got a 14 year old

732
00:44:27,660 --> 00:44:31,340
right here yeah 14 in the video all right yeah have you a girl too

733
00:44:31,340 --> 00:45:00,780
i sat across from this guy these guys as they told me about that the children that they had had

734
00:45:00,780 --> 00:45:06,940
had been raping and they laughed about it and they laughed and they scoffed and they and they

735
00:45:06,940 --> 00:45:12,780
said you get to do it next and it was it's horrifying horrifying now this was on super bowl sunday and

736
00:45:12,780 --> 00:45:16,700
this is where the story gets very interesting on super bowl sunday a lot of americans having those

737
00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:21,820
super bowl parties hot wings watching the big game but a local non-profit organization that fights

738
00:45:21,820 --> 00:45:27,260
human trafficking spent their super bowl weekend in haiti how about you take the 11 year old how about

739
00:45:27,260 --> 00:45:32,620
your youngest timothy ballard and his team at operation underground railroad worked undercover

740
00:45:32,620 --> 00:45:38,860
pretending to purchase young girls for sex ballard says the men sold him 20 minors as young as 11

741
00:45:38,860 --> 00:45:47,500
years old it was super bowl sunday february 5th 2017 we had set up this operation that what looked like

742
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:53,500
it went flawless in operation underground railroad we always want to ensure that if these rescued

743
00:45:53,500 --> 00:46:00,540
children cannot go back to their parents then they go into vetted safe houses orphanages rehabilitation

744
00:46:00,540 --> 00:46:08,700
centers so our aftercare team led by miss jessica mass who is here with us today spent weeks liaisoning

745
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:16,300
with partners in haiti not just guess no and his safe house but others whose names cannot be shared now

746
00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:22,140
for their own protection we'll go into a country and the first question we ask if the police or that

747
00:46:22,140 --> 00:46:26,540
government wants to work with us the first question we ask is what kind of aftercare capabilities are

748
00:46:26,540 --> 00:46:33,020
you aware of these kids so many of them there's no home to go home to it's not like this happy story

749
00:46:33,020 --> 00:46:37,420
all the time where it's like oh your loving family has been waiting for you in the garden and the and

750
00:46:37,420 --> 00:46:41,660
the trees are there and the beautiful flowers and just go hug them in it all as well i mean there's

751
00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:47,500
generally that's not the case i wish it i wish it were but generally the the fact that there was no family

752
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:52,940
or the family was part of the problem that's how they got trafficked and that's where everybody else

753
00:46:52,940 --> 00:47:00,540
screws it up it's where we screwed up that's the reconstruction part the ending of the slavery was

754
00:47:00,540 --> 00:47:09,340
good now how do we make sure that we provide the tools to be able to make it and to be able to have

755
00:47:09,340 --> 00:47:16,780
a fair shot at something that you've never experienced before i can't even imagine the scarring

756
00:47:16,780 --> 00:47:21,900
that they have and to be able to see them turn their lives around remarkable

757
00:47:25,340 --> 00:47:30,540
we laid out the whole operation you saw from the video the beautiful calico beach club

758
00:47:31,660 --> 00:47:37,260
we have to play the role of very wealthy sex tourists and so we had the whole operation set up

759
00:47:37,260 --> 00:47:45,020
and it went beautifully when police arrived they arrested nine men from three separate human

760
00:47:45,020 --> 00:47:53,900
trafficking rings and liberated 29 victims our haitian partners did an amazing job we made the arrest

761
00:47:54,620 --> 00:48:01,180
we got the girls immediately to the area where we were assured that they would get the support they

762
00:48:01,180 --> 00:48:07,020
need we were so excited we were excited that these girls were finally going to have hope and healing

763
00:48:07,740 --> 00:48:11,580
it was just a couple days after that i received the phone call

764
00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:21,260
we unfortunately got some very frustrating news a few days after the operation

765
00:48:21,260 --> 00:48:29,900
the traffickers were being released and that all the girls were released

766
00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:41,900
they get released they get released they get freed they pay money to the right people to the judges

767
00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:49,820
i remember when we got that word i remember jessica matt we were in tears we're in tears

768
00:48:49,820 --> 00:48:56,380
we couldn't believe that these kids could be put in harm's way again

769
00:48:59,980 --> 00:49:05,100
half the girls had family members that showed up and the other half had traffickers that showed up for

770
00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:09,820
them these guys who were laughing about raping children were now laughing their way home

771
00:49:09,820 --> 00:49:25,340
we didn't know what to do we had some long talks about it and and and with gesno and dimitri and

772
00:49:26,060 --> 00:49:31,820
and they said they just said please don't give up don't give up there are good people

773
00:49:31,820 --> 00:49:44,540
people in this government that want this problem to go away

774
00:49:47,340 --> 00:49:54,380
and what happened was what we hoped would happen the good people who didn't know what happened to us

775
00:49:54,380 --> 00:50:01,100
they came to us the good people came to us and they said we didn't know this truth we didn't know

776
00:50:01,100 --> 00:50:04,620
what had happened but we will not stand for it

777
00:50:13,820 --> 00:50:20,700
and i'm looking at the good people right now who came to us the job's not quite done but it's almost

778
00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:30,700
done because now we need to go back and we need to re-arrest every single one of these traffickers

779
00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:40,220
and it will be a message to haiti to america to the whole world that there are good people everywhere

780
00:50:40,220 --> 00:50:46,300
that will stand up for this that there is light in this dark world there's light if

781
00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:56,460
if we don't become that light there is no light

782
00:50:56,460 --> 00:51:07,180
i was listening i was listening to your word

783
00:51:10,140 --> 00:51:12,060
i should be the one to thank you guys

784
00:51:12,060 --> 00:51:25,260
because you choose to come help me in my country when i become heathenic general

785
00:51:30,460 --> 00:51:35,180
i saw that case in my office i saw that case about the trafficking in calico beach

786
00:51:35,180 --> 00:51:51,260
so what i said i said i'm going to fire all the judges second i'm going to go and get the other

787
00:51:51,260 --> 00:51:57,660
people i met the i met the president of haiti jovenel moise

788
00:51:57,660 --> 00:52:07,100
i tell them if they don't want me to do this work i will i'm not going to work anymore

789
00:52:11,100 --> 00:52:15,260
the first part was to fire those judges and i've done this

790
00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:30,220
but at the same time they try to they try to um like they yeah yeah yeah

791
00:52:33,020 --> 00:52:34,300
but i'm not i'm not scared

792
00:52:36,460 --> 00:52:38,220
because i want to keep going this cause

793
00:52:38,220 --> 00:52:46,620
instead of telling me thank you i will be working together with you to keep working

794
00:52:48,060 --> 00:52:59,180
and we are going to fight

795
00:53:08,220 --> 00:53:22,540
okay

796
00:53:22,540 --> 00:53:32,540
Yes, whatever is that we should be able to do as much as possible.

797
00:53:44,540 --> 00:53:47,540
Hey, crap, this guy's come up to our car.

798
00:53:47,540 --> 00:53:50,540
We should walk it and see how bad it is.

799
00:53:52,540 --> 00:54:06,540
We finally have our eyes on what's going on.

800
00:54:06,540 --> 00:54:08,540
We're shifting our mindset.

801
00:54:08,540 --> 00:54:13,540
There's two of them that we still need to verify,

802
00:54:13,540 --> 00:54:16,540
and we're going to have reconnaissance teams running the rest of the day.

803
00:54:16,540 --> 00:54:18,540
It limits what we want to do during the day.

804
00:54:18,540 --> 00:54:22,540
We would rather not do a snatch and grab on the side of the street in the middle of the daytime.

805
00:54:22,540 --> 00:54:27,540
It's very hard to sneak up to people with the way this traffic is and do that effectively.

806
00:54:27,540 --> 00:54:29,540
It's very low chance.

807
00:54:29,540 --> 00:54:32,540
I'm talking like 15% chance of actually getting these guys.

808
00:54:32,540 --> 00:54:36,540
So everyone knows, Andrew knows this area we're going to better than anyone.

809
00:54:36,540 --> 00:54:39,540
He's lived there for periods of his life.

810
00:54:39,540 --> 00:54:44,540
So he knows this better, honestly, he knows this better than the police that are putting us in it.

811
00:54:44,540 --> 00:54:45,540
He knows this area.

812
00:54:45,540 --> 00:54:50,540
In a nutshell, Top of the Tree's perspective, our activities tonight are going to take place in Patientville,

813
00:54:50,540 --> 00:54:54,540
which is a wealthier part of Port-au-Prince where there's several hotels.

814
00:54:54,540 --> 00:54:55,540
There's a lot of working.

815
00:54:55,540 --> 00:54:57,540
There's a lot of prostitution going on.

816
00:54:57,540 --> 00:55:06,540
That's where, for Haiti, and it's the place where foreigners come.

817
00:55:06,540 --> 00:55:09,540
If you're a foreigner, you're going to come here, you're going to stay most likely in Patientville.

818
00:55:09,540 --> 00:55:12,540
So that's what attracts some of the nefarious activities.

819
00:55:12,540 --> 00:55:15,540
So any questions about the area, we're going to pull up Google Maps.

820
00:55:15,540 --> 00:55:17,540
We've dropped pins on everything.

821
00:55:17,540 --> 00:55:20,540
So everyone's going to get a good visual of the area that we're looking at.

822
00:55:20,540 --> 00:55:29,540
Okay, guys, as we're doing this, turn to the windows, and I hope they're...

823
00:55:29,540 --> 00:55:30,540
I've seen lights back there.

824
00:55:30,540 --> 00:55:31,540
There shouldn't be lights back there.

825
00:55:31,540 --> 00:55:32,540
No, they need to turn those off.

826
00:55:32,540 --> 00:55:35,540
Okay, we are in an unmarked van.

827
00:55:35,540 --> 00:55:40,540
This is a van that is used for taxis.

828
00:55:40,540 --> 00:55:47,540
In a few minutes, I'm going to have to put my windows down because it's not known to have taxis, you know,

829
00:55:47,540 --> 00:55:48,540
having their windows up freezing.

830
00:55:48,540 --> 00:55:49,540
I understand.

831
00:55:49,540 --> 00:55:58,540
In a nutshell, the bird's eye view here is we're going after three different targets, okay?

832
00:55:58,540 --> 00:55:59,540
And one of them is a female.

833
00:55:59,540 --> 00:56:01,540
This is our ace in the hole mission.

834
00:56:01,540 --> 00:56:04,540
If everything else fails, we're getting this chick tonight.

835
00:56:04,540 --> 00:56:05,540
She's awful.

836
00:56:05,540 --> 00:56:07,540
Andrew can go into more detail.

837
00:56:07,540 --> 00:56:11,540
Is Sho, is she going to be like out in the street?

838
00:56:11,540 --> 00:56:13,540
Is she like a pimp?

839
00:56:13,540 --> 00:56:16,540
She's got some prostitutes working for her.

840
00:56:16,540 --> 00:56:18,540
Do you know what we're going to be looking for?

841
00:56:18,540 --> 00:56:21,540
Yeah, she's into trafficking and she's a bus.

842
00:56:21,540 --> 00:56:23,540
She's the head of a cartel.

843
00:56:23,540 --> 00:56:27,540
Okay, she's, you know, she's like a captain, the captain of the mafia.

844
00:56:27,540 --> 00:56:36,540
Our hotel's right here, that's Western Patientville, all right?

845
00:56:36,540 --> 00:56:40,540
She's literally like two blocks away and one down, typically.

846
00:56:40,540 --> 00:56:44,540
But she kind of moves within, like, I would say a one block radius of that spot.

847
00:56:44,540 --> 00:56:45,540
She's crossing the street.

848
00:56:45,540 --> 00:56:46,540
She's crossing the street.

849
00:56:46,540 --> 00:56:49,540
That's Sho right there, crossing the street with the white bands.

850
00:56:49,540 --> 00:56:50,540
That's Sho right there.

851
00:56:50,540 --> 00:56:51,540
That's Sho right there.

852
00:56:51,540 --> 00:56:52,540
That's Sho right there.

853
00:56:52,540 --> 00:56:53,540
That's the bus right there.

854
00:56:53,540 --> 00:56:54,540
She does not like this.

855
00:56:54,540 --> 00:56:55,540
That's the bus right there.

856
00:56:55,540 --> 00:56:56,540
All those girls are working for her.

857
00:56:56,540 --> 00:56:57,540
She's their pimp.

858
00:56:57,540 --> 00:56:58,540
She is number one.

859
00:56:58,540 --> 00:57:01,540
And Sho has, she is number one.

860
00:57:01,540 --> 00:57:04,540
She has, she pimps out young girls.

861
00:57:04,540 --> 00:57:09,540
And she keeps, she has the over, you know, the legal girls on the street visible.

862
00:57:09,540 --> 00:57:16,540
Like, she has a little house back there where one of our operators has seen underage girls.

863
00:57:16,540 --> 00:57:17,540
We're now moving?

864
00:57:17,540 --> 00:57:22,540
Do you guys know how long that car has been behind us?

865
00:57:22,540 --> 00:57:23,540
He just got behind us?

866
00:57:23,540 --> 00:57:24,540
He just came behind us?

867
00:57:24,540 --> 00:57:25,540
He just got behind us?

868
00:57:25,540 --> 00:57:26,540
He just got behind us?

869
00:57:26,540 --> 00:57:28,540
No, let's just keep, pay attention to it.

870
00:57:28,540 --> 00:57:41,540
Dimitri, it's possible we have a tail.

871
00:57:41,540 --> 00:57:45,540
It's possible we have a tail behind us.

872
00:57:49,540 --> 00:57:50,540
Okay.

873
00:57:50,540 --> 00:57:52,540
It's turning off.

874
00:57:52,540 --> 00:57:53,540
No, period, period.

875
00:57:53,540 --> 00:57:54,540
We're good.

876
00:57:54,540 --> 00:58:00,540
If there's any like holes in the logic right now, anything glaring that anyone's thinking about,

877
00:58:00,540 --> 00:58:03,540
this is like the time to beat it to death.

878
00:58:03,540 --> 00:58:07,540
Cause there's gonna, this is, this is all coming together like very quick and there's,

879
00:58:07,540 --> 00:58:09,540
they're guaranteed there's more things.

880
00:58:09,540 --> 00:58:10,540
You know what I want to do is start with a prayer.

881
00:58:10,540 --> 00:58:11,540
Yeah.

882
00:58:15,540 --> 00:58:18,540
What about, uh, what about your, your special prayer?

883
00:58:18,540 --> 00:58:19,540
You want me to pray that prayer?

884
00:58:19,540 --> 00:58:20,540
I kind of do, yeah.

885
00:58:20,540 --> 00:58:21,540
All right.

886
00:58:21,540 --> 00:58:23,540
We'll just like bow our heads and I'll sing it real quick.

887
00:58:23,540 --> 00:58:24,540
Okay.

888
00:58:24,540 --> 00:58:33,540
Yivorecha Yehovah Vaishmurecha

889
00:58:33,540 --> 00:58:40,540
Ya'er Yehovah Panavilecha Viyonecha

890
00:58:40,540 --> 00:58:53,540
Shalom

891
00:58:53,540 --> 00:58:55,540
May Yehovah bless you and keep you.

892
00:58:55,540 --> 00:58:58,540
May Yehovah let his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

893
00:58:58,540 --> 00:59:03,540
May Yehovah lift up his countenance upon you and give you Shalom.

894
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:04,540
Amen.

895
00:59:04,540 --> 00:59:05,540
Amen.

896
00:59:05,540 --> 00:59:06,540
Amen.

897
00:59:06,540 --> 00:59:07,540
Thank you.

898
00:59:07,540 --> 00:59:08,540
I'm not sure you won't do Shalom.

899
00:59:08,540 --> 00:59:09,540
I will teach you.

900
00:59:09,540 --> 00:59:10,540
I will teach you.

901
00:59:10,540 --> 00:59:11,540
I will teach you.

902
00:59:11,540 --> 00:59:16,540
Do you want to take care of your zip ties?

903
00:59:16,540 --> 00:59:19,540
I'm sure you want to shoot me, you know that.

904
00:59:23,540 --> 00:59:25,540
I will teach you.

905
00:59:41,540 --> 00:59:58,540
You have to remember, there are other people in these houses.

906
01:00:11,540 --> 01:00:19,540
Okay, this is the part that nobody really wants to talk about or do, but it's the part that we probably need to know the best.

907
01:00:19,540 --> 01:00:26,540
If somebody gets shot or stabbed or severely injured enough, they have to be taken to a higher level of care.

908
01:00:26,540 --> 01:00:30,540
We've got a number of these kits that are going to be spread out in the vehicles.

909
01:00:30,540 --> 01:00:36,540
These are what we call blowout kits, so if any, is anybody in here familiar with medicine besides the fire mentioned?

910
01:00:36,540 --> 01:00:41,540
Emergency.

911
01:00:41,540 --> 01:00:45,540
Okay, so then none of this stuff is going to matter to you.

912
01:00:45,540 --> 01:00:51,540
However, at that time that somebody gets hurt and if somebody else met it, everything else needs to stop.

913
01:00:51,540 --> 01:00:55,540
Nothing else matters because we could lose a person at that point, right?

914
01:00:55,540 --> 01:01:02,540
So, the Haitians are going to do whatever they're going to do, but this group in here, we're going to keep that person alive.

915
01:01:02,540 --> 01:01:09,540
So, our target's name is Sho, and she's a pimp who's going to be on a street corner about two or three blocks from here.

916
01:01:09,540 --> 01:01:13,540
We intend to take Sho and try and get, if we can, use her to get information.

917
01:01:13,540 --> 01:01:18,540
We've got eight other targets that are out there that were stupidly released.

918
01:01:18,540 --> 01:01:23,540
We know that she paid $80,000 to get to someone to get out of jail.

919
01:01:23,540 --> 01:01:26,540
We really want to understand where she got $80,000 from.

920
01:01:26,540 --> 01:01:29,540
We believe a criminal organization supports her.

921
01:01:29,540 --> 01:01:30,540
We've been to her house.

922
01:01:30,540 --> 01:01:32,540
She's not living large at all.

923
01:01:32,540 --> 01:01:33,540
So, she's backed by someone.

924
01:01:33,540 --> 01:01:38,540
So, we want to find out who paid you the $80,000 and who within the government did you give that $80,000 to.

925
01:01:38,540 --> 01:01:45,540
In addition, we want to just scare the living daylights out of her and use the momentum and kind of fear.

926
01:01:45,540 --> 01:01:51,540
Just listen, the next five minutes of your life are going to determine the next 50 years of your life.

927
01:01:51,540 --> 01:01:52,540
This is our plan.

928
01:01:52,540 --> 01:01:53,540
Once the Haitians come, we'll bring you home.

929
01:01:53,540 --> 01:01:54,540
It's their country, of course.

930
01:01:54,540 --> 01:01:55,540
Right.

931
01:01:55,540 --> 01:01:56,540
We do what they want.

932
01:01:56,540 --> 01:02:04,540
Perimeter one and perimeter two, as long as we've got eyes looking outboard with guns while we're in the middle, that's the only goal here.

933
01:02:04,540 --> 01:02:06,540
We're making these things really simple.

934
01:02:06,540 --> 01:02:11,540
Look, we don't all rush to the middle of the action, you know, and that's what rookies do, right?

935
01:02:11,540 --> 01:02:13,540
That's what, you know, idiots do.

936
01:02:13,540 --> 01:02:19,540
They have a job, and even if they don't like their job, like, even if it's not the cool job, this is their damn job.

937
01:02:19,540 --> 01:02:20,540
I think it goes without saying.

938
01:02:20,540 --> 01:02:23,540
Like, we don't want them to know where we're staying tonight at all.

939
01:02:23,540 --> 01:02:28,540
And if we need to take different routes or just be really familiar with who's behind you and who could be following you,

940
01:02:28,540 --> 01:02:30,540
even if it's a little motorcycle, those guys are the worst.

941
01:02:30,540 --> 01:02:33,540
Motorcycle guys are bad, and they're going to be informants.

942
01:02:33,540 --> 01:02:39,540
So, we want to sleep safely, and those driving to the airport tomorrow, we don't want any issues.

943
01:02:39,540 --> 01:02:40,540
Hey, guys.

944
01:02:40,540 --> 01:02:41,540
Hey, Jim.

945
01:02:41,540 --> 01:02:42,540
Hey.

946
01:02:42,540 --> 01:02:44,540
How's the guys downstairs?

947
01:02:44,540 --> 01:02:45,540
There's...

948
01:02:45,540 --> 01:02:46,540
Thanks, guys.

949
01:02:46,540 --> 01:02:47,540
Look at seven.

950
01:02:47,540 --> 01:02:49,540
Seventeen guys altogether from my side.

951
01:02:49,540 --> 01:02:50,540
Perfect.

952
01:02:50,540 --> 01:02:52,540
The recon one, we're like three minutes to deploy.

953
01:02:52,540 --> 01:02:53,540
Oh, he's driving down there.

954
01:02:53,540 --> 01:02:54,540
He's waiting.

955
01:03:09,540 --> 01:03:10,540
I know three parking lot up there.

956
01:03:10,540 --> 01:03:11,540
Come in.

957
01:03:11,540 --> 01:03:12,540
Come in.

958
01:03:12,540 --> 01:03:13,540
I'm in.

959
01:03:13,540 --> 01:03:14,540
Come in.

960
01:03:14,540 --> 01:03:15,540
Come in.

961
01:03:15,540 --> 01:03:16,540
Come in.

962
01:03:16,540 --> 01:03:18,540
Come in.

963
01:03:18,540 --> 01:03:19,540
Come in.

964
01:03:19,540 --> 01:03:32,540
Get out.

965
01:03:32,540 --> 01:03:32,800
I know.

966
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:33,920
You can now Sub-Five.

967
01:04:02,540 --> 01:04:21,540
Father, we are here, Father, we will come to Swaya to give you a thank you for your blessing.

968
01:04:21,540 --> 01:04:26,540
We thank you for your responsibility and to help you.

969
01:04:26,540 --> 01:04:33,540
If you need to do a message.

970
01:04:37,540 --> 01:04:42,540
All right, you guys, up there where the lights are, where the lights are is about where she's at.

971
01:04:42,540 --> 01:04:45,540
It's his car pulled over, okay?

972
01:04:45,540 --> 01:04:47,540
Can we close, man?

973
01:04:47,540 --> 01:04:48,540
Yeah, it's right here, you guys.

974
01:04:48,540 --> 01:04:49,540
Right here, right here.

975
01:04:49,540 --> 01:04:51,540
Okay, we're ready.

976
01:04:51,540 --> 01:04:55,540
1, 2, 3.

977
01:04:55,540 --> 01:04:57,540
Go, go, go, go, go.

978
01:04:59,540 --> 01:05:01,540
Go, go, go.

979
01:05:01,540 --> 01:05:04,540
Get it, get it, get it!

980
01:05:04,540 --> 01:05:06,540
Get it, get it!

981
01:05:06,540 --> 01:05:08,540
Get it, get it!

982
01:05:08,540 --> 01:05:10,540
Get it, get it, get it!

983
01:05:10,540 --> 01:05:12,540
Okay, I'll go.

984
01:05:12,540 --> 01:05:14,540
Come on, man.

985
01:05:14,540 --> 01:05:16,540
Let's go.

986
01:05:16,540 --> 01:05:17,540
I don't know there.

987
01:05:17,540 --> 01:05:18,540
Right.

988
01:05:18,540 --> 01:05:19,540
Let's go.

989
01:05:19,540 --> 01:05:20,540
Let's go.

990
01:05:20,540 --> 01:05:21,540
Let's go.

991
01:05:21,540 --> 01:05:22,540
Let's go.

992
01:05:22,540 --> 01:05:23,540
Okay.

993
01:05:23,540 --> 01:05:24,540
Let's go.

994
01:05:33,540 --> 01:05:34,540
Go ahead.

995
01:05:34,540 --> 01:05:35,540
Right.

996
01:05:35,540 --> 01:05:37,540
When we come back, we're just blocking.

997
01:05:37,540 --> 01:05:38,540
Just blocking.

998
01:05:44,540 --> 01:05:45,540
American.

999
01:05:45,540 --> 01:05:47,540
I'm a citizen.

1000
01:05:47,540 --> 01:05:48,540
Hello.

1001
01:05:48,540 --> 01:05:49,540
Put a light on it.

1002
01:05:49,540 --> 01:05:50,540
Put a light on it.

1003
01:05:50,540 --> 01:05:51,540
Put a light on it.

1004
01:05:51,540 --> 01:05:52,540
These are condoms.

1005
01:05:52,540 --> 01:05:53,540
Who's got a light?

1006
01:05:53,540 --> 01:05:54,540
Who's got a light?

1007
01:05:54,540 --> 01:05:55,540
Condoms.

1008
01:05:55,540 --> 01:05:58,540
These are all for a huge bag of condoms.

1009
01:05:58,540 --> 01:06:00,540
Can they grab all this evidence?

1010
01:06:00,540 --> 01:06:02,540
Yeah, we've got to grab all this.

1011
01:06:02,540 --> 01:06:03,540
Miner's on scene.

1012
01:06:03,540 --> 01:06:04,540
He's got condoms.

1013
01:06:04,540 --> 01:06:05,540
He's got sex toys.

1014
01:06:05,540 --> 01:06:07,540
He's got condoms in there.

1015
01:06:07,540 --> 01:06:08,540
Go ahead.

1016
01:06:08,540 --> 01:06:10,540
Put a light on it.

1017
01:06:10,540 --> 01:06:12,540
I don't want to do it.

1018
01:06:12,540 --> 01:06:13,540
Can we go?

1019
01:06:14,540 --> 01:06:15,540
Come on wait.

1020
01:06:15,540 --> 01:06:16,540
Move.

1021
01:06:16,540 --> 01:06:17,540
Come on wait.

1022
01:06:17,540 --> 01:06:18,540
Come on wait haven't you?

1023
01:06:22,540 --> 01:06:23,540
Are you millions ofездs by Давайте?

1024
01:06:24,540 --> 01:06:25,540
Did you lose anything in there?

1025
01:06:25,540 --> 01:06:26,540
No~!

1026
01:06:26,540 --> 01:06:28,540
I don't know

1027
01:06:34,780 --> 01:06:36,780
I want to see

1028
01:06:36,780 --> 01:06:38,780
I want to see

1029
01:06:41,500 --> 01:06:43,500
I want to see

1030
01:06:45,660 --> 01:06:47,660
That's my big

1031
01:06:56,540 --> 01:06:57,540
I want to see

1032
01:07:17,220 --> 01:07:18,220
It's

1033
01:07:26,540 --> 01:07:28,540
Matt, take a photo of them.

1034
01:07:28,540 --> 01:07:30,540
Yo, I'm a citizen of USA.

1035
01:07:30,540 --> 01:07:31,540
Whatever.

1036
01:07:31,540 --> 01:07:32,540
Okay?

1037
01:07:32,540 --> 01:07:33,540
Whatever, dude.

1038
01:07:33,540 --> 01:07:35,540
Ex-colonism.

1039
01:07:35,540 --> 01:07:36,540
Okay?

1040
01:07:36,540 --> 01:07:37,540
What do you say?

1041
01:07:37,540 --> 01:07:39,540
I'm an ex-colonist.

1042
01:07:39,540 --> 01:07:41,540
I'm a citizen of USA.

1043
01:07:46,540 --> 01:07:48,540
Everyone, same vehicles.

1044
01:07:48,540 --> 01:07:49,540
Same vehicles.

1045
01:07:49,540 --> 01:07:50,540
Okay.

1046
01:07:50,540 --> 01:07:51,540
Hello, you are.

1047
01:07:51,540 --> 01:07:52,540
Same vehicles.

1048
01:07:52,540 --> 01:07:53,540
I got it.

1049
01:07:53,540 --> 01:07:54,540
I got it.

1050
01:07:54,540 --> 01:07:55,540
My life won't go on.

1051
01:07:55,540 --> 01:07:57,540
How many guys got wrapped up right there?

1052
01:07:57,540 --> 01:07:58,540
Dude, he was an American?

1053
01:07:58,540 --> 01:07:59,540
Yeah.

1054
01:07:59,540 --> 01:08:00,540
Tim, is that a big deal?

1055
01:08:00,540 --> 01:08:01,540
That we got an American, maybe?

1056
01:08:01,540 --> 01:08:02,540
Is that alright?

1057
01:08:02,540 --> 01:08:03,540
He's saying he's an American, yeah.

1058
01:08:03,540 --> 01:08:04,540
I thought he was picking.

1059
01:08:04,540 --> 01:08:05,540
I don't think he was.

1060
01:08:05,540 --> 01:08:06,540
No, no, no.

1061
01:08:06,540 --> 01:08:08,540
He was saying I'm an American.

1062
01:08:08,540 --> 01:08:11,540
So we got more than we bargained for on that one, for sure.

1063
01:08:11,540 --> 01:08:12,540
Hey, where are we from?

1064
01:08:12,540 --> 01:08:13,540
Are we at the precinct?

1065
01:08:24,540 --> 01:08:25,540
I'm a man.

1066
01:08:25,540 --> 01:08:26,540
He's an American.

1067
01:08:26,540 --> 01:08:27,540
This is very important.

1068
01:08:27,540 --> 01:08:29,540
This is very important.

1069
01:08:29,540 --> 01:08:31,540
I know I said it but these guys are confirming again.

1070
01:08:31,540 --> 01:08:34,540
Those were the girls, the same girls that she brought.

1071
01:08:34,540 --> 01:08:35,540
Same girls.

1072
01:08:35,540 --> 01:08:37,540
And we think that they live with her.

1073
01:08:37,540 --> 01:08:40,540
She keeps them captive in her own home.

1074
01:08:40,540 --> 01:08:42,400
You're not going to leave.

1075
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:43,280
No.

1076
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:44,320
Everyone's going to leave.

1077
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:45,820
Everyone's going to leave.

1078
01:08:45,820 --> 01:08:47,640
All the people are going to leave.

1079
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:49,080
Everyone's going to leave.

1080
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:50,420
And the people that's going to leave.

1081
01:08:50,420 --> 01:08:52,420
Can I talk to someone?

1082
01:08:52,420 --> 01:08:53,720
Okay.

1083
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:54,880
Can I talk to someone?

1084
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:56,780
Are the citizens of the United States?

1085
01:08:56,780 --> 01:08:58,460
Yes.

1086
01:08:58,460 --> 01:09:00,220
I understand you.

1087
01:09:00,220 --> 01:09:04,960
So can I talk to somebody to explain what's going on?

1088
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:06,960
Are the citizens of the United States?

1089
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,640
The lady, that's the one who got arrested or whatever.

1090
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:17,880
Oh, yes, that's right. And the girls, same girls she brought to Calico. They're minors. Tell them.

1091
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:24,120
They're 13, they're 13, 12, 13, 14 years old. You caught her red-handed.

1092
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:37,720
Thank you. You're an inspiration to all of us.

1093
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:43,000
This is another example of bravery and the strength of the Haitian people.

1094
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:45,000
That's an example.

1095
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:45,960
Thank you.

1096
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:47,000
Thank you.

1097
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,000
Thank you, my colleague.

1098
01:09:49,000 --> 01:10:00,680
What's important for me is that we've made this effort and we made this happen with a lot of preparation and work.

1099
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:07,960
And I'm prepared to collaborate with you so we can keep up this world because there's zero human trafficking.

1100
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:12,360
And I'm prepared to collaborate with you so we can keep up this world because there's zero human trafficking.

1101
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:28,040
Thank you, gentlemen.

1102
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:38,720
So it's funny feeling that I have to go back to the giant Möglichkeit,

1103
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:43,500
and I can sit down in my arms and drive,

1104
01:10:43,500 --> 01:10:46,460
and that's just my schauen.

1105
01:10:46,460 --> 01:10:50,980
And I just think A wrap!

1106
01:10:50,980 --> 01:11:09,980
We get the kids out, four kids are pulled out of these dens of nightmares and they're

1107
01:11:09,980 --> 01:11:14,580
in our safe house, Jessica Mass, our director of aftercare is with them and they start to

1108
01:11:14,580 --> 01:11:20,600
open up, they start to talk and the one little girl, the youngest of them, starts to cry

1109
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:31,220
starts to tear up and she said this is the first time that I've ever felt hope that I

1110
01:11:31,220 --> 01:11:39,980
can remember and she proceeded to tell us this story about how when she was about six

1111
01:11:39,980 --> 01:11:56,780
or seven years old she was kidnapped in the wake of the earthquake, her parents were killed

1112
01:11:56,780 --> 01:12:01,700
in the earthquake like so many parents were and she was left an orphan instantly and this

1113
01:12:01,700 --> 01:12:06,980
nice woman comes up, tells her that she'll take care of her and to come with her, this

1114
01:12:06,980 --> 01:12:12,520
was happening all over in the wake of the earthquake, in the case of Rosie I mean she was six, seven

1115
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:19,800
years old, showed, gets a hold of her, promises to take care of her and instead puts her into

1116
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:27,440
a life of sex slavery and this was so crazy she said, she said it's amazing that you guys

1117
01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:31,020
came and rescued me on January 12th.

1118
01:12:31,020 --> 01:12:36,020
She said it was January 12th, eight years ago when the earthquake struck.

1119
01:12:36,020 --> 01:12:38,020
Hey!

1120
01:12:38,020 --> 01:12:41,020
Hey buddy!

1121
01:12:41,020 --> 01:12:44,020
Hey, how are you?

1122
01:12:44,020 --> 01:12:49,020
This little girl was in the most obscure country in the world.

1123
01:12:49,020 --> 01:12:50,020
Wow.

1124
01:12:50,020 --> 01:12:58,020
Not only that, she was in the most obscure, darkest corner of that most obscure country, just wallowing

1125
01:12:58,020 --> 01:13:03,020
in hell, far from anyone who possibly could care.

1126
01:13:03,020 --> 01:13:05,020
You're so big!

1127
01:13:05,020 --> 01:13:06,020
A photo?

1128
01:13:06,020 --> 01:13:07,020
Where?

1129
01:13:07,020 --> 01:13:12,020
It took her 24 hours after the rescue to even talk because she said she couldn't believe

1130
01:13:12,020 --> 01:13:13,020
that anyone would come for her.

1131
01:13:13,020 --> 01:13:14,020
Santa Claus?

1132
01:13:14,020 --> 01:13:15,020
Who is that?

1133
01:13:15,020 --> 01:13:16,020
Santa Claus.

1134
01:13:16,020 --> 01:13:17,020
Santa Claus?

1135
01:13:17,020 --> 01:13:18,020
Who is that?

1136
01:13:18,020 --> 01:13:19,020
Santa Claus.

1137
01:13:19,020 --> 01:13:20,020
Santa Claus?

1138
01:13:20,020 --> 01:13:21,020
Santa Claus.

1139
01:13:21,020 --> 01:13:22,020
Santa Claus?

1140
01:13:22,020 --> 01:13:23,020
He came?

1141
01:13:23,020 --> 01:13:24,020
He came?

1142
01:13:24,020 --> 01:13:25,020
It's what we are trying to do.

1143
01:13:25,020 --> 01:13:26,020
Santa Claus came here?

1144
01:13:26,020 --> 01:13:29,020
We intentionally go to the darkest corners of the earth where there is no hope and find

1145
01:13:29,020 --> 01:13:30,020
these kids.

1146
01:13:30,020 --> 01:13:45,020
And what that does, apart from liberating children, what that does is it provides hope for everybody

1147
01:13:45,020 --> 01:13:46,020
now.

1148
01:13:46,020 --> 01:13:47,020
And what that does, apart from liberating children, what that does is it provides hope for everybody

1149
01:13:47,020 --> 01:13:48,020
now.

1150
01:13:48,020 --> 01:13:56,860
find these kids and what that does you know apart from liberating children what that does

1151
01:13:56,860 --> 01:14:02,060
is it provides hope for everybody now so you got so big i mean where there was no hope

1152
01:14:02,060 --> 01:14:08,660
there's hope everywhere if we can continue to grow our operations and continue to get

1153
01:14:08,660 --> 01:14:13,120
the support we need there is hope everywhere for the first time

1154
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:23,020
okay scoot over we got we gotta have a talk we have a talk right here okay what's what's your name

1155
01:14:23,020 --> 01:14:29,860
hey you gotta talk to me hey hey hey what's your name what's your name wait no not yet not yet

1156
01:14:29,860 --> 01:14:30,760
what's your name

1157
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:47,520
what's your name buddy

1158
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:21,520
we found that the traffickers were selling kids and we were able to dismantle that organization

1159
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:29,260
and we had to buy two children in the process we had to buy two children and

1160
01:15:29,260 --> 01:15:38,100
they were the key to getting the other kids out and we've told that story many times but what's

1161
01:15:38,100 --> 01:15:46,220
special about those two children is that i formed a special bond with them and when we were driving

1162
01:15:46,220 --> 01:15:52,880
from the orphanage to the to the sting house to the hotel this little boy jumped up into my lap

1163
01:15:52,880 --> 01:16:03,740
and i'm supposed to be this you know hard criminal after the rescue was done we my wife and i couldn't

1164
01:16:03,740 --> 01:16:09,940
stop thinking about them him and his and his sister they were the two kids and so we started to work

1165
01:16:09,940 --> 01:16:19,780
towards adopting them that was almost four years ago and i just got the email today the decree came out

1166
01:16:19,780 --> 01:16:28,360
of parquet and their names are now ballard they're now my they're my children if i lived in haiti

1167
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:38,900
if i lived in haiti i could take them home right now so all we have to wait for now is passports and

1168
01:16:38,900 --> 01:16:47,840
visas and that and then they come home to utah where's colle and colleen gonna sleep

1169
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:55,120
we have one extra bedroom right yeah where's daniel gonna sleep he's gonna sleep with the boy he's

1170
01:16:55,120 --> 01:17:01,840
gonna bunk with the boys with luke there are days that i'm like tim and i are like what why do we have

1171
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:17,500
all these kids but but um it just um like you look at this little guy and he is so loved and just by

1172
01:17:17,500 --> 01:17:25,080
virtue of the fact that he was born in a family and that automatically gives him access to this love

1173
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:32,860
that we don't even have to think about it's just there and there are so many children around the

1174
01:17:32,860 --> 01:17:42,320
world that don't have that and that could there just shouldn't be this much excess with that many

1175
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:49,320
children in need

1176
01:17:49,320 --> 01:18:09,780
i'll find him

1177
01:18:09,780 --> 01:18:15,120
it's something i don't want to talk about it because i know i will find him

1178
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:17,780
i will find him

1179
01:18:17,780 --> 01:18:22,780
one day something will happen i'll find it

1180
01:18:22,780 --> 01:18:43,060
number one thing on my bucket list and what i want to do is i want to help stop human trafficking

1181
01:18:43,060 --> 01:18:52,520
i belong to an organization called operation underground railroad there are over two million

1182
01:18:52,520 --> 01:19:02,360
children who are stolen and they are abused sexually and um it's it's unbelievable what happens and

1183
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:09,300
i belong to that organization and we are trying to stop that it's it's really what do you do

1184
01:19:09,300 --> 01:19:17,200
um a man called tim ballard and he used to work for the fbi but he's now gone on his own so he

1185
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:24,000
partners with governments from other countries and they go in and pretend to be traffickers so they

1186
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:31,320
get people to get people to bring kids in and they pretend to buy those kids and then they catch the

1187
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:36,140
people who are bringing the kids in how much does it cost them to free a child anywhere probably from

1188
01:19:36,140 --> 01:19:43,240
12 000 to 50 000 in operation i'll give you 100 000 if you'll get me 10 children out of slavery

1189
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,740
awesome thank you

1190
01:19:45,740 --> 01:19:54,440
tony when you did that hundred thousand dollar it just just rocked me

1191
01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:58,780
i was raised in a catholic orphanage from time i was seven till i was 19

1192
01:19:58,780 --> 01:20:04,680
but out of our savings i can't match you but i'd like to give ten thousand dollars with your gift

1193
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:06,040
awesome that's incredible

1194
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:09,380
that's awesome

1195
01:20:09,380 --> 01:20:16,480
you stay here

1196
01:20:16,480 --> 01:20:21,480
10 000 more give her hand right here 10 000 more

1197
01:20:21,480 --> 01:20:30,480
one more another 10 000 let's have a hand for him nice job 10 000 go see her there's another 10 000

1198
01:20:30,480 --> 01:20:39,580
10 000 5 000 you got it i'll match you you too awesome give these guys a hand

1199
01:20:39,580 --> 01:21:01,680
how many of you are touched and inspired by what these people have done and what you've done

1200
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:08,780
once you do something like this you'll never go back it'll be part of your life forever

1201
01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:14,880
they won't come round here no more

1202
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:28,880
they won't come round here no more

1203
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:38,980
they won't come round here no more

1204
01:21:38,980 --> 01:21:46,980
they won't come round here no more

1205
01:21:46,980 --> 01:21:51,980
you