Category: Trafficking

BOMBSHELL: Turning Point’s Connection to Child Trafficking (allegedly)

Candace Owens has been investigating the past of Erika Kirk and has uncovered strange connections to child trafficking. Erika began the Romanian Angels Project with Colonel Otto Busher who was later accused of child trafficking out of a Romanian military base. It has also been uncovered that Erika had a series of tweets with an underage girl. These are very disturbing conversations. Why would Erika send a message to an underage girl saying she is going to touch her butt? It also turns out that she set up a photo shoot for her. Why would Erika Kirk set up a photo shoot for a minor? This raises questions about whether Erika Kirk should be the CEO of Turning Point. But there is something that Candace Owens has missed. You do not have to go all the way to Romania to find connections between Turning Point and child trafficking. You can look right in their home state of Arizona.

More Than 200 People, Including 3 Disney Workers And A Florida Coach, Have Been Arrested In Human Trafficking Operation

More Than 200 People, Including 3 Disney Workers And A Florida Coach, Have Been Arrested In Human Trafficking Operation

INDONESIA-CRIME-TRAFFICKING-PROTEST Youths pose with a placard during a protest to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, in Yogyakarta on July 31, 2022. (Photo by DEVI RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by DEVI RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
(Photo by DEVI RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
8:58 AM – Friday, September 29, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/more-than-200-people-including-3-disney-workers-and-a-florida-coach-have-been-arrested-in-human-trafficking-operation/;

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A high school coach and three Disney World workers are among over 200 people arrested in a human trafficking operation in Polk County, Florida. 

Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced that they had arrested 219 people, including a high school coach, three individuals who worked at Disney, and 35 illegal immigrants, during a human trafficking sting named “Traffic Stop 2.”

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd released the results of the operation on Thursday, claiming that 21 of the 119 prostitutes arrested during the operation, which began last week, were likely victims of human trafficking.

Freddy Escalona, 30, and 36-year-old Maria Guzman were arrested and charged with human trafficking and profiting from prostitution.

According to authorities, Escalona provided money to a victim to repair her vehicle, and when she was unable to repay him, he allegedly coerced her into prostitution.

Judd stated that when Escalona took the victim to the undercover site, he was arrested and told officers he had “several females that he worked with,” or who paid him to transport and keep them safe.

Guzman is also accused of trafficking two women from an Orlando hotel, arranging their “dates” and benefitting from the money they made.

Reportedly, of those arrested, 35 are suspected to be in the country illegally and are from the countries of Cuba, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia or the Bahamas.

According to Judd’s office, 83 individuals were detained for soliciting prostitution; 17 other suspects were apprehended, of which five earned proceeds from prostitution or aided and abetted prostitutes, and eight drove the prostitutes to the undercover location.

“Not only did we arrest more suspects during this single operation than we have ever arrested before, we identified 21 human trafficking victims; during a similar operation in February, we identified 24 victims,” Judd said. “That’s 45 victims we were able to identify this year. The valuable relationships that we have with the social services organizations who join us in these operations make it possible for these women to get help and be emancipated from this way of life.”

According to the sheriff, 42 of the suspects admitted to detectives that they were married; 13 said they received government assistance; 42 brought illegal drugs to the undercover location; two had firearms on them and 18 were from other states. 

Authorities reported that the oldest person arrested was 76-year-old Frank Bydairk, and the youngest was 18-year-old Latrice Vilsaint.

Judd continued by saying how one of the men arrested had left his one-year-old daughter at home alone while he left to have sex. When the man was confronted about it, he reportedly said he did not leave her alone because “the dog was watching her.” 

“We interviewed the dog and the dog said woof. I guess that means yes in dog language,” Judd said. 

Russell Rogers, an athletic director at Vanguard High School and a teacher at Auburndale High School REAL Academy, was among those arrested. He is also reportedly married and has three children. 

“Part of being an educator is understanding that you are held to a higher standard for your actions in the classroom, as well as the community,” district officials said. “These charges don’t involve students, and Rogers was not on duty as a teacher, but this kind of conduct still has no place in our school system.”

The district office also said three individuals who worked at Disney World, Kenneth Green, Marquis Nixon, and Carlos Ro, and one who worked at the Disney Hotel were also among those arrested. 

Authorities reportedly charged a total of 44 felonies and 242 misdemeanors during the sting operation. 

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DeSantis Willing To Use Drone Strikes On Mexican Cartels

DeSantis Willing To Use Drone Strikes On Mexican Cartels

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - AUGUST 06: Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Speaks to guests at Ashley's BBQ Bash hosted by Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA) on August 06, 2023 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Seven of the 14 GOP candidates seeking the party's nomination for president were scheduled to speak at the event. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Speaks to guests at Ashley’s BBQ Bash hosted by Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA) on August 06, 2023 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

OAN’s Noah Herring
11:58 AM – Friday, August 11, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/desantis-willing-to-use-drone-strikes-on-mexican-cartels/;

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Thursday at a campaign stop in Iowa that if elected president, he would be willing to use drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels. 

 “We will lean in against the drug cartels. We will absolutely reserve a right — if they’re invading our country and killing our people — we have a right to defend this country,” DeSantis (R-Fla.) said when a voter asked whether he would be willing to use drones against the cartels. 

“We have the right to hold them accountable, and it’s not just that they happen to come over our border. And if Mexico’s not going to help us with that, well, then we’re going to have to do what we have to do,” he added.

Many Republicans have called for military action as the crisis at the border has worsened in recent years. Former President Donald Trump deployed more than 5,200 troops to combat the crisis in 2018. President Biden also sent 1,500 soldiers to the border in May to serve administrative and transport roles. 

With large numbers of people coming across the border daily, Republicans have become concerned with the type of people who are evading Border Patrol agents. The head of Border Patrol announced last week that they captured four sex offenders, some of whom have committed crimes against children, coming into the United States within a single day. 

Mexican authorities have pushed back on the idea of further military action from the U.S. In 2019, when Trump indicated that the Mexican drug cartels should be labeled as terrorist organizations, Mexican President López Obrador called for “cooperation” to handle the cartels, not “interventionism.” 

In June, DeSantis endorsed the use of “deadly force” against migrants who are suspected of trafficking drugs. The Florida governor reiterated this policy again Thursday when he spoke to a crowd of supporters in a restaurant. 

“We’re authorizing deadly force. They try to break into our country? They will end up stone-cold dead,” he said to a crowd of cheers. 

In a recent interview, DeSantis explained how he would distinguish between migrants who are smuggling drugs and migrants who are not.

“Same way a police officer would know,” he said. “Same way somebody operating in Iraq would know. You know, these people in Iraq at the time, they all looked the same. You didn’t know who had a bomb strapped to them. So those guys have to make judgments.”

Other Republicans, including Representative Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, have also indicated that they would support military involvement in Mexican cartels. 

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59 Missing Children Found Among 200 Sex Trafficking Victims

OAN’s Geraldyn Berry

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/59-missing-children-found-among-200-sex-trafficking-victims/;

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5:39 PM – Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has announced that in a nationwide sting operation known as “Operation Cross Country,” authorities have recovered more than 200 victims of human trafficking and missing individuals, 121 of whom were minors.

 

“Sex traffickers exploit and endanger some of the most vulnerable members of our society and cause their victims unimaginable harm,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement. 

The FBI-led initiative, which was carried out for two weeks in collaboration with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), located 59 victims of child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation, along with 59 missing children.

In addition, authorities were able to identify or arrest at least 126 suspects facilitating child sexual exploitation, along with 68 suspected human traffickers.

The campaign, according to federal officials, “focused on identifying and locating victims of sex trafficking and investigating and arresting individuals and criminal enterprises involved in both child sex and human trafficking.”

“The success of Operation Cross County reinforces what NCMEC sees every day. Children are being bought and sold for sex in communities across the country by traffickers, gangs and even family members,” said Michelle DeLaune, president and CEO of the center. 

According to officials, the youngest victim was 11 years old and the minors were, on average, around 15 years old.

“Unfortunately, such crime – against both adults and children – are far more common than most people realize. As we did in this operation, the FBI and our partners will continue to find and arrest traffickers, identify and help victims, and raise awareness of the exploitation our most vulnerable populations,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said.

In 2021, more than half of all trafficking victims in the U.S. were minors, according to the Human Trafficking Institute.

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Horrific: Ukrainian Trafficker Caught Buying Baby to Sell for Organs

Horrific: Ukrainian Trafficker Caught Buying Baby to Sell for Organs

BY CATHERINE SALGADO

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/06/29/horrific-ukrainian-trafficker-caught-buying-baby-to-sell-for-organs-n1707161;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

There are no words sufficient to condemn the crimes of some demonic creeps. A Ukrainian “charity worker” was reportedly caught trying to buy a baby to harvest and sell its organs—a horrific business transaction he carried out with success with other children.

Actor Jim Caviezel, star of the soon-to-be-released movie on child trafficking Sound of Freedom, and show host Steve Bannon have warned that child trafficking in the Americas includes harvesting and selling kids’ organs. It seems, tragically, that it isn’t a crime specific to this hemisphere. Human Events reported on the “charity worker” detained in Ukraine after being exposed for alleged human trafficking activities.

The 43-year-old man from the Transcarpathian Oblast reportedly had offered a mother $5,000 and given a down payment of $1,000 for the woman’s 11-month-old baby. The man claimed “he would ensure a family in Europe would adopt him to live away from the war in the Eastern European country” of Ukraine, but his real purpose was allegedly far more sinister (emphasis added):

The man was seen detained with a female accomplice at the Ukraine-Slovakia border. The man was arrested for attempted human trafficking and faces up to 15 years in prison.

The boy was rescued, but the man is suspected to have sold three other children under the same pretext.

Ukrainian journalist Vitaliy Glagola said the man “had been looking for parents who were ready to sell their child for organs,” according to the Daily Mail.

The ”charity worker” reportedly planned to sell the baby to other traffickers for $25,000. “Law enforcement officers have operational information that this was not for adoption to the EU, and the child was to have been sold to [illegal] organ transplanters,” Glagola explained the disturbing plan.

Human Events also cited Karolina Wierzbinska, a coordinator at the human rights organization Homo Faber in Poland. Wierzbinska said that she has witnessed couples and teams of potential human traffickers trying to lure refugees to Poland from Ukraine into their cars. Just like at the southern U.S. border, the borders of war-torn Ukraine are seemingly scenes of constant machinations from human traffickers. These traffickers, like the “charity worker” described above, are taking advantage of vulnerable refugees.

”[We see teams] waiting for people arriving from Ukraine and pretending to offer rides or lodging to women distressed and exhausted from their journey,” Wierzbinska stated. “We’re also seeing multiple couples, typically a male and female, having traveled to the border by car, attempting to lure women using similar tactics. We intervene in such cases by approaching the person acting suspiciously and asking them to register in our volunteer directory — in response to which they typically run away.”

How many human traffickers, including illegal organ harvesters, are operating along the borders of Ukraine? What is being done to stop them? And is the same appalling crime happening along our own U.S. border?