Uniting Against Human Trafficking: Strategies for Change

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Hello, this is Dr. Kevin Cruz with the Truth, Faith, and Action Alliance,

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and we're excited to present our breakout session about sex trafficking and

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how we can take action right here in our own neighborhoods.

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Today promises to provide one of the most interesting dialogues or think tanks

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about sex trafficking because we have five different ministries that are already

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making a difference in this area.

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So much like our panel of experts at the prayer breakfast, they will be taking

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questions and answers from the host and from the audience.

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But please stay tuned afterwards because I also want to introduce you to another

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ministry right here in Florida that has some great action plans for how you can help.

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Hello, hello. Welcome, guys. How's everybody doing? How was lunch?

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Everybody's awake? Didn't put you to sleep, did it? Okay, awesome.

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Well, welcome, guys, to the sex trafficking breakout session.

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My name is Frank Rich. I'm the CEO and founder of Rebuilt Recovery.

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I'm really honored to be up here today with this incredible panel of experts,

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guests, former law enforcement founders, CEOs, really amazing people.

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We're going to talk to you guys today about sex trafficking,

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what's happening here in our homes, what's happening in our cities,

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in our communities, and hopefully give you guys some action steps.

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That if you want to leave here today and take some action, which we hope that's

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what you're here to do is to learn, to educate, but more importantly,

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inspire you guys to take action.

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So I'm going to introduce our amazing panel of guests.

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I will be emceeing, hosting what will be more of a Q&A kind of discussion dialogue.

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So sitting here to my left first, we have Sergeant, retired Sergeant Alan Wilkitt.

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He's been an award-winning law enforcement officer for over 25 years,

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but he has devoted the past several years to fight against human trafficking.

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He is the founder of the Pasco Human Trafficking Task Force,

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the Human Trafficking Commission, and Light Up the Nights.

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StopHumantrafficking.com is a first responder to empower survivors and disrupt traffic.

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They also seek to raise awareness of the problem and the need to change our laws.

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They have started a trafficking hotline in Central Florida in a groundbreaking

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adult female human trafficking crisis center. Guys, Alan Wilkins.

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Some of you that were here this morning got a chance to hear from Nate.

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Nate is the founder of Innocence Rescue, correct?

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Their mission is to protect and preserve the innocence of children from child

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sex trafficking, exploitation, and sexual assault inside the United States by

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supporting local law enforcement.

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What does he do on the front lines of the dark web battling child sex trafficking in the USA?

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Training for officers to identify and recognize trafficking,

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internal forensic labs to unlock phones, computers, and other electronic devices.

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They provide training and certifications to run forensic tools.

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They do training for prosecutors and law enforcement for online investigations,

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prosecution, and property seizures.

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The ESD canines are used to locate evidence stored on electronic storage.

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So using canines out there.

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Hunt these down and provide resources for mental health for police departments

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and IRM officers. Guys, Nate Lewis.

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Sitting next to Nate, we have Sarah Lachance. She's the president and founder of Stop the Movement.

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Stop the Movement is a Tampa Bay-based nonprofit with the goal of educating,

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equipment, and empowering the community to fight against exploitation and trafficking.

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They help by promoting self-defense classes, online safety training,

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human trafficking awareness seminars and direct services through

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community outreach at stop the movement they believe

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that change is possible in our lifetime that

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people deserve basic human rights and that none are free until all are free

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guys sarah lachance and down here at the end last but not least we have monica

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satcher runs acts of love is an evangelistic ministry that fights sex trafficking

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and sexual exploitation.

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Every month, Acts of Love's outreach teams take food and nice gifts to strip

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clubs, brothels, street corners, motels, and truck stops to bring the brightest

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light into the darkest places.

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Their team reach over 500 women in seven counties across Florida.

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Their umbrella network has five umbrella outreaches across the United States

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and mentors other leaders in this fight.

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Acts of Love has seen over 7,000 salvations in seven years. incredible,

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and is currently discipling over 200 women weekly and has helped scores of women

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leave the life and enter programs as needed. Incredible work, guys. Monica Satcher.

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Monica, we're going to kick this discussion off with you since you're down there

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at the end, and you have the microphone.

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What got you involved in preventing sex trafficking?

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Well, I was a homeschool mom. That was my ministry. And the Lord was getting

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onto me that he's called me to be an evangelist.

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He's called me to more than just taking care of my children.

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And so I'm like, well, what should I do?

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And someone said, you should go to the strip clubs. And it sounded crazy,

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but it went off in my spirit.

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And so I started looking into it. And I mean, I kid you not,

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within six weeks, I had a team and we were in the clubs. It was supernatural.

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And then now I drive an hour and a half to Pasco County because this man was

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praying for women to come to his clubs.

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And that's how we know each other.

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And so it just took off from there. It was just saying yes.

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And knowing that to get out of your comfort zone and to know that you don't

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have to be good enough. You don't even have to know how you just have to say yes.

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Yes. That's a lesson I think here for everybody today is you don't need to know

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what you don't even know how it just starts with a yes. Incredible. Sarah.

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What got you involved in preventing sex trafficking?

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Well, we were just talking about this before the panel got started,

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but everyone's got a story.

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If we had time, we'd go around the room and be able to hear each person's story

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and what prompted your interest in coming to this panel today.

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But my interest was sparked years ago when someone very close to me was sexually

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assaulted and there was no justice.

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Nothing came of it. There was no healing. There was no therapy.

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There was no incarceration.

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And as we'll talk about in a little bit, the stats are extremely high that when

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there's a perpetrator hurting one child, they're probably hurting more.

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And that didn't sit well with me. And then I moved to California and I found

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out that not only were people being sexually assaulted, but they were being

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sexually assaulted for profit.

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I couldn't believe that that was actually happening.

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And that sparked a journey 10 years ago of trying to figure out where I fit

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in and where God wanted to utilize me. And that's why we're here today.

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Yeah. Amen. Incredible. Mr. Nate Lewis, what got you involved in preventing this trafficking?

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I was introduced to human trafficking from a friend of mine,

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Jim Caviezel. He played Tim Ballard in The Sound of Freedom.

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And then he introduced me to Tim Ballard. And then I got recruited to go work

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for that organization. I spent several years traveling in the world in this arena.

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But I didn't really know why I was getting into it.

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At first i mean i knew it's pretty obvious but the people that were

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involved at the time were great people in the cause but then

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i had my first actual experience in northern

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africa with child sacrifice but looking at human trafficking on all different

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levels not just sex trafficking and then it was there was no way i could go

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back and the more the years that i spent involved in seeing how it happens all

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over the world i mean there's just no way it's like one of those things that

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you like you say you just say yes to that you're committed and and then you see these children.

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And I think for me, it's the children that got me, you know, it's just.

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The innocence of a child is, is so precious.

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And it's like one, I think the finest gem in the world, the most valuable thing,

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and it's lost at some point.

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And what are we here to do to protect that?

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And so that's, that's why I ended up starting Innocence Rescue Mission is to

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focus here in the United States.

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There's a lot of organizations focused outside the United States,

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a lot of money spent outside the United States.

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We're here to support and equip law enforcement. And that's kind of where my

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area of expertise is in a sense.

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And, and I know what holes and pitfalls they have. And so I said,

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yes, and I had no idea how I was going to do it or where it was going to happen.

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And it's come together by God, honestly.

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And that's basically how I got involved. Yeah. And I think that'll really resonate

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with all of our stories and journeys.

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And, you know, speaking of a child innocence, like this entire afternoon,

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this entire day is dedicated to saving our children.

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Right. And I think rescuing or restoring that innocence is really sitting at the core of all of that.

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So, so love that Nate, Mr. Wilkett, Sergeant Allen.

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Thank you. First of all, I just want to address a couple of things.

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I've had an opportunity to work on a local level and in this fight with the

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two ladies sitting over here on my left.

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They do, both of them do incredible work.

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Monica made the statement. She

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said she kind of got involved in Pasco because she came up to my clubs.

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I just want to make sure that no one goes out of here and says he owns a bunch of strip clubs in Pasco.

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And she, she obviously was meeting, they were clubs I was going after and taking down.

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We, we got about half of them before I retired, but it's funny,

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a funny story about my daughter.

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My daughter called me, we were working a strip club operation in Pasco and my

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daughter calls about 10 o'clock at night. She's an attorney out in Denver now.

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And she called, she said, Hey dad, what are you doing? And I said,

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well, I'm leaving one strip club and heading to another.

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And there was this big, long, awkward pause and she said, okay,

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dad, I know you're working, but you probably shouldn't tell your daughter that.

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So I have to be careful when those things are said.

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What got me into this was, was first of all, I was well into my career when

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I first, and I'll never forget first hearing the term human trafficking and

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my gut reaction as a cop was.

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Human trafficking, that's not happening here. And the TVPA had just been passed in the year 2000.

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Florida had just passed its first human trafficking laws a couple, three years after 2000.

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And we were starting to do training on human trafficking. And I'll never forget when St.

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Louis University sat there through a week-long class on human trafficking and

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thought, this is happening here.

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And then my mind went back to cases that I'd worked before we had the term human

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trafficking, that now going back, I would recognize were human trafficking cases.

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But we as law enforcement were trying to work them in other ways.

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And what really pushed me was as my memory began to go back to a victim,

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an eight-year-old girl that I carried out of the house after being pimped out by her two uncles.

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She had been raped hundreds of times.

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I'll never forget bagging her little dress because her uncles would dress her

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up as a birthday date for strange men to come in and violate her in ways that are unspeakable.

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And I thought to myself that I still remember the noises. I remember the smells of that house.

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I remember the crinkling of the evidence bag.

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And I said to myself, as long as God gives me the strength, I will fight for

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every one of these girls.

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I will fight for every one of these boys because these are God's treasures and

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they deserve a life of freedom and happiness.

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Yeah. Nate mentioned being friends with Jim who played Tim in the movie,

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Sound of Freedom. And there's that powerful line.

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Hopefully you all have seen it. If not, It's a must watch after today's event,

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but God's kids are not for sale.

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There's also a line in there that says, when God asks you to do something,

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you don't hesitate. Yes. Yeah.

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So we're going to dive in, guys. Like I said, our goal here is to educate,

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inspire, and hopefully have you guys leaving here today ready to take some action.

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One thing I'm really inspired about is that out of this panel,

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we have a 50-50 male-female panel experts.

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One thing I can always remember Sarah sharing with me the first time I met her,

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she runs a very female-dominated organization. I've had the opportunity to speak

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with her and at their events multiple times is the need for men.

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So to you guys that are out there, love to see you in this audience.

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We need guys on the ground just as much as we need women. So I want to get into

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this. Sarah, we're going to start with you.

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What are the signs of sex trafficking and what is it that we need to be looking

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for when we're out there?

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Okay, great question. And guys, feel free to chime in.

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There's a whole laundry list of things we can give you. We don't have time to

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go over it all today, but there are some things that you need to be aware of.

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Raise your hand if you go to a gas station during the week. Okay.

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Or you have kids in school or you go to church or you go to the mall.

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Probably not the mall so much anymore, but are you just walking down the street?

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You walk your dog every day.

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These are opportunities or you go to Starbucks. These are opportunities for you to see things.

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Now, once we get into it, you'll probably exactly like Alan did jog your memory

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to a situation that stood out to you.

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But you didn't know what to do about it, it felt off and you weren't sure how

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to handle it. And so you probably didn't do anything.

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And that's okay. But our goal is to equip you to ensure that in the future,

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when inevitably you see something, that you're able to say something,

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that you're able to do something.

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So we'll do two quick things. I'll go over a couple of the signs to look for

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and then equip you with what to do. So.

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And again, this is not an exhaustive list. And just because you see one of these

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things does not necessarily mean that someone is being trafficked.

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I should preface it with that.

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However, if you feel like you see a situation that's giving you pause or giving

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you a concern, our recommendation for our organization is to just make a call.

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And we'll give you that information for the Human Trafficking Hotline.

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It doesn't hurt. If you're wrong, no harm, no foul.

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They won't do anything. You call anonymously.

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They can't track that it was you making the call. And if you're right,

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you helped save someone's life.

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That's how serious it is. That's how important it is. So my prayer is that if

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you feel like you need to make a call, don't hesitate. Just make a call.

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So what should we be looking for? And the examples that I'm going to give you

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are all real life situations that we've personally experienced and the panel could give you more.

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But we're looking for things like someone who is with somebody who is controlling their every move.

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It does not seem like they're together. They're not in a partnership.

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It's generally a female with a man who is controlling them. She's not making eye contact.

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She seems under his control, unsafe.

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There may be signs of physical abuse.

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Obviously, you won't know if there's any type of other abuse at the moment,

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but we have encountered situations where we've come in contact with victims

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who they don't know what city they're in.

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If you're at a gas station and it seems crazy, right, because it hasn't happened to you yet.

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We've had this happen. If you're at a gas station and someone comes up to you

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and asks what city they're in, that's a red flag.

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If they don't have any identification on them, this is also a red flag.

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Again, if they don't have an ID on them, does that mean they're being trafficked?

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No, not necessarily, but in conjunction with being with someone who seems like

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they're controlling them and very specific, what we call branding tattoos.

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That's also a red flag. Someone who has tattoos being trafficked? Probably not.

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But some traffickers, some pimps are so brazen that they will put tattoos on

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their property that will say property of.

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Have you ever seen any of that? I've seen that. Or they'll have their name tattooed

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on them in multiple places.

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A new thing that we saw at a DMV in Pinellas County was a QR code.

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A working QR code was on the thigh of a girl that was at the DMV.

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And what that does is you can go scan that with your phone and find out how

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much that person's worth.

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And you can purchase them. So when you see things like that, don't blow over them.

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Those are all signs that something is probably amiss.

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And again, I know that's not an exhaustive list. So if anybody needs to jump

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in, please do because I want to equip you. before they do that,

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I want you to pull your phone out right now, which is generally not something

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we want you to do while we're talking, but I want to give you the human trafficking hotline.

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We don't ever end any of our talks without it, so I apologize for taking an

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extra minute, but this is imperative.

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This is anonymous. You can call any time. The information gets disseminated

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to a national organization, and they trickle it down to the local police who

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are equipped to do what we are not equipped to do.

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So that number is 888-373-7888.

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And if you didn't get it, grab it from your neighbor because I don't want to

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take up too much more time.

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But that's the most important thing that you could have today because you will

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come across it and you need to know what to do.

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Awesome. Thank you, Sarah. Sure. 888-373-7888.

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Awesome so we know the signs we know who to call i want

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to come to alan and and nate here because i think

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all of us are thinking well this is the issue as big

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as these guys are talking about like this should be something that our local

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law enforcement is addressing and has a good handle on at least attacking it

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but i think both of you are sitting here because you both have recognized that

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maybe the local law enforcement isn't doing the best job at it so nate coming

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to you here why isn't law enforcement able to stop sex trafficking and what can we do here to help?

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Well, this is a complex question.

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Law enforcement, the current situation they're in is they're completely underfunded.

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The resources aren't available. The manpower isn't available.

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There are certain areas that I've experienced where they don't even think that it's happening.

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They also, to their own credit, they don't know where to start.

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So where do they begin? And so those are just kind of off the surface reasons why.

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And to get a little more granular is there was a time period in America where

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if you were a cop, you got spit on and things thrown at you and it was horrible

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what was going on. And then people were retiring earlier.

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I'm sure you know this and the recruit number levels were low of recruits coming in.

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And there's just this kind of, I don't know, feeling what was going on.

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Even policing, you're talking about first responders, you know,

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and I work with guys, I'm sure you as well.

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I look at them as like the guy with the shield and the little kid under their

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arm, and they're actually the guardian angel, the protector of these children.

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And then they're getting just barraged socially, which I think is horrible.

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I know I kind of went off topic, but the reality is the government at this point

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in time, the government is not going to provide any more funding at this moment.

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There are task forces, and they are getting way better. So don't get me wrong.

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I'm not saying that there's not anything going on. There is.

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Thank goodness for that. and it's catching on and people are starting to realize

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and there's a lot more, as you know, and we were talking about earlier,

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they used to be volunteers, these girls.

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Now they're victims and they're treating them that way. So before it was an

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interrogation and now they're actually building relationships during the rescue.

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And there's even training now for officers, which I think is so amazing to become

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a professional, I call it relationship builder, because those girls are in a

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very vulnerable situation, especially when they've been trained that law enforcement is the enemy.

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And they think they're in trouble and whatever it may be. And so the resources

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is probably the largest thing.

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That's why we exist. So we are just the bridge between the people and the police.

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So we provide grants to police for training and for equipment and tools to do

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this stuff so that they don't have to use their own budget. They don't have

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to send people to training.

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They don't have to do all that. We are there to do hands-on everything that

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they would need to basically teach them how to fish, give them the equipment

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to fish and let them go out there and fish. And then we can scale that across

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the United States, funded by the people of the United States.

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So we're lacking resources as a whole in the United States for law enforcement.

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And we're here to serve our communities through law enforcement.

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And that's an opportunity for everybody here to do the same.

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Part of our model, and I'm going to pass it off here in a second,

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but we feel like there's so many people.

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Look how many people are here today to talk about this. And you want to do something about it.

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And everybody asks the question, what can I do? What can I do?

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I'm going to tell you right now what you can do.

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We can start a fundraiser to fund your local police and you guys can all fund it.

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And then they can get the training and the equipment they need.

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You know where they're going to spend it? Right in your community and they're

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going to clean your community up. It's not going to Thailand.

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It's not going to Mexico.

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Staying in your community. And that's what's important is you guys can do something

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about it. You can talk about it.

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We can do awareness events and stuff like that. So I think the resources and

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the tools and the training is really where we need to support our law enforcement.

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I'm on the law enforcement side, just so you know, I have spent a lot of time

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in aftercare, but I'm looking at hunting predators and making as many arrests as possible.

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And how do I train other law enforcement departments to arrest as many people

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as possible and get into the organized crime part of it, which as we can talk

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about so much more, the seizures and all the other stuff.

00:22:00.327 --> 00:22:04.007
I mean, they're all with drugs and illegal firearms and it just goes from there.

00:22:04.227 --> 00:22:08.467
So the resources, that's part of the biggest issue. Yeah, we were talking inside

00:22:08.467 --> 00:22:12.867
the other building earlier about refunding the police and overfunding if possible.

00:22:13.067 --> 00:22:16.127
Alan, you know, if you can't speak from your personal experience as somebody

00:22:16.127 --> 00:22:19.667
that was in the law enforcement, you know, mentioned the lack of resources,

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but even the limited resources that we have, how much of it in law enforcement

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is going towards trafficking and why?

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Yeah. Thank you, Frank. Before I actually answer the question,

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let me make a disclaimer because I am a very controversial guy.

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Because I have a tendency to say things just pretty brutal and blunt.

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I'm here actually representing Tomas from United abolitionists who was supposed

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to be here and couldn't go.

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So I am a very cheap stand-in for Tomas.

00:22:52.547 --> 00:22:55.527
So anything that I say that's good, please credit Tomas with that.

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Anything that I say controversial, it's my opinion, okay? I don't hold it against him.

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A couple of things that I'll say very, very quickly is, first of all,

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we have to understand the nature of trafficking.

00:23:09.727 --> 00:23:12.247
Nate said it well, I won't spend time talking about underfunded,

00:23:12.507 --> 00:23:16.907
lack of resource. All of that is very true. It's also relatively a new crime.

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It just got passed. Now, not a new crime as far as being done,

00:23:20.587 --> 00:23:24.547
but being able to charge somebody with human trafficking was only federally

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framed up in the year 2000.

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And Florida was three or four years after that. So it's kind of this newer criminal

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thing that we're still all trying to figure out.

00:23:33.547 --> 00:23:38.867
We're getting a lot better, but it took a long time to kind of ramp up to really go after this.

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The other thing is, and I think Nate alluded to it, is masking crimes.

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Human trafficking masks itself as other criminal activities.

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Prostitution. It will masquerade as prostitution, solicitation,

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drug trafficking, shoplifting.

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There are so many masking crimes that are kind of easier for law enforcement

00:24:00.267 --> 00:24:04.327
to go after and grab for a shoplifting without peeling back the cover.

00:24:04.467 --> 00:24:07.247
Why are you stealing three boxes of condoms?

00:24:07.801 --> 00:24:12.761
You know, that would require additional investigation. We're getting better at doing that.

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The other thing I would tell you is that this is now, this is not Tomas anymore.

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So I'm, this is coming to my, I was in front of the, in front of the Senate testifying.

00:24:24.041 --> 00:24:28.761
And one of the senators asked me, they said, because we were talking about supply

00:24:28.761 --> 00:24:33.001
and demand when it came to human trafficking and there's a human trafficking triangle.

00:24:33.441 --> 00:24:37.941
And that visually says for trafficking to happen, you need this triangle to be in play.

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On one side is a victim, one side is a trafficker, and that bottom side of the triangle is a buyer.

00:24:44.261 --> 00:24:48.821
The buyer is what throws demand into the trafficking triangle,

00:24:48.821 --> 00:24:52.641
which then creates this market for supply. Does that make sense?

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And when we talk about that, we've used the term $150 billion a year for at

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least 11 or 12 years in our presentations.

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The International Labor Organization just revised that number,

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and that number went up 37 percent and now

00:25:06.641 --> 00:25:09.641
we're looking at 236 billion dollars a year

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nasdaq came out with their 2024 report

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and has it at 346 billion dollars

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and between trafficking of humans and trafficking of drugs those two criminal

00:25:22.181 --> 00:25:27.641
activities alone account for over a third of all illicit criminal activity in

00:25:27.641 --> 00:25:33.881
the world think about that how much money's driving this and if money's driving

00:25:33.881 --> 00:25:35.581
it. Who's involved? Who's the buyer?

00:25:36.161 --> 00:25:41.901
Well, predominantly it's men, not exclusively, which is why Frank said, we need men engaging.

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We need men confronting men, period, in this fight.

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We have depended on the women to carry this fight against this criminal activity for way too long.

00:25:51.541 --> 00:25:55.281
It's time for men to stand up, get a backbone and confront other men and say,

00:25:55.441 --> 00:25:59.781
buying another human being is not acceptable. It's just not acceptable.

00:26:00.461 --> 00:26:03.861
So I'm testifying from the Senate. Get off my story. And I'll be quick.

00:26:03.941 --> 00:26:06.341
I want to wrap up. I didn't mean to even talk much today.

00:26:07.432 --> 00:26:09.592
But I'm testifying in front of the Senate, and this one senator asked me,

00:26:09.692 --> 00:26:14.012
well, Alan, why is it that we can't really go after the buyer?

00:26:14.592 --> 00:26:16.932
Which I thought was kind of an—because they're the lawmakers,

00:26:16.932 --> 00:26:18.412
and I'm thinking, well, that's kind of interesting.

00:26:18.712 --> 00:26:23.972
But me being Alan, said to them, as I looked at this dais of men,

00:26:24.212 --> 00:26:27.452
predominantly one woman, the rest of our men, setting up on this big dais,

00:26:27.732 --> 00:26:30.252
looking down at this little podium that you're standing behind.

00:26:30.752 --> 00:26:36.952
And I said, because, Senator, the buyer looks just like you.

00:26:37.772 --> 00:26:41.932
And the buyer or the senator looked at me and said, what'd you say, Alan?

00:26:42.512 --> 00:26:45.512
Well, don't ask me a question if you don't want an answer. So then I looked

00:26:45.512 --> 00:26:48.372
the other way and said, because the buyer looks just like all of you.

00:26:48.952 --> 00:26:52.612
Why? Because the most common buyer. Now, again, it's not exclusive,

00:26:52.612 --> 00:26:57.472
but the most common buyer is a white male in his bid to late 40s,

00:26:57.592 --> 00:27:02.092
makes over $100,000 a year and is in positions of power and influence.

00:27:03.092 --> 00:27:07.992
So you tell me why we can't go after this crime. And then when I do arrest a

00:27:07.992 --> 00:27:10.492
buyer, do you know what he gets? A misdemeanor.

00:27:10.992 --> 00:27:14.232
But if I arrest the victim, the victim gets a felony.

00:27:14.612 --> 00:27:18.952
So it's time for us to really look at the buyer again and say this,

00:27:19.092 --> 00:27:25.812
you are equally culpable for the trauma being inflicted on the victim as the trafficker is.

00:27:25.912 --> 00:27:29.932
And if the trafficker's copping a felony, it's time for the buyer to get a felony

00:27:29.932 --> 00:27:33.652
and let them know it's not okay to buy humans.

00:27:35.033 --> 00:27:38.233
Alan's such a powerhouse. I remember the first event Sarah had me speak as she

00:27:38.233 --> 00:27:40.893
rented a movie theater in Largo, Florida.

00:27:41.053 --> 00:27:45.333
And I've worked all week to get this PowerPoint presentation come up.

00:27:45.433 --> 00:27:47.353
I think I spoke for maybe 12 to 15 minutes.

00:27:47.513 --> 00:27:49.933
I was like one of my first public speaking events ever. And like,

00:27:50.013 --> 00:27:51.573
I was so excited. My mom was there.

00:27:51.993 --> 00:27:55.093
Alan follows me up. He's got no slides, nothing comes from the heart,

00:27:55.273 --> 00:27:56.373
drops it just like he did here.

00:27:56.733 --> 00:28:01.313
45 minutes. I said, Sarah, don't ever put me before Alan ever again, ever again.

00:28:02.153 --> 00:28:05.533
Talking on these resources though, Monica, I want to come to you.

00:28:05.713 --> 00:28:09.953
Your organization has done an amazing job with rescuing, right?

00:28:10.433 --> 00:28:14.533
I think we said 500 people being wretched, 500 women right now,

00:28:14.673 --> 00:28:16.853
7,000 salvations over the last seven years.

00:28:17.053 --> 00:28:21.393
What does rescue involve and what kind of resources are needed on your side

00:28:21.393 --> 00:28:23.513
to get these victims rescued?

00:28:23.733 --> 00:28:27.353
Well, what we do specifically is we go to where they're being trafficked.

00:28:27.513 --> 00:28:31.293
And you can testify if you go in to see a sign ordinance, right?

00:28:31.413 --> 00:28:35.233
And you connect with any of the women, when you leave within 10 minutes, she'll be moved.

00:28:35.773 --> 00:28:39.153
We go in, we'll spend 30 minutes with them, exchange phone numbers.

00:28:39.793 --> 00:28:44.353
Church ladies are harmless. And we build relationships with them and then where

00:28:44.353 --> 00:28:46.353
we can say, hey, I got more for you.

00:28:46.553 --> 00:28:50.673
I just had another girl speak to a detective this week because she trusts me.

00:28:51.233 --> 00:28:55.613
And the brothels there, in 2018, Polaris did a report.

00:28:55.793 --> 00:29:01.193
There were over 9,000 illicit massage businesses, brothels in the United States of America.

00:29:01.333 --> 00:29:04.953
And at that time, there were 8,222 Starbucks.

00:29:05.793 --> 00:29:08.953
It's happening right here. I passed some coming here.

00:29:09.373 --> 00:29:14.413
And so, you know, we go there and then our goal is to get them saved.

00:29:14.873 --> 00:29:19.093
Four women that we know of, two died of an overdose, two were murdered,

00:29:19.113 --> 00:29:23.373
but we know they're in heaven because in the first 10 minutes that we met them, we gave them Jesus.

00:29:23.633 --> 00:29:27.733
I can't tell you how many women reach out to me a year, two years later and

00:29:27.733 --> 00:29:29.633
say, I just felt God with me.

00:29:29.753 --> 00:29:33.413
I kept just last week, I kept hearing the last year, call the church ladies,

00:29:33.573 --> 00:29:37.233
call the church ladies, call, and she finally obeyed the voice of the Lord.

00:29:37.433 --> 00:29:41.573
But because she had the Lord in her heart, he watches over his word to perform it.

00:29:41.873 --> 00:29:46.093
That's our goal. And so we know there's a spiritual asset, and there's so many

00:29:46.093 --> 00:29:48.833
wonderful organizations, but we don't stop there.

00:29:49.033 --> 00:29:53.753
I have tons of organizations that I work with to go to detox,

00:29:54.333 --> 00:29:56.673
to go to different types of care.

00:29:56.793 --> 00:30:00.653
I have homes where if they have children, they can keep their children, maternity centers.

00:30:00.993 --> 00:30:06.053
And again, it's about working together. And if you don't have to know what you're doing to do it.

00:30:06.153 --> 00:30:10.693
Once the problem arises, God will give you a solution. You'll meet the right person.

00:30:10.873 --> 00:30:13.433
You'll find the right thing, you know, on Google.

00:30:13.793 --> 00:30:21.113
It's out there. But ultimately, I truly believe that rescue and healing cannot come without Jesus.

00:30:22.035 --> 00:30:27.315
Without Jesus. And just period. And so I won't send a girl to an organization

00:30:27.315 --> 00:30:28.495
that's not faith-based.

00:30:29.255 --> 00:30:32.935
If they have a, will they have an option to go to church? They're off my list.

00:30:33.615 --> 00:30:37.015
It's not an option. If I'm paying for you to do all this, you're going to go church with me.

00:30:38.755 --> 00:30:42.775
And so, but that's where it starts. That's what we do. And again,

00:30:42.875 --> 00:30:45.855
it looks different in so many ways. With the children, it's different.

00:30:46.395 --> 00:30:49.195
We're actually just about to launch a Freedom Center that's going to be like

00:30:49.195 --> 00:30:51.555
a college campus with affordable housing.

00:30:51.655 --> 00:30:55.915
We're also going to be housing children who foster out of the foster care,

00:30:56.015 --> 00:31:00.195
age out of the foster care system. But we're going to have resources to pay for things like this.

00:31:00.295 --> 00:31:04.455
Like our organization gives money to the law enforcement and the detectives

00:31:04.455 --> 00:31:06.795
and the child crimes unit because it's tough.

00:31:07.035 --> 00:31:10.895
You know, we buy them things. We want to, you know, our organization will be

00:31:10.895 --> 00:31:15.315
funding law enforcement to pay to have detectives to do this and to have the resources.

00:31:15.795 --> 00:31:19.715
And so, but you know, I'm nobody. I don't have money.

00:31:20.075 --> 00:31:24.135
But I have a vision in my heart and I have a big God. And I have people like

00:31:24.135 --> 00:31:26.655
you that are willing to say yes and write checks.

00:31:26.855 --> 00:31:29.415
And so that's the important of getting it together.

00:31:29.675 --> 00:31:33.535
And so and when you real quick, when you talked about the awareness and what it looks like,

00:31:33.915 --> 00:31:37.655
you know, the sound of freedom, I was so blessed to get to watch it with President

00:31:37.655 --> 00:31:43.035
Trump, his Bedminster resort with, you know, the producer and the actor and

00:31:43.035 --> 00:31:45.155
all those fancy names. It doesn't matter.

00:31:46.215 --> 00:31:51.295
And it made it aware that it happens, right? And that movie is so important.

00:31:52.335 --> 00:31:57.195
And it is true 100%, but in America, that's not.

00:31:57.815 --> 00:32:01.915
These children who are being sold from 3 to 6 p.m.

00:32:02.235 --> 00:32:05.875
Every day are going to school, private schools, Christian schools.

00:32:05.935 --> 00:32:09.175
There are traffickers on boards at church. They're going to church.

00:32:10.035 --> 00:32:13.695
Kids could be playing with them. You're walking by them in the park.

00:32:13.835 --> 00:32:16.655
And so that's why if something seems off,

00:32:17.426 --> 00:32:22.626
don't hesitate, because the Lord will tell you something or show you something

00:32:22.626 --> 00:32:26.866
in the Spirit that you wouldn't otherwise know, and you cannot wonder.

00:32:27.086 --> 00:32:30.066
And I might be jumping ahead there, but when it comes to children,

00:32:30.226 --> 00:32:33.186
you don't investigate. Pastors, you don't investigate. You don't ask questions.

00:32:33.346 --> 00:32:37.326
You call law enforcement, because you can muddy the waters of a prosecution

00:32:37.326 --> 00:32:42.686
if you start asking questions what happened, and so you just immediately call law enforcement.

00:32:42.686 --> 00:32:45.546
I'm sure that'll be covered but that's important i wanted to say it so

00:32:45.546 --> 00:32:48.406
but i'll stop talking yeah no amazing uh sarah

00:32:48.406 --> 00:32:52.086
we're going to come to to you and stay on the topic of children but that may

00:32:52.086 --> 00:32:56.146
be the first time anybody has ever referred to themselves as a nobody and then

00:32:56.146 --> 00:33:01.706
in the following sentence said they watched the movie with the president i was

00:33:01.706 --> 00:33:05.786
just saying it's a big deal yes sir that's a big.

00:33:20.086 --> 00:33:20.746
Yeah, it is. Yeah.

00:33:24.826 --> 00:33:25.346
Yeah.

00:33:27.786 --> 00:33:31.006
Yeah. You want to take that one? Yeah. Yeah.

00:33:33.826 --> 00:33:35.166
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:33:40.766 --> 00:33:43.826
Yeah, Sarah, we'll come back to you. Nate, Alan, either one of you want to jump on that real quick?

00:33:43.846 --> 00:33:48.766
So I know what you're saying. I hear what you're saying. I experience what you're saying.

00:33:48.946 --> 00:33:52.966
And just so you know, sometimes they just don't understand how it's happening,

00:33:53.006 --> 00:33:54.886
and they don't know how it's happening.

00:33:55.386 --> 00:33:59.946
I would love to get in contact with them because our team actually does.

00:34:00.106 --> 00:34:02.966
I'm just going to tell you right now. within the last 24 hours,

00:34:03.166 --> 00:34:06.226
we had 48 people try to buy a 14 year old from us right here.

00:34:06.346 --> 00:34:08.686
And this is an address not far from here.

00:34:09.046 --> 00:34:14.146
So I can just show them evidence. It's really easy. They can tell me all day it's not.

00:34:14.326 --> 00:34:19.026
And then my team of investigators that we do, so we do a lot of online investigations

00:34:19.026 --> 00:34:21.626
where we pretend to be young girls and men.

00:34:21.986 --> 00:34:26.366
And so we can, we can do it all. That's a one of like the lukewarm sites.

00:34:26.386 --> 00:34:28.146
That's not even like on the hardcore ones.

00:34:28.246 --> 00:34:31.466
Like that's on one lukewarm one. It's way worse than that.

00:34:31.786 --> 00:34:35.866
Here, that's not even Tampa. Tampa would be hundreds of maybe a thousand.

00:34:36.306 --> 00:34:40.406
So I would love an introduction and we can just present evidence.

00:34:40.786 --> 00:34:43.046
You're either uneducated or fired. Exactly.

00:34:43.766 --> 00:34:47.686
Yeah, Sarah, coming to you. Obviously, we're here today. Save our children.

00:34:48.166 --> 00:34:50.386
By show of hands, parents in the audience.

00:34:51.306 --> 00:34:54.326
Okay. So large, large contingency of parents here.

00:34:54.746 --> 00:34:57.946
When we speak about children, What are some of the vulnerabilities that increase

00:34:57.946 --> 00:34:59.626
a child's chance of being exploited?

00:35:00.426 --> 00:35:04.706
And second part of that question, what safeguards can all these parents out

00:35:04.706 --> 00:35:07.526
here put in place to protect their children on a daily basis?

00:35:08.286 --> 00:35:12.446
That's a great question. I wonder who came up with it. We wrote our own questions.

00:35:14.286 --> 00:35:16.006
You'll have to remind me of the second part.

00:35:16.832 --> 00:35:21.932
Okay, and I know Nate talked about this this morning, and stats are a little

00:35:21.932 --> 00:35:23.592
bit different depending on who you ask.

00:35:23.732 --> 00:35:28.992
But one stat that I always mention is that it's one in four girls and one in

00:35:28.992 --> 00:35:32.152
seven boys be the victim of a sexual assault before they're 18.

00:35:32.692 --> 00:35:36.032
And if you look around the room, there's a lot of boys and girls in here.

00:35:36.532 --> 00:35:39.732
And so not necessarily that any of us may have been trafficked,

00:35:39.972 --> 00:35:43.672
but that's too many people experiencing any type of sexual exploitation.

00:35:44.752 --> 00:35:49.732
So there are things that anybody could be a victim. Anybody can be a victim of trafficking.

00:35:50.052 --> 00:35:54.532
Anybody can be a victim of a sexual assault. However, we know from the data

00:35:54.532 --> 00:35:58.732
that there are certain vulnerabilities that may make someone more susceptible

00:35:58.732 --> 00:36:03.612
to becoming a victim of trafficking. And one of those things is previous sexual abuse.

00:36:03.972 --> 00:36:07.292
And so we don't want to overlook the severity of that. So if someone has been

00:36:07.292 --> 00:36:11.772
previously sexually abused, they're at a much higher rate of their chance of

00:36:11.772 --> 00:36:14.272
being exploited because it has already happened to them.

00:36:14.452 --> 00:36:17.552
And in addition to that, we're talking about low self-esteem.

00:36:17.952 --> 00:36:21.992
We're talking about people who are struggling in school. And all of these things are connected.

00:36:21.992 --> 00:36:24.852
Cyber bullying is a huge connector that we're

00:36:24.852 --> 00:36:27.852
seeing right now that's leading to and how

00:36:27.852 --> 00:36:31.132
does that make sense well because if your kid is being cyber bullied and

00:36:31.132 --> 00:36:34.192
it's relentless and they're not getting a break from it whereas when

00:36:34.192 --> 00:36:37.392
we were growing up we got bullied at school and then we went home and

00:36:37.392 --> 00:36:42.132
we got a break they don't have a break now so it's constant and then if someone

00:36:42.132 --> 00:36:45.692
reaches out to them like nate said they're pretending to be a 14 year old girl

00:36:45.692 --> 00:36:49.912
someone reaches out to your kid pretending to be a really cute 16 year old boy

00:36:49.912 --> 00:36:53.672
and tells your teenage age daughter who's being bullied all the time.

00:36:53.792 --> 00:36:54.572
Wow, you're really pretty.

00:36:55.512 --> 00:36:58.272
The color of your eyes is so pretty. What school do you go to?

00:36:58.512 --> 00:37:02.852
And it starts that fast. And they get information, and they're giving someone

00:37:02.852 --> 00:37:04.672
what they need because they're vulnerable.

00:37:05.032 --> 00:37:10.532
And then they flip it around on them. And it happens every single day in every single town in America.

00:37:10.892 --> 00:37:14.032
So we want to watch out for those things. If our kids are oversharing online,

00:37:14.312 --> 00:37:16.932
that's probably something that we should be aware of.

00:37:17.052 --> 00:37:22.092
We talk about the importance of mental health and how great it is to share our

00:37:22.092 --> 00:37:26.412
victories and our struggles. But we also want to warn kids that if you're posting

00:37:26.412 --> 00:37:29.372
things online, like, I hate my parents.

00:37:29.632 --> 00:37:33.252
You're a 14-year-old girl. I'm really struggling with depression and anxiety.

00:37:33.412 --> 00:37:37.732
There are bad people out there, as evidenced by the amount of people in the

00:37:37.732 --> 00:37:41.272
past 24 hours that were looking to purchase a 14-year-old for sex,

00:37:41.452 --> 00:37:46.092
that will find that child online who didn't know any better because kids are naive.

00:37:46.773 --> 00:37:50.673
And say, wow, gosh, I'm so sorry. Your parents probably do suck. What are they doing?

00:37:51.213 --> 00:37:53.893
You know, tell me about your depression. Well, I think you're great.

00:37:54.033 --> 00:37:55.273
I think you're beautiful. I think

00:37:55.273 --> 00:37:58.233
you're smart. You know, let me take you out. Let me buy you new stuff.

00:37:58.713 --> 00:38:05.073
It's insidious. And these buyers, these traffickers, these pimps are so patient

00:38:05.073 --> 00:38:10.873
and they're calculated and they're manipulative and they will take the time to learn your children.

00:38:11.313 --> 00:38:15.793
Don't think that they won't. So that leads into the second part of the question is what can we do?

00:38:15.953 --> 00:38:18.413
The first thing that we tell, since we're speaking to adults,

00:38:18.553 --> 00:38:21.313
the first thing we tell parents is you have to be aware of the situation.

00:38:21.533 --> 00:38:24.793
You cannot stick your head in the sand anymore. That doesn't work.

00:38:25.113 --> 00:38:28.793
It's never going to be effective. And the other thing is you also can't just

00:38:28.793 --> 00:38:31.833
take technology away from your kids. Would we like to? Sure.

00:38:32.093 --> 00:38:36.753
But technology is now and it is the future and it isn't going anywhere.

00:38:36.753 --> 00:38:41.053
So we need to equip our kids with what to do rather than scare them into never

00:38:41.053 --> 00:38:43.533
utilizing it. Because what happens when they move out?

00:38:43.693 --> 00:38:47.073
Then they're fully unprepared for what the world has to offer.

00:38:47.233 --> 00:38:51.873
So we shouldn't expose them, but we should equip and empower them to know how

00:38:51.873 --> 00:38:53.993
to utilize technology appropriately.

00:38:53.993 --> 00:38:59.513
And that begins with you knowing what's on their phone, with you knowing what

00:38:59.513 --> 00:39:03.133
videos they're watching on YouTube, who their friends are online,

00:39:03.393 --> 00:39:06.673
what social media platforms do they have? Who are they talking to?

00:39:06.853 --> 00:39:10.093
And we have to have the conversations. And I'll let you know right now,

00:39:10.173 --> 00:39:13.973
they're not fun, and they're awkward, and neither one of you is going to enjoy

00:39:13.973 --> 00:39:17.613
it. So if that doesn't ramp you up to have it, I don't know what will.

00:39:18.053 --> 00:39:22.793
But it's necessary because love is active. It's not passive.

00:39:23.113 --> 00:39:26.573
And so if we don't have these conversations with our kids, I promise you that

00:39:26.573 --> 00:39:30.313
they're having them with each other and kids don't have the appropriate information.

00:39:30.413 --> 00:39:33.893
And so they're sharing this stuff and it needs to be coming from us because

00:39:33.893 --> 00:39:36.873
we love them more than anything. There's that question, I believe.

00:39:37.633 --> 00:39:41.093
Thank you. You need to educate the human answers and answers,

00:39:41.373 --> 00:39:45.913
not just to our people, our children, but also to our government, our citizens.

00:39:46.193 --> 00:39:48.233
Thank you, Beach. I have a question.

00:39:48.733 --> 00:39:54.333
Did you know that Hillsdale County and Pasco County County, the wildly new policies

00:39:54.333 --> 00:39:59.213
of catch and release of the illegal killings that are arrested and put in your jail?

00:39:59.473 --> 00:40:05.553
They did not have the ICE 287G program to have ICE public victims under deported.

00:40:05.853 --> 00:40:08.993
That is Hillsdale County. you. household counties. Did you know that there is

00:40:08.993 --> 00:40:13.713
also 20 other counties throughout our state that also have a lot of the growing

00:40:13.713 --> 00:40:19.113
policies of catch and release of putting illegal alien immigrants back into our community?

00:40:19.313 --> 00:40:23.293
Did you know that there is over 3,000 sheriffs throughout our nation,

00:40:23.433 --> 00:40:28.353
but only 140 of them are actually using this policy, IC2-87G,

00:40:28.693 --> 00:40:31.553
to take illegal aliens and help Portland?

00:40:32.013 --> 00:40:36.893
Please help us share that message. Thank you for me Me asking that question

00:40:36.893 --> 00:40:39.393
gives you no doubt. Thank you.

00:40:40.067 --> 00:40:43.907
Sure. I want to add real quick to what she was saying. When she was talking

00:40:43.907 --> 00:40:47.847
about conversations, I have six kids and I train women.

00:40:48.067 --> 00:40:51.787
We do in-home encounters. People bring their friends over and watch videos that

00:40:51.787 --> 00:40:53.267
we send them and have conversations.

00:40:53.887 --> 00:40:58.547
These conversations are not a one-time thing. These conversations are daily.

00:40:58.987 --> 00:41:02.827
My daughter went to a friend's house after school. One of the moms brings her

00:41:02.827 --> 00:41:06.907
home for me when I'm working, and she had been wanting to go over. I had peace about it.

00:41:07.087 --> 00:41:10.027
I said, oh, just have her call me real quick so I can say, hey,

00:41:10.147 --> 00:41:12.807
she's like, okay, she'll be fine, whatever.

00:41:12.947 --> 00:41:16.007
I was like, yeah, I'll just talk to her real quick. And the conversation I tell

00:41:16.007 --> 00:41:19.567
them every time is, listen to the Holy Spirit, follow your gut,

00:41:19.567 --> 00:41:20.767
if they don't understand that.

00:41:21.027 --> 00:41:23.147
And I always ask, who's going to be there?

00:41:23.867 --> 00:41:27.687
Is there anybody coming to visit, any family members or neighbors planning to

00:41:27.687 --> 00:41:30.467
visit? And I tell my kids, stay out in the open.

00:41:30.747 --> 00:41:34.527
Don't go off anywhere, even with children. Don't stay behind closed doors.

00:41:34.727 --> 00:41:37.667
If you feel uncomfortable, tell them you feel like you're going to throw up

00:41:37.667 --> 00:41:39.367
and you need to go home, call me.

00:41:39.907 --> 00:41:44.187
And I teach my children, even I have quiet, even though I'm an extrovert,

00:41:44.327 --> 00:41:47.327
I have introvert children, but they know when to be extrovert.

00:41:47.447 --> 00:41:48.447
They know how to set boundaries.

00:41:48.587 --> 00:41:50.827
My teenage son, I was trying to give him hugs and kisses.

00:41:51.007 --> 00:41:56.047
He goes, no, no, no. He goes, I'm trying to set a boundary, you know, like they know.

00:41:56.487 --> 00:42:01.487
And with your sons, great times for conversations are in the car.

00:42:01.707 --> 00:42:05.127
They're in the backseat. You're not face to face. It's not awkward.

00:42:05.127 --> 00:42:08.407
And you're having conversations about masturbation, you're having conversations

00:42:08.407 --> 00:42:12.227
about pornography, you're having conversations about how to treat women, how to treat yourself.

00:42:12.587 --> 00:42:18.067
And then when they go places, even school, every day, what was it fun?

00:42:18.427 --> 00:42:20.787
Yeah, and they'll just have little dumb, and that's what you want,

00:42:20.907 --> 00:42:22.087
is a little easygoing, whatever.

00:42:22.407 --> 00:42:25.727
You know, what made you happy? What made you sad? And when they're older,

00:42:26.027 --> 00:42:29.607
you know, I ask them, I say, you know, did you have a check?

00:42:29.827 --> 00:42:32.627
You know, did you, in your gut, did you have a bad feeling about anybody or anything?

00:42:32.827 --> 00:42:35.667
Did anything make you uncomfortable? comfortable and then when

00:42:35.667 --> 00:42:38.927
they say something you don't overreact because

00:42:38.927 --> 00:42:41.927
they will not trust you you have to just play it

00:42:41.927 --> 00:42:44.747
cool and so and then just move on

00:42:44.747 --> 00:42:49.007
into that but when you have those all the time they know to watch their you

00:42:49.007 --> 00:42:54.087
know the way they are they know the bathroom rules they my sons know to follow

00:42:54.087 --> 00:42:57.947
the girls I don't take them to the bathroom alone even my 14 year old daughter

00:42:57.947 --> 00:43:03.347
but they know what to do in school how to be comfortable and the main thing is if you're a believer,

00:43:03.567 --> 00:43:05.647
you better be teaching them to follow the Holy Spirit.

00:43:05.647 --> 00:43:09.627
Because if my children get hurt or something happened, I'll say, where'd you miss it?

00:43:10.307 --> 00:43:13.747
And I'll make them look back and try to see where the Holy Spirit said,

00:43:13.947 --> 00:43:17.067
you know, don't take that turn or don't go to the movies right now,

00:43:17.287 --> 00:43:20.707
you know, things like that. So they can learn to avoid that.

00:43:22.495 --> 00:43:25.315
That's great stuff. Amazing. Nate, I want to come to you.

00:43:25.575 --> 00:43:28.775
Sarah did an awesome job of talking about some of the things that parents can

00:43:28.775 --> 00:43:33.655
do, monitoring their child's social media, looking at the things that they're posting.

00:43:33.875 --> 00:43:36.235
Hey, you know, you said this thing about being unhappy here.

00:43:36.655 --> 00:43:40.015
Your organization has done an incredible job leveraging technology and social

00:43:40.015 --> 00:43:43.315
media, even mentioned here in the last 24 hours, what you guys posted. Don't mention it.

00:43:43.795 --> 00:43:45.955
I'm not going to mention any, any, anything that you shared with me,

00:43:46.015 --> 00:43:52.055
but what role is social media playing for the traffickers? How are they using

00:43:52.055 --> 00:43:52.915
these different platforms?

00:43:53.115 --> 00:43:57.135
Are there other sites out there that maybe aren't the mainstream ones that we

00:43:57.135 --> 00:44:00.355
need to be educated on? So yeah, speak to the social media for a bit if you can.

00:44:00.515 --> 00:44:04.655
Well, it's a majority of it's happening online and with social media,

00:44:04.935 --> 00:44:07.575
with trafficking. But I would say more importantly, we talk about predators.

00:44:07.815 --> 00:44:10.935
She kind of talked about this a little bit earlier. I think in 2022,

00:44:11.235 --> 00:44:16.315
there was 22,000 reports of trafficking, which we know is way more than that.

00:44:16.755 --> 00:44:19.375
But right now, one in eight of you have been sexually abused.

00:44:19.515 --> 00:44:22.935
That's 42 million people that are survivors of sexual assault.

00:44:23.275 --> 00:44:26.855
So you got to understand, I think, when you're looking at social media, there's predators.

00:44:27.115 --> 00:44:29.975
He's talking about arrest the buyers. We'll call them predators.

00:44:29.975 --> 00:44:34.935
I call them predators because I like to hunt predators. That's kind of what I like to do.

00:44:35.255 --> 00:44:38.635
So here's how it's happening. This is a true story. I would testify.

00:44:38.655 --> 00:44:41.075
We could go to Congress and go after them.

00:44:41.155 --> 00:44:44.055
And I'm going to tell you, it's Snapchat. I'll just call them right out. so when

00:44:44.055 --> 00:44:47.135
we put an undercover false ad or

00:44:47.135 --> 00:44:50.135
it's not even an ad there it's a profile we start building it within 14

00:44:50.135 --> 00:44:53.035
minutes we had our first 39 year old soliciting that girl

00:44:53.035 --> 00:44:58.075
within four days and that's part-time because so much going on you just kind

00:44:58.075 --> 00:45:02.575
of open up snapchat just like accept accept accept accept accept hundreds and

00:45:02.575 --> 00:45:05.415
hundreds right and then all of a sudden bing bing we videoed it we'll probably

00:45:05.415 --> 00:45:10.675
have a video at some point if we ever go public but within four days we had 450 Dr.

00:45:10.915 --> 00:45:13.795
69 is friending us and talking to us and communicating with us,

00:45:13.895 --> 00:45:15.515
a 14-year-old, on Snapchat.

00:45:16.275 --> 00:45:20.435
Yes, I'll say Snapchat. And they can come after me all they want because they

00:45:20.435 --> 00:45:22.075
can't back it up. They're enabling it.

00:45:22.495 --> 00:45:26.095
They're enabling it. I'm telling you. And then all these other social media

00:45:26.095 --> 00:45:29.455
platforms have to be monitored.

00:45:29.495 --> 00:45:31.555
But they're not. They're not being monitored.

00:45:31.835 --> 00:45:34.735
It's very unfortunate. And exactly what she said, you're not going to be able

00:45:34.735 --> 00:45:37.415
to take it away from your children. So you have to have the conversation with

00:45:37.415 --> 00:45:39.995
them. And in order to have a conversation with your children,

00:45:40.175 --> 00:45:42.195
you have to have an actual relationship with them.

00:45:42.395 --> 00:45:45.875
And I think that that's the key point to all of this stuff is where do you start

00:45:45.875 --> 00:45:49.595
building a trust-built relationship with your children?

00:45:49.975 --> 00:45:52.935
Because you're not going to get away from technology. They're going to go make

00:45:52.935 --> 00:45:56.015
up an account and you're going to find it or they're going to be on their friend's

00:45:56.015 --> 00:45:57.975
social media account or whatever it's going to be.

00:45:58.115 --> 00:46:01.155
So they're going to be there. And I think it's important, which we're all talking

00:46:01.155 --> 00:46:05.815
about, is facts and evidence and true stories and case studies of what's really happening.

00:46:05.815 --> 00:46:10.395
One of the most effective things I've seen is when parents come and say,

00:46:10.615 --> 00:46:13.735
like, we do these child purchase safety, online safety programs.

00:46:14.420 --> 00:46:18.060
Things like this. And they bring their child and they don't want to be there or whatever.

00:46:18.300 --> 00:46:21.940
But when their child listens and hears what's going on and how it happens,

00:46:22.080 --> 00:46:25.360
they actually say to their mom, I'm so sorry, I'd never listened to you.

00:46:25.460 --> 00:46:29.680
And then the parent will say, wow, that conversation that was so difficult to

00:46:29.680 --> 00:46:31.280
have just bridged it because they

00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:34.080
just saw the truth. They're not going to listen to their parent, right?

00:46:34.300 --> 00:46:38.920
And so when they get into a space where they actually might be open to listen

00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:43.380
and you do it in a way that they're going to understand and listen and give them real stories.

00:46:43.500 --> 00:46:47.540
The best thing is to have, like if you guys even have survivors where they can

00:46:47.540 --> 00:46:51.000
give their own story, if they're willing to, that's powerful.

00:46:51.240 --> 00:46:54.240
It's powerful because it makes it relatable and it makes it true to them.

00:46:54.600 --> 00:47:00.300
Social media is, we don't even do social media other than we target people on

00:47:00.300 --> 00:47:03.260
there, but it's a bad place. They're enabling it.

00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:05.480
They're also promoting so many things.

00:47:05.680 --> 00:47:08.600
Imagine when you were a kid or when I was a kid,

00:47:08.720 --> 00:47:11.600
I'm sorry, like the most illicit thing was like

00:47:11.600 --> 00:47:14.700
this sports illustrated swimsuit issue you know

00:47:14.700 --> 00:47:17.500
and if there and there was always like this thing is like

00:47:17.500 --> 00:47:21.100
hey what's that back room and blockbuster dad you

00:47:21.100 --> 00:47:25.280
know it's not like that anymore or how about hey don't take candy from the stranger

00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.060
or who's the creepy dude at the playground well guess where the playground is

00:47:29.060 --> 00:47:33.520
not outdoors it's in their bedroom behind a closed door and the stranger that

00:47:33.520 --> 00:47:37.000
they're taking candy from is on their phone and they're communicating with them

00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:39.080
and they're pretending to be a child most of the time.

00:47:39.600 --> 00:47:41.980
And then they're going to, and you guys probably heard all the stories of what

00:47:41.980 --> 00:47:45.500
they're doing, but you got to educate them to let them know that that 14 year

00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:48.540
old boy named Nick, who thinks you're really cute, isn't Nick.

00:47:48.680 --> 00:47:50.760
And he's not 14 and probably doesn't live in the United States.

00:47:50.980 --> 00:47:54.140
And then when you start sending innocent pictures of you in your bikini at the

00:47:54.140 --> 00:47:57.200
swimming pool, because of course you go in public in your bikini,

00:47:57.380 --> 00:48:01.260
those pictures are now being sold and you're out on the internet at 12 years old.

00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:05.420
And then it'd be kind of progresses from there. I But it's.

00:48:06.030 --> 00:48:10.170
Prominent. That's why, I guess maybe even talking to this gentleman's point,

00:48:10.350 --> 00:48:12.990
it's so important, even for prosecution.

00:48:13.230 --> 00:48:17.250
Somebody was mentioning some stats earlier, but I would challenge the stats

00:48:17.250 --> 00:48:20.110
and I'm not going to repeat them because I don't know if I can trust that source, but,

00:48:20.730 --> 00:48:25.430
law enforcement and prosecutors need to be trained on how to build these online

00:48:25.430 --> 00:48:30.770
evidence-based cases so that they can prosecute them and put them away because it's all digital.

00:48:31.230 --> 00:48:34.530
Most all this evidence that's being gathered is digital evidence now.

00:48:34.690 --> 00:48:37.230
And it's happening on those sites.

00:48:37.510 --> 00:48:41.950
It really is. And I don't know how much work you did, but all your cases is

00:48:41.950 --> 00:48:43.770
being built on like a Snapchat.

00:48:44.390 --> 00:48:46.910
Or you move them over to, I won't say these names of these things,

00:48:47.010 --> 00:48:49.990
but you move them to these different platforms from one to another or whatever,

00:48:50.030 --> 00:48:53.050
and you're building those evidence cases, all media.

00:48:53.410 --> 00:48:57.390
Think about how often you actually have a face-to-face conversation with your

00:48:57.390 --> 00:49:01.010
family members versus a phone conversation with your family members.

00:49:01.010 --> 00:49:05.750
It's the same way, but worse because they feel safe behind a screen, right?

00:49:05.890 --> 00:49:09.190
And they have a fake name. And some of these accounts, they don't even verify you.

00:49:09.370 --> 00:49:12.150
It's not even a real, you're not even, you can just make stuff up.

00:49:12.270 --> 00:49:13.110
There's no verification.

00:49:13.350 --> 00:49:18.990
And you can say you're 19 and click the box. I'm 19 and I swear I'm 19 and you're

00:49:18.990 --> 00:49:21.790
on these sites. So it's prevalent.

00:49:22.110 --> 00:49:26.230
It's one of the, I think, downfalls of our society.

00:49:26.230 --> 00:49:31.450
I don't know what to do about it, but hunt them for those that are using them,

00:49:31.730 --> 00:49:35.790
go after them and use some of the techniques that they're using against our

00:49:35.790 --> 00:49:37.630
kids and go after them with the same technology.

00:49:38.790 --> 00:49:44.250
So they've boxed me into two minutes. And so I'm just going to make a couple of statements.

00:49:44.710 --> 00:49:48.970
The most dangerous place for a child to be today in America is alone in their

00:49:48.970 --> 00:49:50.330
bedroom with a digital device.

00:49:51.670 --> 00:49:56.030
We look at it from three gateways, social media, which is both synchronous,

00:49:56.190 --> 00:49:57.630
asynchronous, and no synchronous.

00:49:58.070 --> 00:50:04.270
So social media apps, which we all put together little apps you should watch

00:50:04.270 --> 00:50:08.390
out for, but they evolve so quickly that that's almost dangerous to do.

00:50:08.790 --> 00:50:09.910
And then gaming systems.

00:50:10.350 --> 00:50:14.990
Most people don't realize gaming systems is a wide open gateway into your child's

00:50:14.990 --> 00:50:17.550
bedroom as well. So just being aware of that.

00:50:18.090 --> 00:50:22.630
My last point to you is I had an opportunity, and I won't share exactly,

00:50:22.810 --> 00:50:26.590
but I had an opportunity to see military-grade AI.

00:50:27.370 --> 00:50:32.810
Law enforcement has a tendency to look in three. There's three levels that we tend to look at.

00:50:32.890 --> 00:50:36.130
Close proximity, what's right in front of us, how do we attack that,

00:50:36.330 --> 00:50:39.510
what's on the horizon, what do we see coming. not quite here yet,

00:50:39.590 --> 00:50:41.630
but it's coming. What's over the horizon?

00:50:42.190 --> 00:50:47.250
This AI, which is kind of on the horizon, but also over the horizon,

00:50:47.470 --> 00:50:52.150
when I saw what they can do, and then was the statement was made that in three

00:50:52.150 --> 00:50:56.150
to five years, that will become commercial grade, scared me too.

00:50:56.350 --> 00:51:02.350
And I'm not scared easily, but that was scary to realize what they're about to unleash on our kids.

00:51:02.710 --> 00:51:08.110
To Nate's point, to Sarah's point, to Monica's point, and I won't make it nearly

00:51:08.110 --> 00:51:13.790
as eloquently, but if we're depending on tech to solve this problem, we've already lost.

00:51:14.550 --> 00:51:19.530
What each one of us need to do today is once again, go back and build that relationship

00:51:19.530 --> 00:51:22.350
with our kids and a relationship with each other.

00:51:22.510 --> 00:51:26.430
And we need to go back to talking to each other, loving each other,

00:51:26.450 --> 00:51:29.710
because tech, no matter how good it is.

00:51:29.770 --> 00:51:32.290
You can talk about bark, protect young eyes, net nanny.

00:51:32.370 --> 00:51:36.550
You can go through all of those and I'm for all of it. I'm for all the above.

00:51:37.190 --> 00:51:41.210
But if we're depending on tech, we've already lost. The only way we're going

00:51:41.210 --> 00:51:43.330
to win this is to do what Jesus told us to do.

00:51:43.430 --> 00:51:47.810
And that's to love one another, to build that relationship. And that's it for me.

00:51:54.381 --> 00:51:57.021
Alan are you going to be sticking around after the breakout at least for a

00:51:57.021 --> 00:52:00.541
short bit okay nate's speaking later this afternoon as well so he'll be around

00:52:00.541 --> 00:52:05.321
sarah and monica both have tables in the other building so if you guys have

00:52:05.321 --> 00:52:08.541
specific questions we don't have time for q a here today but if you guys have

00:52:08.541 --> 00:52:12.321
questions for any one of these individuals specifically find them in the other

00:52:12.321 --> 00:52:15.321
building after this breakout session but we got two minutes left guys.

00:52:15.461 --> 00:52:19.221
I'm going to give each of you 30 seconds call to action.

00:52:19.621 --> 00:52:22.621
What can they do leaving here with the things we've talked about?

00:52:23.301 --> 00:52:28.701
Monica, call to action. I'm going to pray. Father God, I pray for each person in this room.

00:52:28.821 --> 00:52:31.821
And I thank you that the words that we have spoken and the words that they hear

00:52:31.821 --> 00:52:34.001
today are seeds and that Lord,

00:52:34.241 --> 00:52:38.761
you would watch over those seeds and water them and make them come to fruition,

00:52:38.761 --> 00:52:43.361
that you would put a fire in their heart and they would be drawn to what makes

00:52:43.361 --> 00:52:48.741
them burn and that one thing they will run after and they will fulfill their race.

00:52:48.901 --> 00:52:52.881
I thank you that as they step out, you will part waters and you will equip them.

00:52:53.061 --> 00:52:56.881
I ask you today that each person here will leave with their running shoes on

00:52:56.881 --> 00:52:59.201
and they will not look away again.

00:52:59.461 --> 00:53:03.621
I thank you for giving them strength to do it. And anyone here who is a part

00:53:03.621 --> 00:53:07.121
of that percentage, who is a survivor of assault or even trafficking,

00:53:07.121 --> 00:53:09.281
or if something may be triggering.

00:53:09.461 --> 00:53:13.701
I pray for you to heal their heart right now. I pray a cleansing prayer,

00:53:13.901 --> 00:53:17.541
a covering prayer over their spirit, over their mind, their emotions,

00:53:17.781 --> 00:53:22.161
their heart, that you would heal them and that you would take memories and traumas

00:53:22.161 --> 00:53:24.841
away and you would use those to your glory.

00:53:25.181 --> 00:53:32.561
Let your precious love fall on them now and equip and encourage them in Jesus' name. Amen.

00:53:33.281 --> 00:53:35.341
And if you don't know Jesus, say, Jesus be my Lord.

00:53:36.241 --> 00:53:41.601
Amen. end. I have to follow that. It's like following Alan every time. It seems like the end.

00:53:42.781 --> 00:53:46.741
Okay. Very briefly, I would say, yeah, obviously a preacher.

00:53:46.921 --> 00:53:48.961
I would say, continue your education.

00:53:49.161 --> 00:53:53.821
Let this just be the beginning of learning about this stuff and don't let it

00:53:53.821 --> 00:53:56.721
be the end. There's tons of resources on all of our websites.

00:53:57.301 --> 00:54:00.861
Monica said you could Google things. There's tons of documentaries that you

00:54:00.861 --> 00:54:05.341
can watch, but start now and start having the conversations with your kids when

00:54:05.341 --> 00:54:07.841
you go home today. Just bridge the gap.

00:54:08.321 --> 00:54:12.681
Don't run full force into it. I wouldn't do that. But just start the conversation

00:54:12.681 --> 00:54:16.641
today and then do it again tomorrow and then do it again the next day and do

00:54:16.641 --> 00:54:17.641
it a little bit more the next day.

00:54:18.401 --> 00:54:21.681
Yeah. And I'd say even to follow up with that, after you get educated and you

00:54:21.681 --> 00:54:25.161
know how to speak very well on certain things, if you do know law enforcement

00:54:25.161 --> 00:54:29.181
or you have those relationships, start talking to them, just like you're talking

00:54:29.181 --> 00:54:33.081
about with the department that doesn't know, maybe there's ways for you to help.

00:54:34.061 --> 00:54:36.601
Because I understand, but it's not to their own fault, you know,

00:54:36.701 --> 00:54:40.241
so maybe just helping to educate your community in all aspects.

00:54:40.341 --> 00:54:42.101
And that would be kind of my suggestion.

00:54:43.139 --> 00:54:48.239
Remember, I'm Tomas from United Abolitionists. Don't just look at the field.

00:54:48.839 --> 00:54:50.119
Put your hand on the plow.

00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:55.159
Awesome. Thank you. Guys, give it up for our amazing panel of experts here today.

00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:58.339
Thank you for taking your time out here with us over this hour.

00:54:58.799 --> 00:55:00.379
Two things for me as we wrap it up.

00:55:00.419 --> 00:55:04.439
I always share these when I get a chance to speak at events like this.

00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:07.199
I mentioned at the beginning, I run an organization called Rebuilt Recovery.

00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:09.679
We help guys that are struggling with pornography addiction.

00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:14.039
I also host the Superman Life podcast. podcast and we've been having conversations

00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:16.979
around this topic for the last five years.

00:55:17.179 --> 00:55:20.519
About a year ago, I had a gentleman on my podcast, Alan White.

00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:21.859
He wrote a book called men.

00:55:22.139 --> 00:55:25.679
Alan Smith wrote a book called men fight for me. And during the interview,

00:55:25.779 --> 00:55:28.719
I asked Alan, what was the inspiration behind writing this book?

00:55:28.819 --> 00:55:31.699
I mentioned it was great to see so many men in the audience here today.

00:55:31.799 --> 00:55:35.359
And also on this panel up here today, when I asked Alan that question,

00:55:35.479 --> 00:55:38.799
he said he was sitting in an event just like you guys are here today.

00:55:38.939 --> 00:55:42.819
And at that event was a victim, a victim that had been trafficked her entire

00:55:42.819 --> 00:55:44.359
life, over 10 years of her life.

00:55:44.619 --> 00:55:48.179
She had been a victim of human trafficking. She was going on and on and talking

00:55:48.179 --> 00:55:51.879
about her experiences. And she said, every guy I came into contact with during

00:55:51.879 --> 00:55:54.059
my time being trafficked was a man.

00:55:54.319 --> 00:55:57.879
Every person that purchased me for sex was a man.

00:55:58.139 --> 00:56:02.059
Every person that was exploiting me and was trafficking me was a man.

00:56:02.199 --> 00:56:05.119
So I have a heart for men. That's what I do for a living is I coach men.

00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:06.719
I help them find better purpose in their life.

00:56:06.819 --> 00:56:09.019
I help them level up and become their men they're called to be.

00:56:09.019 --> 00:56:11.959
She said, I'd reached a point in

00:56:11.959 --> 00:56:16.779
my journey where I looked out and all I wanted was a man to fight for me.

00:56:17.653 --> 00:56:22.453
And that moved Alan, it moved him to leave his full-time job,

00:56:22.733 --> 00:56:25.813
join an organization called Saving Innocence, and write this book.

00:56:25.913 --> 00:56:30.333
So my call to everybody here is to don't let this conversation end here today,

00:56:30.333 --> 00:56:35.913
but more specifically to the men in the audience, don't let this conversation leave you.

00:56:36.093 --> 00:56:41.193
You all have something, a gift, a skill set, resources, connections, whatever it is.

00:56:41.773 --> 00:56:44.993
Nate's organization, Sarah's organization, Monica's organization,

00:56:45.233 --> 00:56:49.273
Alan's organizations need help, whether it's design, writing,

00:56:49.873 --> 00:56:51.213
marketing, networking.

00:56:51.533 --> 00:56:55.953
It doesn't always have to be about the money. The other resources can be some of your skill sets.

00:56:56.253 --> 00:56:59.633
And last bit, there was a quote by Albert Einstein that the world will not be

00:56:59.633 --> 00:57:03.853
destroyed by those who do evil, but those that sit back and pretend like it's not happening.

00:57:04.073 --> 00:57:06.773
God bless you guys. Thank you for joining us and enjoy the rest of the day.

00:57:09.533 --> 00:57:14.513
So we want to thank our special guest today, Frank Rich with RebuiltRecovery.com

00:57:14.513 --> 00:57:17.013
for being our Master of Ceremonies today.

00:57:17.313 --> 00:57:22.273
Of course, we also want to thank Nate Lewis from TheInnocent.org who was also

00:57:22.273 --> 00:57:23.893
our main speaker in the conference.

00:57:24.113 --> 00:57:29.813
We also want to thank retired Sergeant Alan Wickett from StopHumantrafficking.com,

00:57:30.253 --> 00:57:37.193
Sarah Lachance from StopTheMovement.org, and finally, Monica Satcher with Acts of Love Ministries.

00:57:37.433 --> 00:57:41.813
Please feel free to contact them at their websites or through the emails that

00:57:41.813 --> 00:57:46.533
we listed on screen. But before we leave, I want to introduce you to Tomas Larez,

00:57:46.693 --> 00:57:48.993
who was not able to make it to the conference.

00:57:49.313 --> 00:57:55.533
Tomas is the founder of StopHumanTrafficking.com, and he works closely with Sergeant Alan Wickett.

00:57:55.713 --> 00:58:00.673
They even have classes that are available about how you can get educated and involved.

00:58:01.369 --> 00:58:05.569
Hi, my name is Tomas Lars. I'm the founder and president of United Abolitionists

00:58:05.569 --> 00:58:10.929
to Stop Human Trafficking, and I'm here in downtown Orlando in our Thornton Park District.

00:58:11.229 --> 00:58:15.189
This week is very special for me because I'm celebrating 19 years in the fight

00:58:15.189 --> 00:58:16.109
against human trafficking.

00:58:16.629 --> 00:58:21.729
It was July 2004 when I was in Washington, D.C., and at that time U.S.

00:58:21.829 --> 00:58:25.129
Senator Sam Brownback, then Governor, and then Ambassador Brownback,

00:58:25.289 --> 00:58:26.869
introduced me to the issue.

00:58:27.109 --> 00:58:31.249
I was beside myself because I couldn't believe that this atrocity,

00:58:31.389 --> 00:58:33.729
modern slavery, was occurring in our generation.

00:58:33.949 --> 00:58:38.889
Five years later, my first office opened here at Thornton Park from the generosity

00:58:38.889 --> 00:58:40.829
of one of our local business men.

00:58:41.009 --> 00:58:44.909
At that time, Florida Abolitionists was birthed, now United Abolitionists.

00:58:45.089 --> 00:58:49.589
From the very beginning, we began as a first responder in the fight with our

00:58:49.589 --> 00:58:53.869
hotline, with care coordination and triage for those who are victimized,

00:58:53.909 --> 00:58:57.449
and also that vital training of how to identify and report.

00:58:58.169 --> 00:59:02.969
And so this week is epic because we continue to do what we've started.

00:59:03.209 --> 00:59:07.449
Me as an advocate 19 years ago and United Abolitionists 14 years ago.

00:59:07.769 --> 00:59:11.969
This week we'll be training the Lake County Sheriff's Office along with Corporal

00:59:11.969 --> 00:59:13.689
Allen Wilkett and Dr. Marianne Thomas.

00:59:14.209 --> 00:59:18.869
Every single officer under Sheriff Grinnell in Lake County will be trained this

00:59:18.869 --> 00:59:23.609
week on human trafficking, not just the 101, on, but what are the trends in Lake County?

00:59:24.209 --> 00:59:31.309
And so this is something that we believe that every first responder should learn

00:59:31.309 --> 00:59:35.069
training and trends because every community is going to look different.

00:59:35.389 --> 00:59:41.289
So this is all occurring because of our partners and our friends who have been

00:59:41.289 --> 00:59:45.069
with us from the beginning and our new friends and partners.

00:59:45.069 --> 00:59:50.069
And I just want to thank you because together we can fight human trafficking

00:59:50.069 --> 00:59:55.609
in our communities, we can stop this atrocity from happening into one more person. Thank you.

00:59:57.569 --> 01:00:04.409
In 2024, we are really going to be seeing the development of our training and

01:00:04.409 --> 01:00:07.069
learning center. We have a learning management system now.

01:00:07.349 --> 01:00:11.309
We're going to be featuring Human Trafficking 101, 201, and 301,

01:00:11.429 --> 01:00:16.569
a variety of modules that people can pick, whether it's online safety,

01:00:16.569 --> 01:00:20.389
learning about how to care for those who are victimized,

01:00:20.829 --> 01:00:26.449
just a myriad of trainings that will be available to individuals, to corporations,

01:00:26.969 --> 01:00:28.829
and to the faith-based community.

01:00:29.049 --> 01:00:35.969
So 2024 is going to be the year that we really develop really the learning and

01:00:35.969 --> 01:00:38.249
the training that the community has been requesting.

01:00:43.310 --> 01:00:47.310
Once again, we want to thank all of our speakers that were able to come to the conference.

01:00:47.450 --> 01:00:52.690
I encourage all of us to engage with them on their websites or by sending them an email.

01:00:52.950 --> 01:00:57.590
I also don't want to miss the opportunity to explain that the Internet system

01:00:57.590 --> 01:01:01.990
described by Nate Lewis is something we are actively trying to raise money for

01:01:01.990 --> 01:01:03.590
here in the Tampa Bay area.

01:01:03.590 --> 01:01:10.830
In just 24 hours, Nate's system was able to identify 40-plus males in the Plant

01:01:10.830 --> 01:01:13.930
City, Florida area trying to solicit minors.

01:01:14.230 --> 01:01:20.130
This system can be purchased for as little as $15,000 and comes with the hardware,

01:01:20.610 --> 01:01:25.190
software, and training to equip our local law enforcement to be able to put

01:01:25.190 --> 01:01:27.150
these predators behind bars.

01:01:27.150 --> 01:01:32.710
You can help us by simply clicking on the QR code on your screen to donate directly,

01:01:32.710 --> 01:01:38.570
or you can also contact Nate Lewis at TheInnocent.org to start a fundraiser

01:01:38.570 --> 01:01:41.590
to bring this remarkable system to your area.

01:01:41.830 --> 01:01:46.550
As we wrap up this session, don't forget to join us for our next breakout session

01:01:46.550 --> 01:01:51.570
about how to stop the indoctrination of our children with the LGBTQ agenda,

01:01:52.050 --> 01:01:55.050
critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

01:01:55.050 --> 01:02:00.110
I hope you can join us and may God bless you for standing up for his children.