Will Justice Prevail?

Tip of the Iceberg?

Whether it’s called “Pedophile Island” or “Orgy Island” the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, was facing up to 45 years in jail for serial sexual abuse of minors, although he died in his cell. His private jet is known as the “Lolita Express.” Lolita means a young girl who is sexually alluring, has a very sexual appearance or behaves in a sexual way, however children – aka a young girl - cannot give consent. The word itself is criminal. During his trial, the pilot provided flight logs to “Little St. Jeffs Island” at the US Virgin Islands property, for around 1000 flights listing the names of celebrities, politicians, supermodels, and the elite, but it was highly redacted. Why is this? Did justice prevail? (First look at Jeffrey Epstein inside his 'Pedophile Island' lair - nypost.com)

His girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, recently went through a trial. The jury in a New York federal court found her guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 2004. She was procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by the financier Jeffrey and others. Meanwhile, her defense is trying to declare a mistrial and avoid the upcoming 65 years of jail time to be determined this June...but we shall see. Maxwell’s infamous little black book including around 2000 high profile names remains sealed. Why is this? Has justice fully prevailed? (Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Jury finds she sex trafficked a minor for Jeffrey Epstein, guilty on five of six counts - CNN and Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book sealed by court | The Post Millennial) 

I also wonder how much of this heinous and illegal Epstein-Maxwell enterprise was a lucrative and powerful world-wide blackmailing business? Or shall I say still is or may be? Time may tell…

How can we end child sex trafficking if we do not #stop the demand? Without revealing the redacted names on the Lolita Express and opening the sealed documents in the little black book for investigation and prosecution of the buyers, the trafficking abusers will remain hiding in the dark while this "business" grows world-wide. How long will trafficking continue to explode exponentially because of these cover-ups?

Super Bowl Trafficking 

Does the above example seem too high affluent and far removed from our lives? Let's try another example closer to home and televised into our homes. The Super Bowl has become one the largest human sex trafficking events in our nation. National Center on Sexual Exploitation says:

“The Super Bowl and other large sporting events have become synonymous with sex trafficking, given that the conditions surrounding the event are conducive to increased exploitation and trafficking, particularly of minors.

Major events like the Super Bowl attract thousands of people to a “hotspot” where trafficked girls and women are coerced by pimps to sell and meet the demands of these visitors (i.e. perpetrators), mostly men.”

Dr. Stephany Powell, NCOSE Director of Law Enforcement Training and Survivors Services, highlights this:

“There may be difficulty of talking about human trafficking without really talking about ‘the elephant in the room’— the demand.  The bottom line is that demand fuels the illegal sex trade. On average, U.S. sex buyers spend more than a hundred dollars per transaction.  I want it to be understood that behind every trafficker there is a buyer. Curbing demand is the way to prevent sex trafficking.” (https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/reduce-trafficking-highlight-demand-super-bowl/?fbclid=IwAR3F2-vFfDjd1T34XX_ZWzi6w7gh1sm7hZMNgzSMqdM3MW7v2wY_sIUlY6U)

And Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad, does extractions to rescue kids - here is his interview with Fox News about the Super Bowl - https://video.foxnews.com/v/6295939980001#sp=show-clips

This IS happening in the USA - Our Own Backyards

According to Polaris Project, there are 25 million people trafficked worldwide. Freedom United says it is around 40 million – 70% labor and 30% sex – which generates an estimated $150 billion a year in illegal profits making it the 2nd largest international crime. Either way, 25 to 40 million is an ENORMOUS amount of people enslaved in this evil.

 U.S. law defines human trafficking as the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel a person into commercial sex acts or labor against their will. The Action-Means-Purpose (AMP) Model can be helpful in understanding the federal law. Human trafficking occurs when a perpetrator, often referred to as a trafficker, takes an Action, and then employs the Means of force, fraud or coercion for the Purpose of compelling the victim to provide commercial sex acts or labor or services. At a minimum, one element from each column must be present to establish a potential situation of human trafficking.

Essentially, human trafficking is exploiting a person often by recruiting, coercion, abduction against their will. Bonded labor is when someone is coerced into working but it’s a loan or debt that needs to paid off. Forced labor is making people work against their will. Child slavery is forcing a child into physical labor, domestic or sex slavery. The live-in migrant is isolated from protections in a regular workplace. Other examples include forced marriage, child slavery, human trafficking, domestic slavery, and products of slavery (Freedom United).

"The United States is again ranked as one of the worst countries in the world for human trafficking. According to a recently released report by the State Department, the top three nations of origin for victims of human trafficking in 2018 were the United States, Mexico and the Philippines." (https://www.foxnews.com/us/human-trafficking-in-america-among-worst-in-world-report). In 2020, 10,583 situations of human trafficking were reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline involving 16,658 individual victims. Shocking as these numbers are, they are likely only a fraction of the actual problem. Map below has locations of human trafficking situations in the United States in 2020 (Polaris Project). As you can see, child and human trafficking is happening in our own backyard! Simply search your county or state to find out your "report card" on child sex trafficking or human trafficking in general and you will see how close this impacts every one of us, hiding in plain sight.

Some human trafficking myths include:

Myth: Human trafficking is always or usually a violent crime.

Fact: Most traffickers use psychological means like tricking, defrauding, manipulating or threatening victims, often hiding in plain site.

Myth: All human trafficking involves sex.

Fact: Labor trafficking is more prevalent world-wide.

Myth: Only women and girls can be victims and survivors of sex trafficking.

Fact: Males, including young men and boys are trafficked and vulnerable as well.

Myth: Traffickers target victims they don’t know.

Fact: Many survivors have been trafficked by family members, spouses, parent and romantic partners.

Myth: Human trafficking only happens in illegal or underground industries.

Fact: Some industries with reported human trafficking include restaurants, cleaning services, factories, construction and more.

Myth: Human trafficking involves moving, traveling or transporting a person across state or national borders.

Fact: Smuggling involves crossing borders illegally, although survivors can be trafficked in their home towns and homes.

Myth: If the trafficked person consented to be in their initial situation, then it cannot be human trafficking or against their will because they “knew better.”

Fact: Initial consent or payment does not change the fact trafficking is a crime (as many are coerced, drugged, blackmailed, etc.)

Myth: People being trafficked are physically unable to leave their situations/locked in/held against their will.

Fact: Some victims stay for complex reasons, lack a way out, fear for their life/others and are so highly manipulated from being broken by traffickers.

(Polaris Project)

Join the Good Fight

There are around 2000 Anti-human trafficking organizations world-wide. One way to help is find a local organization to support with your time, money, resources, skills or prayers. I do recommend taking a deep dive into the orgs finances regarding what every dollar supports. And, do they have any accusations/investigations of using a fake anti-trafficking front to hide their actual trafficking business (another level of evil, I know)?

One organization doing amazing work is USIAHT. Here is their plea:

“We just had the Super Bowl in Los Angeles. And you know what grieves me? We just had the Super Bowl in Los Angeles.
And you know what grieves me? While America partied and enjoyed a halftime show, thousands of human trafficking victims were exploited this past weekend.

At the 2021 Super Bowl in Tampa, our partner It’s A Penalty saw a staggering impact: 146 arrests were made, 6 victims were recovered, and 18 missing children were identified. During the 2020 Super Bowl in Miami, 47 traffickers were arrested, 22 victims were found and assisted. And there was a 163% increase in human trafficking reports to the national hotline.

Collaborative efforts have proven effective in helping free victims from trafficking. Will you help our boots-on-the-ground efforts that will continue in Los Angeles beyond game day? Help Fight Human Trafficking Today (https://usiaht.org/this-is-not-a-drill/)”

Stopping Exploitation in all its Forms

All exploitation must end, whether it's child sexual abuse, child sexual abuse images (e.g. "child porn") and/or child sex trafficking - since they are all inter-connected. Many "porn stars" are exploited in their vulnerabilities with traumatic backgrounds and so the cycle continues with every click, and the porn industry gets richer. I pray that one day an army of people will rise up against all forms of exploitation even more so than any efforts put toward the next big sporting game, another vacation, scrolling through social media, or researching the next best movie (albeit none of these things are wrong and can be an outlet for much needed rest). Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s quote includes all people saying “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Additionally, I ask all of us, "what kind of world do we want to live in now? Are we not called to love and protect every child and not simply our own?" 

You may have heard the phrase "speed of the leader, speed of the pack." If some or many of the elite leaders, politicians, celebrities, supermodels, clergy, secret societies, governments and churches are leading the way by hiding and fueling exploitation, then what are the actual numbers across the world from their followers covering up or joining in as well? Exponential, I fear since in India, they have child brides, in the middle east, they abuse boys on the street and shockingly, legalized incest still exists in various countries world-wide, to name a few. Another firsthand example is my mom was a lay counselor in the church for about 20 years and my parents supported missionaries in Brazil who were pastors to the pastors there. According to the missionaries' experiences, child sexual abuse runs rampant in the culture (if the wife is not feeling well for intimacy, etc. the husband will abuse the daughter instead). 

Every child is a gift from God to all of us, yet the horrific abuse and commodification of babies, children and teens runs rampant. May this army of light and love rise up against child sexual abuse soon! Let us begin with the basic boundaries for kids and build a foundation by reading or sharing a Say "NO!" and TELL! book. Either you teach your kids healthy body/mind boundaries or the pornified world's messaging/Internet/others will teach them. Abuse and exploitations are no respecter of persons or socioeconomic status, especially because the prevalence of technology devices connected to the Internet in the hands of young people make almost all of our youth accessible to highly skilled predators pursuing them. One of my deepest concerns from when I began researching to write my books in January of 2015, is certain our nation (beginning with certain states) lowering the age of consent...normalizing pedophilia. Have you looked up the legal age to marry in your state/all states lately? The Kinsey Institute claims that babies are sexual at birth and have tested as much - ABUSE! Keep an eye on the concept of the re-branded “Minors Attracted Persons” - a very slippery slope indeed, in my opinion (https://nypost.com/2021/11/15/allyn-walker-says-attraction-to-children-isnt-immoral/).

I tried to add many links to this blog from various vantage points as we attempt to set aside political views, so you can read for yourself. It is not always easy finding true facts. Please do research more of this on your own using the Duck Duck Go search engine, which seems to censor less.

P.S. Why is Facebook rejecting my ad to boost this post which simply says WeStandGuard.com NEW BLOG - Will Justice Prevail? https://www.westandguard.com/will-justice-prevail ... and many others? Would you consider posting this blog to your Facebook page to help inform others...and protect more kids?