Child sex trafficking

[Shirley]

[Shirley]

Oh, look! Yet another "Drag Queen"!

That's a terrible drag outfit...
... wait... not a drag queen??
The hell you say

[Overlander]

Good people on both sides

[jfish26]

You guys I’m starting to wonder where the good people are after all.

https://x.com/timmarchman/status/170415 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

New w/@annamerlan: Sound of Freedom exec. producer was filmed feeling the naked breasts of an apparently underage trafficking victim while on an undercover mission with Operation Underground Railroad; we have docs from FBI/local criminal investigation.

Oh, and the “irrefutable evidence of voter fraud,” my-girlfriend-from-summer-camp-lives-in-Canada-no-you-can’t-talk-to-her-she’s-grounded cherry on top:

The producer, Paul Hutchinson, does not dispute our reporting but does say the girl was over 18, per an affidavit from Mexican federal police. Over a period of weeks he declined to provide us this document.

[jfish26]

It's literally a movie based on real events, to bring awareness to child sex trafficking

The fact the left is so desperately trying to discreditct the movie, is grotesque

Real events, eh?

Grifters gonna grift, Randy. And groomers gonna groom. Wanted to be sure you didn't miss this, as surely it's of interest to you, a person who genuinely cares.

Investigative reports question whether ex-Operation Underground Railroad CEO misled donors

https://www.ksl.com/article/50736388/in ... led-donors

The anti-trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad and its founder and former CEO Tim Ballard may have misled donors for years about purported “rescue” missions, according to investigative documents obtained from a local and federal investigation by KSL.com on Friday.

Ballard, whose experience as a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security was the inspiration for the recent hit film “Sound of Freedom,” has often touted the group’s dangerous overseas missions to rescue trafficked children. Operation Underground Railroad’s website claims it has been involved in more than 4,000 operations and over 6,500 arrests.

While the group was involved in at least one successful operation in Colombia in 2014, some former Operation Underground Railroad staffers allege in the reports that the group is rarely involved in actual rescues, and say that could lead to donors and the public being misled about what the group does.

[…]

One former employee, development director Cherstyn Stockwell, who left the organization in 2019, told investigators that Operation Underground Railroad is a “pass-through organization” that would donate money to other groups that were actually doing the work, according to an interview transcript.

“Cherstyn said OUR is simply a pass-through organization, not really doing the rescues, not really doing the aftercare, just funding it all but does not tell the donors that. … They wanted to promote that OUR was doing the rescues and all the work,” Bryan Purdy, an agent with the Davis County Attorney’s Office, wrote in an August 2021 report describing the interview.

“Cherstyn said everyone internally knows that they don’t rescue anyone anymore, but the public thinks that OUR is actively rescuing children,” the report states.

She told investigators, “That’s just not true,” according to the report.

Stockwell also told investigators that higher-ups within the company never provided documentation she requested to corroborate the number of children Operation Underground Railroad had publicly claimed to have rescued, the report says.

David Lopez, a former Navy SEAL who was part of the Colombia rescue, contracted with Operation Underground Railroad to run operations in Haiti several years later. He told investigators the organization had changed and was no longer focused on rescue operations, although that was still the image it projected, according to another follow-up report by Purdy.

Lopez told investigators he became frustrated with the “massive dishonesty,” but when he brought it up with Ballard, Ballard allegedly “responded with something to the effect of, ‘Well, how would they find out?'” according to the report.

“Dave said OUR was most scared about people finding out the way they were actually doing operations because their narrative doesn’t match that,” the report states. “He said they shifted from all the operations where they go in and work the cases and build out a real case to be prosecuted and it went away and it became more of a ‘throw some money at law enforcement agencies and throw the numbers up on a board.'”

An email included in the investigative documents from Operation Underground Railroad domestic coordinator Carlos Rodriguez sent to Ballard and other organization leaders on Oct. 8, 2020, addresses several alleged discrepancies with a videotaped interview Ballard gave.

“This video has many problems: Tim talks about every time he comes home from an operation. Does he run operations right now. This can be attacked,” Rodriguez wrote. “I don’t believe this to be true statement. There are times when Tim said we are working, we solve it. WE don’t do the actual work.”

[…]

Investigators also describe video footage of an undercover agent for Operation Underground Railroad who allegedly groped the breasts of a girl while in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for the filming of “The Abolitionist” movie and television series, according to another report from Purdy titled “Supplemental Report Cabo San Lucas Op.”

“During this portion of video reviewed there was an incident between (him) and an underage female approximately 16 years old,” the report states.

According to a transcript of a phone call between the agent and another Operation Underground employee, the agent said the owner of the strip club who presented the minors to the undercover agents grabbed the agent’s hands and placed them on the girl.

[…]

According to a separate Vice article published on Tuesday, Tim Ballard’s departure from Operation Underground Railroad on June 22 followed an investigation into sexual misconduct claims against him involving seven women. While with the organization, Vice reported that he allegedly asked women to act as his “wife” on undercover missions and “would then allegedly coerce those women into sharing a bed or showering together, claiming that it was necessary to fool traffickers.”

Tim Ballard forcefully denied the sexual allegations, calling them “baseless inventions designed to destroy me and the movement we have built,” in a statement to KSL.com, through the anti-trafficking organization SPEAR Fund, where he has served as a senior adviser since leaving Operation Underground Railroad.

[KUTradition]

Exitus CEO indicted for fraud

[KUTradition]

The Unraveling of Tim Ballard

https://radiowest.kuer.org/show/radiowe ... im-ballard

[jfish26]

It’s sad when cancel culture comes for Randy’s heroes.

[Shirley]

"DRAG QUEEN" Alert!

Republicans are right, the "Drag Queens" are everywhere!!!

50 years is a long time. This was his third arrest on similar charges.

Florida baptist youth pastor, David Nims, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for hiding a secret camera in his church bathroom & possessing child sexual abuse material.

[jfish26]

It's literally a movie based on real events, to bring awareness to child sex trafficking

The fact the left is so desperately trying to discreditct the movie, is grotesque

Cancel culture alert, “the call is coming from inside the house” edition.

Five of Tim Ballard’s Alleged Victims Have Filed a Lawsuit Against Him

The founder of the anti-trafficking group OUR has been sued by several accusers, who say he used their faith and visions from a psychic to sexually coerce them.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a378p/ ... gainst-him

In the suit, the women, who all live in Utah, and who filed the suit using initials to protect their privacy, accuse Ballard in detail of “coerced sexual contact.” The suit alleges that Ballard and/or the co-defendants have committed sexual assault and battery, conspiracy, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and “outrage,” and accuses OUR of failing in its fiduciary duties, asking for a trial by jury and damages in an amount to be proven at trial.

The central allegations have to do with the so-called “couples ruse,” which is described in the suit as “a tool for sexual grooming.”

Since the allegations of sexual misconduct were first reported on by VICE News and Utah journalist Lynn Packer, Ballard has insisted, for instance in a lengthy Instagram video, that the couples ruse, in which a male undercover operative is accompanied by a female one posing as his wife, is simply a tool to rescue children and keep operators from having to engage in the sexual abuse of alleged trafficking victims.

In reality, the lawsuit alleges, Ballard used it to select women with no paramilitary training who he knew were devoted to the anti-trafficking cause and invite them on missions. At that point, the suit alleges, he would begin insisting that he and his couples ruse partner had to build physical “chemistry” to fool traffickers, and would begin inviting them to shower together, participate in couples massages, “tantric yoga” and lap dances on Ballard’s lap. (Several of these allegations were first reported on by The Blaze last week. The Blaze's founder, conservative media personality Glenn Beck, also founded the Nazarene Fund, where Ballard was CEO until this summer. TNF and Beck are not named in the suit.) Ballard left OUR this summer following an internal investigation. The organization has been investigated for allegedly misleading donors and lying to the public about their work; that investigation was closed in May with no charges filed against anyone connected to OUR.

[…]

The suit alleges that Tim Ballard began claiming that President M. Russell Ballard, a powerful figure in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had “given Ballard permission to do the couples ruse as long as there was no sexual intercourse or kissing on the lips, and had given him a special priesthood blessing as such.” The church did not immediately respond to a request for comment on either this claim or the suit’s claim that Ballard has been excommunicated due to the couples ruse, but in September it issued a stinging rebuke to Ballard in a statement to VICE News, saying that he had “betrayed” his friendship with President Ballard. (The two men are not related.) The church said that Ballard had used the apostle’s name for his own “personal advantage and activity regarded as morally unacceptable.” While the church did not specify at the time what “morally unacceptable” activity was being referred to, that language is usually used to refer to sexual immorality.

The suit also alleges that Ballard would tell the women that Janet Russon, the psychic, had told him that they had been “married to them in a previous life, and so their conduct was appropriate.” (Russon has previously declined to comment on her time at OUR when reached by VICE News, and told us she signed an NDA precluding her from speaking about her work there. OUR told us in a statement last month that she left OUR soon after Ballard did.) The suit also alleges that Ballard would tell the women that if his wife Katherine were to die, “he would immediately marry them.”

[KUTradition]

you know there’s a problem when the LDS church is distancing itself

[jfish26]

you know there’s a problem when the LDS church is distancing itself

I look forward to being told that we should separate the message from the messenger. When we were previously told to take the messengers’ motivations at face value. And when we previously were exceedingly clear that of course child sex trafficking is bad, BUT we were concerned that what we were seeing here was bad people using a bad thing as a vehicle for doing other bad things.

Shame on me, I guess, for naively thinking maybe those last set of bad things would be limited to grift.

[KUTradition]

you know there’s a problem when the LDS church is distancing itself

I look forward to being told that we should separate the message from the messenger. When we were previously told to take the messengers’ motivations at face value. And when we previously were exceedingly clear that of course child sex trafficking is bad, BUT we were concerned that what we were seeing here was bad people using a bad thing as a vehicle for doing other bad things.

Shame on me, I guess, for naively thinking maybe those last set of bad things would be limited to grift.

the more that comes out, though, the more it seems like actual, boots-on-the-ground “rescue missions” were few and far between, and that activities being passed off as “rescue missions” were often (?) covers for, shall we say (generously), unscrupulous activities

aka, once everything comes out, it seems likely that there will have been more incidents of bad than good

[jfish26]

you know there’s a problem when the LDS church is distancing itself

I look forward to being told that we should separate the message from the messenger. When we were previously told to take the messengers’ motivations at face value. And when we previously were exceedingly clear that of course child sex trafficking is bad, BUT we were concerned that what we were seeing here was bad people using a bad thing as a vehicle for doing other bad things.

Shame on me, I guess, for naively thinking maybe those last set of bad things would be limited to grift.

the more that comes out, though, the more it seems like actual, boots-on-the-ground “rescue missions” were few and far between, and that activities being passed off as “rescue missions” were often (?) covers for, shall we say (generously), unscrupulous activities

aka, once everything comes out, it seems likely that there will have been more incidents of bad than good

Which is of course why the underlying motivations do matter so much, when evaluating what people say and do.

[Shirley]

If anyone other than Randy was vouching for Ballard, I might trust those women.

But when you consider how right Randy is all the time, that makes it nearly impossible to believe them.

[jfish26]

Then why are the lefties on this board and everywhere else acting like a movie that exposes pedophilia and child sex trafficking is controversial???

Hello, is this thing on?

[randylahey]

Have you made a point? Do you need validation? lefties who were butthurt when the politically elite got called out for ignoring/hiding child sex trafficking are a sad breed

[ousdahl]

if Jeffrey Epstein had a podcast where he complained about woke stuff, does anyone doubt randy would be here stanning for him?

[jfish26]

Have you made a point? Do you need validation? lefties who were butthurt when the politically elite got called out for ignoring/hiding child sex trafficking are a sad breed

I just figured you'd be the type to say, "you were right."

[KUTradition]