In 2015, I decided to learn more about human trafficking. At least two of the kids on that raid had never been trafficked before. After this operation, a local organization called the National Council for Children and Adolescents realized like you brought us 20 ish kids. We do not have the capacity to provide like services for this many people. And so the kids were released within one week or two and lost like nobody knows what happened to many of them. So potentially they may be back on the streets being sex trafficked again in as much as two weeks.
The Wall Street Journal’s John Jurgensen explains how Sound of Freedom, an action-drama about fighting child sex trafficking, beat Tom Cruise and Indiana Jones at the box office. Writer Meg Conley explains the murky truth behind the movie.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael with help from Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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