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Re: Sex Trafficking in the United States
By: patrick jane Date: January 27, 2022, 5:26 pm
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Anti-Trafficking Ministries Now Fight QAnon Conspiracies Too
Online myths and misinformation are becoming more of a
distraction from their work.
When Alia Dewees conducts seminars about the scourge of sex
trafficking and its prevention, there ’s one group of people
more likely than others to quiz her about the furniture and
décor company Wayfair selling missing children or kids being
smuggled through tunnels under New York City: Christians.
These stories are among the conspiracies that were popularized
by the QAnon movement and have captured the imaginations of
countless Americans and more than a quarter of Christians.
What myth-believing Christians don ’t want to hear is Dewees ’s
experience as a trafficking survivor. When her experiences don
’t match what they ’ve read on the internet, some trust the
internet rather than the survivor in front of them.
“My voice is invalidated; my experience is invalidated,” said
Dewees, who now works as the after care development director for
Safe House Project, an anti-trafficking organization based in
Alexandria, Virginia. “That was so true for me in my trafficking
experience for so many years that it ’s a triggering experience.
It triggers a trauma response of feeling like I want to shut
down.”
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention
Month, and anti-trafficking groups are struggling to combat not
just an international multibillion-dollar industry but also
misinformation that distracts from real survivors.
Anti-trafficking advocates have always encountered
misconceptions, often formed from media portrayals of
trafficking like the film Taken. It’s common for people who know
nothing about trafficking to assume traffickers work by
kidnapping unsuspecting victims off the street. And Dewees said
that most people will abandon their misconceptions when they
learn the facts through education and training.
Those who believe conspiracies are different, though. Dewees
says they are far less eager to abandon their misconceptions
when they hear information from experts in the field.
Kristi Wells, Safe House Project’s CEO, recently spent 90
minutes after a North Carolina training event answering
questions about why Safe House Project isn’t fighting the
conspiracy theories attendees had read on the internet, like
about US government operatives smuggling children.
Wells tells conspiracy enthusiasts that every day people call
Safe House Project for help. “If we’re constantly focused on
looking for conspiracy theories and survivors that we can’t
impact, we’re ignoring the opportunities to identify and respond
to the children in our communities that are being trafficked and
are right under our nose,” she said.
Anti-trafficking advocates understand that those under the spell
of conspiracy theories almost always have good intentions and
want to help. Stephanie Simpson, communications and training
manager for Restore NYC, said some of its most devoted
supporters contacted her with questions about the Wayfair
trafficking conspiracy. But they have believed a myth about
trafficking that flattens complicated situations into
good-guy/bad-guy scenarios.
“It’s human nature—we want so badly for there to be a bad guy,”
Simpson said. But the truth is far more nuanced, and “nuance
isn’t sexy.”
Rather than fighting bad people, Restore NYC focuses on bad
systems that force labor- and sex-trafficking victims to feel as
if they have no other options. Housing inequality, employment
discrimination, racism—these systemic issues are harder to see
and believe and even harder to dismantle.
And by focusing on the bad guy, not only do conspiracy believers
not see the complex roots of trafficking, but they often miss
the victims too.
Pat Bradley, founder of Crisis Aid, said trafficking myths get
people interested in an exciting “rescue,” but not the long road
of healing that survivors must walk. Crisis Aid has moved away
from using eye-popping statistics about trafficking to keep the
focus on survivors.
“Lots of people are interested in the rescue, but we are more
focused on the victim and getting Christian, trauma-based care”
to those leaving trafficking, he said. Crisis Aid provides
wraparound support for survivors and their families and walks
survivors through the healing process, even over the course of
several years.
Polaris, the anti-trafficking agency that operates the US
National Human Trafficking Hotline, saw its phone traffic
dramatically increase in 2020.
“Today, we see a new urgency around awareness,” the organization
said in a statement on its site. “It is more important than ever
before to move past the myths, stereotypes, and unfounded fears
that feed panics and conspiracy theories, which manifest in real
harm to victims and survivors.”
Bradley said he commonly encounters people who wrongly believe
their communities—no matter how small—are hubs for traffickers.
This just isn’t true. He doesn’t believe in “awareness
campaigns” anymore. “It goes in one ear and out the other.”
As an article in The Atlantic this month noted, the recent panic
over sex trafficking has been perpetuated by social media.
“On Facebook and Instagram, friends and neighbors share
unsettling statistics and dire images in formats designed for
online communities that reward displays of concern,” the story
read. “Because today’s messaging about child sex trafficking is
so decentralized and fluid, it is impervious to gatekeepers who
would knock down its most outlandish claims.”
Some anti-trafficking advocates don’t mind the counterfeit
stories because they are a means of getting people to pay
attention to the cause. Elizabeth Fisher Good, founder of The
Foundation United, said if the rumors open more eyes to the
issue of trafficking, that’s fine with her. Fisher Good said
churches need to be better equipped to spot abuse in the church,
since experiencing abuse makes people more vulnerable to being
trafficked.
Sandra Morgan doesn’t even like the term conspiracy theories;
it’s too politically charged. Instead the director of the Global
Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University talks about
“counterfeit” stories.
As anti-trafficking advocates do the work of educating and
advocacy while combating counterfeit narratives, Morgan likens
them to the Israelites in the book of Nehemiah, building
Jerusalem’s walls with their tools in one hand and swords in the
other to fend off marauders.
“You could spend your whole time putting out fires, and that
distracts from what we need to be doing every single day,” she
said.
Even now Morgan, based in Orange County, California, is dealing
with the Super Bowl myth, the misconception that the host city
Los Angeles will see a dramatic increase in sex-trafficking
business next month.
Instead of investing time debunking counterfeit narratives, she
urges churches to spend time educating themselves with truth so
they can easily spot counterfeits and identify real victims.
She’s developed the Ending Human Trafficking podcast and a
curated set of interviews with survivors. She also cowrote the
forthcoming book Ending Human Trafficking to give churches a
resource for the work for which they are uniquely suited:
prevention.
Restore NYC has added a module about counterfeit myths to its
Trafficking 101 training since questions about conspiracies came
up so often in these settings. And while Christians might not
see the systemic issues that push the vulnerable toward
trafficking, Simpson said believers do see people made in God’s
image and are eager to help fellow image bearers in need,
regardless of what brought about their difficult situations to
begin with.
In the 2021 fiscal year, Restore NYC distributed $940,000 in
emergency relief to trafficking survivors.
Dewees of Safe House Project noted that some of the most
devoted, effective advocates she works with in the
anti-trafficking field are Christians.
“Those really solid faith-based leaders in this field are the
ones having the most incredible impact because they’re taking
the Christlikeness that they have and extending it to the
survivors they work with,” she said.
To see the truth of human trafficking, Wells says Christians
need to abandon their “savior complex.”
“The idea that we see the most rampant in the church is if
there’s a perfect victim, there’s a person we can go out and
save, and we’re going to be the heroes of the story.”
But just as Christians aren’t the heroes in their own salvation
stories, they are not the heroes in the stories of survivors
leaving trafficking and entering a path of healing.
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Re: Sex Trafficking in the United States
By: patrick jane Date: July 15, 2022, 1:48 pm
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Famous Child Groomers Exposed
Many of the worlds favorite artists, sports stars, and religious
leaders have been grooming young children and while the
mainstream media has broadcasted the likes of R. Kelley,
Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell, many more have swept
their pasts under the rug and continue under the limelight as
their skeleton filled closed has remained closed to much of the
public.
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