Experts who truly work with trafficking victims have been vocally criticizing Sound of Freedom for weeks now.
The sleeper hit on the field workplace provides a really Hollywood model of saving kids from traffickers. You know, a lone badass has to do all of it himself, charging in with weapons blazing prefer it’s a foul ’80s film. But in accordance with of us who’ve been aware of the exploits of the IRL man the film relies on, it’s not a lot that Hollywood took the actual factor and twisted it. It’s that he has been extremely suspect for years.
That man is Tim Ballard, and he parted methods together with his personal Operation Underground Railroad earlier this yr, proper after the film about it grew to become a smash success. One would possibly assume it was so he may give attention to his upcoming run for Senate. But in accordance with a bombshell Vice exposé on Monday, the actual motive he quietly exited the OUR is due to an investigation into sexual misconduct accusations!
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Yes, the outlet found seven girls made claims in opposition to Ballard, who’s performed within the movie by the very in another way controversial Jim Caviezel. And the claims are actually stunning. According to those girls, Ballard used the prospect of saving kids from traffickers to trick them into having intercourse with him! Yes, actually! How?
They say he would recruit girls to pose as his “wife” on undercover missions to different international locations the place he was supposedly surveilling trafficking operations. To throw them off the scent, he wished to appear to be a pair touring on trip. But the factor is, as soon as he had these girls alone, they declare, he coerced them into sexual conditions, like sharing a mattress or having a shower collectively. He instructed them it was to assist idiot the traffickers. He even reportedly requested one lady “how far she was willing to go” to save lots of kids.
Um, did we are saying the Hollywood model was unbelievable?!
It’s believed there are greater than seven girls, however that’s what number of OUR workers got here ahead for that specific investigation. A former volunteer — who was not a part of the investigation — instructed Vice he tried this act on her, too. And one other supply referred to a second volunteer. But finally we’ll in all probability by no means know what number of girls he used his faux child-saving routine to sleep with.
If that is true, it actually feels like the entire thing wasn’t only a grift to make himself look virtuous and heroic (and promote the movie rights) — it was additionally to convey girls to a different nation and trick them into intercourse! If solely there have been a hot-button time period for that type of habits…
The investigation was confirmed by OUR, who launched this assertion to Vice:
“Tim Ballard resigned from O.U.R. on June 22, 2023. He has completely separated from O.U.R.
O.U.R. is devoted to combatting sexual abuse, and doesn’t tolerate sexual harassment or discrimination by anybody in its group.
O.U.R. retained an impartial legislation agency to conduct a complete investigation of all related allegations, and O.U.R. continues to evaluate and enhance the governance of the group and protocols for its operations.
To protect the integrity of its investigation and to guard the privateness of all individuals concerned, O.U.R. won’t make any additional public remark right now.
O.U.R. is assured in its future because the main group dedicated to combatting intercourse trafficking and saving kids who’ve been captured and bought into slavery.”
This report follows an nameless letter which had been circulating in anti-trafficking charities in Utah for months. That letter, confirmed by Vice‘s supply, learn:
“Several weeks in the past, an OUR worker who accompanied Tim on an undercover operation filed a sexual harassment grievance in opposition to him with OUR’s HR division. This resulted in an intensive inner investigation into Tim and his particular person operational techniques and led to extra girls talking up as a part of the investigation course of.
It was finally revealed via disturbingly particular and parallel accounts, that Tim has been deceitfully and extensively grooming and manipulating a number of girls for the previous few years with the last word intent of coercing them to take part in sexual acts with him, below the premise of going the place it takes and doing ‘whatever it takes’ to save lots of a toddler.”
“Grooming and manipulating,” The precise type of grooming, not simply, you understand, being homosexual. The writer of the letter stays nameless to today.
Perhaps this one who initially leaked the data was one of many victims. Maybe they grew involved about Ballard’s repute rising due to the movie. Maybe they had been — rightfully — anxious guys would see the film and signal as much as assist with Ballard’s falsified picture of their minds. That has been taking place, sadly. They’re even combating with the specialists as a result of they noticed ONE MOVIE ONE TIME.
Ballard himself has now responded to the allegations, saying in a press release obtained by People:
“As with all of the assaults on my character and integrity over many years, the latest tabloid-driven sexual allegations are false. They are baseless inventions designed to destroy me and the movement we have built to end the trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable children.”
Right. It’s all a giant conspiracy, and all the ladies are mendacity as a result of they assume trafficking is nice, and so they’re making an attempt to cease the one man who can truly repair it. Give us a break.
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