The organizations has saved over 1,600 kids.
Most of us don’t even want to think about child sex slavery, much less talk about it. Actually engaging with child sex traffickers is far beyond what most of us could handle—yet someone has to do it. Somebody has to go undercover, infiltrate sex trafficking operations, and bring the monsters to justice. Someone has to rescue innocent children from suffering such a horrific and traumatic fate.
Ballard says it wasn’t just the things he saw that traumatized him, but the vastness of the entire industry. “The U.S. government didn’t realize what it was doing to me. They were basically destroying my soul, not only because I was being exposed to things—and we have regular checkups with mental health professionals—but the part that was the worst for me was I would go down and find the kids, and I couldn’t believe how vast it was. I couldn’t believe how big it was.
who had been kidnapped by an employee of the church and sold to traffickers. Ballard tried every avenue he could to help Gardy, including flying his dad to the U.S., but he wasn’t able to make it a U.S. case. Ballard had made a promise to find Gardy, but as a government employee, his hands were tied.
The first operation OUR undertook in Cartagena, Colombia resulted in the rescue of dozens of children and the apprehension of a group of sex traffickers that included a formerThe second operation was in Haiti, at a fake orphanage where investigations into Gardy’s kidnapping had led. They went undercover and rescued the children there, who were starving but not yet sold. But Gardy wasn’t there.
Inspired, Ballard and his wife also adopted two of the kids—a brother and sister—whose parents couldn’t be found. After four years of red tape, they just came home to their new family this year. The search for GardyBallard has had many times when this work has felt like too much and he’s wanted to quit. But his faith and his wife have kept him going. “Without Katherine, there’s no way,” he says.
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