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Survivor Fights Back Against Corporate Money & Political Power In Human Trafficking
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13:15Now PlayingVia America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio sits down with author and attorney Carissa Phelps to discuss having survived a sex trafficking ring herself at a young age, and how she now points to activism taken across the country against sexual abusers and traffickers, in their pursuit for justice among the powerful and famous. Then, Mike Papantonio is joined by attorney Kim Adams to break down the goal of “End Child Prostitution and Trafficking” (ECPAT), an organization that shines a spotlight on institutions like the hospitality industry for facilitating and even brokering the sexual exploitation of workers for the sake of profit.
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Full disclosure, you have been working, you've written one of the most important books about human trafficking. You have been working as an advocate in human trafficking for years.
Yes.
And you're involved in the very first national case that's been filed up in Ohio. You're the person we need to talk to that understands something else about it. As I listened to the reports and I heard all these reporters pontificate about conspiracy and, you know, how this person is not responsible and that person's not responding. The thing they missed was in those documents is the road map to how the trafficking takes place, how the infrastructure works. Please talk about that.
So the fact that, and even just the conversations that Maxwell had, that Ghislaine Maxwell had with friends, about how she bragged about going to trailer parks and spas and targeting the young women that she targeted. She targeted the same victims that street pimps target. She targeted the same ones. The young women that are out there, that even internationally that they went and targeted, they knew what they were doing, they were calculated and they got better at it every single time they did it and got away with it as a team, they did that together. So and...
Is that now, now you of course were a victim of trafficking.
Yes.
Your book tells that story. It is a moving powerful story. Then, then you go, you, you've somehow escaped that. You get an MBA in a law degree and now you, you are the biggest problem the traffickers have. If I, if somebody would ask me, who's the biggest problem? It is you, because you are on a mission and you're attracting lawyers to this mission all over the country. At this point, you probably have more trafficking cases than anybody in America because you're out there. Now leads me to this question. What's your next step? How do you really tell this story in the court system? What's your plan?
Well, the story is really, it's from the victim's perspective and it's believing what they're saying. There's so much truth like Virginia Roberts Giuffre, she's, she's, she said her truth. There's evidence to back it up. There's all this very consistent evidence to back it up. It's circumstantial evidence, but very, very rarely is the actual act of the sexual exploitation and actual acts being videotaped or, or photographed. So all this evidence is being put together. She's telling the truth. She's telling the truth to America and we have to listen. We have to hear that truth. And every single victim that steps up, we, we owe it to them because we've been ignoring for so long their truth to listen, to pay attention, to hear their facts, to hear their details and to believe them. And that's what, that's what the story we need to tell. And it's not just for victims here in America. This was an international trafficking ring.
It's almost as if we're unwilling to say to these girls that went through absolute hell that, you know, we can't believe you because of the very people involved. That's a typical kind of situation you see like Richardson.
Yeah.
There's nothing for, to distance...
I'm part of the survivor tribe.
Okay.
Right, so I'm, I'm part of this survivor tribe. There are a group of people out there who are part of the survivor tribe.
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