Tag: Sex Trafficking

Sex Trafficking Victim Slams Katie Britt for Warping Story for SOTU

“We have no time to waste,” the 41-year-old Trump said on Real America’s Voice earlier this week. “We have to ensure that every single penny of every dollar donated goes to causes that people care about. That’s part of the reason that I think I’m such a great fit for this: There’s no one more […]

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Sex Trafficking Survivor Detests Being in Republicans’ SOTU Response

“We have no time to waste,” the 41-year-old Trump said on Real America’s Voice earlier this week. “We have to ensure that every single penny of every dollar donated goes to causes that people care about. That’s part of the reason that I think I’m such a great fit for this: There’s no one more […]

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How Chrystul Kizer, a Sex Trafficking Victim, is In Prison for Killing her Abuser

How could a Black girl from Wisconsin wind up being charged in the murder of a white man, one whom she considered to be the only person to care for her? ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Stars Reveal Surprising Facts About Reggae Icon Off English Chrystul Kizer’s nearly seven-year-long battle in the court system stems from […]

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WWE Wrestler Ashley Massaro Accused Vince McMahon of Sexually Preying on Wrestlers in Previously Unreleased Statement​

Photo by Jemal Countess/WireImage In a previously unpublished statement given before her 2019 death by apparent suicide, Ashley Massaro, a former WWE wrestler, said company founder Vince McMahon sexually preyed on female wrestlers and that she was punished for rejecting his advances by being given bad scripts she believed were meant to destroy her reputation—behavior, […]

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Despite Denials, WWE Management Knew Wrestler Said She Had Been Raped on Military Base

Vince McMahon stands accused of covering up the alleged rape of a WWE wrestler—who later died by apparent suicide—at a military base in Kuwait and of sexually harassing her, according to legal documents and people who knew her. John Laurinaitis, a former WWE executive and McMahon’s co-defendant in an explosive civil sex trafficking lawsuit, is […]

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NDAs Vince McMahon Signed Behind WWE’s Back May Be Worthless, Say Experts

The non-disclosure agreement at the center of a civil sex-trafficking suit former WWE employee Janel Grant filed last week against WWE, company founder Vince McMahon, and former executive John Laurinaitis has significant issues that could make it unenforceable, according to experts. The issues are possibly academic in Grant’s case, as in her lawsuit, she says […]

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Vince McMahon Sex-Trafficking Suit Raises Question of Who Knew What, When

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 23: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is seen during a ceremony announcing he has joined the Board of Directors for TKO at New York Stock Exchange on January 23, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michelle Farsi/Zuffa LLC For most of his public career, professional wrestling impresario and World […]

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A Longtime Associate of Tim Ballard’s Is Rebuilding Operation Underground Railroad

Still from Operation Toussaint In September 2023, the public became aware that Tim Ballard, the celebrity founder of the anti-trafficking non-profit Operation Underground Railroad and hero of the heavily fictionalized box-office hit Sound of Freedom, had left the organization following an investigation into sexual-misconduct claims made by women who worked for the group. Since then, […]

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A Private Island, Downloads From God, and the ‘Couples Ruse’: Inside the Dangerous World of Tim Ballard’s Operation Underground Railroad

On a sunny day in late October two years ago, a man twice her size drove his knee into Alison’s face, destroying her orbital bone and knocking her eye out of alignment. As she lay on the ground, bleeding and vomiting and urinating and having it explained to her that there was no bone supporting […]

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Ex-Operation Underground Railroad Employees Said OUR Misled Donors, Lied to Public

Former Operation Underground Railroad employees interviewed by criminal investigators said the organization misused donor funds and lied to the public about the nature and effectiveness of its work. These interviews are among records compiled during a now-closed criminal investigation into the famed anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard and OUR; these particular allegations were first reported by […]

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How the Anti-Trafficking Movement Gave Cover to Opportunistic Men

Spotlight didn’t just enable Kutcher to become an asset to cops—it also helped him become an A.I. guy. On the tech conference circuit over the past decade, he talked up how Spotlight uses A.I. for facial recognition, including in a partnership with Amazon Rekognition—a tool that Amazon has banned law enforcement from using, except by […]

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