(intense music)
- I never dreamed that
I would work in Haiti.
I didn't know anything really about Haiti,
until I learned about a little boy
who was born in Utah,
U.S. citizen and was kidnapped in Haiti
from his church where his
father was the pastor.
I read about it in the local newspaper.
I thought that I could
make it into a U.S. case,
and I couldn't because it wasn't.
We had to leave our jobs,
I had to leave my job because I just had
to do something about it.
We went to Haiti to look for his son.
- [Officer] Yeah, it's right here--
- [Officer 2] It's right here, right here.
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- And we never found him.
- People weren't talking
about human trafficking
like they are now, and really it's because
of the work and efforts by organizations
like Operation Underground Railroad.
- It's a subject that nobody wants
to think about or talk about.
It's the worst part of humanity.
- Two virgins, 13 and 14 years old.
- Wow.
- And yet, you've got to
do something about it.
- Police, get on the ground, right now.
- Don't move around!
- Get on the ground.
Get on the ground, right now!
- [Suspect] No problem.
- [Officer] Get on the ground,
put that down right now.
- [Officer 2] Get on the ground.
- Every thirty seconds a child is sold,
they're sold for sex, they're
sold for labor, they're sold
for organ harvesting, which is something
we're now getting into.
There's six million
children that are forced
into one of those three
categories right now.
And the world doesn't know.
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- Not a lot of people
know, but the profile
for men who travel abroad
to have sex with kids
are American citizens.
- [Tim] The U.S. creates the demand.
The highest produced and consumer
of child pornography is right
here in the United States.
- Well, if you lost one of your children
to one of these evil
people, you'd do anything
to get even and get your child back.
- I had a knock on my door one day,
Tim said listen, I really feel
like I can do better
leaving the government.
- I find a group of kids in Guatemala
or Colombia and I couldn't
do anything about it,
because it wasn't a U.S. case.
It's outside of the jurisdiction,
and I understood that.
However, that doesn't mean
that we couldn't be doing more.
- Tim Ballard left his
law enforcement career,
everything that he knew,
his pension, his security,
to start a non-profit called
Operation Underground Railroad.
They've done jumps everywhere
throughout the world,
rescued kids and then helped
them get to a safe place
with their aftercare programs.
- He had a way that we
could really make an impact,
but they needed a
million dollars to start.
And I said, I'm in.
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- I like little girls.
- [Offscreen] You like little girls?
(officers yelling)
- We had set up this operation
that looked like it went flawless.
- We unfortunately got
some very frustrating news.
- The traffickers were being released,
and that all the girls were released.
- They paid money to the
right people, to the judges.
The job's not quite done,
but it's almost done,
because now we need to go back
and we need to re-arrest every single one
of these traffickers.
It will be a message to Haiti, to America,
to the whole world that
there are good people
everywhere who will stand up for this.
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(shouting in foreign language)
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