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Obviously, Wayfair adamantly denies all such allegations, claiming they are false.

We believe that anyone caught committing such crimes as child sex trafficking would deny accusations.

That being said, we must do our own research to find our whether or not the Wayfair Sex Trafficking claims are true, or false.

To do this, let’s explore the 1st piece of potential evidence we received.

Possible Evidence #1001

Possible Evidence #1002

In the potential evidence submitted to Fighter Cries, The prices for the cabinets — called Alyvia, Neriah, Samiyah and Yaritza — ranged from $12,699.99 to $14,499.99 each, according to a screenshot posted in the “r/conspiracy” subreddit.

LINK: Reddit “Conspiracy” Category

Potential Evidence #1003

Possible Evidence: #1004

LIVE REPORT: PART #1

Possible Evidence: #1005

NOT MISSING!!

LIVE REPORT: PART #2

WE HAVE TONS MORE EVIDENCE THAT MAY PROVE OR DISPROVE THE WAYFAIR SEX SCANDAL “CONSPIRACY THEORY”

Is it possible that some used Wayfair for the sex trafficking of children. Yes.

Is it possible that is could have happened and no one at Wayfair knew? Yes.

If it did happen, is it more probable that someone at Wayfair knew? Yes.

Do we know either way for sure? No.

We will continue to research more on this breaking story for you, and give you an unbiased report on the finding of the facts.

OFFICIAL OPPINION

Unsubstantiated claim at this time. There is not enough evidence to prove a crime was committed at this time, however, this does not mean it is not true. More research is being performed as you read this.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR

Links. We need links. Find links to Listing Pages that way I can prove they are real, and really on the Wayfair site, or other sites. If this is true, they may have just showed us where to look, large dollar ticket items that are WAY over priced.

HOW TO GATHER EVIDENCE

When you are researching, please look for a link back to the missing children in the photo to prove they are missing, and a link to the original listing or screenshot that shows trackable listing ID # or tags.

That is how we prove or disprove the “Possible Wayfair Sex Trafficking Scandal” “conspiracy theory.”

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He invited DCS reps to all meetings to answer questions and do presentations. We got no concrete answers to any questions.
We broke up into sub-committees to write bills to make DCS more accountable in different areas. Sen. Farnsworth sponsored our bills. None of our bills were considered and AZ legislature voted to sine die due to COVID19.

During the course of our DCS Missing Children Committee meetings, Senator David Farnsworth was confronted by another Senator by the name of Kate Brophy-McGee. She proceeded to tell him he needed to stop meeting with us. She went as far as to tell him to “lose the entourage of crazy parents”.

Here is a link to a video of Kate Brophy-McGee when a member of AZ DCS Oversight Group asks her about supporting a bill for alerts similar to Amber Alerts to find missing children from AZ Department of Child Safety.

Fast forward to mid June of 2020. Senator David Farnsworth released a live video which truly shows he has not given up on asking questions regarding the abundance of kids missing from AZ DCS custody and pointing out the skewed numbers that AZ DCS is reporting on their website.

We all know what happened to other state senators who have taken on CPS. Sen. David Farnsworth needs prayers for protection.

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Evidence Page #225 of #424

There are over 424 pages of evidence. Click here of any image below to visit full story with ALL 424 pages of this document filed on Monday of this week.

Please download the full PDF on this page in support of Ms. Kimberly Lowe, who is being threatened with jail by corrupt Judges in Virginia.

Please Help This Family

Here Family is in Danger if left subject to Judge Gill Fraudulent Rulings

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Kimberly Lowe is running for Virginia’s 75th House of Delegates for 2021 with a plan to improve the lives of everyone.

Not only is she an experienced community leader, but she is also the mother of an autistic child who has special needs, giving her a unique insight into existing Government run agencies, such as CPS, that is all based on extremely credible facts, as seen here from the Appendix page of the 424 page document detailing Virginia court corruption.

UPDATE:

Must read page #151 through $156, it’s unbelievable!

QUOTE: “sell an alpaca” to pay for the GAL costs.

Download PDF Here

Call for Kimberly

Call Gov. Ralph Northam: 804-786-2211 

Call VA Atty General: 804-786-2071

Gov. VA: https://www.facebook.com/GovernorVA

VA Atty General: https://www.facebook.com/AGMarkHerring

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

The court of Virginia is corrupt. We just received a 424 document detailing corruption in the Virginia courts to the highest level.

Instead of following the law, the Virginia courts are bullying Kimberly Lowe, they are trying to intimidate her, and they are blatantly breaking the law while putting her entire family in danger, and she just sent us ALL the proof so you cannot silence her Fighter Cries.

Too Late CPS

The document has already been duplicated, transferred, backed up, downloaded onto backups, and I even buried a copy in the backyard, or was it the front? Go look, it’s too late. Welcome to the internet CPS.

Making a Difference

She is fighting to improve Virginia District 75: Brunswick County, Greensville County, Sussex County, Southampton County, and parts of Lunenburg County, city of Emporia and Franklin. Meet Kimberly.

“You need a representative that will support your ideas, fight for the needs of your community and earn your respect. For someone who truly cares for your community, look no further. ” ~ Kimberly Lowe

Being Silenced

The court of Virginia is corrupt, and they are trying to silence her. Judge Gill is trying to put her in jail for speaking out. We have the proof, 424 pages of it. These Judges need to go to jail.

OPERATION: “Langley”

Operation “Langley Tri-State” is a 100% legal peaceful “Social” gathering online, where the community peacefully and politely reaches out to the organizations that have the power to make a difference.

Together, as a Nation, all we are doing is using our mobile phones to simply let them know what is happening, in case they did not get the memo.

How it Works

Justice in 3 States | 15 Victims

Justice for James – Illinois

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/VillageofPalatine/

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/GovPritzker/

Justice for Kimberly Lowe Family – Virginia

Visit: http://facebook.com/GovernorVA

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/AGMarkHerring/

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/VAMFCU/

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/Virginia-Attorney-Generals-Computer-Crime-Section-117495484942020/

Justice for Kylees Fight & Fullerton Family – Oregon

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/multcoso

Peaceful Social

Operation name came from the 3 States we are focusing on and the fact every time our Oregonian volunteers hear “Virginia” used, one of the memorable location in Virginia is Langley.

We also kinda wanted to get their attention too, just so they’d look at this case. It’s sad. They need to know what’s happening. We are in no way threatening anyone with this peaceful operation. We hope someone in Langley, Virginia see this document. Thank you for helping.

Joseph McMahon’s PUBLIC Facebook Friend List – Illinois State Attorney

Last but not least, this man is responsible for the death.

Joe McMahon’s Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/joseph.mcmahon.3388

Our team has already downloaded all of his “Public” friend list.

Justice For James

Please review both cases in their entirety. Click image to view Story with link back to this page when done.

When the Justice For James case and Breanna Fullerton case are both examined, along side the other Illinois cases, when combined with the Las Vegas victim(s), there is a strong possibility that there is a connection in some way, and the case Stories have striking similarities.

SEX OFFENDER

By the time we see Justice for Breanna Fullerton and Justice For James, we will most likely have uncovered a massive sex trafficking ring within CPS that crosses State lines.

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MEET BREANNA FULLERTON – OR

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KIMBERLY LOWE FAMILY

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We have just uncovered these terrifying facts today. In a matter of hours, we have already found 4x States that are directly violating standard U.S. Family Court website security procedures and possibly endangering the public.

The four States are Illinois, Oregon, Virginia, and Alaska. Please review the FINDING OF THE FACTS below for each State. Read all the way until the very end. You will not want to miss a thing!

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Data Encryption

Google it people. These screenshot of Google search results page for “Security Risk of Not having an SSL” taken today, 7-4-2020.

Credible Threat

These days, nearly every website is required to have an SSL Certificate for encrypted data transfers, such as credit card information or basic emails from contact forms. The fact that the U.S. Family Court system does not have the most basic security features worries me, greatly.

Without an SSL Certificate for Secure Data Encryption, the U.S. Family Court System runs the risk of ALL of the information being hacked or risk attack from vicious Malicious Malware.

Illinois, U.S.A.

Serious Possible Security Breach

This is a real threat. When a website is not secure, the information within said website is more unacceptable to being hacked, and the possibly of the site containing Malicious Malware that could take any information you submit such as contact information, employment information, and ALL other information within and or submitted to the site.

Joseph McMahon Puts Public At Risk

This is an extremely serious breach of fiduciary responsibility, not only as public Officials, but this blatant neglect to follow basic PCI Complaint guidelines. Do better. Joseph H. McMahon, please resign immediately for your breach of of civic duty to protect your constituency.

Disgraced Illinois State’s Attorney, Joseph H. McMahon, Violates PCI Security Compliance Guidelines & Sexual Harassment Runs Rampant

Joseph H. McMahon, you are also disgrace to the ALL the good people in office. I know that our Government Officials above you will do the right thing by stepping in to remove you from power. Step down immediately.

Joseph H. McMahon, your lack of digital preparedness and data security is merely a symptom of your disease, with sexual harassment allegations running rampant throughout your entire office.

Joseph H. McMahon, you are blatantly allowing sexual harassment to continue within his organization as reported by Jeff Ward,”I was assigned to a case that was set for hearing that required a certain female officer to testify. I asked (prosecutor) if he would cover the hearing for me. (Prosecutor) indicated that he wouldn’t be able to do the hearing because he used to sleep with that woman, but that was when she weighed 30 pounds less and he wouldn’t be caught dead with her now.”

Joseph H. McMahon, you are directly responsible for the death of James Ryker Biel because you knew there was a life threatening situation and you ignored it. We are holding you accountable for this, and you will answer for your crimes.

We Stand For Justice

Joseph H. McMahon, you know who I am talking about. Kara begged for your help to save his her defenseless son, and now he is dead because you ignored her. We are done talking about this, please step down immediately and go to your room, with bars. You are a disgrace to the courts. Now, you answer to me.

Justice for James

Together, our Nation will see to it that Kara see Justice for James. Mark my words Joseph H. McMahon. Kara’s Fighter Cries will not go unanswered. She begged you to help her son, yet you did nothing. Now, this innocent angel is gone, his death is on your hands, and I am going to bring you to Justice for James.

Joseph, My Name is Leonidas

Joseph H. McMahon, it’s time you pick on someone your own size, me. My name is Leonidas, and I am to stop your crimes against children. You stand accused of directly contributing to the death of James Ryker Biel through complete neglect to answer Kara’s Fighter Cries for help. Now, you will answer directly to me and the court of public opinion.

Remember Their Names

Do you hear Joseph H. McMahon & Oregon Governor Kate Brown? That is the sound of the entire Nation rising up against you for your crimes against children. Remember those names, James Ryker Biel. Together, we are stronger. We Are Many.

Faces of Your Victims

Joseph McMahon & Kate Brown, say there names. James Ryker Biel. I know you just said them both to your assistant with fear trembling in your voice. I can hear your lies from miles away.

These names will haunt you for the rest of your life as we optimize the “Faces of Your Victims” for YOUR name keywords. When people “Google” your name, you will see is James, who is now dead because of you.

In fact, Joseph, go check the “META” of the images on this page, they already have your name legally labeled and optimized, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Go look at the Justice for James right now Joseph. It’s labeled, “Justice for James Ryker Biel Murdered in Joseph McMahon Illinois States Attorney Jurisdiction” in case you were wondering.

Oregon, U.S.A.

Oregon’s DHS and Family Court system is just as bad as the rest of the Nation. It will make you sick.

Corrupt Judges in Oregon are EVERYWHERE

DO NOT PASS GO: FighterCries.org/Kate-Brown-Do-Not-Pass-GO

Corrupt Oregon Judge Torres Sends Children to Founded Sex Offenders & Gets Away with because she is best friends with Governor Kate Brown

Here we have another caseworker in Gresham, Oregon (Multnomah County) and a child abuse hotline employee also in Portland, trafficking children to child sex offenders.

Bryan Tull kidnaps children from schools without parents ever knowing who he is and you are never reunited. Bryan Tull and Amy Hatton (Oregon City DHS, Clackamas County) are partners in two completely different counties/cities with many reports linking their names together.

If a child has been sexually abused, and placed by Bryan Tull with their abuser, then that child is flagged in the system against any further mandatory reporting calls and isn’t investigated if sexual abuse is questionable.

Bryan and Amy visit these homes prior to removing children for pre-placement many times without notifying the custodial parent at all. Thus, kidnapping children from schools is their only way to achieve this. Bryan kidnaps children from schools without ever investigating, without a court order and never notifying the custodial parent or meeting them like, Amy. So we knocked on his door. Did you know that caseworkers have the ability to delete documents in their system?

Here’s a clear example of too many mandatory reporters calling on where children are placed with a child sex abuser (original documents posted from 2009 cases and newly found reports in 2018) and the sex offender and other adults can just simply say, I didn’t know I was a child sex offender or was living with one. And by the way, could you remove that off my record. And the record in the system is deleted.

Do your children play or stay at the house where they live and babysit? Do you live in Gresham or Clackamas, Oregon?

Apparently it’s alright to place children in homes of child sex offenders where there is a newly constructed house, where there are food and bedrooms and to those who work from home.

In fact, they are praised and glorified by caseworkers like Bryan and Amy who support pedophilia and traffick our children. How many children have they done this to?

(Children’s names and last names protected. Posted with permission.)

Corrupt Judge Torres & Kate Brown are Best Friends

Oregon Child Abuse Hotline

Governor Kate Brown doesn’t follow ADA (American Disability Act) Compliance Guidelines (mandatory) for Oregon’s Child Abuse Hotline Website, so if you have an assistive device, good luck!

That’s not legal Kate, how many people have tried to call that could not? DO BETTER.

There’s not even a Click To Call.

Feel free to give her a call and let her know how you feel about that, as nice as possible using the ADA Friendly Click To Call Links on this page.

OREGON CHILD ABUSE HOTLINE IS NOT ADA COMPLIANT

It’s so bad, they didn’t even label the images properly like we did here OR on “Do Not Pass Go.” Kate Brown, you are bush league. Look at the image title in the URL at the top, that says it’s not labeled properly folks, and that’s what an assistive device would read.

Kate Brown, please resign.

Virginia, U.S.A.

Hon. William Allan Sharrett, Presiding Judge, PLEASE RESIGN!

Alaska, U.S.A.

Oregon Contact Numbers

DO NOT PASS GO: FighterCries.org/Kate-Brown-Do-Not-Pass-GO

This is not legal Kate, how many children have you hurt? DO BETTER.

There’s not even a Click To Call.

Feel free to give her a call and let her know how you feel about this, as nice as possible using the ADA Friendly Click To Call Links on this page.

Kate Brown, please resign.

CALL ALL 50 STATES

ISO 50+ State Representatives

Oregon Contact Numbers

Email: GAO.CR@state.or.us

DO NOT PASS GO: FighterCries.org/Kate-Brown-Do-Not-Pass-GO

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From what I hear, Kelly O’Donnell and Kevin Eady are true professionals.

For that reason, we’d like to personally thank you both for all your hard work, and for staying true to your oath to protect children.

Hats off to both of you.

“She is amazing!!! Doing her job right. Kevin is good as well. Both have the children’s best interests at heart.”

WOW!

Huge thanks to Kelly O’Donnell and North Clackamas CPS Permanency Worker Supervisor Kevin Eady.

You both ROCK for reuniting a mother and child. You two are the best DHS Caseworkers that we’ve heard of to date. Keep it up.

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Kimberly Larson remembers the first time she was approached by human traffickers.

She was 12 years old, walking downtown in Anchorage, and strangers pulled over to ask if she wanted a meal at Wendy’s. They asked where she was living, what she needed.

“They were looking for a young girl to exploit,” she told ArcticToday. It didn’t work. The strangers’ oddly familiar questions set off alarm bells for Larson, and she kept walking.

By the time Larson reached her forties, she thought she was out of the danger zone. She had a home, a husband, three kids. She was no longer that young, vulnerable-looking girl. But Larson’s life wasn’t as stable as it seemed. She started drinking too much, then doing drugs.

“Everything went sour,” she said. She split up with her husband and began living with a boyfriend, who was soon exploiting her. When she left him, she had nowhere to live, so she began sleeping on her coworker’s couch. Then she lost her job.

She was homeless, jobless, addicted to drugs and alcohol. Just when she thought she couldn’t get any lower, she met the man who would eventually be convicted of trafficking her and several other women.

Alaska’s high rates of trafficking

It’s hard to say exactly how common human trafficking is in Alaska or elsewhere in the United States.

First of all, there are differences in state and federal legal definitions of what exactly constitutes sex trafficking. Federally, if a third party is benefiting from a sex act by a person under the age of 18, that is sex trafficking. In Alaska, the age is extended to 20. If the victim is older than that, then to get a conviction, law enforcement must prove that a trafficker used force, fraud or coercion.

But many people who have been trafficked don’t know the law, and others don’t realize they’ve been coerced. Larson, for example, believed she had chosen her situation and blamed herself.

“They really do intimidate you, they make you feel like you can’t be without them,” she said. “I was so broken on the inside.”

It took a long time, she said, before she could recognize the trafficking as exploitation — and even longer before she could change the way she saw and valued herself.

Another problem: It’s difficult to collect the numbers on how many people are trafficked, often because it goes under the radar in the legal system.

“We really haven’t gotten the data, gotten the information that we need to really understand the extent of sex trafficking in Alaska and, really, nationally,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said in a conversation with ArcticToday.

But the studies that have been done show that trafficking is a pervasive issue across the United States — particularly in Alaska.

In 2017, researchers from Loyola University conducted a study on the link between youth homelessness and human trafficking. The researchers interviewed residents of Covenant House, a shelter for young people, in ten different North American cities, including Anchorage, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Oakland and Toronto.

They found that 20 percent of the children had been trafficked in some way; 14 percent of those interviewed had been trafficked for sex, while 8 percent had been trafficked for labor. Some endured both.

Of the cities surveyed, Anchorage had the highest rate of trafficking. One in four girls and one in five boys at Covenant House Alaska reported being victims of sex trafficking.

“Think about that,” Murkowski told ArcticToday. “Out of 10 different cities” — including New York and Oakland — “Anchorage had the highest reported prevalence of human trafficking.”

Alaska Natives — particularly from rural areas — and other Indigenous peoples across the Arctic have frequently been targets for human traffickers.

Indigenous women and girls face higher rates of violence and sexual exploitation than their non-Native peers, Murkowski said, and Alaska Natives are frequently targeted by traffickers because of their appearance.

“To think that women and girls — and boys, as well — are being identified this way, because they might command a higher price in the sex traffic, is absolutely horrible and horrifying,” she said.

Many of those who are trafficked have recently arrived in a major city, like Anchorage, from rural areas.

“Within 24 hours of being in town, they can be caught up in a trafficking operation,” Murkowski said last week in an address to the Senate.

Last week, two bills championed by Murkowski that highlight the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls passed the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Now, they’re headed to the U.S. Senate floor for a vote.

The Not Invisible Act and Savanna’s Act call attention to the high rates of trafficking, violence and murder facing Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and they seek to improve responses to this crisis from law enforcement, tribal leaders and others.

Though there have been substantial efforts from advocates to fill in the gaps on Indigenous women and girls who go missing or are murdered, data is rarely collected in an official or organized way, Murkowski said.

Earlier this month, the Senate’s sprawling spending package included $6.5 million for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to “take a more comprehensive look” and address the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, as Murkowski, who chaired the appropriations process for this funding, said on Twitter.

This funding would support cold-case investigations, more equipment, training and background checks in order to address existing cases and to stop these crimes from happening in the first place, Murkowski added.

The $332 billion Senate spending bill must now be reconciled with the House version and pass committee before being signed by President Trump.

In the meantime, on Friday, November 22, Attorney General William P. Barr launched a “national strategy” for the Department of Justice to address missing and murdered Indigenous people. The strategy will help federal prosecutors and the FBI improve missing-persons investigations and data collection and analysis.

And on Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order to establish a two-year task force on missing and murdered Indigenous people, particularly women and girls. The task force will coordinate with tribal governments, work on new and existing cases, collect more complete data, and clarify who has jurisdiction over cases, among other goals.

These two issues — missing and murdered women and girls, and human trafficking — are closely related, Murkowski told ArcticToday: “Many of those who go missing or who are ultimately murdered have been part of a trafficking ring or just been involved with human trafficking.”

Anchorage sees such high rates of trafficking in part because it’s a hub for the state of Alaska, Josh Louwerse, program director of Covenant House Alaska, told ArcticToday. Many people come from elsewhere in the state to go shopping, see friends and family, attend meetings like the Alaska Federation of Natives, and to use services not available in smaller towns and communities.

“When it comes to mental health, behavioral health, substance use, even though I think we have some giant gaps in our systems, this is the place where most of that happens,” Louwerse explained. “If they’re feeling suicidal and they need to go somewhere to check in, the places are really in Anchorage.”

Once they are discharged from the hospital or health center, Louwerse said, they may not have a place to stay, which is how many end up at Covenant House. And many others are picked up by traffickers; according to the 2017 study, 77 percent of the children who were trafficked were homeless at the time.

“Folks who are vulnerable, folks who are homeless, folks who have been abused and marginalized in all these sorts of ways, they’re more likely to be recruited, because they’re in a hard spot,” Louwerse said.

There have also been cases, he said, of traffickers specifically targeting women and girls in rural communities. A few years ago, traffickers admitted to plans of bringing victims from villages into the city, calling it “tundra pimping,” Louwerse said. And there’s also trafficking that happens within the rural communities themselves, he added.

Robin Bronen is the executive director of the Alaska Institute for Justice, which works with survivors of human trafficking.

“One of the huge issues in this state is related to the lack of law enforcement in rural Alaska,” she told ArcticToday. Without law enforcement in rural communities, patterns of abuse and violence that start or exacerbate the cycle of trafficking may never be addressed.

“If you’ve been the victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or child sexual abuse,” she said, “it increases your vulnerability to being victimized again in a human trafficking situation.”

“If we don’t deal with epidemics of domestic violence, sexual assault and child sexual abuse, we’re not doing enough to prevent human trafficking from occurring,” Bronen said.

Larson called the cycles of violence and trafficking an “epidemic” in Alaska, and said that girls are being targeted at younger and younger ages.

It took a long time for Larson to get back on her feet again. “It was really hard to change my thought process,” she said. She’d long believed she wasn’t worth loving. “When you have that feeling your whole life, it’s super easy to be used by men,” she said.

Now, Larson has reconnected with her children and her faith; she has a job and two puppies at home. “I have a purpose,” she said. “I have reasons to be okay and to be happy.”

‘This is not the life I want to live’

One organization that helped get her find her confidence is a nonprofit called Priceless Alaska, which has assisted about 140 women and girls after being trafficked.

Adrienne Tucker, a case manager at Priceless, said that about 70 percent of the girls and women she meets don’t realized they were trafficked. “A lot of them feel like it’s their fault,” she said. When she meets women who may have been trafficked, she asks specific questions to ascertain if they endured force, fraud or coercion.

“Were you forced to do something you didn’t want to do? Or were you brought into Anchorage?” If someone was brought into the city from, say, Kotzebue, that can be a red flag, Tucker said. “Did they meet someone online that offered them a job of modeling or something like that?” Many of the women and girls who work with Priceless were recruited online — through social media, dating sites and job sites.

Even if the women and girls initially believe they chose this life, Tucker said, “they’ll flat-out say it like, I don’t want to do this anymore. This is not the life I want to live. And I feel like I have no control over my life.” That’s when they’ll realize they’ve been trafficked, she said.

Priceless connects trafficking survivors with mentors who help the women and girls build a new life. Tucker will help find housing, transportation, substance use treatments, navigate protective orders and custody battles and more. Then the mentors help the survivors fill out housing and job applications, help them move, take them to eat.

“Whatever it is, they’re just being a friend to them,” Tucker said. “Kind of introducing them to a new normal.”

Alaska’s main industries — tourism, fishing, oil and gas — make it particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking, Tucker said. She said trafficking is a growing problem throughout the state, but it’s especially a problem for women and girls from rural communities. “The most vulnerable population are the ones from villages because they’re so tiny,” she said. Alaska Native women and girls make up the biggest client population at Priceless, she said.

The problem of human trafficking appears to be growing across in other Arctic nations, as well — though it’s difficult to find numbers that are specific to those nations’ Arctic regions.

In Canada, First Nations women and young people make up between 70 and 90 percent of those found in the sex trade in areas where Indigenous people represent less than 10 percent of the population, researcher Victoria Sweet found. As the Arctic heats up and more people travel to the region, she wrote, the number of Indigenous women in Canada’s North who are trafficked will likely increase, if measures aren’t taken to prevent that.

“The combination of development in rural locations, the demographic shift of outsiders moving to the north, and the lack of close monitoring in this circumpolar area is a potential recipe for disaster for indigenous women in the region,” Sweet wrote in her 2014 study.

A 2014 report by Helen Roos also found that “Inuit represent one of the most vulnerable populations in Canada.”

Among Arctic nations, Russia suffers from especially high rates of trafficking, according to the U.S. State Department’s annual report on human trafficking. Labor trafficking is the predominant problem, the report said, but sex trafficking has also continued to occur.

In 2018, Russia reported 14 investigations and 18 convictions related to trafficking. But the Global Slavery Index estimated that 794,000 people were trafficked in Russia in 2016. For comparison, the organization estimates about 9,000 people in Norway and 17,000 in Canada are trafficked every year. (The United States, Sweden and Norway were among their list of the top ten countries working to address human trafficking.)

Strengthening communities, gathering data

Josh Louwerse at Covenant House Alaska said strengthening services for Alaska Native communities, particularly in rural areas, should be a major part of the response to trafficking. That includes housing and treatment for mental, behavioral and substance use issues.

“If we can build stronger systems of service, there’s less vulnerable people to be trafficked,” he said. “We should get in front of that, and be able to get you into a safe place so that never happens.”

“Any way that we can strengthen communities and their ability to navigate hard things and hard situations with young people would go a long way,” Louwerse said.

In addition, more education on what trafficking is — for survivors, but also for law enforcement and judges — would help to identify and prosecute cases. Larson said women and girls who have been trafficked often see police as the people who want to bust them, not help them.

But Louwerse is cautiously optimistic. Right now, trafficking is getting a lot of attention, he said — but the next step must be system-wide changes, before momentum is lost. That means educating those in law enforcement and the judicial system on what human trafficking is and how it should be prosecuted; it means collecting data more efficiently and effectively in order to understand the scope of the problem; and it means creating more accessible health and social services for those who need them.

“Otherwise, we’re going to have this wave [of interest] and then go on to the next thing,” Louwerse said.

Sen. Murkowski told ArcticToday that this is why she is introducing the issue to Congress in bill after bill.

“What we’re trying to do here is identify those areas where — through legislation, through administrative process, through training, through staffing — we can increase the reporting [of cases]; and then, as we increase the reporting, we can also increase the prosecution,” she said.

“The other side of it is also to address any gaps in services for the victim,” she said.

“It doesn’t make any difference how far away you are,” Murkowski said. “You deserve to have that level of justice. You deserve to have that protection.”

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MEDFORD, Ore. — January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Oregon police report that they encounter 3-5 victims of human trafficking per week; 80% of these victims are women, 50% are children.

“People don’t realize that sex trafficking with children is a silent epidemic in the United States,” said Kirsten Arreguin, the Director of Redemption Ridge.

“What we know is that traffickers will take their victims up and down the I5, stop in cities along the way for a couple of nights, make some money and then move on,” said Staysha Hackmann, the Sex Trafficking Intervention Coordinator for Community Works.
Hundreds of children are exploited along the I5 corridor on a monthly basis.

“Portland is the second largest city for forced child prostitution in the United States right after Las Vegas,” says Arreguin.

Human trafficking is not what you might expect, rather than what you see in the movie Taken, traffickers are manipulators, they target vulnerable people, sometimes children and use the same tactics that cult leaders use.

“Most commonly, an individual is pretending to be in a relationship with somebody, making them feel like there’s a love and a care and compassion from that person,” said Hackmann, who is also a sex trafficking survivor, “They listen to them they make them feel like they’re a part of their world and a part of their family.”

“The highest risk group are kids who are in foster care and kids who are runaways,” said Arreguin, “A lot of traffickers lure kids in by saying, “I’m so sorry this happened to you,” “Come here and I’ll take care of you,” “You’re so pretty” and “We’re going to be just fine together,” and then the tables turn on these kids and they find out that they’ve been abducted to be used as a commodity.”

Traffickers spend considerable time in areas where children congregate such as parks, malls, youth shelters and on social media in order to carefully lure their victims into sex slavery.

“They say all the right words, maybe they arrange to meet up with someone who they think is going to be a boyfriend,” says Arreguin, “but he’s not a boyfriend, he’s in a business and his business is trafficking children for sex.”

Traffickers then bond themselves to their victims by further manipulation, taking away their basic needs and in some cases, getting them addicted to drugs.

“That is a weapon of a trafficker, to get a young girl addicted to drugs. That keeps her with him,” said Arreguin.

“It’s a lot of manipulation, it’s a lot of deprivation of basic human needs. Sleep deprivation is really common, making you work extreme hours on a regular basis withholding food and drink so that your cognitive function is no longer processing the way that it should be,” said Hackmann.

Since 2007, Oregon has enacted roughly 25 bills to address human trafficking. On a local level, Community Works and Redemption Ridge are two organizations that operate out of Medford and work to raise awareness for sex trafficking while providing tools to community members and parents to protect themselves and their children.

“We’re working on getting our hotels trained, we’re working on getting our officers trained, we’re working on training medical staff, any kind of social service work, mental health we’ve got representation from the CAC, hearts with a mission, SART,” said Hackmann.
“If you’re in a PTA or you have a service club or some sort of community group or church group call us and start putting yourself on the list for us to come to your group,” says Arreguin.

Redemption Ridge is kicking off a new initiative this month to educate parents and the public on how to prevent the trafficking of children.

“If people want to fight forced prostitution of children and sex trafficking the first thing is become aware and get some education,” said Arreguin.

Both Redemption Ridge and Community Works are always looking for volunteers. If you’re interested in scheduling a training or if you want to learn how you can get involved follow the links below.

On Saturday, Jan. 11 people around the nation will be wearing blue to raise awareness for human trafficking. Coming up on Jan. 23rd, Tinsletown in Medford is screening for one-day-only, a documentary titled, “Blind Eyes Opened, The Truth About Sex Trafficking in America”. The documentary speaks to what is fueling demand and how victims are transforming their lives through support and through dedicated ministries.

Redemption Ridge

Community Works

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An audit released by the secretary of state Jan. 31 reveals an overloaded child welfare system with a culture of bullying and intimidation.

Leaders of Oregon’s child welfare system have continually failed to fix systemic problems after paying $39 million in legal settlements, according to a new audit by the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office.

At the same time, child welfare employees have worked in a culture of bullying and intimidation, facing verbal abuse from Department of Human Services leaders, state auditors said in the report released Wednesday.

Some DHS staff members also were told not to talk with Secretary of State officials for the audit, according to the audit report.

“This sounds like a really poisonous atmosphere to work in,” said Jim Moore, director of the Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation at Pacific University in Forest Grove. 

Previous coverage: After almost a decade, DHS adopts rules mandated by law

“It sounds like an agency that is hunkering down and stonewalling,” Moore said. Moreover, it’s requiring employees to do the same, he said.

Secretary of State auditors also found:

• DHS has spent $39 million on legal payouts since 2006 because the agency couldn’t “consistently keep children in their care safe from abuse and neglect.”
• Agency leaders haven’t reversed high staff turnover and caseload rates that put children in danger.
• Agency managers have not addressed recruitment and retention of high-quality foster parents.

“To begin reversing the growing foster care crisis, we concluded DHS must first address its management and organizational cultural deficiencies,” the auditors said.

DHS agreed with the two dozen recommendations made in the report.

DHS Director Fariborz Pakseresht (Photo: Northwest News Network)

“When I started in my role as DHS director in September, the governor made it clear to me that she expects every child in foster care to be safe,” DHS Director Fariborz Pakseresht said in a statement.

Previously: Oregon DHS, child welfare leaders optimistic after shake-ups

“As part of that, she has directed us to focus on recruiting and retaining foster parents and caseworkers and to create a better culture of support for them,” he said. “She expects results and outcomes, and we will be reporting to her on those monthly.” 

In a statement, Gov. Brown said the monthly reports from Pakseresht will be made public once she gets them.

“As a state, there is so much more we can do to improve how the foster care system recruits and supports our frontline caseworkers and foster families,” Brown said. “To make sure our children get the best care possible, we need community support around foster families and case workers, from the simplest of donations to becoming a foster parent.”

Slow to respond

Agency leaders’ responses to more than a decade of scrutiny and crisis has been slow, indecisive and inadequate, auditors said. Efforts to reform the system have fallen flat because of poor planning, poor execution and eventual abandonment. Get the Daily Briefing newsletter in your inbox.

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An example cited in the report was a 2016 mandate to complete more child abuse and neglect investigations in a timely manner. The Legislature was told the agency had made improvements completing the investigations, but the auditors found “the push to complete investigations lasted about three months, after which the agency’s complete rate returned to previous levels.”

“Field staff reported the use of questionable management tactics to push staff to complete more investigations, including threatening to take away scheduled leave time or put staff on administrative leave.”

DHS oversees about 7,600 children in foster care day-to-day.

“I believe how we treat our children reflects our heart and priorities as a state — and this report reveals that genuine introspection as a state is long overdue.”Secretary of State Dennis Richardson

The Secretary of State’s Office called for major reforms within the agency, saying DHS should set caps on how many cases staff members can take on and “cultivate a culture of transparency, responsibility, respectful communication and professionalism.”

“As a foster parent myself who adopted one of my daughters out of the system, I find the audit report results especially infuriating,” Secretary of State Dennis Richardson said in a press release.Buy Photo

Secretary of State Dennis Richardson. (Photo: ANNA REED / Statesman Journal)

“I believe how we treat our children reflects our heart and priorities as a state — and this report reveals that genuine introspection as a state is long overdue,” Richardson said.

Pakseresht said in a letter provided with the audit that child welfare director Marilyn Jones is poised to create new “Child Welfare leadership teams” that “will understand the need for transparency, strong and open communication, and offering high levels of support while asking for high levels of accountability.”

The agency agreed to work with the Legislature to add more staff members to address high caseloads, Pakseresht said in the letter.

Moore said the audit will likely shift top state lawmakers’ focus back to the state child welfare system, even during the short February session. Lawmakers will want to address the problems and hear from agency leaders, he said.

More: 44 children left in harm’s way: Oregon’s child welfare agency struggled to fix problems

‘Bullying, intimidation’ in child welfare

Child welfare workers told auditors about multiple instances “of bullying, intimidation (sic) of caseworkers by senior staff and management efforts to suppress information.”

State auditors described a culture within DHS that has seen workers at the agency’s central office in Salem face “bullying in meetings, including being shouted at and verbally abused.”

“Some told us that they had been instructed not to talk to the state audit team,” auditors said.

One manager told auditors they were warned they would lose their job if they testified before state lawmakers about a program that was failing.

Another worker was directed by management to tell a lawmaker that information they asked for was not available “when it was,” auditors said.

“A third manager told us that they and their team were treated ‘as saboteurs’ for sharing information about a child safety review with management and that the report was essentially dismissed and ignored,” auditors said.

High caseloads still a problem

In Salem, child protective services workers are assigned 21 investigations monthly, more than triple the number of investigations they should be working on, based on an agency workload model, auditors said. They should have about seven investigations each.

In Prineville, permanency workers reported having to work up to 45 cases when staff levels were low. That’s almost quadruple a recommended 11.5-cases-per-person workload, auditors said. Roseburg permanency workers said they had about 20 cases each.

Permanency workers develop a plan for foster children to move to a permanent living situation, whether that’s adoption, living with a guardianship or reunifying with their birth family, according to DHS spokespeople.

“Caseworkers and other field staff told us repeatedly that the demands placed upon them were unrealistic,” auditors said.

In addition, DHS managers in Salem don’t accurately keep tabs on staff caseloads, auditors said. “This lack of oversight contributes to high caseloads that are not reflected in the available data and inequitable staffing levels between counties and districts.”

To conduct the review, auditors interviewed about 240 people, from agency leaders to staff members in the field. Auditors also sent out a 60-item questionnaire to district managers throughout Oregon.

Read the entire audit: Foster Care in Oregon

The politics

The audit immediately entered the realm of politics Wednesday, with state officials using it to say their opponents weren’t doing their jobs.

Rep. Knute Buehler, a Bend Republican hoping to unseat Brown in the November election, laid the blame at the feet of the governor.

“Oregon’s foster care crisis is a failure of this government and this governor to protect and care for some of the most vulnerable children among us. It is a shameful violation of the public trust,” Buehler said in a statement.

“Rather than putting this issue at the top of the agenda for the upcoming legislative session, the governor continues to posture and position for her political base by pursuing misplaced priorities.”

Meanwhile, Chris Pair, spokesman for the governor, sent the Statesman Journal an email accusing Richardson, a Republican, of playing politics to advance his and his allies’ agenda.

“Gov. Brown already identified these issues and has been working with the Legislature to build the child welfare system our children deserve,” Pair said. “That’s why DHS was already working on 17 of the secretary’s recommendations before they were ever written.”

“Secretary Richardson’s audits are just about politics,” Pair said. “He should be working to help Gov. Brown ensure that our state’s limited resources are spent well on our shared priorities.”

Reach Statesman Journal reporter Jonathan Bach by phone at 503-399-6714 or by email at jbach@statesmanjournal.com.

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