The U.S. Has a Human Trafficking Problem—And the Answer is You...

by Hava Lynn at Uncover DC

Our nation has been abuzz with human trafficking since The Sound of Freedom’s release. While there is not much new information in the movie, it has brought the scourge of human trafficking to the forefront of our minds.

I’ve been involved in anti-trafficking for over a decade—before it was vogue to care about the issue. The depravity of sex slavery and pedophilia was happening before I was born. It’s not new. I have supported and volunteered at international, national, and local organizations. For a year, I served as a director of an anti-trafficking organization. I’ve raised money for anti-trafficking efforts and worked hard in public relations. I’ve been on the streets. I worked with survivors of human trafficking and satanic ritual abuse. I’ve sat with victims and heard stories of little children being tortured in states in our nation.

But it wasn’t until I saw the social response to The Sound Freedom that it clicked with me —our only chance of winning this battle is through local action.

Novel, right? Definitely not. General Flynn has been saying it for a while, and it’s finally catching on. I just hadn’t seen the specifics regarding human trafficking until now.

Human trafficking rarely looks like what you see in the movies—at least not at the level where you can have an impact. It looks like your child’s friend with hollow eyes, the poor single mom on the bad side of town, the wife with an abusive husband, the foster kids being moved from home to home, and the teens called runaways.

It was on a random community Facebook page when I first saw it…