Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 299 ｜ The Fight Against Sex Trafficking ｜ Guest： Jaco Booyens

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Today I am talking to Yako Buyans. A lot of you guys

00:00:15.360 follow him on Instagram. You support his organization or maybe you have heard him speak at an event

00:00:21.240 before, but he is on the front lines against sex trafficking. And so today he is going to

00:00:27.940 tell us what sex trafficking looks like. There are parts of it that just aren't as obvious and

00:00:33.920 aren't as publicized as you and I might know. So he's going to give us information on that and give

00:00:39.640 us an inside look into what the fight against it actually looks like, what kinds of things

00:00:45.420 we need to be looking for and how we can help protect victims, how we can fight against it

00:00:52.040 ourselves, the kinds of initiatives and the kinds of politicians that we should be supporting. I am

00:00:58.880 so excited for you to listen to this conversation. He is so helpful and so insightful and so strong

00:01:05.260 in this fight. So without further ado, here is Yako Buyans.

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00:02:08.700 know that and make sure that you are in the know and that you are cutting through all the noise with

00:02:13.600 us. Thank you so much for being here. Appreciate it, Ali. Very, very happy to be here. Yes, I think

00:02:24.820 that everyone listening probably follows you as well. But in case there are a few people out there who

00:02:30.200 don't know you, can you tell them who you are and what you do? Yeah, Yaku Boyens, born and raised 1.00

00:02:34.600 South Africa, proud legal immigrant to the United States. For the last 17 years I've been a citizen

00:02:39.660 and we fight for life, Ali. We fight for life in and out of the womb, but really we fight against

00:02:46.440 child sex trafficking and have for 26 years because my sister was trafficked for six years.

00:02:52.400 Oh, wow.

00:02:52.780 So our organization is called Share Together Now, meaning we share the responsibility of raising our

00:02:59.940 kids in this country, of raising them right and protecting them. And unfortunately, evil is real

00:03:06.140 and there are some who wish to harm the little ones. Yeah. How did you get into this industry? I know

00:03:14.020 that you said that your sister was trafficked, but when and how did you decide, okay, I want to start

00:03:18.720 doing something about this. Yeah, because not everybody whose family goes to that experience

00:03:22.640 then becomes a 26-year life mission, you know? So honestly, you know, with Ilanka, I was a senior

00:03:28.580 in high school, six years older than my sister. She was trafficked at 13. Wow. So for six years it was,

00:03:35.040 and we didn't know that it was trafficking at the time until she returned home and then you realize

00:03:40.140 it's disastrous, right? But somewhere in the process from us leaving South Africa right when she was

00:03:46.820 rescued, which was always the plan, to come to the States and arriving in the United States within

00:03:51.820 three months, God just laid on my heart and said, not another one. His heart is that not one more,

00:03:58.080 you know, not another child should be sexually abused or trafficked. I had no expectation or idea

00:04:04.720 that trafficking was going to be prevalent in the United States. We thought it's a land of the free,

00:04:09.920 the home of the brave. This is no milk and honey. It's not going to happen here. And then,

00:04:13.140 and this is 2001. Right. I saw it for the first time in Chattanooga, Tennessee, because we lived

00:04:18.180 in Nashville and the penny dropped and it's like, and then of course, now we know today we're the

00:04:23.200 most prevalent nation on earth, trafficking children. So it's been, but it was somewhere

00:04:28.440 in there was just, God just said, not another one, you know? And so, and so it's just a, it's a,

00:04:33.560 it's a mad mission for us. So with your sister, you said that you didn't realize at the time

00:04:38.520 that it was trafficking. How, how did it happen? Ilonka won a competition,

00:04:43.880 South African Idol, like American Idol. She's an incredible singer today, very healthy in Nashville,

00:04:50.120 Tennessee. She has her own ministry. She's a recording artist, a worship artist, but she's

00:04:55.580 had that gift. So she won this competition as a 13 year old, right? Against adults, legitimately. 0.98

00:05:01.240 Wow.

00:05:01.320 The record label courted the family for a year. We got to know them well, big label. They built

00:05:08.080 trust. We traveled with them. And then the president of that label and the manager that

00:05:13.220 was assigned to her first started with a rape, which is what they normally do. And then they 0.65

00:05:19.600 trafficked her. So she was trafficked unconventionally through what people would think through a corporate 0.87

00:05:25.500 setting. It's not always snatch and grab or always the runaway child. And then the police at that

00:05:30.040 time then said, well, she's a runaway. And he said, no, we're a very tight family. We're

00:05:34.500 raised by a single mom. My, my mind on mothers is next level. Moms are, they're everything. 0.99

00:05:43.160 I mean, so we were very close and we knew faith is our foundation. So there's no way she was

00:05:48.360 a runaway. This is a high functioning girl, field hockey player, singer. I mean, and all 0.52

00:05:53.500 of a sudden, you know, she's gone. So, so, but still nobody called the trafficking or anything

00:05:58.580 else. They just, and the police, honestly, about three months in, it's like, you know,

00:06:03.040 what it's a runaway, you know, ironically, she was, she was rescued by an undercover cop

00:06:08.380 who had worked the case previously. So that, that process, but throughout the process, my mom just

00:06:13.620 always, and as an 18 year old, and I had to go do military service at that time because

00:06:17.540 transitioned from high school. And so it was just a crazy, a crazy time, you know, but we always vowed

00:06:23.140 when she, when she was back, we didn't know what that meant because physically back doesn't mean

00:06:29.180 back, by the way, you know, she physically came back, but it took a decade in the United States 0.55

00:06:36.100 to really have my sister back, just her having herself back, you know, and that's what I think

00:06:43.860 so much of social media today, just go rescue the children. And I, yes, please. We need to rescue

00:06:49.860 those, but it's, it's the starting gun on a, on a marathon. Yeah. Yeah. So you came to the United

00:06:57.540 States, you saw an incident in Chattanooga, and then I'm guessing you started digging in to try to

00:07:04.240 see how big this problem was in the United States. And we know that it's a big problem, but in those

00:07:09.580 first days of your research, what did you discover that surprised you about trafficking here?

00:07:15.100 It was a bizarre situation because I'm real time learning from my sister. Imagine this,

00:07:21.820 there's one day we don't know because still she didn't talk because victims don't identify as

00:07:27.020 victims. There's massive manipulation and confusion going on. So one day she said, she called a family

00:07:32.880 meeting in Nashville and five of us sit and she goes, starts for like a five hour process and doesn't 0.79

00:07:40.880 stop. And no one says a word. And she starts first account of a guy abusing her second account,

00:07:46.700 third account in, in grotesque detail. And you're sitting there, I'm sitting there. I'm the oldest

00:07:53.320 brother, quote unquote, dad in the house. And now you come with guilt. It happened on my watch. And you

00:07:59.140 just, you're processing these emotions at the same time. I'll be honest. A hatred almost builds up.

00:08:06.680 You want to go back to South Africa and just get everybody, but then your heart's broken for your

00:08:11.340 sister. You can't, there's no way to make sense. So that's how I learned what trafficking was through

00:08:17.420 Ilanka's experiences, but at the same time, also witnessing it in the U S and saying, but I'm seeing

00:08:23.400 everything you're telling me I'm seeing. So learn how to profile, right? And there are good reasons to

00:08:30.520 profile. I learned how to profile through Ilanka's eyes, but then I also saw her just, there was two

00:08:36.600 attempted suicides in rehab. I mean, this is massive, right? So that, so it was this world of

00:08:42.180 living it, trying to put a family back together and then seeing it at the same time in the world.

00:08:49.000 And nobody sees it. It's like blind. Nobody said, like, can you people not see, you know? So from

00:08:54.060 2001, I, and so then it became, okay, start looking for it. What I learned to look for now,

00:09:01.480 go look for it. Right. And then see more and more of it and learn. There's no help. Yeah. And so

00:09:07.440 progress that through 2000 and really only 2014 where legislation woke up and said, Oh, we got to

00:09:16.620 change the laws because it's really not okay. You know, to call a 10 year old, 12 year old sex

00:09:23.180 traffic victim, a prostitute. Right. And have them have a rap sheet for the rest of their life. But 1.00

00:09:27.700 that's 2014, that's 13 years in the U S of just seeing almost nothing happen. Right. Now, great

00:09:34.760 organizations fighting, but few and far between. Right. So it was a weird balance of I'm learning

00:09:41.780 firsthand how they do it, what they say, what the manipulation, watching her go through rehab,

00:09:48.400 literally watching a human being. That's my sister, but it's, but the person's not there.

00:09:53.140 As far as the personality, this is a singer, you know, artists, they've, they're out there

00:09:58.680 framboyant and completely in a shell, all of a sudden withdrawn, can't communicate. I mean,

00:10:03.920 like what in the world? Yeah. So it was bizarre. Yeah. Yeah. Of learning. Right. But it was also,

00:10:10.140 I think what's put me in a very unique position and look, it's all God's. It's all his, we're here to

00:10:16.180 serve, but it's put me in a unique position in this fight because I, I, I, I learned about this

00:10:23.140 fight, not just through a family member, but real time. And now we're fighting and we were fighting

00:10:27.660 it as well. So we, we started the organization to proactively then go and say, okay, what's our role

00:10:33.720 in this fight? Identify, highlight, and then it morphed into this huge thing that it is today, you know?

00:10:52.440 You've implied that trafficking isn't always what we think. I think a lot of times we think about,

00:10:59.100 or I think about the Southern border drug cartels, human traffickers that way, something that is

00:11:04.940 very kind of obvious and violent or yeah, violent and targetable and kind of visible. But what you're

00:11:12.940 describing, I don't think most people would have called trafficking. You probably wouldn't have

00:11:18.440 called it trafficking in the beginning. So what does it look like? Not just in the entertainment

00:11:23.560 industry, but in general, what should people kind of look out for with their kids or with their

00:11:28.840 sister? What is it? Such a massively important question, right? Because first let's differentiate

00:11:35.140 human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, different universes, right? So

00:11:40.640 let's, we're talking about sex here. We're talking about forced, forced sexual behavior, either for

00:11:47.220 gifts, for goods, for money, for protection, not to harm family or all of the above. And in the longest

00:11:53.720 case, it was all of the above. The conventional wisdom, you see the white van snatching a kid from a

00:11:58.480 playground and it's a cartel and it's MS-13. Yes. Does that happen today? A hundred percent. Are the

00:12:04.940 cartels trafficking kids? Absolutely. So everything people think it is, it is, but it's what they don't

00:12:10.780 know that has made our country so vulnerable. It's that they don't know that this is a mist that is

00:12:16.400 blown into suburbs and neighborhoods and it's in broad daylight. A kid goes to school, plays on the

00:12:23.820 volleyball team and is literally being trafficked for sex. The fastest rising form and there's 25

00:12:30.460 different forms of trafficking children, right? And adults, it's not just children. The fastest

00:12:37.700 rising form is what's called familial trafficking, family members trafficking their own children. Now

00:12:43.300 that is a very, very hard thing to detect when the victim does not identify as a victim.

00:12:50.740 When the victim doesn't say, help me please. It's so hard to detect, Ali, you know, and then to

00:12:58.040 prosecute, it's a nightmare almost. And so it's hidden in plain sight because the level of mind

00:13:05.080 manipulation, and this is not conspiracy stuff. There's not a single human being. I start my TED talk

00:13:10.380 with saying there's not a human being I meet and there's not none. I don't care if you're the toughest

00:13:14.840 Navy SEAL that cannot be manipulated, not one. If I know your greatest desire in life, like really in

00:13:22.520 your gut, the thing that you're most hungry for, and it may for you be your child or your job or an

00:13:29.200 ambition, right? And your biggest fear, those two things. And I, and I then start investing time into

00:13:35.820 you, dismantling you like a project. There's not a human being that cannot be manipulated. If you throw

00:13:42.280 in force, if you throw in sexual abuse, if you throw in manipulation, threats, threatening family

00:13:50.100 members, if you throw in fraud, right? Or debt bondage, there's no human being you can't. And

00:13:57.320 do people say, well, why do women, why do we hear a woman says 30 years ago, I was raped and I never told 0.98

00:14:02.960 anybody that's ridiculous. No, it's not. Right. No, it's not. It is not. God made us, you know, 0.79

00:14:10.040 I was, I use birth for the same reason. If women could truly remember the moment of birth 1.00

00:14:17.500 in its full capacity, you've done this once. Okay. My wife, you're a champion, mama, right? If they

00:14:24.120 would remember, they would never give birth again. They would never just take that. Right. That's not,

00:14:29.480 that's, that's willing, right? That's not even, you know, trauma. Now go rape a child, physically 0.88

00:14:35.640 abuse them, manipulate them, threaten their family, alter their identity. All of them will go, 1.00

00:14:40.820 you did this. You made me do this. I'm a good guy. You pulled the evil out of me. You made me do this.

00:14:49.100 Do you remember when you said this and this on your Instagram? That's the post that made me come

00:14:53.720 after you and not that girl. This is how they talk to the kids. Wow. So it's like you lose yourself.

00:14:59.680 So now ask yourself, why is it that in the United States, the average age of children being groomed

00:15:04.540 in traffic is 12 and tell you why go back to when you were 12 between 12 and 15, what happened to

00:15:11.200 your body? You didn't even know yourself, right? Hormones through the roof. Can't talk to your dad.

00:15:17.240 Don't know who to talk to. Most parents just give you a book. Mom's here. It's secret. If you had

00:15:22.160 brothers, why is she in the bathroom the whole time? What's happening? There's this, there's you,

00:15:25.760 you, you noticing boys, your hormones fire up, you becoming fertile, right? You noticing at your 0.50

00:15:32.800 age of 12, boys, my age are idiots. I like older boys. This is every girl. So the predator understands 1.00

00:15:40.420 that period of that child's life and said, I'm just looking now. All the girls are going through this

00:15:45.980 beautiful for them. Okay. Sick. Now I'm looking for the one with a father wound. I'm looking for the one

00:15:52.240 that needs attention. I'm looking for the one that's very poor. I'm looking for the one that's

00:15:56.320 left alone. Looking for a crack, a vulnerability, and they take time. They will invest time. I always

00:16:03.780 say this. I wish Christians would invest as much time into redeeming people as bad guys will invest 0.98

00:16:10.880 time into robbing their youth. Absolutely. Yeah. And how does social media play into this? TikTok,

00:16:17.680 Instagram, Snapchat, does that play a really big role in grooming these kids?

00:16:22.160 It's taken a really big problem and it's made it the number one problem of our time.

00:16:38.640 So you have a pimp and you have a buyer. They call them Johns. I don't like that because there are good

00:16:44.640 people named John. Right. But a pimp and a buyer and in between you've got victims and then there's

00:16:49.780 scouts and Ghislaine Maxwell, for instance, was a groomer. Okay. Epstein Maxwell, she's a bottom 1.00

00:16:55.020 girl. She's called the bottom girl. She should be tried as a trafficker, by the way. But it's removed 1.00

00:17:01.320 the middle ground where the buyer can directly talk to the child. And now you have children self-trafficking.

00:17:08.760 Right.

00:17:09.260 There's no pimp involved even. Right.

00:17:10.600 Well, where's the pimp? It's the child. Well, why? Because she's sexting with a guy online 1.00

00:17:16.940 who looks kind or she's engaging directly with the buyer. Now there's normally still a pimp

00:17:22.960 somewhere will come in, but it's opened up the Komodo. There's not a single tech platform and

00:17:29.440 these guys can't stand me and that's okay. I'm just calling facts. There's not a single tech platform

00:17:34.260 on earth that's not being used to traffic children. I'm not saying by the corporation. I'm not saying

00:17:39.300 Facebook as a corporate entity, but Facebook is a platform every minute of the day. Predators are

00:17:46.080 using Facebook to profile and traffic children. TikTok, it's out of control. I'm so happy we're

00:17:52.200 going after TikTok, right? My cry on these organizations is you've got a section that's

00:17:57.660 protecting you. You go do something internally. You make it an internal mission, Facebook, to say

00:18:04.720 children will not be profiled on our platform. They're not doing it, but they can. And my pet

00:18:11.020 peeve with these tech platforms is I need to see them take initiative. Not because of some federal

00:18:16.160 regulation. This is free market. Just from your own moral compass, do something. But it's being used.

00:18:24.840 So the internet has, and then it just took all the, you used to have to go to a certain part of town,

00:18:31.140 know a certain area to get a connection, to get to a girl, right? We can sit here right now on a laptop,

00:18:38.600 no joke. And within 15 to 25 minutes, I'll tell you, we'll have north of a hundred men

00:18:44.160 that'll say, I'm ready to buy a child. And we, and I can find you maybe 50 kids within a four or five

00:18:51.340 mile radius where we're sitting. Wow. This is in every zip code in the United States.

00:18:57.980 This is not what people think. And so how do you fight this fight? Top down. I was sitting in the

00:19:03.040 White House with the president when he signed the executive order. He's a champion for saying

00:19:06.840 children will not be trafficked, right? I got one of the pens he signed it with. That's great.

00:19:11.820 We will not stop this unless it's fought in the home. Yeah. Parents taking ownership again of

00:19:17.580 their children. Fathers stepping up. Yeah. And what does that, what does that look like for parents

00:19:23.540 who maybe they're like, you know, my kid is 15 and they've had a phone since they were 12 and I don't

00:19:29.100 know how to restate my authority over their social media and their cell phones and they want to give

00:19:37.240 their kids freedom. So what's your recommendation for those parents? You have to let your child see.

00:19:43.000 Your child's not going to hear you if you now want to recalibrate order in the house. Hey,

00:19:48.720 what are you watching? Mom, you never ask me what I'm watching. Who are you talking to?

00:19:52.840 You're going to look like a helicopter parent, which you should be. Yeah. Right. How do you do that?

00:19:56.780 You take your teenager, you sit them down, you watch the movie Eight Days that we produced,

00:20:02.500 right? And your teenager will look at you and say, if that's real, then I'm doing that. Yeah.

00:20:10.640 Now I'm doing that. Help, you know, and then he may not ask for help or she may, but then when you

00:20:17.220 come as a parent and say, now do you understand? Because when you just, you know, highlight the

00:20:21.500 issue for them and I'd go as young as 10, but parental discretion on how you talk. And it's a

00:20:26.480 way my five-year-old doesn't know the word sex trafficking. But if you ask my five-year-old right

00:20:31.440 now, what does your dad do? She'll say he hunts bad guys and we protect girls. Well, what does that

00:20:37.500 look like? And she'll tell you, there are some men that want to hurt little girls. She doesn't 1.00

00:20:42.720 need to know the grotesque stuff, but she knows this is private space. These words, these things,

00:20:48.520 if this happens, we need to teach our children what flags are. Children are being trafficked

00:20:52.880 through Xbox games, online talking community. So when you highlight these issues to your children

00:20:59.200 and then come and parent and say, hey, I need to know who your friends are. Look at your

00:21:04.860 child's behavior. People don't change. It takes a massive event in someone's life to change

00:21:10.460 personality. Near-death experience, being saved if you're a believer, but it takes something huge.

00:21:16.440 Or sexual abuse, rape, bullying. So when a child's behavior changed, regardless of age,

00:21:23.340 something happened, an event happened. Does it mean it's trafficking? I don't know. Maybe. But you need

00:21:29.260 to start, so parents need to equip themselves with what is situational awareness? What does it look

00:21:34.840 like? You know, language changing, gifts and goods, peer groups changing, you know? Kids don't get

00:21:41.160 tattoos, but we read tattoos a lot. A child just being withdrawn all of a sudden, absent-minded for

00:21:45.940 the teachers. A kid falls asleep in the classroom. We chalked so much in this country up to, oh, it's

00:21:51.500 bullying. When it was actually trafficking. When it was actually sexual abuse. You know, so we need to

00:22:00.080 really just get parents equipped to take ownership of their home, then their street, their school.

00:22:05.580 Yeah. And not be afraid, even if, you know, obviously I'm not speaking of someone as someone

00:22:10.960 who is a mom of a teenager, so I can't speak from experience in that area. But I know some parents,

00:22:17.260 maybe they feel awkward because so far in their home, they haven't taken authority over their

00:22:21.900 children. And so they think, my kid is 15, they're going to be out in a few years, it's too late.

00:22:27.700 I'm sure that you would encourage them that it's never too late. Even if you feel awkward, even if

00:22:32.600 you feel like maybe you don't have the best relationship with your child, it's not too late to take those

00:22:37.580 steps to show them who is in charge and how much you care about them, right? Never. I'll give you an

00:22:41.640 example. Let's call this girl Susie. It's not her name. She's 27. We rescue her, right?

00:22:47.260 She was trafficked at 13. That's 14 years of trafficking. She's a mother. Never seen her

00:22:52.100 child because the pimp took the child. You know, the number one key to restore Susie's life was

00:22:57.980 bring her mother back and her father back in her life at 27. It's never too late. Exactly. Never.

00:23:04.600 Okay. You invest. You keep bending that tree in the right direction because the world wants to go in

00:23:10.280 the opposite direction. And today I did a special with Glenn, you know, today we've got a massive attack

00:23:15.900 on our children in the classroom, comprehensive sex ed in the classroom. The children are being

00:23:20.220 groomed in the classroom. This is a shocking thing to realize as an American to go, wait a minute. Are

00:23:25.080 there really people out there who want children to be sexually abused? Yes. We want to normalize

00:23:31.100 pedophilia in this country. It's all flying under the LBGTQ banner, which by the way, that group of 0.94

00:23:38.100 people, the gay and lesbian group, they don't endorse this. I've asked them. They go, we don't see

00:23:42.560 children exploited, but it's a way to get funding into the schools. And so they groom and normalize

00:23:48.220 sexual behavior with children. And sexual language and talking about things like masturbation at a 0.98

00:23:54.520 really young age, right? Four. Yeah. World Health Organization. And UNICEF and Planned Parenthood, 0.88

00:24:01.240 right? UNICEF, Planned Parenthood, UNESCO. The curriculum is being voted into Texas now. It's in 27 states. This is a

00:24:08.580 fact. And there's an outcry. They're desensitizing. And you can't change culture without changing

00:24:13.660 language. So it's not prostitution. It's sex work. No, it's not sex work. There's abuse. No, 1.00

00:24:20.800 there's prostitution. But the second you change that, now I can defend it. Well, a woman should be 1.00

00:24:24.980 allowed to work. And an employee, he should be allowed to employ her. He's an employer. He's giving

00:24:29.620 her a job. No, he's coercing, defrauding and manipulating, you know? So you change language,

00:24:35.040 right? It's man-boy love. It's not pedophilia. You know, man-boy organization. It's man-boy love.

00:24:42.160 Or a minor attracted person or whatever. Minor attracted. This is how they do it. And it's

00:24:46.600 in the school system. And so if you're a parent listening today and you have, catch yourself,

00:24:51.840 adopted to, yeah, I kind of was okay with the language changing. You can't be. You can't be.

00:24:58.040 And then for the fathers listening, and I got to do this, pornography is the entry drug 0.54

00:25:03.900 to child sex trafficking. Am I saying every guy who watches porn will one day physically put their

00:25:09.820 hands on a kid? No. But you're on that track. And now other life circumstances happen and you 0.64

00:25:16.600 accelerate the track. If you use drugs, right, and you think you can manage it, and all of a sudden you

00:25:22.240 go through a divorce, you're going to spiral. If you drink, it's just don't be on that track.

00:25:30.040 And if you're on the track, you're creating demand. And the only way we eradicate child

00:25:36.280 sex trafficking in this country is you've got to curb demand. You can arrest every El Chapo

00:25:40.660 in the world. You're not going to stop drug trafficking. Taking the kingpin away just gives

00:25:46.940 room for another kingpin to stand up. You need to stop demand. And unfortunately, the American male 0.96

00:25:53.120 is the buyer. 96% of the buyers are men. Okay. The majority on average of the men buying are north

00:26:01.500 of $100,000 a year and has two children. Wow. Let that sink in for a second. It's not what you think.

00:26:08.280 It's not the 18-year-old in his mom's basement, typically. These are high-functioning fathers.

00:26:15.400 Wow. Who will go pay for sex with children. That's deception. It's massive deception. And 1.00

00:26:23.260 we, in a culture now, it's got such deception. If we look at people saying, well, I want justice,

00:26:28.620 so I'm going to burn this building down. Yeah. You want law, but you operate in lawlessness?

00:26:34.300 That's deception. Right. Right. A person was killed, so we're going to go kill 10 people.

00:26:39.420 That's deception. That never produces fruit. It's impossible. Yeah. Impossible. So we 0.93

00:26:45.180 have to wake up and take ownership back. You're doing it here as a mom, but I've done this

00:26:52.460 for 26 years. This show you're doing right now. I want you to really hear me here. I

00:26:59.000 want to pour into you on air. Okay. We'll save lives. We'll restore families. We'll protect

00:27:06.560 girls and boys from not being trafficked. There's a girl right now that's going to learn about

00:27:11.540 this through her mom, who's currently engaging with a guy. How do you know, Yaku? Because

00:27:15.600 it floods in. I wake up in the morning. I mean, this morning I wake up and Dan Foncarcio

00:27:22.500 says, did you see from last night's segment what flooded in this morning? Parents saying,

00:27:28.040 my kid is in this right now. We've got to fight this right now. This show, you don't even

00:27:33.360 have an idea what you're doing here. It's God's work. So thank you for doing it, Ali. It's

00:27:40.040 important. Yeah. Well, one more thing I want to ask you about, you have talked about how defunding

00:27:44.920 the police or even just directing funds away from the local police has disastrous effects

00:27:51.500 on the fight against sex trafficking. You've talked about all the different facets that go

00:27:56.940 into just busting one ring or saving one child. Can you briefly just talk about that? Why local law

00:28:04.240 enforcement and supporting our local law enforcement is so important in this fight?

00:28:07.820 It's impossible. Not difficult. It's impossible to rescue children without law enforcement

00:28:13.880 because we have a law in this country. I'm 26 years in it. I know what I'm doing. Okay. We

00:28:20.480 profile can build cases. I can go tonight through a motel door and go rescue a child. Not being

00:28:26.360 egotistical, but the method of how I'll go to jail. If I enter that door without a warrant,

00:28:31.720 I have to work with local law enforcement. And what if we miss her by 10 minutes, which happens 0.97

00:28:38.200 almost every time. Wow. And now she's no longer in that county or that state. Now you better have

00:28:44.920 law enforcement pass on intel to law enforcement in another county, in another state. Defunding the

00:28:52.760 police is catastrophic in our fight because they always, always defund what? Special units first.

00:29:01.240 And these are special child trafficking task forces, which by the way, over 50% of our states don't have

00:29:08.540 one task force. And then 90% of the task forces is a crew of one to three people defending a whole

00:29:15.340 state. Wow. Come on. They're so strapped for cash. The regular police officer, you can't ask him to

00:29:22.320 fight child sex trafficking. He's overworked. We're 500 officers short in Dallas, Texas, permanently

00:29:27.820 pre-COVID and pre-the BLM movement. They are burdened, overworked, and not trained, by the way.

00:29:35.000 We train law enforcement. We train the FBI on how to profile. So the notion that we can,

00:29:42.100 and then you'll hear the same people, oh, I'm against child sex trafficking. Defund the police.

00:29:46.000 You don't have a clue, even how it works, right? And so it is a, it is an army of non-government

00:29:54.500 organizations, nurses, critical care, victim services, long-term facilities, law enforcement,

00:30:00.500 judges, district attorneys, lawyers, to rescue one child. Because when you rescue that child,

00:30:06.040 it's not over. There's a trial. There's police evidence. There's forensics. There's doctor's

00:30:12.420 reports. I mean, it's, it is a laughable notion that you can have a society without law enforcement,

00:30:19.520 right? But in this fight, yeah, it's, and, and unfortunately, the pimps have been running

00:30:25.200 rampant. They are literally going to the cities where law enforcement are being defunded.

00:30:30.820 LA County is a third world country disaster zone right now for trafficking because they defund police.

00:30:39.200 Wow. The pimps go, they're going to go to the path of least resistance.

00:30:42.720 Of course. Of course. Criminals always do. And you said that Donald Trump has been

00:30:46.360 a big help in, in fighting against this. Is that correct?

00:30:50.040 First in history, first president of any country in the history of the world to number one, say,

00:30:55.880 I recognize child sex trafficking is a thing and it's in my country. Most deny it, right? And this is

00:31:02.300 as good as Ronald Reagan was. He had a, you know, mandate against child porn, but nobody until Trump,

00:31:08.640 not Obama, not Bush. And I fought this under three U.S. presidents. Okay. Trust me. I tried.

00:31:14.080 I tried with, with, with President Bush, President Obama, zero, zero top down support,

00:31:21.000 meaning an executive order got signed by President Trump and he's, and I was there,

00:31:26.200 instructed the FBI, you will hunt traffickers. Not just, we don't stand for it. I'm going to fund

00:31:32.260 the FBI. We're going to set up task forces. The U.S. Marshal Service has never fought child

00:31:37.020 trafficking. They just did three huge things. Why? The president empowered them with an authority,

00:31:43.900 form a task force, funded it and said, go find the kids. That's never happened before. So that alone,

00:31:50.520 in my eyes alone, forget about anything else, politics in this fight we're in. And by the way,

00:31:56.200 two weeks before that, I stood with him at a March for Life where he was the first president to show up

00:31:59.900 at the March for Life, right? That alone is a champion for me because we, we, we've been craving

00:32:08.200 that kind of support top down with, with the authorities as well forever.

00:32:14.520 Can you tell everyone how they can support you, where they can follow you, how they can help your

00:32:19.900 organization?

00:32:20.860 We have a show on Instagram that we use solely for this, right? So this is, we just pump out

00:32:25.680 information.

00:32:26.420 Great. It's so informative, by the way.

00:32:28.200 Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, so their Instagram, uh, yaku.boyence and Instagram,

00:32:33.120 and in our organization is share together now, share together now.org. Their parents can learn how to

00:32:39.940 profile, how to talk to their kids. They can watch the film eight days that we produced for this purpose.

00:32:46.380 We produced it for the community. Say this, this is in your neighborhood, you know? And so, um,

00:32:52.300 first realize it's real. It is in your neighborhood. It's in your kid's school. You know, it's in your

00:32:58.040 kid's school in the curriculum, but there's children in your kid's school that are being

00:33:01.360 sexually exploited. And so we need to take ownership of our communities back. 0.75

00:33:06.220 Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate everything that you and your family do.

00:33:10.680 And thank you for taking the time to come on this show. I do encourage everyone to follow you on

00:33:16.160 Instagram and support your organization however they can. There are a lot of people who have been asking me

00:33:21.240 to talk about this, who are so curious and want to protect their kids and protect their family. So

00:33:25.680 again, thank you so much guys. I could have talked to Yako for four more hours. There were so many

00:33:32.900 questions that I wanted to ask him. So please go support him and follow him. He has so much

00:33:38.840 information, but I want to reemphasize something that he talked about the importance of fighting this

00:33:45.220 in our homes and making sure that we are paying attention to the warning signs that don't

00:33:50.640 necessarily say this is child trafficking or this is grooming your child. And one of those things

00:33:56.720 is what's going on in our public school system as far as sex education goes. So he talked about there

00:34:04.120 are several organizations, the WHO, which we have talked about on this podcast. Go back and listen

00:34:09.340 to an episode from a few months ago called Who is WHO? Where we talk about the leadership there,

00:34:17.580 the initiatives there, why it is such a corrupt organization, why it is so good that President

00:34:23.040 Trump a couple months after I recorded that podcast, not due to the podcast, but it just happened to be

00:34:28.480 after I recorded the podcast that he decided that we were going to get out of the WHO. We were going to

00:34:34.540 stop funding the WHO. That was a good decision because of what the WHO supports. They work together

00:34:41.340 with organizations like Planned Parenthood with UNESCO and they have come together to create this sexual

00:34:48.440 education curriculum for our children starting at the age of four that talks about sexually explicit

00:34:55.820 subjects that are inappropriate for children that put ideas and put images in children's mind

00:35:03.260 for the purpose. They would not admit this, but for the purpose of sexualizing kids and making them 1.00

00:35:10.100 comfortable with sexual conversations and comfortable with sexual topics, sexual experiences, sexual

00:35:16.220 relationships at an age where they need to be protected from that kind of information, protected from that

00:35:21.840 kind of conversation instead of brought into it by teachers and by administrators who do not know

00:35:27.820 your children and do not care about your children in the same way that you do. So it is incumbent upon

00:35:32.760 parents to make sure that your kids are not in a system where they are being indoctrinated with this kind of

00:35:38.520 stuff. You guys know I talk about so often on this podcast the importance, I believe, of taking your

00:35:43.980 kids out of the public school system. And I know I get a lot of messages from wonderful, wonderful public

00:35:50.100 school teachers who say that you disagree with that or from parents who love their public school in their

00:35:56.180 area. And I understand there are lots of great public schools. There are lots of great public school

00:36:01.400 teachers. That is absolutely true. And if your child goes to a public school, do I think that they are

00:36:06.400 going to, they are going to end up horribly and that their life is going to be ruined? Not at all. Of course, I

00:36:12.500 believe God is totally sovereign and can work in anything. However, as Votie Bauckham says, you cannot send

00:36:18.560 your child to Caesar and be surprised when they come back Romans. When we send our child to the state to get 1.00

00:36:25.680 their values, to get their sex education, to get their moral education, even to get their history, rather than

00:36:32.400 learning those things primarily in the home or learning those things from a school where the parents

00:36:37.740 actually have a say in what their child learns, we are putting them at the whim of the state. We are

00:36:45.600 putting them basically in a position of being vulnerable to whatever the state wants to indoctrinate

00:36:52.200 them with. And we know because of the public school unions, because of the people that are behind the

00:36:57.440 public education system, that it is going to be a left-wing worldview. And the left-wing worldview

00:37:03.100 looks to separate the parent and the child by replacing the authority of the parent in the

00:37:10.680 authority of the family with the authority of the state, which is, in the case of a child, the public

00:37:17.560 school system. And they would like to make it to where a child is sexually autonomous at a very

00:37:26.380 young age. This is the left-wing communistic worldview. If you read someone like, for example,

00:37:33.920 Sophie Lewis, who is a self-proclaimed communist, and she has written several books, she talks about

00:37:41.060 the importance of kids not belonging to families, not belonging to their mother and father, but

00:37:46.480 quote, belonging to themselves. The inevitable consequence of that is going to be children put in

00:37:53.600 mature and even sexual situations in which they should actually be protected from by their parents

00:38:00.540 rather than placed into by the state or by the public school system. So it's so important, parents,

00:38:08.080 that if you cannot take your kids out of public school, which is my first recommendation, is homeschool

00:38:13.000 or private school or charter school. That, again, is why school choice, something that exclusively

00:38:18.380 Republicans and conservatives support. That is why school choice is so important, so that a child's safety

00:38:24.400 and future in education is not dictated by their zip code. But if you cannot take your child out of the

00:38:31.840 public school that they are assigned to because of their zip code, then be as involved as you possibly can,

00:38:37.340 whether you are a public school teacher, whether you are a parent, push back against the union, push back

00:38:42.360 against the sexual education that is being rammed down your child's throat, that is completely inappropriate

00:38:47.740 for their age, that should be coming from you and not from their teachers. Make sure that you make the other

00:38:54.520 parents that are in your group or are in your child's class aware of the things that are going on, push back

00:39:00.700 against any kind of curriculum that does not align with the values that you want your child learning.

00:39:06.740 Speak up. Don't be afraid to say something to the school board. Don't be afraid to push back against

00:39:13.240 the teachers union, public school teacher. Don't be afraid to push back against these institutions that

00:39:19.380 are actually working against your child in so many ways. So as Jaco said, this starts at home. This starts

00:39:27.900 in the places where children spend a lot of their times and parents, a lot of their time and parents do not

00:39:33.400 be afraid to take authority over your child. God gave you the responsibility of being their parent

00:39:39.400 for a reason. You are the best teacher. Parents, I told this to a mom the other day who was struggling

00:39:44.560 with virtual learning with her child who has a special needs, who is on the autism spectrum. I said

00:39:49.820 this to her and I mean it. And I'm saying this to all of you. You are the best teacher that your child

00:39:55.420 will ever have. It does not matter if you have no teaching experience. It doesn't matter if you have

00:39:59.980 your education degree. It doesn't matter whether or not you fully understand the math material or

00:40:06.160 whatever it is that they are learning. You are the best teacher that your child will ever have because

00:40:11.820 you care about them more than any teacher ever will. You brought them home from the hospital or

00:40:17.640 you adopted them or you got them out of the foster care system. However, you became their parent.

00:40:23.060 You put a lot of effort into bringing that child into the world and you have given everything,

00:40:26.940 sacrificed everything to make sure that they have a good life. And no other person on earth

00:40:32.620 has ever done that. You care about, you know your child better than anyone else. It is your

00:40:37.180 responsibility to teach them, to care for them, to instill them with the values that you want to

00:40:41.760 instill them with. God will equip you to do that. You are fully prepared to do that. And God has chosen

00:40:47.540 this generation for such a time as this to be the generation that he wants them to be. And he has made

00:40:54.340 you and me their parents. And he has given us the ability to do that. You have all the equipment

00:41:00.880 that you need in his word. You have all the equipment that you need in the church. You have

00:41:04.800 all the equipment that you need in the God-given wisdom that he has given you. So take that

00:41:10.960 responsibility seriously. It starts at home. It starts in the school. It starts in the conversations

00:41:16.220 that you have with your kid. It starts in taking away their phone, making sure they're not on social

00:41:21.140 media or checking in on their social media. It starts with being a parent to our kids.

00:41:28.240 So that's just what I wanted to end with. This is so important. This is why policy matters also. Not

00:41:34.060 just parenting, but also policy. This is why policy matters in who is on your school board. This is why

00:41:40.600 your local representatives matter. This is why your city council matters. This is why your mayors matter.

00:41:45.600 Not only do they have an influence over what goes on in your schools, but they also have an influence

00:41:51.480 over what goes on in the police force. Funding the police, more funding for the police is going to

00:41:57.740 also be something that keeps you and your family safe, your children safe. Pushing back against these

00:42:04.940 technology companies that put more effort into fighting opinions that they don't like than

00:42:12.120 fighting against child exploiters. So just ensure that your energy and your time and your focus is

00:42:19.220 going in the right direction for the glory of God and for the protection of your kids. That is our

00:42:24.440 responsibility. And God has equipped us and called us to do that. Okay. Just wanted to end there. Thank

00:42:30.140 you guys so much for listening. I hope this was an encouragement to you. I will see you back here on Monday.

00:42:34.940 I will see you back here on Monday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 11, 2020

Ep 299 ｜ The Fight Against Sex Trafficking ｜ Guest： Jaco Booyens

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