Team Of Retired U.S. Navy Seals & Cops Are Rescuing Teens From Sex Slavery & Human Trafficking.. .💖
Team Of Retired U.S. Navy Seals & Cops Are Rescuing Teens From Sex Slavery & Human Trafficking
SIAM, co-founded by private investigator Joseph Travers, is a group of volunteers including teams of retired Navy Seals, police investigators, and other experts.
Team Of Retired U.S. Navy Seals & Cops Are Rescuing Teens From Sex Slavery & Human Trafficking
SIAM, co-founded by private investigator Joseph Travers, is a group of volunteers including teams of retired Navy Seals, police investigators, and other experts.
The call of duty continues for these brave retired professionals. Saved In America (SIAM) is a group of volunteers that are dedicated to rescuing victims of human trafficking. The non-profit was co-founded by renowned private investigator Joseph Travers. The team includes retired U.S. Navy Seals, police detectives and other specialists in the all-volunteer group. People reports that the group has helped rescue 58 victims to date since January 2018 with a 100 percent success rate. Since December 2014, they've rescued 223 children, with 60 percent being recovered before they had been trafficked.
“People don’t realize this is going on in their own backyards. This isn’t in some faraway country with very poor people,” says Joshua Travers, Joseph’s son, a former U.S. Marine and SAIM’s case manager. “This could be your next-door neighbor, your child, anyone’s child. A lot of these kids are from a middle-class family in the United States. They aren’t incredibly poor or involved in abuse or bad situations [at home].” According to the SIAM website, the team "gathers intelligence and evidence to locate and identify missing children and trafficked victims, violent pedophiles (pimps), and trafficking locations. The Law Enforcement Liaison reports all information to local and/or federal law enforcement officers."
SIAM is often praised for their high-tech investigations and dramatic rescues, but Special Operations Chief Toshiro Carrington said Travers’ planning and organization skills are the main reasons for the squad's success. “It is partnerships such as this that play a significant role in law enforcement today, not only from a public safety standpoint but also as an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those who have been victimized,” wrote Mike Williams, Sheriff, Duval County Florida in a 2016 letter to Travers.
“I knew that street gangs, prison gangs, and cartels took over drug trafficking in the 1980s and then they took over sex trafficking at the turn of the century,” said Travers. “When I read about [the 2009 disappearance of] Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared off the face of the planet, I just knew gangs were involved.” The tragic story of the abduction, rape, and death of the teen from New York inspired Travers to start an organization that would help save teens from being forced into sex slavery and trafficking rings. SIAM gets involved in cases of missing juveniles. They use different channels and conduct their own surveillance and later join forces with the children's parents as well as local police to help conduct rescues.
The group believes that "runaway and missing children are highly at-risk of being trafficked as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children estimates that 1 in 7 runaways were likely victims of sex trafficking". Apart from rescues, they even offer rehab to those affected. They help in procuring legal representation, safe housing, and rehabilitative therapy for the victims.
SIAM, co-founded by private investigator Joseph Travers, is a group of volunteers including teams of retired Navy Seals, police investigators, and other experts.
Team Of Retired U.S. Navy Seals & Cops Are Rescuing Teens From Sex Slavery & Human Trafficking
SIAM, co-founded by private investigator Joseph Travers, is a group of volunteers including teams of retired Navy Seals, police investigators, and other experts.
The call of duty continues for these brave retired professionals. Saved In America (SIAM) is a group of volunteers that are dedicated to rescuing victims of human trafficking. The non-profit was co-founded by renowned private investigator Joseph Travers. The team includes retired U.S. Navy Seals, police detectives and other specialists in the all-volunteer group. People reports that the group has helped rescue 58 victims to date since January 2018 with a 100 percent success rate. Since December 2014, they've rescued 223 children, with 60 percent being recovered before they had been trafficked.
“People don’t realize this is going on in their own backyards. This isn’t in some faraway country with very poor people,” says Joshua Travers, Joseph’s son, a former U.S. Marine and SAIM’s case manager. “This could be your next-door neighbor, your child, anyone’s child. A lot of these kids are from a middle-class family in the United States. They aren’t incredibly poor or involved in abuse or bad situations [at home].” According to the SIAM website, the team "gathers intelligence and evidence to locate and identify missing children and trafficked victims, violent pedophiles (pimps), and trafficking locations. The Law Enforcement Liaison reports all information to local and/or federal law enforcement officers."
SIAM is often praised for their high-tech investigations and dramatic rescues, but Special Operations Chief Toshiro Carrington said Travers’ planning and organization skills are the main reasons for the squad's success. “It is partnerships such as this that play a significant role in law enforcement today, not only from a public safety standpoint but also as an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those who have been victimized,” wrote Mike Williams, Sheriff, Duval County Florida in a 2016 letter to Travers.
“I knew that street gangs, prison gangs, and cartels took over drug trafficking in the 1980s and then they took over sex trafficking at the turn of the century,” said Travers. “When I read about [the 2009 disappearance of] Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared off the face of the planet, I just knew gangs were involved.” The tragic story of the abduction, rape, and death of the teen from New York inspired Travers to start an organization that would help save teens from being forced into sex slavery and trafficking rings. SIAM gets involved in cases of missing juveniles. They use different channels and conduct their own surveillance and later join forces with the children's parents as well as local police to help conduct rescues.
The group believes that "runaway and missing children are highly at-risk of being trafficked as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children estimates that 1 in 7 runaways were likely victims of sex trafficking". Apart from rescues, they even offer rehab to those affected. They help in procuring legal representation, safe housing, and rehabilitative therapy for the victims.
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