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Shutting Down the Routes: Ending Trafficking · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greace, What if anything, does human trafficking,
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Speaker 1: sex trafficking have to do with wildlife poachers? Repeat? What
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Speaker 1: does sex and human trafficking the sale of humans have
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Speaker 1: to do with poaching? Poaching animals? Guess what a lot
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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us here at Fox Nation and series six
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Speaker 1: one eleven. Let me just jog your memory on the
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Speaker 1: whole sex trafficking human trafficking issue. Does the name Mattie
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Speaker 1: McCann ring a bell? Because I'll never forget it? Take
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Speaker 1: a listen to our friends at Inside Edition.
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Speaker 2: Three year old Madeline McCann made headlines when she vanished
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Speaker 2: during a family vacation in Portugal twelve years ago.
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Speaker 1: Her parents have returned home to England without their still
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Speaker 1: missing daughter.
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Speaker 2: This age progression image released by authorities to show what
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Speaker 2: she might have looked like at age nine. Is Madeline
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Speaker 2: still alive today? One theory is that she was kidnapped
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Speaker 2: by a pedophile ring still. Another theory recreated in the
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Speaker 2: Netflix program a predator in a surgical mask took Madeleine.
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Speaker 1: Was Maddie McCann sex trafficked? This sweet, precious, beautiful three
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Speaker 1: year old girl, the thought of her being sex trafficked
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Speaker 1: across the borders from Portugal to the next, to the next,
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Speaker 1: to the next. Would traffickers go to that effort, to
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Speaker 1: that extent to sex traffic Mattie McCann, Is that possible?
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Speaker 1: Listen now to our friends at Crime on Line.
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Speaker 3: As the investigation into the disappearance of Mattie McCann progressed,
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Speaker 3: a US based think tank considered the possibility that the
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Speaker 3: girl may have been taken by sex trafficking gangs. John Whitehead,
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Speaker 3: an expert from the Rutherford Institute, says children go missing
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Speaker 3: around the world similarly every day, often taken from their
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Speaker 3: own driveways. Studies show that the child sex trafficking industry
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Speaker 3: may be worth as much as nine point five billion
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Speaker 3: dollars in the US alone.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes these victims end up in countries far far away.
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Speaker 1: How about this name? If you don't recall the Maddy
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Speaker 1: McCann dis appearance, what about this take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friends at Crime on Line.
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Speaker 3: When Natalie Holloway went missing, many believed the Alabama teen
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Speaker 3: was sold into sex slavery. The last person seen with
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Speaker 3: Holloway was your van der slut a Dutch news agency
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Speaker 3: investigation and claimed the Dutch national was involved in selling
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Speaker 3: Thaie women into prostitution. A hidden camera exposational vander Sloop
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Speaker 3: telling someone posing as a sex industry boss that he
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Speaker 3: could get passports for Thay females who think they were
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Speaker 3: going to the Netherlands to work as dancers. According to
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Speaker 3: the report, vander Sloop made about thirteen thousand dollars for
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Speaker 3: every woman sold into prostitution in the Netherlands.
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Speaker 1: Just how does sex trafficking work? How can you be
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Speaker 1: at home and then somehow end up in an entirely
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Speaker 1: different country being forced into sex slavery where you have twelve, thirteen,
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Speaker 1: fourteen or more customers? In other words, men raping a day. Well,
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Speaker 1: what about the case of the Girl next door? I'm
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Speaker 1: referring to the documentary on cases just like this? What
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Speaker 1: happened to the girl next door? And where do poachers
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Speaker 1: and some far off country come into this scenario? Take
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Speaker 1: a listen.
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Speaker 4: Kate was on a trip to visit a friend when
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Speaker 4: a young man told her she was beautiful. They exchanged
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Speaker 4: phone numbers, then started communicating often. She told her parents
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Speaker 4: he was her boyfriend. He showered her with clothes and gifts.
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Speaker 4: Kate thought they were in love and she would do
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Speaker 4: anything to make him happy. That included selling her body.
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Speaker 4: She was just fourteen the first time he took her
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Speaker 4: to a hotel room, gave her alcohol and marijuana, and
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Speaker 4: then told her to have sex with a stranger.
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Speaker 1: And from PBS Frontline Sex Trafficking in America listen.
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Speaker 5: In twenty sixteen, the unit picked up this teenager named Kat.
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Speaker 5: She'd been abducted and trafficked by men she met online.
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Speaker 6: He told me, fifteen minutes fifteen to twenty minutes was
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Speaker 6: one hundred, thirty minutes was one twenty to one fifty,
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Speaker 6: and an hour was two hundred. But it defended and
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Speaker 6: like that was all he told me. But I'm getting
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Speaker 6: They went up more and more if stay one and
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Speaker 6: more time.
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Speaker 5: The night she left home, Goat was driven thirty miles
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Speaker 5: to Phoenix, where she met a third man, which she
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Speaker 5: says was the most frightening of them all. Brian Flamante.
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Speaker 7: Briant was more of the enforcer.
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Speaker 1: You could see.
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Speaker 7: He told me, I don't give up who you are.
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Speaker 7: He said, I own you, I own your body, I
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Speaker 7: own you, and you have no saying what you do.
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Speaker 1: This little girl totally totally under the control of a
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Speaker 1: brutal sex trafficker. How many young girls, young people, young boys,
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Speaker 1: and beyond get sex trafficked in America today? Every day.
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Speaker 1: It's happening right now, and there's always the hope that
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Speaker 1: you're going to find the purp. But what if the
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Speaker 1: purp has taken the victim out of the country. Joining
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Speaker 1: me now an all star panel to make sense of
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Speaker 1: what we know and how poachers and far away countries
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Speaker 1: have anything to do with victims that are kidnapped and
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Speaker 1: sex trafficked here in America. First of all, to Cheryl McCollum, founded,
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Speaker 1: director of the Cold Case Research Institute and starop Zone
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Speaker 1: seven podcasts.
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Speaker 8: Cheryl explained, Nancy, if you remember when you and I
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Speaker 8: were in Aruba owned the Natalie Holloway case. We're sitting
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Speaker 8: at dinner and we learn we're only fifteen miles from Venezuela.
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Speaker 8: Fifteen miles that's a quick boat trip. So if Natalie
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Speaker 8: had been human traffic, she could have been in another
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Speaker 8: country within minutes. So what happens here is these are
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Speaker 8: organized criminals. They have got the system bailable. They have
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Speaker 8: trucks and trains, and planes and boats. And once they
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Speaker 8: get that victim, that victim is transported so quickly that
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Speaker 8: literally from Africa they can be in Asia within forty
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Speaker 8: eight hours.
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Speaker 1: It's just as easy as having a boat at a dock.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine how quickly a boat can go from
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Speaker 1: the tip of Florida to Cuba and beyond. In no time,
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Speaker 1: your victim is gone and the reality is she has
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Speaker 1: no way to contact home, ID, phones, everything taken away
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Speaker 1: from the victim. To Jbi Rice, Executive director of the
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Speaker 1: Texas Counter Trafficking Initiative, You can find him at THXTCI
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Speaker 1: dot org. JB thank you for being with us. How
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Speaker 1: easy is it to move a sex trafficking victim who
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Speaker 1: has already been beaten horribly, has her cell phone if
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Speaker 1: she has one, her ID, her money taken from her,
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Speaker 1: and she's moved from loke location until she's actually out
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Speaker 1: of the country. How easy is that for a trafficker
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Speaker 1: to do?
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Speaker 9: It would be as easy as going on vacation yourself.
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Speaker 9: The A lot of times traffickers utilize Mercal airlines, public transportation,
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Speaker 9: private transportation, any way that you can move a victim
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Speaker 9: can be moved, you know.
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Speaker 1: To Nima Romani, former federal prosecutor, trial attorney and president,
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Speaker 1: co founder of West Coast Trial Lawyers. Ninma, thank you
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Speaker 1: for being with us. By the time I would get
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Speaker 1: to a six traffic victim to prosecute a case number one,
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Speaker 1: they're afraid. I had one fourteen year old girl run
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Speaker 1: away the night before her testimony the next morning, and
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Speaker 1: it was all night long. We were out on the
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Speaker 1: streets going everywhere we could find think she might be
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Speaker 1: because she was so afraid to testify against her traffickers.
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Speaker 1: We found her. The case was successful, there was a conviction,
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Speaker 1: But it's very hard because the sex trafficking victims have
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Speaker 1: been beaten so badly and mistreated so badly, often given drugs,
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Speaker 1: they are out of their minds and they don't have
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Speaker 1: the strength to actually go to authorities or testify even
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Speaker 1: if they could get to a phone. And when you're
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Speaker 1: in another country, who do you call? I mean, when
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Speaker 1: I was in Aruba with you, Cheryl McCollum, trying to
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Speaker 1: get more answers on Natalie, they didn't even have a
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Speaker 1: nine to one one set up. They don't have that there.
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Speaker 1: So Nima, what.
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Speaker 10: Do you do fancy?
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Speaker 11: It's hard, you know, sex trafficking, sex abuse, domestic violence.
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Speaker 11: These are among the most underworded crimes that even when
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Speaker 11: the victims do report it, eight or nine times out
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Speaker 11: of ten, we can't or don't show up by the
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Speaker 11: time trials room. So I need to prosecute. Some states
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Speaker 11: have laws that get around Crawford and the confrontation cause
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Speaker 11: that allows that previous testimony to get in California is
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Speaker 11: one of them, but other states don't. So it's not
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Speaker 11: easy to prosecute these cases. When you have victims that
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Speaker 11: don't cooperate, and.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Angie Arnold, a jury may wonder, or people that
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Speaker 1: haven't done this may wonder, well, why won't she come
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Speaker 1: forward and tell the truth, if this really happened to her,
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Speaker 1: why won't she or he take the stand? Very often
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Speaker 1: they're miners. Very often, they're beaten, very often they're drugged.
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Speaker 1: With me Doctor Angela Arnold's psychiatrists renowned psychiatrists out of
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta jurisdiction at Angela ARNOLDMD dot com, who specializes
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Speaker 1: in the treatment of girls and women.
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Speaker 12: Why doctor Angie, Well, Nancy, as you just said, they've
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Speaker 12: been beaten, they've been they have no security left inside
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Speaker 12: of themselves. They no longer know who to trust. Everything
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Speaker 12: they've grown up believing has been destroyed by some stranger.
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Speaker 12: So how could they ever feel safe. I've treated girls
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Speaker 12: that this has happened to Nancy. It's they are so
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Speaker 12: traumatized by this that it's difficult to even treat them.
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Speaker 12: It's very hard for them to come forward. Sometimes people
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Speaker 12: in their lives leave them. I have I have one
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Speaker 12: girl that I've treated and her husband left her after this,
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Speaker 12: after she was held hostage in another country. Who can
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Speaker 12: they trust after that? Nancy? And everything they know at
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Speaker 12: their core has been questioned? And as you said, they've
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Speaker 12: been beaten, they've been drugged. They don't know how to
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Speaker 12: come forward, Nancy, they don't know who to trust anymore.
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Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace joining me right now is
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Speaker 1: Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Coal Parton. I'd like
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Speaker 1: to explain. I'd like for you to explain, Nicoal before
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Speaker 1: we go to Andrew Voss joining us Nicole, the connection
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Speaker 1: between poachers and poachers trails in far away countries we
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Speaker 1: may not even have on our radar, What if anything,
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Speaker 1: does that have to do with our girls and our boys,
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Speaker 1: our American citizens that are being taken and sex trafficked.
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Speaker 13: Well, we have to remember human trafficking. Sex trafficking is
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Speaker 13: the second largest organized criminal activity in our nation, second
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Speaker 13: only put drug trafficking, followed right by gun trafficking and
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Speaker 13: then wildlife trafficking. So this is huge. This is when
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Speaker 13: we think of drug trafficking, we can kind of relate
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Speaker 13: because we know drugs are coming in and out of
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Speaker 13: our country in numbers that are staggering to us. Those
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Speaker 13: same minds, the same masterminds behind the drug trafficking in
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Speaker 13: our country, is behind the sex trafficking, is behind the
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Speaker 13: wildlife trafficking. So now we have connections in these foreign
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Speaker 13: countries Africa. I've been there myself, Nancy, and I've seen
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Speaker 13: poaching firsthand. These guys who are involved in the poaching
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Speaker 13: also want the drugs, also need the weapons, also want
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Speaker 13: the children, so it's all combined in this large organized
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Speaker 13: criminal activity. It's estimated that every two minutes a child
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Speaker 13: is bought and sold into sex slavery. Every two minutes,
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Speaker 13: it's happening.
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Speaker 1: We're not just talking about money, we're talking about brutality,
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Speaker 1: the extent to which they will go to get money
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Speaker 1: to get the exotic animals, to get the guns, to
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Speaker 1: get the victims. Listen to our friends.
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Speaker 14: SABC, Queen of Ivory Yang is currently serving a fifteen
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Speaker 14: year sentence for trafficking six million dollars worth of elephant tusks.
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Speaker 14: Although poaching has declined in recent years, Tanzania's elephant population
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Speaker 14: has suffered a lot over the years, dwindling by up
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Speaker 14: to sixty percent between two thousand and nine and twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 15: The PAMs Foundation says as a result of mister Lotter's
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Speaker 15: anti poaching work, he had received a number of death threats.
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Speaker 15: With Tanzania's last execution carried out almost thirty years ago,
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Speaker 15: the death sentences for the eleven are likely to be
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Speaker 15: commuted to life in prison. The verdict against Wayne Lotter's
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Speaker 15: killers is being seen by conservationists as a significant win
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Speaker 15: in the fight against poaching in Tanzania. Lota, a co
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Speaker 15: founder of the not for profit PAMs Foundation, supported a
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Speaker 15: number of anti poaching initiatives across Africa. Prior to his death.
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Speaker 15: Many in the conservation community considered him a key figure
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Speaker 15: in East Africa's battle against poaching. Through his efforts, the
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Speaker 15: Tanzanian government was able to arrest Yangfenglan in twenty fifteen,
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Speaker 15: a woman behind one of the largest ivory syndicates in
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Speaker 15: Eastern Africa.
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Speaker 1: For those of you that don't know, Wayne latter worked
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Speaker 1: for a nonprofit called PAMs Against Poaching. He was gunned
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Speaker 1: down by killers while traveling in a taxi to the airport.
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Speaker 1: It was a designated hit to make him stop his
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Speaker 1: anti poaching activity. Did you hear what was just reported?
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Speaker 1: Millions and millions of dollars of ivory and the form
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Speaker 1: of elephant tusks every year, so valuable that the poachers
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Speaker 1: would kill over What do you think they would do
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Speaker 1: if it was over human trafficking victims? Joining me right
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Speaker 1: now is Andro Voss joining us from the Netherlands, Founder
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Speaker 1: and CEO of the Wildlife Forensic Academy based in South Africa.
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Speaker 1: You can find him at Wildlife Forensic Academy dot com.
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Speaker 1: Mister boss, thank you so much for being with us.
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Speaker 1: Explain to me the connection between these poaching trails in
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Speaker 1: far away countries and sex traffic victims.
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Speaker 10: Actually, you know, wildlife crime is one of the biggest
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Speaker 10: forms of organized crime, you know, And the problem with
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Speaker 10: wildlife crime is it's a facilitating form of organized crime.
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Speaker 10: It facilitates all forms of organized crime, not only in Africa,
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Speaker 10: but around the globe. And what you see is happening
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Speaker 10: if a poacher, you know, if the poachers approaching animal
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Speaker 10: and they have an asset, within eighty four hours, the asset,
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Speaker 10: the horn or ivory will be on a market in Honoi.
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Speaker 10: That means that the poachers have bribed the whole chain.
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Speaker 10: You know, the Bright Ranges police officers, customs officers, the
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Speaker 10: airport personnel here and in Asia, and they have a
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Speaker 10: real but the problem is that the root is not
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Speaker 10: controlled by the police because wildlife crime is a has
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Speaker 10: not a high priority in the policing, sobody nobody controls
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Speaker 10: the roots. So human traffickers, traffickers, all kinds of traffickers
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Speaker 10: from arms, they use the same roots and they are
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Speaker 10: free to trafficors goods around the globe. And that's a
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Speaker 10: huge problem. And we are an academy. It's just we
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Speaker 10: are just two years open. And if you see our
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Speaker 10: clients are Europle, our clients are US Homeland Security, and
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Speaker 10: that is an indication how big the problem is.
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Speaker 1: How quickly can stolen goods be transported, whether I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about guns, money, drugs, exotic animals. What about human sex
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Speaker 1: trafficking victims? How quickly can it be transported to another country?
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Speaker 1: They be transported to another country. Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our cut sixteen. This includes talks at the Hague.
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Speaker 16: This talk is about animals, not about your cat or
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Speaker 16: your dog at home, but wildlife and to be more specific,
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Speaker 16: wildlife crime. According to Interpal, wildlife crime has a turnover
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Speaker 16: of twenty billion euro annually and wildlife crime is highly
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Speaker 16: really highly organized. The syndicates, they have tentacles, from politicians
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Speaker 16: to local farmers in rural communities. The wildlife poachers, the
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Speaker 16: rhino poaches. They killed two rhinos a day and within
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Speaker 16: eighty four hours you will find the rhino horn on
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Speaker 16: the markets of Hanoi.
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Speaker 1: Within about eighty hours, the animal is killed, the horns
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Speaker 1: are cut off, and they're in Hanoi. What about our
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Speaker 1: girls and boys, Cheryl McCollum. The poaching trails themselves are
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Speaker 1: critical in the absconding, the kidnapping, the moving, the transporting
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Speaker 1: of sex trafficking victims.
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Speaker 8: Explain, Nancy, you have someone kidnapped, they can be put
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Speaker 8: on an airplane within hours. They can be in another
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Speaker 8: country or another city. All of their personal property, their ideas,
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Speaker 8: their cell phones, everything is taken from them. They are
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Speaker 8: placed somewhere, they are drugged, they are immediately at work
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Speaker 8: for their captor, being raped, being raped, absolutely repeatedly. And
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Speaker 8: this can happen from the moment somebody's kidnapped. They can
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Speaker 8: be in another country and being assaulted repeatedly, working for
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Speaker 8: somebody else within eight hours, with no idea, no way
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Speaker 8: to contact family. They could have their hair god cut
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Speaker 8: and give it a different identification, and that's it. They're done,
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Speaker 8: they're laws, They're gone.
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Speaker 1: No trails, Nima Romani. The trails, the trails, the poaching trails,
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm asking about.
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Speaker 11: So, Nancy, when you're dealing with any type of trafficking, right,
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Speaker 11: you have drugs, you have animals, you have animal parts
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Speaker 11: coming from other countries into the United States. I prosecuted
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Speaker 11: cases of San Cathedral, the busiest port in the world,
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Speaker 11: and I would see primates, I would see reptiles. I
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Speaker 11: would see animal parts used by the same traffickers through
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Speaker 11: the same means. They would hire them in tunnels, vehicles,
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Speaker 11: both and of course coming down in New Mexico, we
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Speaker 11: would see the money, we would see the guns, we
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Speaker 11: would see the people. So there is a direct connection here.
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Speaker 11: These are criminal enterprises. They are in the business of
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Speaker 11: making money. Doesn't matter whether it's people, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 11: whether it's drugs, guns, or animals, they will part it
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Speaker 11: in this criminalis.
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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace joining us now is Professor
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Speaker 1: Forensics Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet
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Speaker 1: on Amazon, and star of a new hit podcast, Body
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Speaker 1: Bags that Joe Scott Morgan are the poaching trails for
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Speaker 1: the animal trafficking. The poachers, the drugs, the guns are
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Speaker 1: the same trails being used to transport human victims.
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Speaker 17: Yes, yes they are, Nancy. And here's the thing, and
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Speaker 17: it's from an investigative standpoint, it's rather it's rather simplistic.
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Speaker 17: There's no need to reinvent the wheel, because unfortunately humans
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Speaker 17: are commodities just like animals, just like the tusk for instance,
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Speaker 17: of animals, or you know, there are all any number
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Speaker 17: of different body parts there that are kind of piecemelled
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Speaker 17: out relative to to these animals that are sent far
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Speaker 17: and wide. But here here's one of the really insidious
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Speaker 17: underlying things to this. After after the victim of of
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Speaker 17: human trafficking, the sex trade. There there's no more utility
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Speaker 17: for them. Nancy. You know, when you have an animal,
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Speaker 17: you can piecemeal this animal and and make it go further. Say,
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Speaker 17: if you're if you're going to take an animal and
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Speaker 17: have it intact and send it to I don't know,
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Speaker 17: somewhere for display or some person wants to have it
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Speaker 17: in their personal collection. That's one thing. But at the
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Speaker 17: end of the day, you can harvest from from an animal.
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Speaker 17: What what what do you do with the sex trafficking victims,
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Speaker 17: because there's nothing really that you have. They have value
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Speaker 17: any longer, and so the really dark side to this
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Speaker 17: is that they are essentially killed and then disposed of
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Speaker 17: and these families never really know. You've got a very
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Speaker 17: little chance of finding someone to begin with in this
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Speaker 17: murky world, but then you make them disappear and the
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Speaker 17: family winds up being left alone with no answers in
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Speaker 17: the long run.
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Speaker 1: Seryl McCallum, what about it.
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Speaker 8: The sex traffickers and the poachers use the exact same route.
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Speaker 8: So whether it's an ivory tusk or a human, they
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Speaker 8: get them from A to B the exact same way.
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Speaker 8: So what Andro's boss is doing. If we can reduce
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Speaker 8: poaching by proxy. We're going to reduce human trafficking if
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Speaker 8: we can bust up these routes. I'll give you for instance, Nancy,
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Speaker 8: in Africa, they pay children with cocaine to steal sea
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Speaker 8: life and poke sea life. So you follow that cocaine,
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Speaker 8: it goes back to the human track occurs. It's all
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Speaker 8: connected the drugs, the guns, the people and the poaching.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Voss joining us from the Netherlands, founder CEO of
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Speaker 1: the Wildlife Forensic Academy, how do you see poaching being
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Speaker 1: connected to human sex trafficking?
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Speaker 10: Nancy? My answer is one hundred percent. Years. Poaching is
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Speaker 10: actually the root of a lot and a lot of problems.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 10: The biggest problem is that just five or ten between
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Speaker 10: five and ten percent of all poaches brought to court
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Speaker 10: are sentenced, just five to ten percent. That means ninety
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Speaker 10: five to ninety percent gets away, you know. So you
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Speaker 10: can kill an animal get away with it, and the
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Speaker 10: chance of being caught is very small, and the resources,
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Speaker 10: the revenue, sorry, the revenues are very very high. So
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Speaker 10: what you see, you know, you can kill an animal
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Speaker 10: get away with it, and the problem is there's a
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Speaker 10: lack of forensic knowledge, the lack of forensic knowledge as
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Speaker 10: spoke to prosecutors to judges and they are all sentencing
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Speaker 10: on marine crime. They have all the same problem in
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Speaker 10: the whole of Africa and what's the online problem? The
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Speaker 10: on theline problem is there are no training facilities.
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Speaker 1: The brutality and the vicious nature of poaching and other countries,
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Speaker 1: specifically Africa was brought to the forefront with a major
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Speaker 1: motion picture where the craw Dads Sing? Now, how did
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Speaker 1: that happen? Take a listen to our friends at the
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Speaker 1: Today Show.
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Speaker 18: Jumping from the page to the screen where the Crawdads Sing?
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Speaker 18: As a highly anticipated film based on the best selling novel.
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Speaker 1: A Maashka Sit Shelkim.
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Speaker 18: It's a fictional story about a murder in North Carolina
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Speaker 18: in the nineteen sixties, but in real life, Arthur Dhlia
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Speaker 18: Owens is facing questions about a deadly shooting in Africa
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Speaker 18: in the nineties. In the nineties, Delia and her then
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Speaker 18: husband Mark ran a conservation center in Zambia protecting elephants
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Speaker 18: from poachers. In nineteen ninety six, they were the subject
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Speaker 18: of an ABC documentary called Deadly Game, where one scene
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Speaker 18: shows an alleged poacher being fatally shot. The victim is
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Speaker 18: not identified. Neither is this shooter a mystery that was never.
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Speaker 1: Saw and another case of poaching violence. As you hear
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Speaker 1: these examples, imagine what these poachers would do to a
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Speaker 1: sex trafficking victim all alone from the US. Take a listen.
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Speaker 19: Somewhere around sunrise when I heard the tracker Neime and
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Speaker 19: a few others waking me up and saying in Swahili
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Speaker 19: that Diane Possi was dead. And I said, what you know?
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Speaker 19: And I said, come come with me, now, come immediately,
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Speaker 19: and I followed them down to her house. And as
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Speaker 19: we approached, you could see that the whole metal hut
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Speaker 19: on the side was bent and torn over and everything.
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Speaker 19: And when I went into the first thing I noticed
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Speaker 19: was that literally everything in the house was destroyed. I
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Speaker 19: mean it looked like somebody was going through the entire
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Speaker 19: house looking for something.
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Speaker 1: You get between those poachers and their money, whether they
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Speaker 1: are transporting drugs, guns, or people, and you die. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen to more.
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Speaker 19: All the drawers would hold out, papers thrown everywhere, suitcases, undone,
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Speaker 19: chests that had things, and it were all ripped out.
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Speaker 19: Everything was at total shambles. And I went into her
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Speaker 19: bedroom and the mattress was kind of filted, and her
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Speaker 19: drawers were all ripped open, and I saw a gun
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Speaker 19: hanging out of one of them. And then I saw
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Speaker 19: her lying next to the bed. And as I got
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Speaker 19: closer and I looked at her face, I could see
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Speaker 19: this large gash in her face next to her body.
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Speaker 19: Was this poonda or the machete that you frequently see
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Speaker 19: the trackers with next to her with blood on it?
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Speaker 19: And her face was just literally her face was split open.
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Speaker 1: The anti poaching crusader meets horrible violent death. You were
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Speaker 1: just hearing Way McGuire and his discovering Diane Fossey. Imagine
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Speaker 1: a young girl like Maddie McCann, like Natalie Holloway. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I believe the two of them were killed locally, but
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Speaker 1: a great deal of investigation has gone into the possibility
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Speaker 1: that they were in fact sex trafficked and even removed
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Speaker 1: to another country. What chance would they stand against poachers
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Speaker 1: like this? To Andrew Voss joining us from the Netherlands,
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Speaker 1: who has spoken to the Hague at the Hague about
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Speaker 1: this matter, founder of the Wildlife Forensic Academy, why the
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Speaker 1: brutality amongst the poachers.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, the brutality is of course because the chance of
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Speaker 10: being caught is very very small, and the revenues are
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Speaker 10: very high, very high, you know, and just five or
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Speaker 10: ten percent of all poachers are being sentenced in court
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Speaker 10: due to a lack of forensicnoledge. So they are free
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Speaker 10: to do what they're free they like, And there's a
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Speaker 10: bunch of corruption there in government, so they are backed
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Speaker 10: up with hard politicians or police officers, so they have
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Speaker 10: a lot of chance to do what they want. You know,
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Speaker 10: it's a free game.
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Speaker 1: Guys. We're delving into the connection between poaching trails and
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Speaker 1: violent poachers in other countries, specifically Africa, and sex trafficking
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Speaker 1: victims in the US. They purportedly are ending up there.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Jeffrey Goldberg The New Yorker.
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Speaker 3: The bodies of the poachers are often left where they
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Speaker 3: fall for the animals to eat. Conservation morality Africa.
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Speaker 20: It's not every day that television news magazines show the
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Speaker 20: killing of another human so bluntly, so directly. One of
29:55
Speaker 20: the many odd things about this shocking video is that
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Speaker 20: we the viewer, are not told by ABC where exactly
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Speaker 20: this happened, and we're not told who is doing the shooting.
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Speaker 20: This video, which is quite a short piece of this film,
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Speaker 20: is so decontextualized that it opens up many more questions.
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Speaker 20: Then it answers the questions that I was left with
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Speaker 20: when I first saw it, included was this man really
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Speaker 20: a poacher? Why was he alone? If he was a poacher,
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Speaker 20: who did the shooting?
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Speaker 1: The violent activity? The violent way of.
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Speaker 10: Why the problem with the killing of poaches is that
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Speaker 10: and the poaching teams got a military training for military
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Speaker 10: from the Great Britain in the US, so they didn't
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Speaker 10: get a police training. So if there's an incident, they
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Speaker 10: start shooting, and poaching is not an act of war.
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Speaker 10: Poaching is a selony. So you need actually policing to
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Speaker 10: bring these guys to chart and that's the reason why
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Speaker 10: there's a lot of shooting and no police investigation.
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Speaker 1: You name aunt Romani, a high profile lawyer joining US NIMA.
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Speaker 1: How do we stop it? You've seen the same thing
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Speaker 1: happening in Mexico, But how do we in the US
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Speaker 1: stop what's happening there with our citizens?
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Speaker 11: Nancy, we need to be a lot more aggressive prosecuting pens,
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Speaker 11: prosecuting John, I mean, a lot of this conduct unfortunately
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Speaker 11: been decriminalized here in this country. But they are real
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Speaker 11: victims that are trafficked. They're victims that are being trafficked
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Speaker 11: all over the world. These are young girls, sometimes boys,
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Speaker 11: So prosecutors need to be much more aggressive focusing on
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Speaker 11: these cases. If law enforcement arrests these individuals and it's
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Speaker 11: just a catch and release, that's not.
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Speaker 10: Going to work.
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Speaker 1: No, it's not. And to Joe Scott Morgan, Professor forensics,
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Speaker 1: how can we prove this case? It's beyond our jurisdiction,
31:47
Speaker 1: but they are our citizens.
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Speaker 17: Well, you know, even if they are, if it's outside
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Speaker 17: of our jurisdiction, if it's in some foreign country, the
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Speaker 17: FBI still can get involved in these cases and bring
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Speaker 17: them the resources to bear with the nationals that are
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Speaker 17: investigating this cases. This has happened time and time again.
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Speaker 17: But to this point, it's it's critical that one of
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Speaker 17: the problems is is that you lose evidence along the way,
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Speaker 17: of critical forensic evidence that can be tied back because
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Speaker 17: any of these individuals are going to be utilizing the
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Speaker 17: same thing over and over and over again as far
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Speaker 17: as methodologies go. And as you know, Nancy with these
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Speaker 17: patterns that we develop in forensics, that's how we tie
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Speaker 17: things back scientifically, and so it's important for our federal
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Speaker 17: government to get involved because they have the resources to examine.
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Speaker 1: And they've got to go beyond our borders. Yes they do, guys,
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Speaker 1: if you have any information regarding human trafficking one eight
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Speaker 1: eight eight three seven three seven eight eight eight, or
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Speaker 1: the US Wildlife tip Line eight hundred three four four
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Speaker 1: ninety four five three. Thank you mister Voss for joining
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Speaker 1: us from the Netherlands. Get back friends,