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July 24, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:43
How Traffickers Prey on America's Vulnerable Youth: Jaco Booyens
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We have real cases that we can discuss.
I'll give you a brief example, a real case.
We'll call this girl Sarah.
Sarah's thirteen.
She has a deep desire to play on a soccer team.
She doesn't make the team, but she serves the team as kind of a water girl, right?
This predator notices this online, because she talks about that.
She talks that her sister makes the varsity team.
The predator starts affirming her, encouraging her for nine months until one day he shows up at her soccer game.
He flies two states over, takes a selfie with her in the background, doesn't introduce himself to her, goes back home.
Two weeks later, he sends her the selfie.
And he said, when your dad doesn't show up, I will show up.
You can trust me.
He's earning her favor.
She says to him online, you should have said hello.
There's such a deep desire for that child to be seen, to be affirmed.
So it's the exploitation of vulnerabilities.
Unfortunately, Gen Z display their vulnerabilities publicly.
It's not hidden.
They overshare publicly.
It's easy to read them.
And so that's why you see some of the movements in our country where it feels like, why would they just be swept up in a movement?
Because they can be.
Because they're looking for a purpose.
If the purpose is nefarious and it's an exploiter, they will always implicate the victim in the crime.
And here's what happens, Jan, that we've now determined unilaterally.
The second sexual exploitation happens to a person, whether it's a rape, as egregious as a rape, or repeated violation or trafficking, right?
We have to do better in this country looking at EQ, not IQ.
The emotional health of our nation is not good.
The first thing that happens to that person is guilt, shame, and condemnation floods them.
They feel guilty, but they're not the perpetrator.
They're the victim.
But that's the nature of humanity.
It's in Genesis 3.
It's biblical.
It's literally in Genesis when Adam and Eve realize they're naked, they hide from God because of what?
Shame, guilt, condemnation.
So now you have predators that are so good that they coerce the victims to feel, it's my fault, I did something.
This is why sextortion is exploding with young boys in our country.
Because they don't talk about it.
They get trapped.
And so it's really just an assessment of vulnerabilities.
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