Epoch Times - How Traffickers Prey on America's Vulnerable Youth: Jaco Booyens
Aired: 2025-07-24
Duration: 02:43


=== Exploiting Vulnerabilities (02:42) ===

[00:00:00]  We have real cases that we can discuss.
[00:00:03]  I'll give you a brief example, a real case.
[00:00:05]  We'll call this girl Sarah.
[00:00:07]  Sarah's thirteen.
[00:00:08]  She has a deep desire to play on a soccer team.
[00:00:11]  She doesn't make the team, but she serves the team as kind of a water girl, right?
[00:00:16]  This predator notices this online, because she talks about that.
[00:00:20]  She talks that her sister makes the varsity team.
[00:00:24]  The predator starts affirming her, encouraging her for nine months until one day he shows up at her soccer game.
[00:00:32]  He flies two states over, takes a selfie with her in the background, doesn't introduce himself to her, goes back home.
[00:00:40]  Two weeks later, he sends her the selfie.
[00:00:43]  And he said, when your dad doesn't show up, I will show up.
[00:00:46]  You can trust me.
[00:00:48]  He's earning her favor.
[00:00:49]  She says to him online, you should have said hello.
[00:00:54]  There's such a deep desire for that child to be seen, to be affirmed.
[00:00:59]  So it's the exploitation of vulnerabilities.
[00:01:01]  Unfortunately, Gen Z display their vulnerabilities publicly.
[00:01:07]  It's not hidden.
[00:01:09]  They overshare publicly.
[00:01:11]  It's easy to read them.
[00:01:13]  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?
[00:01:21]  Because they can be.
[00:01:22]  Because they're looking for a purpose.
[00:01:24]  If the purpose is nefarious and it's an exploiter, they will always implicate the victim in the crime.
[00:01:34]  And here's what happens, Jan, that we've now determined unilaterally.
[00:01:39]  The second sexual exploitation happens to a person, whether it's a rape, as egregious as a rape, or repeated violation or trafficking, right?
[00:01:49]  We have to do better in this country looking at EQ, not IQ.
[00:01:54]  The emotional health of our nation is not good.
[00:01:58]  The first thing that happens to that person is guilt, shame, and condemnation floods them.
[00:02:04]  They feel guilty, but they're not the perpetrator.
[00:02:06]  They're the victim.
[00:02:08]  But that's the nature of humanity.
[00:02:10]  It's in Genesis 3.
[00:02:11]  It's biblical.
[00:02:13]  It's literally in Genesis when Adam and Eve realize they're naked, they hide from God because of what?
[00:02:20]  Shame, guilt, condemnation.
[00:02:23]  So now you have predators that are so good that they coerce the victims to feel, it's my fault, I did something.
[00:02:32]  This is why sextortion is exploding with young boys in our country.
[00:02:37]  Because they don't talk about it.
[00:02:38]  They get trapped.
[00:02:40]  And so it's really just an assessment of vulnerabilities.