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Dr Barbara Kastelein's avatar

Thank you Ioan! I have been wanting to know this background for years (the when it started and why), how true / untrue the numbers arelves, cartoons, especially. Clearly told, as always! A friend and former colleague worked with trafficked women for years through the British criminal justice system and joined forces on prevention of human trafficking (for slavery, sexual and domestic) of young women from the Caribbean and West Africa in particular. Her team made videos that were shown strategically (in Jamaica, I believe, can check), supported by the government there and numbers of trafficked women entering the UK went down dramatically. Do you think it's worth trying to facilitate some cross-cultural sharing of experience? (the videos, animations, are beautifully done, short, simple and very moving -- can pass links on). Education and information on this topic for prevention are very close to my heart (very struck by your last photo, urging women to realise the padrote will create -- will already have created -- and use fear, and to resist this ... it's so subtle, and bears many similarities to the build-up of domestic violence / intimate partner abuse and coercive control which doesn't end up in trafficking and prostitution but is worldwide, with murders of women by partners and family increasing, according to the last UN stats I had access to, and is surely part of the same phenomenon)

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Thanks much Barbara, and it is very interesting to hear about the cases of sex trafficking into the UK and the experience of Jamaica and West Africa. Yes, it's such a sensitive issue and horrific crime that it can be difficult to figure out the numbers - I believe there was some exaggeration about the sheer numbers into the UK a few years ago, but then there are cases that are real and truly horrible. It would be fascinating to see those videos and if you have any links we can put here then I think people would be interested to see them. I could also share with the Fray Julián Garcés Human Rights Center that is doing prevention work and they may be useful. Keep in touch there.

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Jeff Sturges's avatar

Ioan- Contact me privately. You have my e-mail. If not, I'll give you another means. Looking forward to hear from you.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Thanks Jeff and will do. However, I am sorry I can't remember where I have your mail. Feel free to write to me on ioangrillo@hotmail.com and I will answer. (And yes, I am always open to good info). Best.

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We Talk You Listen wtyl.live's avatar

Excellent work my friend. Wish there were a thousand more guys just like you. As a 40 year addiciton survivor I salute you Sir!!!

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Thanks much friend. Thanks means a lot to me and you and your insights are appreciated. Keep in touch there.

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We Talk You Listen wtyl.live's avatar

Ioan, I would like to show you our resistance platform where I would love to have all your video archived without censorship or big brother bothering us. WE call it We Talk You Listen and the website live streaming resource hub is at https://t.wtyl.live/videos/overview

Please feel free to register and use this as a safe and secure network platform. Or if you wish I could create the channel for you and I can upload all your video content into the channel. As you add material it automatically add the episode to the site.

I myself and the white hat developer of WTYL are always ready to help those who have something to say, which also can save many lives!!!!!

Hoping you will join us in our cause in independent broadcast media.

Best regaurds and stay safe out there! - Chris France

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Thanks there Chris. I will definitely take a look at this and let you know. Best there.

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Stevie Abbott's avatar

I was eating a sandwich when i started reading the first paragraph EWWWWWWWWWWWW

there goes my appetite

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Sorry about that one! Ha ha.

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Tom Johnston's avatar

Update 2025-

Sex trafficking is worse then ever and the Bed Bible trafficking study in 2024 confirms this-

https://bedbible.com/research-sex-trafficking-statistics/. They define sex trafficking as “the range of activities involved when a trafficker uses force, fraud, or coercion to compel another person to engage in a commercial sex act”.

1. 35-40 million sex trafficking cases occur every day.

2. Average age of sex trafficking is 12-14 years old.

3. 20-30 percent of sex trafficking is children.

4. The market value of sex trafficking is 100 billion dollars a year.

5. Sex trafficking is 79% of all human trafficking cases.

6. Over 50% of sex trafficking occurs in the United States.

The Bed Bible study breaks down the problem to geographic locations around the world. This is by far the biggest study ever completed.

With the publicity of the Epstein scandal and files which show that not only were major corporations and billionaires were directly interested in his money laundering expertise with JP Morgan Chase Bank but also his blackmail sex operation involving girls who were extremely young, people in the United States are getting a further glimpse into the actual sexual perversion of prominent international elites pointing to their complete criminal makeup and their desperate desires to bury these vivid portraits of why these elites should be destroyed.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

I'll check out the study. The Epstein story is a crazy one and it's interesting now the progressive side is following it more seeing it as a challenge to Trump. I would say it squarely hits all sides of the establishment. All best there Tom and I hope all is well with you. Cheers, Ioan

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Tom Johnston's avatar

Everything is fine. Just returned from Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Great trip except for Canada and there damn fires which are more then accidents like the Grand Canyon fire last week. Fire policies I could write a book on. If caught by Canadian authorities stomping out a campfire they would charge you with creating an excessive carbon footprint. What was amazing was the complete lack of security on both sides of the border. You could run a truck through that lack of security.

Epstein files does challenge every side of the establishment and Trump's involvement and further investigations into the Epstein files is on Unlimitedhangout.com and theMintPress.com with much of the work done by Whitney Webb.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Hope you had a great break there Tom. That wide open border is a huge hole in drug enforcement, if that is the policy the government really wants to pursue. Dope has also been going to the US via Canada forever.

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Jack Beavers's avatar

Thanks for shining a bright light on a dark corner of Mexico, Ioan.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Appreciated and Best there Jack

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Gregorio's avatar

With fifty years of personal involvement in the drug world I am somewhat happier today because of this fact. I never saw any involvement by myself or cohorts in anything related to the topic of this article. Not here the the U.S. or Mexico or many other countries. My priority was always the drugs. Sex was not a part of these activities. Now with the Epstein blowup I probably was extremely naive not to notice something.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Very interesting, best there Gregorio!

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Antonio's avatar

We had many problem here in México, in Zacatecas for example where i live, we notice many coincides in the goverment that made us danger...For example, 4 years ago when Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador came to power, the state was calmer, crime decreased, but for example here in Zacatecas, the now governor David Monreal, was a municipal president of one of the municipalities of the State of Zacatecas called Fresnillo, at that time the murders began in Fresnillo and later when Monreal became Governor of the state of Zacatecas, one of the 32 states that make up Mexico, suddenly the murders increased and spread throughout the state of Zacatecas, curious, don't you think? For example, this week I share the following news about it, since every day there are homicides without data without sufficient information, cartels? of course these are the links for news about it

Some of these news are hided by republic and are published in facebook for example:

1.- https://fb.watch/mV-pgLfeKp/?mibextid=2Rb1fB

2.- https://fb.watch/mV1repVIkd/?mibextid=2Rb1fB

3.- https://fb.watch/mT5E5-vCDG/?mibextid=2Rb1fB

4.- https://fb.watch/mS8qEsimGJ/?mibextid=2Rb1fB

5.- https://fb.watch/mQI7jNvJSi/?mibextid=2Rb1fB

7.- https://fb.watch/mPdcBGzlCM/?mibextid=2Rb1fB

This are a few examples only this week , imagine whats in the rest of my country

6.' https://fb.watch/mPBhyvrx4b/?mibextid=2Rb1fB

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Hi Antonio. Thanks much for that comment and information. Yes, Zacatecas has really been terrorized by violence in the last four years. I hope to get back up there and report on it soon. All best there friend.

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Tom Johnston's avatar

The horror that has occurred in Juarez and still continuing today would make one pessimistic about any attempts by the Mexican and US government to tackle the problem in any effective manner. Any where from 1000 to 5000 women and girls have disappear not counting the discoveries of the remains

of women and girls that were discovered primarily by word of mouth on the street. There was also a kidnapping/trafficking conduit from El Paso, Phoenix and Tucson to Juarez that has never been really stopped. A friend's daughter disappeared in El Paso and only because my friend had a relative in the US Marshal service was she able to rescue her daughter. The marshal found her at her last stop in El Paso before being shipped to Juarez. The marshal did not want to even entertain the question of how he knew where to go. He has been absolutely disgusted by the lack of agency enforcement on both sides of the border regarding this form of modern day slavery.

When former senator Jeff Sessions became Attorney General of the United States he was shouting at full voice about the horrors of child sex trafficking and adult women being trafficking into horrible cauldrons of sex slavery and started hundreds of sex trafficking enforcement cases. He was criticized heavily for supposedly overstating the problem and I think that is the real hidden reason he was forced to resign.

I do not think any statistics released by any government agency accurately reflect the real problem and the dots are never connected by any agency to point out that this is truly an international tragedy.

When Duterte was President of the Phillippines he was incensed at the lack of response by the United States and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia to the terrible work and sex enslavement of Filipino women. For a time, he did not allow any Filipino women to work outside the country. Mexican women have been forced into prostitution not only in Mexico, United States and Canada, but also in Europe if they possess the highly in demand qualities of being very young and a virgin. If you have any doubts about the international aspect of this appalling situation do your own investigation of the international assistance Jeffery Epstein received in his sex trafficking and political blackmail ring.

An observation I made at the time of the massive publicity over the immigrant marches from Central America through Mexico to the US border seemed at the start of the marches there were huge numbers of men, women and children but when they arrived at the border it seemed the marches were dominated by men and younger men mostly. What happened to the women and children?

Prostitution has always been treated with disdain and a don't give a shit attitude by law enforcement for decades. Many a serial killer has feasted on that attitude. but child sex exploitation is a very specialized, secretive operation that is very difficult to penetrate since much of the activity is conducted over encrypted emails. I am not talking the perverts evading social media and being busted but the international rings that involve many influential people and the satisfying of their horrible appetites.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Thanks there Tom. Yes, there is a lot to this and a lot of avenues to pursue. That is very alarming about your friend's daughter in El Paso but thank God she was saved before she was taken over the border. Yes, the kidnapping and taking over the border is definitely a concern. There is a lot to look into those immigrant marches as well, a lot of things shifted there. More on all this to come and all best there.

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Dr Barbara Kastelein's avatar

Thank you. I will see where I saved the links that Olga (my former colleague and friend, British Caribbean woman, now in her mid-70s, seen a lot) sent me, and will send them to you. Appreciate this! (What I like about these 3 short videos is that not only do they speak to the girls who get targeted and groomed, but they are also eye-catching and educational for any old person on the street, anywhere, about the vulnerability of poor women and girls (some escaping an abusive or slave-like existence at home, frying pan into fire). When I have a better idea of the time I'll be in Mexico at the end of this year and especially 2024, I'd like to know more about the Fray Julian Garces center and see if I can offer any help. (In recent year's the women's activist and advocacy group I am close to is MAM, in Mexico City). Feel warmed by your work and your engagement, as well as admiring of your conciseness (not my talent, as you can see) and clarity. Keep safe mate

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Sounds good, I look forward to checking them. And sure I can def pass the contact of the human rights center. Appreciate your reading and best there.

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I.D.'s avatar

Greatly appreciate your work Mr. Grillo. I discovered you on the Shawn Ryan show and ever since then I always look forward to your work.

This is off topic but I live near the city of Mexicali Baja California and it seems to me that the city is always under the radar when it comes to crime and narcos and I feel it’s a place worthy of investigation for you whenever you have the opportunity.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Thanks much for reading and the support there friend. Mexicali has indeed become a hotspot right now. There is a fight between a faction linked to El Mayo, led by El Ruso, and others loyal to the Chapitos and it stretches over into Sonora and San Luis Rio Colorado. I'd love to get back up there for a story. All best and keep in touch there.

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𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗's avatar

As a Former PIMP, I have to approve this post for its accurateness. It goes so much deeper in the archives of AMERICA frum da state Im frum: LOUISIANA/MISSISSIPPI. Keep letting it drop, man.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Thanks for reading DuVay. There must be a lot of crazy and interesting stuff there in Louisiana and Mississippi we need to hear about. Ill keep on.

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Ioan Grillo's avatar

Duly noted DuVay. Estamos en contacto.

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