Teenagers Saved from Human Trafficking thru the Help of the Team of Retired U.S. Navy Seals

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Retired U.S. Navy Seals saves teenagers from human trafficking.

Teenagers Saved from Human Trafficking thru the Help of the Team of Retired U.S. Navy Seals

Human trafficking and exploitation is a massive issue in the United States. In 2016 the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children held 8.2 million reports, while the National Human Trafficking Hotline handled 7,621 cases in the same year. 

SIAM is a group of volunteers, including retired Navy Seals, police investigators, and other experts.

A 16-year-old became a victim fo trafficking while riding a bike with her friend one afternoon. Maureen and David, the teen's parents, contacted Saved In America (SIAM) after police insisted on treating the case as a runaway. 

Co-founded by a private investigator, Joseph Travers, SIAM is a group of volunteers, including retired Navy Seals, police investigators, and other experts. They saved David and Maureen's daughter less than a week after their taking the case. She was about to be sold on modern slavery.

SIAM also helps to obtain legal representation, safe housing, and rehabilitative therapy. 

As of December 2014, they have rescued 223 children. The team had a success rate of 100% in January 2018. 

For those who have been exploited before they could be rescued, SIAM also helps to obtain legal representation, safe housing, and rehabilitative therapy.

SIAM plays a crucial part in helping overstretched police forces save children.

SIAM plays a crucial part in helping overstretched police forces save children. It has been reported that 20% of children with "runaway" cases are in actuality victims of exploitation. But police often treat then as runaways because "law enforcement is responsible for so much, they are constantly over-extended and are not legally required to perform full attention to find a 'runaway' child." 

The team has earned glowing endorsements from law enforcement. 

Travers founded SIAM after hearing about the 2009 abduction and murder of Brittanee Drexel. 

"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," he told VICE News. "When I read about the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, I just knew gangs were involved." 

SIAM help families in finding their missing child.

He also explained how the team gets involved in most cases: 

"Most of the parents are in a panic stage, and they're waiting for something to happen. So now the family is at a standstill. They have to go find their child on their own, and most people don't know how to do that, so we fill that gap." 

Saved In America relies on donations to carry out their work.

"We're there for the parent as a resource," his father told VICE. "I think the greatest thing that could happen is if Saved In America didn't have to exist."

 “We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.”


-   Shannon Alder


Tags: SIAM Saved In America human trafficking US Navy National Center on Missing and Exploited Children Joseph Travers Navy Seals Brittanee Drexel police investigators

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