Well, this voicemail is kind of a bummer. I am sorry! It’ll be more chipper next week.
In 2021, I wrote a piece about going on an anti-human trafficking raid with Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad.
Here it is:
Called by God: In 2014, I went on a vigilante raid to “save” kids sold for sex. What we did haunts me now.
I was aware of alleged issues in the organization. But I could not write about them, for reasons I go into in the voicemail. I hoped that by publishing the piece I could write, I’d create a space where people felt safe enough to come forward. Or that the institutions providing legitimacy to Ballard - like the LDS Church - would begin to interrogate that relationship. But it just…. didn’t work out that way.
It seems a reckoning might finally be happening. But ummmm what took so long?
Related reading
The first post in my series on the LDS Church and Abuse
Sound of Freedom is part of an augmented reality project
Mormon Church Denounces Tim Ballard’s “Morally Unacceptable” Activities
All of Vice’s Reporting on O.U.R.
Related Listening
Two interviews I’ve done about O.U.R.
