I want to be clear, this movie was a movie that I hated to love. I am so thankful for the conversations it invoked and the awareness it has brought to the topic. If you went to this movie but do not wish to have a conversation about the problem of trafficking in general you missed the point.
3 Things I wish Sound of Freedom Movie had done differently
I want to be clear, this movie was a movie that I hated to love. I am so thankful for the conversations it invoked and the awareness it has brought to the topic. If you went to this movie but do not wish to have a conversation about the problem of trafficking in general you missed the point.
My Child Trafficking Story in a Nutshell
From the meetings I have had on the WES Board and with the FBI this is what I know. Children are coming in illegally from the Woodbine Airport, being funneled into the janitor’s office, and being sold at parent pick up. This was the case in 2019-2020.
Around this time, I also received a letter from the WBOE, just a few days after I went public, to try to scare me into being quiet. I refused.
The police called me in for an interview, and a couple weeks later sent me to the Hampton House. The Hampton House is a state facility for the mentally unstable in New Jersey.
(Knowing that this was likely the lengths the State Police would go to keep this story contained I was warned by the FBI/Prosecutor’s Office that I may be sent to The Hampton House at our 2015 meeting. At that time I agreed to go if needed in order to continue with the investigation and operation to save the kids I saw being sold at Woodbine Elementary School.)
In 2021, I was committed for 2 weeks. The state police and the Hampton House tried to say I was on heavy duty drugs. Drugs I have never touched in my life. My room at the Hampton House had no heat. The food was horrible and sparse. There was one water source for over 23 people during a global pandemic, a water fountain. There, I was threatened again to remove my blog entries made here, asked to delete my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram posts. Again, I refused.
I was released 14 days later.
Numerous law enforcement (still till this day) labeled/label me as a schizophrenic in defense of their own actions and to deflect from the ring that I saw in operation. I have had no diagnosis of being schizophrenic.
(Thankfully, my husband, who I was and still am married to, remained in custody so my children never left my home.)
Personally, this was heartbreaking as I had worked with CPS for many years hosting foster children in my home. (I have had 23 children leave my home but never my heart. I still love them till this day. Many stories from my foster days still reside on this blog). During this time, nothing but frustration and disappointment filled me as it all revealed how absolutely broken our foster system is. Having seen the system from both sides, a parent and as a foster parent, I am more motivated than ever for foster reform in the United States of America.
However, I had no clue how much this would hurt my family and how CPS would get involved.
I am and was standing up for what is right. These are human lives at stake and Woodbine has a gigantic problem. Child trafficking has no place in Woodbine and ESPECIALLY in a learning institution in the United States of America.
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
An Update:
I have no update really! I was told that two things about this investigation.
1. “It could take a Long, Long, Long time.” I don’t know how long “long” actually is.
It’s been almost 14 years since my initial reporting. It’s very emotional. Waiting is hard. Though I have 3 kids, my heart yearns for the others and to KNOW they are safe. I was told they would be safe in witness protection but it would be great for me to know they are loved and cared for. I pray for Zulia(read the story about when I met her) and the others every single day.
It’s not just me waiting, It’s all of the people that love me and support me and believe in my effort to stop this.
But most importantly, It’s my kids that are waiting too. Waiting for the truth to come out about their mom. Waiting to see the truth for themselves. Waiting for Justice to be brought.
2. A ring never has been attempted to be closed like this.
In 2009, socia media was new. While I had talked about the ring on Twitter back then the corrupt police officers/School administration weren’t early adopters to the tech platform. Though very important people were present for the conversation that night in 2009, the exposure was missed locally. Keeping quiet for all those years after was hard for me. Supposedly, when the “re”exposure was to happen in 2020/2021, the FBI/Prosecutor’s Office was supposed to be ready to catch the corrupt with the evidence that is needed to make arrests. I was told this would take time. I was told that the kids couldn’t just evaporate and that eventually the case would come to close. That day couldn’t come soon enough.
This has caused my family so much pain and stress. I feel for my kids that they have to share me with 50+kids that don’t even know her name. Still, I love children and am a life long advocate for them in various capacities, fighting child trafficking is just one way. Yes, This occupies a lot of my mental strength and energy. However, I feel this is my job, God’s purpose for me.
If you missed my last post, in addition to continuing to stand strong to the truth, I have returned back to school to venture into the world of political science. I imagine one day it will take me to Washington DC to fight trafficking on a legislative level. (Maybe in 3 years are so)
All I can say for now is, to be continued.
Who is Zulia? (condensed)
Who is Zulia?
Zulia was a child that I saw amongst many children that were part of a child trafficking ring. Zulia was the only child who had a name.
On Oct 26 of 2019, during a week known as red week at WES, I was introduced to a child trafficking ring. The first time I saw the ring in motion was in 2009. It was in 2019 that I was introduced to the “Janitor’s Children” who were obviously not the janitors offspring but what appeared to be a “batch” of children ages 1-12.
They appeared to be South American descent.
Divided by gender, boys were on the janitor’s office floor and the girls were stationed in the back seat of a car near “the office.” All of the children appeared to be drugged up and silent. These children were dressed in WES school attire but were seemingly on their own and not attending classes. High traffic to the janitors office occurred during school dismissal time. It was at this time that I saw “The Children in the Pictures.”
After a brief walk down the hall with the superintendent I was introduced to Zulia. She was not drugged up like the others but was, like the others, searching for her mother with her eyes. All of the children I saw that day seemed dehydrated and eerily quiet.
It was as this point that I encouraged the adults in the room to make wise choices. I intended to come back at some point, look for every child, and write about Zulia(sometimes pronounced Zu-Leah) after I finished proving the septic tanks were hazardous.
I have no idea where Zulia is but I do believe that there was an investigation and surveillance going on at the time of our introduction. I pray that all of the children are present and accounted for in Witness Protection. I had absolutely no involvement with the investigation that was happening around me while I held a seat on the Woodbine Board of Education. Because of this, I believe, I am one of the only people that can speak freely about Zulia and the others. A few select adults may want to talk about child trafficking at Woodbine Elementary School but can not because they may be working with the DA and are not legally allowed to.
The ring itself is embedded into the government utilizing a title one school, fake foster parents, and a few corrupt police officers(New Jersey State Police) to keep the ring moving.
I only know what I have lived, and have seen, through the last 12 years watching the ring operate. Just like all of my other blog entries I blog what I have lived. I have never had to prove what I have lived through up to this point. I wish, in hindsight, that I would have taken pictures but in the end I knew that had I stopped to take pictures I may have been in an unsafe situation. Though I am committed to helping close the ring that is running in the Woodbine Elementary School I am more committed to making it home to care and love the children that belong to me and call me Mom.
I volunteered to expose the ring and use social media to tell Zulia’s story because the local newspaper is involved. I am not a reporter. I am a writer and lifestyle blogger. I blog about my life and have done so for the last 12 years. This story, like every other one up to this point, is from my view point.
I pray that this case will no longer be undercover so that other view points can be taken into account. Until than, know that I remain firm on the belief that modern slavery is still slavery. Pediphilia is a horrible part of our society and that NO CHILD should have to learn in the Conditions forced upon them in their learning institution like Woodbine Elementary School.