181: Part 1 – Chad Meli – Fighting human trafficking throughout the world. Learn what you can do to help

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Learn all you can from retired cop and cybersecurity expert Chad Meli, a professional who has dedicated his life to helping the victims of human trafficking. Chad and Murph discuss the harrowing realities of human trafficking, particularly focusing on the exploitation of children through online platforms. Chad highlights the importance of awareness, prevention, and survivor support, and encourages listeners to recognize signs of trafficking and grooming to protect vulnerable individuals, including the critical role of parental involvement in safeguarding children online. Help to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

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0:00.0	That guy from Austria that got married, has two daughters, and then exploited them.
0:06.1	I'm hoping he's doing the rest of his life in prison.
0:08.4	He is, yeah.
0:09.1	He got convicted.
0:10.5	His case adjudicated.
0:11.8	Victims were rescued, obviously taken away from him, a place with their biological mother.
0:16.6	I think he was 62 years old when he was arrested, and he got just over like 65 years in prison.
0:23.9	So he, I hope he'll die there.
0:25.9	I was with him during the arrest and he was kind of a healthy guy who had some weight on him.
0:30.5	He was about my size.
0:31.7	And I saw him at his first court appearance about a year later and he looked like a P-O-W.
0:37.7	He came walking out in orange and shackles and that was my punching the nose to him when he came
0:43.1	in and then got sentenced to 65 years.
0:45.8	He might look like a bag of bones.
0:47.3	Yeah, absolutely like a bag of bones.
0:48.9	It'd been a rough year and I've got, you know, 65 more to go.
1:04.7	Yeah. got, you know, 65 more to go. Hey, everybody.
1:05.8	Why did you come back?
1:07.1	Because you love me.
1:08.0	That's why you came back.
1:08.9	Welcome back to the next episode of Game of Crimes
1:11.4	with Murph in the morning. You'll probably notice I don't have my headset on today and I don't
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