Welcome to Chewy the Fat. Sheriff Bill E. Waburn, Tarrant County, Texas Sheriff Bill Waburn.

Bill Waburn. welcome to the broadcast.

How are you, sir?

I'm doing great and thank you for having me.

It's a blessing and an honor to be here,

absolutely happy to do it.

Now, we have been talking pre-recording about a number of things so we'll just jump right in.

First we do a lot of work here at the Blaze and Mercury with our Rescue

Foundation that helps drug trafficking, sex, trafficking, slavery trafficking

around the world and here in the United States.

And you talked to me about a stat that I didn't know here with the foster care kids.

Right.

What, but tell us what that stat was.

This is a University of Texas at Austin study

that was commissioned by the Governor Abbott's office, actually.

And they wanted to find out what was going on in human trafficking.

And what they found out was is that they felt

like there was close to 300,000 people engaged in human trafficking in Texas and that

89 and then probably out of that about I think there was 80,000 children and 89% of that number came out of our foster care

program one way or the other. Still a pretty big number. Huge number.

Huge number. When you start breaking it down down so if that's the case and you know the

numbers are obviously bearing that out who's responsible I mean are are

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