How Traffickers Prey on America’s Youth: Jaco Booyens

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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“A quarter to a half of the exploitation that’s happening to our own nation’s youth ... it’s a caregiver doing it—it’s a familial figure,” Jaco Booyens says.

He is the founder of Jaco Booyens Ministries (JBM), an anti-human trafficking organization working to protect American children from predatory exploitation.

“We’re talking about a $52 billion industry of buying and selling predominantly women and children inside this country—American citizens. The discussion about an immigrant child or an immigrant in the country is a completely separate conversation,” he says.

Booyens says laws against human trafficking are not being sufficiently enforced. Why are cases continuing to increase, while prosecutions decrease? And how is pornography a “gateway drug” into the trafficking industry?

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0:00.0	So I'm telling you, this is 2024, a quarter to a half of the exploitation that's happening to our own nation's youth,
0:08.8	it's a caregiver doing it in the family.
0:11.0	Yakoboyance is founder of Yakoboyans Ministries, an anti-trafficking organization working to protect American children from predatory exploitation.
0:20.0	But we're talking about a $52 billion industry of buying and selling, predominantly women and children,
0:27.6	inside this country, American citizens.
0:29.6	The discussion about a migrant child or a migrant in the country is a completely separate conversation.
0:35.6	Boyan says laws against human trafficking are not being sufficiently
0:39.2	enforced. Why are cases continuing to increase while prosecutions decrease? And how is pornography a gateway
0:47.5	drug into the trafficking industry? Porn is highly addictive because it alters the neuropathways in the brain.
0:54.4	This is science, it's biology, it's physiology.
0:57.6	The child's defenseless at this moment.
0:59.7	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jan Yekkelik.
1:04.4	Yakobo Boyans, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders.
1:08.2	Thank you, Jan. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:10.7	Five years ago, we sat down and you exposed me to some of the really, frankly,
1:17.2	horrifying realities of human trafficking, child sex trafficking and so forth,
1:22.4	the things that you have been working on trying to stop for decades.
1:27.3	We then looked at what happened during the pandemic. have been working on trying to stop for decades.
1:27.6	We then looked at what happened during the pandemic.
1:32.8	And that was a whole different ballgame because there were these lockdowns, different
1:37.1	policies, the border, online exploitation, huge increase.
1:42.9	And here we are today in 2025,
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