Hunting Sex Traffickers (with Glenn Devitt)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.9 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Glenn Devitt is an Army veteran, a former member of the Department of Homeland Security's H.E.R.O. (Human Exploitation Rescue Operative) program, and is the CEO of the Sentinel Foundation. The organization exists for a single reason: to end underage children being exploited around the world. Today on Change Agents, Glenn and Andy Stumpf discuss Glenn's background, the origins of the Sentinel Foundations, the reality of child exploitation, and how Change Agents listeners can get involved in the fight. To learn more about Glenn and the work of Sentinel Foundation⁠ go to https://foundationsentinel.org/ Special thanks to the Wanek family and Ashley Furniture, as well as the Tim Tebow Foundation, for their support of Glenn and Sentinel Foundation. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Shop IRONCLAD Apparel: shop.thisisironclad.com Follow IRONCLAD @thisisironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following program contains subject matter that some viewers may find disturbing.
0:05.0	Viewer discretion advised.
0:07.0	How can I help? How can I be useful in ending needless suffering?
0:13.0	Do not be afraid of work that has no end.
0:17.0	We have to organize a social movement.
0:23.6	We have an opportunity to lead by example versus just talking, hot air.
0:29.6	I think the more people in this fight, the more we grow, eventually it could change.
0:34.6	The people are the ones that can make the change.
0:36.6	Today I'm going to introduce you to Eventually, you could change. Either people are the ones that can make the change.
0:43.1	Today I'm going to introduce you to Glenn Debit.
0:47.1	He is an Army veteran with a background in human intelligence,
0:50.4	commonly known as human and counterintelligence.
0:52.7	He also spent time working with Homeland Security,
0:59.0	specifically in their investigations of computer forensic analysis to help combat child exploitation. As you're going to hear today, he left working with the Department of Homeland Security, and he founded his own organization.
1:05.8	He's the founder and CEO of the Sentinel Foundation.
1:09.9	According to Deliverfund.org, 15 to 50,000 women and children are forced
1:15.1	into sexual slavery in the United States every year. According to the organization Thorn,
1:20.5	150,000 new escort ads are posted online every single day. Traffickers are going to look for
1:27.2	the softest targets.
1:28.4	They often target migrants and refugees.
1:30.6	For example, 76% of refugees surveyed
1:34.1	in the Mediterranean countries said that they had been trafficked
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