Stories from the Field: The Girl with the Flower Dress. How to Stand Your Ground-Child Sex Trafficking in Mexico
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Stories from the Field: The Girl in the Flower Dress. How to Stand Your Ground
Journal excerpts and additional writing by Gretchen Smith, 2014-2016
Campo Alfonsos, Rosarito Mexico, ARThouse Rosarito
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Isaiah 61:1 "He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives"
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One morning in early October 2014 a young girl, about 14 years old stumbled past my house earlier in the morning barefoot, beaten up, bloody and clearly so drugged she could barely walk . I knew she had been trafficked and had escaped from the strip club and its affiliated brothels nearby. I tried to get her to come inside but she was too scared and stumbled towards the beach. I called the police immediately. As usual they did not come. This was not my first rodeo with this issue in my neighborhood and I had learned much about corrupt police by that point.
I had moved to the neighborhood in Campo Alfonsos because I had witnessed in a murder and been put in jail for it in another neighborhood (a story for another day) and needed a change of space and Campo Alfonsos had not had any issues or violence or even theft for like 20 years according to all the neighbors so it seemed like a very safe place to go. Three months after I moved into my lovely new neighborhood Foxy's Strip Club opened right next door. The first night they had opened someone was shot inside and wandered down and died near my front porch and it was not long after that that I suspected they were trafficking young girls. When the murder happened I called the police and had several of their staff arrested and the cartel came to my house to threaten me but that is also a story for another day.
When I moved to ARThouse Rosarito (the name of the ministry there) in January of 2014 God told me to plant a garden on the empty back lot which was hilarious. I mean it made NO SENSE...it was the most ridiculous idea ever...the land was not mine, it was contaminated fill dirt, I was on rainwater collection and could not possibly afford water to water the garden, and I had a long record of killing even the hardiest of house plants but I set out to do what God said and started a community garden because I know better than to disobey God and soon it would become abundantly clear why he had me do that. Everyone thought the purpose of the garden in my back yard was to help feed the community and that is partly true but really what God wanted was for me to have an excuse to be outside puttering about for hours so I could keep an eye on what was happening at that the strip club that opened next door shortly after I started the garden. I am like the worst gardener ever but gardens have to be watered a lot in Mexico so God had given me the perfect vantage point and reason to be outside and they never suspected I was doing surveillance.
This is the view from my garden. Foxy's is the red building in the distance about 1/2 block away. Notice the condition of my garden. I watered my compost pile a lot....very little ever grew in that soil...LOL.
Here is a journal excerpt from when I really started to suspect they were trafficking girls at Foxy's and started reporting it to the authorities.
Jounral Entry May 20, 2014, Campo Alfonsos
PRAYER REQUEST: Plead for God to use his power to shut down the club that opened up here a few months ago and for the pimps, dealers, and prostitutes to repent and turn to God immediately. There are two additional girls working the street now in Campo Alfonso/La Barca neighbourhoods.
https://www.facebook.com/foxyspremiergentlemensclub/
T?his is their google pic from July 2017. They have remodeled it so many times I cannot count...maybe 8 or 9 owners at this point. Sadly they are still operating. Foxy's On Google
A neighbour informed me that a jeep cherokee went over the cliff backwards one block north of me on her property Friday night around 9 pm. It is my suspicion that they were looking for the drug house located behind the club 1 block south of me. (The red building). The driver and passenger of the vehicle should have been arrested and charged with trespassing on private property, negligence, and most likely driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol and the vehicle should have been confiscated by police. The police did nothing and they were not detained as they came back the next day to get their vehicle. Our neighbourhood has been plagued with bad things since that club opened and since Carolina the prostitutes boyfriend got out of jail and returned.
Above is the map that was provided to all authorities asking for help on May 29, 2014. The big purple G was me and the garden was in the empty lot behind me and Foxy's is to the right near the main road.
As I watched all of this happen I was doing outreach to one of the women who I suspected was involved with grooming the girls. Her name was Carolina and she had a 7 year old daughter that I was very concerned about and they were my neighbors just down the beach.
Journal Entry, July 1, 2014, Campo Alfonsos
SPECIAL PRAYER NEED: This is Maria (age 7) Soon she will be ripe to work in the sex industry like her mother. Are you on your knees yet? This is my neighbour. This is who you are helping by supporting the work God is doing through your prayers and your gifts. Maria likes me very much. She sees me as a friend. She does not get to go to school and she lives in one room with her mother who works as a prostitute.
I hate the way that men look at Maria...as if she is a product that is just about ready to be put in the store window.
Soon it became clear to me that many of the girls working at the club and in the affiliated brothels were migrants and I started to see more and more of them coming through...desperate and hungry and most were children around 15 years old.
Journal Entry, August 3, 2014, Campo Alfonsos
Many many of the people passing through my area are migrants, often travelling the entire length of Mexico by foot. I saw three young, starving kids from El Salvador the other day and as I mentioned before there were three young girls trying to get work stripping at Foxy's...they were also most likely on this journey to the border from another country in Central America. I don't have a position on this issue other than the human one. There are people who are frightened, hungry, and trying to find a safe place and we as Christians certainly have some sort of responsibility to respond with compassion. Please pray for me as I navigate the very real situation of hungry endangered kids literally in my backyard. The garden is still small and cannot meet the needs of the locals let alone those that are passing through. I am not sure what the answer is. Please pray. Hard.
Journal Entry August 4, 2014, Campo Alfonsos
Please fast and pray with me about this:
Pray for the mayor and the city council to have the courage, knowledge, and legal means to shut Foxy's Strip Club down. Pray that the people working in the club will find other jobs, and a better source of income to support their families. Pray for the customers of the club to repent, stop doing drugs, and stop seeing women as objects rather than as human beings. Pray for the violence to end and for Jesus light to shine through. Link to Updated Prayer Map of Neighborhood
I was getting pretty pissed off at that point. I had multiple experiences of calling the police and them doing nothing or them taking the girl and later I would find out from Carolina the girl herself had been arrested and put in jail and sometimes raped by policeman. I reported everything to the Mexican Authorities, the US Embassy and a variety of NGO's and nobody was doing anything. The girls would turn up back at the club a few days later. I called a local shelter for girls and was told they only took in girls that were officially referred to them by the authorities and that they were full and they had no way to rescue girls. This would not work since most of the police at that point were corrupt. I asked who I should contact at the police department and their staff did not know. They said to take down the badge numbers of the corrupt police and report them so I went to the station one day to do a follow up and asked to see the badge number of the officer and he took his shirt off and flexed his muscles as if he was in a body building competition and then fined me a 1000 pesos and said if I did not pay it he would put me in jail. I had already been in that jail once when I had been accused of murder and did not intend to go back in that cell so I paid the money and left.
Despite all of this I was not deterred. I ramped up my surveillance and started walking up the road with my dogs and taking down all the license plates numbers and turning them in to the authorities in the states because many of the johns and owners/staff were US citizens crossing the border and coming down to party and use these women. I know Carolina saw me a couple of times but we had a good relationship and by then I had pretty much established that she had been trafficked herself as a young girl and was just in survival mode and any involvement she had in the whole thing was not voluntary...that much was clear. They were using her daughter Maria as leverage to get her to do things she did not want to do. I was careful not to get too close because her pimp or trafficker was always around and I was really worried about her daughter Maria and her teenage son Eli. I had a good relationship with her and often provided food or other gifts and took care of their dog.
There were literally hundreds of incidents and I called the police multiple times per week with no results. One incident related to the club in particular stands out in my memory when a girl was screaming out for help near my bedroom window around 5 am (approximately when the club closed each night) and I went outside with a squirt gun that looked like a real gun and caught the guy with his pants down raping her. She was still screaming for him to stop. He shoved the girl in the vehicle and fled. I had called the police before I even went outside and when they came 40 minutes and something like 5 calls later I asked them to take a written report (they don't do that you have to go to an office the next day to file an official complaint and the only complaint I could have filed was trespassing and that would have required my landlord to take the day off work to do it and that was not going to happen). The officer took out a little piece of paper and when I started giving the physical description of the perpetrator and victim he instead wrote down MY physical description. When his pen ran out of ink he just quit writing. The next day another police officer came to visit me and threatened me not to interfere in such matters and told me these girls were working of their own choice and that they enjoyed having sex with these men which I knew was bullshit. I really wish I had journaled this incident so I would have a date but I can't find it but there should be records to the emergency numbers.
So that brings us to the story of the Girl with the Flower Dress which involved me going toe to toe with 20 armed gang members going through my shed, garden and property looking for the girl. I had seen her go past my house barefoot, bloody, and drugged out barely able to walk but could not convince her to trust me and so she ran to the beach. I called the police and they did not even try to help. They arrived after the gang had already recaptured the girl and I told them they took the girl towards the club at gun or knifepoint and when the policeman left he drove right past the club, turned left and went north. In other words he did not even try to help and the workers from the house next door even corroborated my story to him.
Journal Entry, The Girl with the Flower Dress, October 13, 2014
There is something more about the story related to the girl in the flower dress that I have not yet shared with you not because I was holding back but because I was still processing. Carolina was involved heavily with all of this. The girl was at her house and the girl ran away. Carolina and her little daughter Maria were out looking for the girl. I saw Carolina at the top of the hill on the street. She was scared. The other gang (we will call them Gang 2) was at the top of the hill behind a wall and she was trying to sneak past them without being seen. She told Maria to stay at the top of the wall near the bicycle which was about 40 feet away from 7 members of gang 2. I was standing in my neighbors yard watching the whole thing but trying to stay out of gunshot distance.
Despite her faults, Carolina never leaves Maria alone. Maria is either with her or with someone she designates. Carolina left Maria alone in a place where I could see her and looked directly at me in a bit of despair. She did this so that I would watch her and help her if the gang tried to take her. She did not have to say anything to me and in fact could not because she was too far away and I do not speak enough spanish and all of them were across the arroyo ( huge gully) from me.
Little Maria looked so small and alone up on that hill by herself. She sat down by the bicycle and did not move an inch for more than 20 minutes. I stood my ground across the gully from her and did not move an inch. The gang 2 members saw me and retreated as Carolina descended the side of the gully down to the beach. Gang 2 did not see Maria. I don't know what they would have done if they saw her. I do not know how I would have been able to help her if they got her. Soon Carolina and the man who was looking for the girl walked up the side of the gully sneaking past the gang who had retreated and were dispersing. Gang 2 did not see them sneak past. When gang 2 was out of earshot I called out to the girl who was being forced up the hill by the man in gang 1 who claimed to be her father. I asked her if she was okay. she did not respond. The man said she did not speak english. He forced her to look at me and state that she was okay. Clearly she was not. Carolina and Maria walked south on the road with the man and the girl who was clearly being forced down the road towards Foxy's. The man was holding something in her back...either a knife or a gun. The girl was about 14.
The man is the same man that had been trespassing in my back yard an hour earlier and when confronted said he was looking for his daughter. I did not believe him then and I do not believe him now. The image of little Maria sitting alone on that hillside for 20 minutes is burned into my memory forever. I believe God had me stand across the gully from her to comfort her and to distract the gang from her. I am honored to have done that but truly I don't know what I would have one if they had discovered her and taken her. I am fairly certain I would have lost my mind.”
In the picture below if you look above the truck and to the left of the palm tree to the little grey spot in the wall that is where Maria crouched down and sat for all of that time. I stood between the truck and the hill and sent her all the love and energy I could muster. I consider climbing down the gully and up the hill to get her but the gang members all had guns and at some points they were less than 15 feet from her.
I was getting tired. The stress was getting to me. I had come to Mexico for a sabbatical in January of 2013 and been put in jail for murder, moved to a safer area only to have a strip club trafficking girls open up next door and a bunch of other stuff too like a neighbor being kidnapped and I basically had not slept in over a year and was dealing with PTSD. I was willing to do whatever necessary for God but was worn down. It was even starting to get to my faithful canine.
Journal Entry October 26, 2014, Campo Alfonsos
Prayer Request: My dog Calimax is having a bit of a nervous breakdown. Like me she has witnessed both murders, alerted me to hundreds of bad things going on in the neighborhood and chased off countless drug addicts, dealers and other bad people. She is little but she is fierce an she is the most courageous protector and excellent patrol dog keeping an eye on everyone and everything that goes on here. She is only a year and a half old but constant nights of patrol are wearing thin on her just like they are on me. She is not a cuddler and rarely lets me pet her let alone hold her and she is always on high alert. This week she has woken from her sleep shaking, crying, whining, barking and scared repeatedly. She even jumped into my bed in a panic and buried herself under my covers as close to me as she could get shaking uncontrollably and crying which she has NEVER done before. The illegal activity related to Foxy's Gentlemans Club or Filthy's as I like to call it is truly wearing us all out. Cali is the alpha and leads by example and I am fairly sure she is seeing a great deal of the spiritual warfare that is happening because she sees/senses things way before me. Please pray...all the dogs here are stressed and getting more aggressive and irritable due to the constant exposure to evil.
Now at this point I was starting to get super frustrated. No one was doing anything and my neighbors were too terrified to get involved with a neighborhood watch and would not even call the police. They just shut their blinds and looked the other way. Many of them warned me not to get involved but I persisted and finally many months later something happened. Someone other than me called the police.
Jounral Entry May 27, 2015, Campo Alfonsos
There were 4 cop cars at the drug house behind Foxy's just now and for once I did not call them. I have no idea who did...I am usually the one who makes the calls. I am really glad to know that someone else made the call for a change.
In the meantime I had resolved to build another facility for victims of human trafficking since the only one we had was full and would only take girls the cops referred to them which was never going to happen due to corruption but that is also a story for another day. I never saw the girl with the flower dress after that day and Carolina said they took her up into the hills but I never forgot her and I was starting to get really worried about little Maria.
I had a new strategy as well, if I could not get the authorities to shut the club down I would get to the customers and make them paranoid. I went on any sex site I could find and anonymously posted not to go to this club because it was under surveillance and you would get stopped at the border and investigated and that all license plate numbers were being recorded and turned into the FBI. I spread rumors that the girls had HIV/AIDs, were too expensive, were not cooperative and recruited others to go online and say whatever they wanted. The cars in the parking lot soon dropped from about 40 a night to about 5 of which 3 belonged to the staff so it seemed to work. When it slowed down we took most of our posts down in case someone caught on and traced our ip addresses.
The problem was that other clubs started to open...lots of them and I was getting tired of fighting this alone and no one was listening to me in the higher up levels of the Mexican government or US government...I simply could not get through. I also had PTSD from the first murder I witnessed and every damn night customers of that infernal club would light off fireworks which always sounded like gunshots to me and would set off an episode so I hardly ever slept. Sometimes I wondered if it was to mask real gunshots because the murder rate went through the roof and dead bodies started being found on the roadside nearby and in abandoned vehicles..cars that I am pretty sure I saw at the club the night before. It was starting to get really dangerous. They were getting brazen too. A non-corrupt police officer was killed near the club, a body was found in the trunk of a taxi that was 1/2 block from the club in the area their customers parked, a woman's body was found not far away. People who were helping victims of human trafficking started dropping like flies..police I could count on no longer took my calls but on the other hand the police chief was exposed as being paid off by the cartel to the tune of $20,000 USD per month on May 14, 2015.
This was getting to be way above my paygrade. Nevertheless I persisted...there were much fewer girls at this point at Foxy's and they kept changing owners and could not figure out why they were not successful so I focused on fundraising for my new facility for victims of human trafficking but I was sooooooo tired. I remember laughing at one point when they actually held a bbq outside for the neighborhood and invited all of us to come and no one showed up and I manage to get a government official to shut it down and make them move all the activities inside because they were doing it on land that did not belong to them. Neverthelss some days it was too much for me.
Journal Entry July 10, 2015, Campo Alfonsos
I am heartbroken and very upset tonight and it is triggering PTSD symptoms and causing some dissociation. Please please pray for me. I have to drive through the parking lot of the infernally filthy strip club called Foxy's to get to my house every single day and last week as I was coming home from an event around 10 pm. I drove up to find 5 armed men fighting and 4 women including Carolina and Maria in the street. I called the police immediately and one of the men waved his pistol at me and told me to to go back to the US repeatedly. I stood my ground until the police came and as they pulled up all of the men fled to the beach. The police refused to chase and I asked for them to arrest the men and the women for illegally occupying a condemned building but the police refused saying they did not have jurisdiction. Later in the week I noticed two new strip clubs had opened just a mile south of me. Then a few miles north of me another one can be found under construction as well a a casino all of which are in neighbourhoods filed with families and children and elderly people much like my neighbourhood.
Tonight I went to meet friends for pizza. I parked around the corner from the pizza place in front of a sweet little home with children playing outside in front of it in a nice area of the downtown. i went for pizza and as I was eating my salad I got a very dark, disturbed feeling in the pit of my stomach. Something was not right but I could not figure out what. It was different than the PTSD but it was so severe that I excused myself and said I was going home early. As I walked up to my truck I noticed a brigh flashing light and a huge, enormous sign on the sweet little home that I had parked in front of. In less than one hour they had turned the home into a strip club.
As you may recall they murdered someone inside of foxy's and the dying man stumbled down to my house and died on my front porch. Our crime rate has increased over 400%. I have taken every legal measure possible to shut that club down and it is still open. I have done everything I know how to do and I have prayed earnestly for it to close and now we have 4 new ones all within one week. All strip clubs are owned by the cartel here and they bring incredibly bad things like drugs, violence, prostitution and human trafficking right to the front door step of those who live in the communities. Please, please,please get on your knees. I feel like I can't handle any more and it is seriously triggering my PTSD.
The clubs kept opening up and the gangs kept trying to take over the neighborhood and I just kept at it. I had all the stolen electric to the abandoned properties removed. I painted over their tags the day they showed up. I confronted them non-stop and called the police constantly. I accused them in front of the corrupt police and accused the police too and went nose to nose and toe to toe every chance I got. By then I had the personal cell phone numbers of a few non-corrupt police and I just kept remembering Ephesians 6:13 Therefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, AND HAVING DONE ALL TO STAND. The corrupt police threatened to arrest me more than once and I pointed to a dummy camera I had put up and told them everything was being uploaded live to the internet.
Occasionally I told them my dog was hungry and preferred male testicles and would flash a smile.
So that is what I did. I stood. Whenever the dealers or gang members were around I went right up to them, stated in the name of Jesus leave this neighborhood and never come back and then I called the police and I literally stood there taking pictures or videos until they left. Many many many of them threatened me...some with guns. I never waivered...not once. I stood my ground.
Fast forward to September 3, 2015. A girl has gone missing. She looked exactly like the girl with the flower dress that I had seen trafficked in early October 2014.
New Report Translated from Ecos. Note, this 7 eleven is 1/2 block from Foxy's
Disappears young lady after entering a trade
A young girl of 15 years of age by the name of Delta: Betsaira Gallardo Cabrera, disappeared on the evening of Thursday, 3 September in the establishment seven eleven of the boulevard popotla.
The slightest mysteriously disappeared when the descent of the taxi from his uncle to go to the bathroom, you didn't come back.
The Mother was immediately the complaint on the public prosecutor's office, but until the beginning of the week, they had not been able or want to review the video surveillance cameras of trade where he disappeared.
In accordance with the mother Gabriela Cabrera, on the day of the disappearance of their daughter was accompanying his uncle in an echo yellow cab of cousin Tapia. He's been with him since 4 o'clock in the afternoon until the time of his disappearance at about 9 in the evening.
Returning from Tijuana where they had come to carry a special passage and to stop at the negotiation of seven eleven popotla, the minor's down to go to the bathroom while his uncle waited outside, but you never came back to see.
In his desperate search, Gabriela has contacted the friendships of his daughter and has gotten even in your Facebook, without finding any leads.
However, it has the background that some time ago had already been escaped from his house to go with a friend without warning, but only lasted a day and then came back.
"I was studying in high school 37, but I took it out because he failed a subject and I haven't seen you feel like studying, but since he was asking me to stick her again to school because now I have been wanting to get ahead", He said the mother.
Police authorities revealed that in the last dates have been constant complaints of missing persons, mainly children and adolescents.
So, I went to investigate. I took my dog down to the beach and walked down towards Carolinas house where they often groomed the girls and my very smart dog went right up to the property which gave me an excuse to chase her. When I got their I looked through an open window and saw the girl. No one else was home. I didn't know what to do. The door was padlocked from the outside and if I called the police I risked getting a corrupt cop but the police officer I normally trusted was not answering. I walked home in dismay unsure of how to proceed. Even if I did some sort of break in and freed her I had nowhere to put her because my house was too close and the new facility was not yet ready and I had no idea if the family was involved or not. I settled on sending an anonymous tip to the paper that had published her as missing. Within 15 minutes 4 cop cars were there and they rescued her.
Journal Entry September 14, 2019, Campo Alfonsos
Big news. The girl that was missing since September 3 has been found! Praise God.
Sad news. She was being held against her will by Carolina (my neighbour). I have shared many times that I believed Carolina and her son Eli were trafficking girls. There were 3 separate incidents here in which I suspected girls of being held against their will and put on drugs and forced to prostitute and I reported all of those incidents to the police and was ignored. While I am so happy the girl is safe and was found I am deeply saddened that Carolina will now go to jail for this. I am even more saddened for Maria her 7 year old daughter.
Please, I beg of you to pray for Maria, Carolina, Eli and the father whose name I do not know. The police left Maria in the care of the "father". I don't believe for one second that he is her father and I don't believe that she will be safe with him at all.
New Report Translated to English
Mother and son kidnap a 15-year old girl
PLAYAS DE ROSARITO, BC, September 14, 2015 - Andrea Carolina Bustos López, 37 years old, was arrested along with her 16 year old son, because they held captive a 15-year old girl, who had been reported missing by her family.
Playas de Rosarito tourist police freed the 15 year old yesterday afternoon. She was held captive for 10 days at a home on calle Aquascalientes, in colonia Constitución.
Police chief, Joaquín Antonio Olea López, reported that the minor, named Neivy Betsaira "N," had been kidnapped by her boyfriend, who is 16 years old, in complicity with his mother, according to the story from the mother of the missing girl.
It was said that the girl's mother filed a complaint with the Public Minister, dated September 6, 2015, file number 439/15/207/AC, to find the person responsible, and then worked with the Rosarito municipal police to find her daughter.
She was locked up
According to the official report, yesterday afternoon, the girl's mother asked for police help via central radio, saying she had information on the location where her daughter could be. The police went to the home located in Campo Alfonso, No. 22, on bulevard Popotla, at kilometer 30.
At that location, they arrested Bustos López, and after searching the interior of the home, which she authorized, but said she did not know where the girl was, "they found a locked room, which had a chain and lock on the outside."
"Through the windows, which had black metal bars, in the bedroom they could see two minors, so they immediately demanded the room be opened. The woman at first refused, but then agreed. Inside the room was the missing girl along with the son of the homeowner. He identified himself as the 'boyfriend' of the missing girl," said the report.
Bustos Lopez is accused of kidnapping a minor, and was turned over to the authorities to determine her legal status and the decision of the public minister. The girl rejoined her family, who acknowledged the work of the police.
After they arrested Carolina and her son I still had her 7 year old daughter Maria to worry about. I did not know if I would be able to help her but I started to pray and I watched closely. One incident really stood out. I was watering the garden and saw the man walk her up to the street and so I took Cali for a walk and caught up with them. She was dressed up all fancy with make up. She did not look at me or at Cali and said nothing which was sooooooo unlike her. I was very very concerned but did not know what to do. I said my goodbyes thinking I would go home and try to call a non-corrupt policeman but as I was walking home I saw an old white man pull up and he put her in the back of the car alone. The white man drove away.
I called the police and reported the description of the car and the incident and they said they would look into it. I knew they would not. I cried....a lot.... About an hour later she came back and I dried my tears to go face the situation. I again walked Cali up and he tried to direct her away from me but I did not allow it. I went up and said hello and she said nothing. Her hair was a mess, some of her clothing was torn and she had been crying. I offered for her to come spend the night at my house and he declined. I looked at the man with steel in my eyes and went home and started making phone calls to every friend I could think of. Some tried to get help. No one seemed to be able to help. One friend advised me to go to DIF and that they probably would not help but it was my only chance but by then it was night time. Someone called back and in broken english said something like they knew someone who knew someone who knew someone on the board at DIF and would call them to see if they could get someone out there that night.
Now I don't know if the next part is a coincidence or not but a DIF board member was murdered that night.
I spent all night gathering all my evidence that I could, praying and vomiting and crying. I wanted to go down the beach and get her right then. This is my journal entry from that night to my prayer team. I could not even find a way to even tell them...what had happened was too evil.
Journal Entry, November 22, 2015 at 8:45 pm
Feeling a little down and out and depressed (probably the season) tommorrow I have to go report Maria's situation to DIF (Child Family Services) to get her the help she needs...feeling sad...her mother has not returned (may be dead or incarcerated or held against her will somewhere) and I confirmed that the man she is with is not her father and is indeed a drug dealer and addict who is not good to her. she is 7. someone has to help her.
On Tuesday the 22 a volunteer from DIF was murdered AFTER I had made the phone calls begging for help. She was a board member. I do not know if she tried to help of not but the timing is way to coincidental. Here is the article from Rosarito En La Noticia. DIF Volunteer Murdered
Take the life to volunteer of the board DIF Rosarito
Rosarito, b. C.- near a van was the body of a woman who apparently was killed by a punzocortante weapon with a chest wound.
In the rearview mirror was a badge of the board dif rosarito also inside the van was his voter card in the name of Celina Camacho Ames, with home in the Colony Lucio Blanco.
The Bloody fact took place at the edge of 23:00 hours this Tuesday on Francisco García Street, from the colony 17 August near a winery with a legend beers corona, the tijuana.
On the side of the body, of the victim, a dagger with mango black was found and a pickup type pick up sport track with a recent model of the state of Baja California.
The neighbors listening to the screams, called the authorities and covered the body.
The victim wore pink blouse, dark denim pants, Grey-colored boots was robust complexion, Brown Complexion Clear Brown hair of approximately 61 years old.
It is presumed that she was a passenger and when she approached the driver's window there was the killer the stab.
I spent the next day November 23 nearly comatose. I had set my alarm to go to DIF but slept through it. I felt sick. Really sick. I went down to check on Maria and bring her some food. Then I went home and I got wind of the fact that the DIF volunteer had been murdered. No news was officially out yet so I was trying to track down the rumors. Phone was giving me trouble and I had an all out melt down. It was all just too much. I was advised by many friends not to do anything just yet but for the sake of my own safety to wait. Fortunately God did not make my wait to painful. I collapsed in exhaustion and slept through till morning. I woke up and resolved to go to DIF in person and ask for help.
Journal Entry November 24, 2015, 10:45 AM Campo Alfonsos
Pray for me today . I am gong to DIF to try to get help for Maria. Carolina, the mother has not returned (more than 6 weeks) and the man Maria was left with is not a good man and not her father. I need God to open the doors to help this girl. I am hearing horrible things about what has been happening to her from credible sources and I am going to DIF to report it which is very risky for me but my limited Spanish and the fact that I am a US Citizen may make it difficult to get her the help she needs. She has lost a lot of weight, is dirty and no longer smiles. She no longer even looks me in the eyes and she used to run down the beach to greet me. Please pray. He is always with her and clearly will not let her out of his sight. She is 7 and someone has to help her. Pray please.
Maria was removed from the home a few days later and flown to her grandmother in Mexico City. This is a picture of Maria with her mother Carolina. Please note that I have changed the names of those who were not previously published to protect them. Please continue to pray.
While I do not feel this was a particularly successful rescue I do think it highlights the struggles of those of us on the ground who want to help. If you would like to stop human trafficking please support the following organizations
https://www.savedinamerica.org/
If you would like to donate to the facility I helped to build in Rosarito Mexico to help victims of Human Trafficking please email me directly at [email protected]
We must also pray for our leaders as they strive to fight this injustice. Our leaders are not perfect so we must pray for them for supernatural knowledge and the time, energy and focus necessary to stop human trafficking. On an international level USA State Department can do very little unless the police on the ground invite them and most places where human trafficking is prevalent the police on the ground are corrupt.
We need to pray BY NAME for the leaders making decisions about Human Trafficking and the Migrant Issues in Mexico and Central America. Here is a list of those that have influence from the USA. Let's fight this battle from our knees. Add this to your churches prayer strategy please. At the heart of this issue is the fact that we have NO AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO and that is part of the reason why I could not get anything done on the ground.
PLEASE JOIN ME IN PRAYER FOR LEADERSHIP IN USA IN REGARDS TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MIGRANT ISSUES IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.
PITF= President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) https://www.state.gov/j/tip/response/usg/
NSC=National Security Council https://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/
Lord Jesus we come to you today lifting up PITF and NSC in regards to human trafficking and migrant issues. Lord we ask you to grant each of the individuals below supernatural knowledge especially in regards to human trafficking solutions and how to close the southern border of Mexico and how to support economic migrants in their country of origin so that they might not just survive but thrive. Lord use the USA to implement education campaigns, remove corrupt governments and leverage AID to impact policy change throughout Central America and Mexico. Grant our leaders the wisdom to write legislation that will flow freely through congress without hindrance and that the legislation would honor you and not be in violation of heavenly laws.
Father God give the leaders below the time necessary to study your word for unusual and empathetic solutions. Help them to find the time to study the reports from the GROUND, not just the technical reports. Let them connect deeply with the leaders in Mexico and formulate strategy with CBP, FBI, CIA, DEA, SEC DOJ etc and let all teams work together to RECEIVE KNOWLEDGE FROM THOSE ON THE GROUND so that they might better understand the situation. Fix their horrendous website forms and lack of email addresses and let the PEOPLE ON THE GROUND communicate solutions to them directly. Let them put procedures in place making it VERY EASY for people ON THE GROUND in foreign countries to contact the leaders directly to offer ideas.
Let us, the citizens of the USA remember to love our neighbor as our-self and pray for those that persecute us and be kind and compassionate as a nation. Let us remember that many of our ancestors came to the USA with nothing but hope. Allow those through our border that YOU LORD want to be there and for the rest help them take advantage of AVRR and help them settle in their country of origin or in another location that is safe. Help gang members get out of gangs, help fathers find jobs, help mothers educate their children. Help the leaders listed below to dialogue and formulate solutions with governments in Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and others in that order.
For those who are trafficked Lord we pray that a cell phone with minutes would be given to them with numbers programmed in that ACTUALLY CONNECT TO SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP. We pray for the children going through horrors of sex trafficking to be rescued and placed safely in the USA. We pray for those that pay coyotes to not be extorted. We pray for the corrupt leaders and police in Mexico to have their hands tied and that they would be unable to speak. We pray for silence from those that seek to teach false teachings and make false promises. Shut their mouths Lord and do NOT let them harm people by giving false hope. For those that are disappeared LORD we ask you to help them escape and be found and reunited with their families.
For those that have no housing we pray for shelter, for those that have no food we pray that their bellies would feel full. For those that struggle to stay with family members we pray that they would not get lost, kidnapped or forcefully disappeared of trafficked. For those that seek to help those people we pray for special protection. For the people listed below we pray for courage, focus, supernatural knowledge and wisdom and excellent strategy and that they would search the scriptures for solutions and that the holy spirit would guide and direct them. We pray for A NEW AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO NOW! In Jesus Holy and Precious Name. Amen.
KEY LEADERS TO PRAY FOR IN REGARD TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MIGRANT ISSUES
1. NSF/Migrants, Donald Trump, Office of the President
2. NSF/Migrants, Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State
3. NSF/Migrants, Kirstjen Nielson, Secretary of Homeland Security
4. NSC/PITF, Dan Coats, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
5. NSC/PITF, Russell Vought, White House Offices of Management and Budget
6. NSC/PITF, John R. Bolton, National Security Council
7. NSC/PITF, Mike Pompeo, Department of State (DOS)
8. NSC/PITF, Steven Terner Mnuchin, Department of the Treasury (Treasury)
9. NSC/PITF, Matthew Whitaker, Department of Justice (DOJ)
10. NSC/PITF, David L. Bernhardt,Department of the Interior (DOI)
11. NSC/PITF, Doug Fears, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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COMPLETE LIST OF PITF MEMBERS
President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Dan Coats, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Russell Vought, White House Offices of Management and Budget
John R. Bolton, National Security Council
Andrew Bremberg, Domestic Policy Council
Mike Pompeo, Department of State (DOS)
Steven Terner Mnuchin, Department of the Treasury (Treasury)
Patrick M. Shanahan, Department of Defense (DOD)
Matthew Whitaker, Department of Justice (DOJ)
David L. Bernhardt, Department of the Interior (DOI)
Sonny Perdue, Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Rene Alexander Acosta, Department of Labor (DOL)
Alex Michael Azar II, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Nancy Ely-Raphel, Office of Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) under HHS
Elaine L. Chao, Department of Transportation (DOT)
Betsy DeVos, Department of Education (ED)
Doug Fears, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Domestic Policy Council (DPC)
John R. Bolton, National Security Council (NSC)
Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Dan Coats, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
Robert Emmet Lighthizer, Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
Christopher A. Wray, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Mark Andrew Green, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Victoria Ann Lipnic, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
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COMPLETE LIST OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS (NSC)
President Donald Trump Chairman, President
John R. Bolton, National Security Advisor Ambassador
NSC STATUTORY ATTENDEES
Mike Pence, Vice President
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State
Patrick M. Shanahan, Secretary of Defence
Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy
Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury
NSC MILITARY ADVISOR
General Joseph Dunford, USMC, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
NSC INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR
Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence
NSC DRUG POLICY ADVISOR
Jim Carroll, Director of National Drug Control Policy
NSC REGULAR ATTENDEES
John R. Bolton, National Security Advisor
Mira Ricardel (former) Deputy National Security Advisor
Doug Fears Homeland Security Advisor
Matthew Whitaker Attorney General
Mick Mulvaney White House Chief of Staff
NSC ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS
Kirstjen Nielson, Secretary of Homeland Security
Pat Cipollone, Counsel to the President
Gina Haspel, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Larry Kudlow or William J. McGinley, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
Jonathon Cohen, Ambassador to the United Nations
Russell Vought, Director of Office of Management and Budget
Dr. Charles M Kupperman, Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs
Also pray for John Freeman, Diplomatic Service Corp
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WE NEED GOD TO SHOW US A WAY PLEASE PRAY.
In Mexico I have ONLY one name of someone who is significantly influential in this area. There are others but none that have the power to do anything and are committed to it.
Olga Sanchez Cordero, Secretary of Interior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_S%C3%A1nchez_Cordero
Lord we especially lift up Olga to you today and ask you to surround her with an exceptional team of people to combat human trafficking and oversee orphanage reform so we can help these victims. In Jesus holy and precious name. Amen.
Isaiah 61:1-5
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
Some important updates.
The corrupt mayor Javier Robles Aguirre that was in place in 2013 that I filed charges against for failing to deal with the corrup police chief Francisco Castro Trenti who violated my human rights has an arrest warrant out for him as of 2016 although it has nothing to do with what I complained about. https://jornadabc.mx/tijuana/15-03-2016/piden-aprehension-de-javier-robles-por-peculado-y-abuso-de-autoridad
The corrupt police chief Francisco Castro Trenti that was allegedly taking $20,000 USD per month in cartel payoffs from CAF resigned but unfortunately used his connections with his brother Fernando Castro Trenti at the state level to be given an appointment as Head of Human Rights for the State of Baja which is why none of my human rights violations were heard. He has since resigned and is currently serving as police chief in Tecate where he is putting up a good front as an honest policeman but that is unlikely. https://arklatex912project.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/francisco-castro-trenti-accused-of-helping-caf-in-tijuana-his-brother-is-pri-candidate-for-governor-in-baja-california/
His brother Fernando Castor Trenti has been inactive on his professional fb page since March 2018 and resigned his post as ambassador to Switzerland in October 2018 and little has been heard https://www.facebook.com/CastroTrenti/, https://jornadabc.mx/tijuana/31-10-2018/renuncia-fernando-castro-trenti-la-embajada-de-suiza
The corrupt Mayor Silvano Albarca that protected Foxy's has no warrent for his arrest yet. Albarca Corrupcion, His party has nominated him for District 15 March 4 2019. District 15
The corrupt Mayor Mirna Rincon who has not only protected Foxy's but racked up double the murder rate from when she started leaves office soon.
Municipal and State elections in Baja will be held later this year.