{"id":32849,"date":"2016-10-14T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=32849"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:11:40","slug":"fighting-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/10\/14\/fighting-human-trafficking\/32849\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Ballard, an American Mormon and undercover agent has traveled all over the world to fight those buying and selling children. He talks with correspondent Dan Lothian, who reports that the child trafficking business generates profits of more than $150 billion a year. Ballard, who founded Operation Underground Railroad to rescue young children from criminal traffickers, says he counts on a higher power to keep him and his team safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe know what a childhood is supposed to be, what innocence is, and if there really are millions of children that don\u2019t have that and that are being abused in the worst way\u2014how can you face your maker and say I did nothing?\u201d That is the question of Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/10\/14\/fighting-human-trafficking\/32849\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":32936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-ethics","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-humanitarian","topics-international"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fighting Human Trafficking | October 14, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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