In a shady corner of beautiful historic Cartagena, Colombia, two men sit in an open café, bartering over the price of sex with several young girls with an alleged sex trafficker named Marcus Bronschidle.
But what Bronschidle didn’t know was that the guys he was talking to didn’t actually want to buy young girls for sex. Instead, the whole encounter was secretly recorded as part of a child sex trafficking sting operation.
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They are a part of an organization called Operation Underground Railroad, led and founded by Tim Ballard. Ballard is a former CIA agent and former U.S. Homeland Security investigator who specializes in child sex trafficking cases.
“I spent 12 years as a special agent, undercover operative for the United States government, doing this, and learned how to do it,” Ballard said. “The problem was that the vast majority of the kids that we would identify, we couldn't save. They weren't U.S. cases.”
