{"id":2531,"date":"2023-12-01T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:25:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:25:54","slug":"epilog-9-parts-2-did-girls-get-rescued-from-sex-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"EPILOG (9 Parts): #2 – Did Girls Get Rescued from Sex Trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2. Did those girls get rescued from the sex trade?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Yes. (And two of them ended up adopted by Stephanie\u2019s group living in the Skagit Valley.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     On Wednesay night, December 21st<\/sup>, the newly deputized posse in Vancouver pulled off a daring, successful rescue of some of Dougherty\u2019s (aka Rafferty) and Furbush\u2019s underage sex slaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Remember on Tuesday evening, the night before, once the \u201cPosse Extraordinaire\u201d (Susie, Eloise, Heck and Billy) checked into their Victorian Suite, Susie called her daughter Stephanie to come join the posse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how that conversation went:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cLook Stephanie, all my life I\u2019ve been a nobody, a waitress, a mom, a housewife, an unfaithful one at that, and now I\u2019m finally doing something meaningful \u2013 important things \u2013 and finding enjoyment in living.  I helped get Eloise elected to the school board \u2013 she\u2019s going to do some great things for our school kids.  I’ve found out I\u2019ve still got a bit of libido left in me.  I\u2019ve got new friends who have switched hats \u2013 they ditched their Make America Great Again caps for \u2018Keep America moving FORWARD.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cI\u2019ve got a guy I want to get elected the next sheriff in Boulder \u2013 and clean up the town, especially the underage<\/em> sex<\/em> trade<\/em> going on . . . and that\u2019s why I\u2019m calling.  Guess what?  I\u2019m here on the west coast to break up that sex ring.  Joey\u2019s got me a room with three others from Boulder . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cYou are where, Mom?!  With whom, mom?  Doing what?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cLook, I checked the map, it\u2019s only 70 miles from your farm to downtown Vancouver.  You can be here in an hour and I could really use your help.  I remember you telling me one of the neat things about living on the farm is that you are kind of a \u201chalfway house\u201d for young girls who want to get off the streets . . . Well!  That\u2019s exactly what we need to do right now in Vancouver!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cSlow down, Mom.  What\u2019s going on?  What are<\/em> you doing!?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cYou remember those guys in the RV, well they were in Boulder when that murder happened and somehow they got a lead on who did it.  The murder was over control of the sex trade \u2013 and our friggin\u2019 sheriff knew it, but wouldn\u2019t do anything about it.  And now I\u2019m<\/em> doing something about it.  Joey is in on the plan.  Come on up, now, please!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cDid I miss something?  You\u2019re in Vancouver but the sex trade is in Boulder?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cLook, I\u2019ll tell you everything when you get here.  The guys in Boulder have connections in Vancouver \u2013 and one of the guys is Furbush.  It\u2019s in Vancouver where the girls start out, where they first come in from Thailand \u2013 and I\u2019m talking underage girls, even 13-14 year-olds.  And we\u2019re going to bust them tonight but the young girls need your<\/em> help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll be leaving as soon as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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     Back at the farm, Stephanie excitedly informed her housemates about her mom\u2019s S.O.S. call.  \u201cIt\u2019s personal to me.  Not just that it\u2019s my mom.  Not just that we can help some young women break away from being sexually exploited \u2013 you know, like some of us were.  But get this!  The pimp here in Vancouver is the very same guy who first gave me money back in my hometown in Montana!  This is ultimate payback!  Plus, on top of everything else, my mom seems to have come into her own \u2013 she sounds actually happy.  Let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The next morning, Stephanie and three of her housemates, were sitting in the Queen Victoria suite with Susie, Eloise, Heck, Billy and Joey, enjoying room service sweets and coffee.  Handling the introductions of the Boulder contingent, Susie counted nine in the posse.  Heck stood up to shake hands and looked every bit a sheriff, minus the badge and holster.  He was burly, looking young but toughened, even sort of grisly.  Mostly frowning, rarely smiling, dressed in a cowboy hat, string tie, vest, and western boots, he looked every bit like a sheriff who could handle the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cHeck, here, was in law enforcement, a former conservation officer.  He plans to run for sheriff once we make headlines busting up this ring,\u201d Susie said, moving on to Eloise: \u201cEloise was Joey and Stephanie\u2019s teacher and now is on the school board.  She\u2019s my best friend.  Billy . . . geez, what to say about Billy?  He was just an acquaintance from waitressing and has become a friend helping elect Eloise, about to be Heck\u2019s campaign manager, and frankly, he\u2019s changed the politics in Boulder from folks thinking of themselves as Trumpers to instead being \u201cTrumpeters.\u201d  I\u2019ll tell you all about that some other time.  Okay, let\u2019s tell them about last night and the plan for tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cNot yet, mom,\u201d Joey interrupted, \u201cfirst we need to talk about dividing up that list of names you got from Skip who might be able to finger Shadya as part of the sex trade, then we talk about our plan for tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     After dividing the list up, with instructions about using the name \u201cKen Vardaman\u201d as a way of introduction, Susie said, \u201cNow here\u2019s what happened last night:  Shadya gave Joey the address for a motel over on Garden City Road which is one of the places johns are sent to.  Tonight we\u2019re going back.  Three of us \u2013 Joey, Heck and Billy – are going to ask for girls.  Stephanie, you and your friends need to figure out how to rescue these three girls.  Billy, tell them what happened when you showed up last night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cWell, Heck and I went together.  Heck pretended I was his son.  In front of the clerk, after telling what we wanted, Heck says to me, \u2018Tonight son, you\u2019re going to be a man,\u2019 and asks the desk clerk for the youngest girl available.  After we paid, the clerk gave me a room number, and made some joke like \u2018Look kid, you only got an hour.  Get to it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cThe girl was up in the room waiting and she was really<\/em> young looking.  I just couldn\u2019t go through with it.  I told her I couldn\u2019t lose my virginity this way, and left right away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Leslie, one of Stephanie\u2019s friends from the farm, had had some prior experience in the trade.  \u201cHere\u2019s what happens next,\u201d Leslie explained.  \u201cThe girl calls the front desk saying you left, and gets assigned a new room to go to, and await her next customer.  But usually the girls wait out the whole hour before calling, so if<\/em> you<\/em> deliver<\/em> them<\/em> to<\/em> us<\/em> in the first half hour or so, they won\u2019t even be missed until we\u2019re long gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cWe\u2019ll follow you over to that same place tonight,\u201d another of the farm ladies explained, \u201cwatch what rooms you go to and station ourselves \u2013 hopefully park – where you\u2019ll be able to see us from the room.  Once you\u2019re in the room, take the girl to the window, and we\u2019ll wave \u2013 so she knows this is for real.  Make sure you tell her about our farm, and that she can stay with us as long as she wants.  Believe me, they are going to jump at the chance.  The only reason they stay is because they have nowhere to<\/em> go.  Their pimp is the only security they know.  Make sure the girl understands there are three of you in on this, so they won\u2019t feel alone.  Explain how you\u2019re all going to make the break together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cThis is where it gets a little tricky,\u201d one of the other farm ladies continued.  \u201cIf you get all three of them to want to leave, we have to time it right.  If the girl in your room says \u2018yes\u2019 she wants to make the break, give us the thumbs-up sign.  Then wait for us to give the thumbs-up sign back.  We\u2019re going to give you fifteen minutes to do the convincing.  Once we have your three thumbs-up, we give our thumbs-up, and you walk out the room to our van with the girls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     And that plan worked to perfection.   Only hitch was none of the three girls had visas to cross the border so Joey had to put them up until things were cleared with the authorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     On Thursday afternoon at police headquarters, the desk sergeant said they\u2019d set up a sting operation in the next day or two.  \u201cNot good enough,\u201d Heck said, handing over Shadya Warsame\u2019s sworn statement.  \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure your Chief has seen this  \u2013 tell him we\u2019re here.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The sworn statement read as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      I, Shadya Warsame, and Abdul Abdul (his full name, now deceased) had connections in Somalia who knew how to pirate girls out of Thailand and into Canada using fraudulent Canadian visas.  This led to recruiting Thai girls on the promise of modeling careers in Hollywood \u2013 but first a \u201ctry-out\u201d in Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Eventually we started making lots of money doing a 50\/50 split with those recruiting the girls for us out of Pattaya, Thailand.  I do not know if those doing the recruiting were also part of a terrorist cell or not.    <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A person I knew as \u2018John Doe\u2019 got involved.  I never met John Doe that I know of, but he had connections with both the Thai recruiters and with some guys in the States, Montana was what I heard.  They had a way of getting the girls into the States without U.S. visas \u2013 and they paid good money for the girls we delivered up. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Abdul decided to check this out for himself \u2013 and that\u2019s the last I saw of him.  Later, I learned he had been murdered in Montana with no known relatives anybody knew of. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     I got out of the business as soon as I heard about the murder.  I\u2019ve been clean for four months now, but the organization is still going on.  I can give names and details once I\u2019m granted immunity.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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