The Fight Against Worldwide Child Slavery & the Sex Trade | Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard | EP 372
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Sound of Freedom: Creating a Movement to Get Loud About Child Trafficking
By Faith McDonnell Published on June 26, 2023
Sound of Freedom is based on the story of Tim Ballard, a former federal agent who founded Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) to rescue abducted and trafficked children. Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel, who was Ballard’s first and only choice, plays Ballard.
The film was produced by Mexican actor/producer Eduardo Verastegui and directed and co-written by Alejandro Monteverde. Like Caviezel, Verastegui and Monteverde are known for their faith-based commitment to human rights and to the unborn. Ballard’s wife, Katherine, is played by Mira Sorvino, another anti-trafficking champion. Other actors in the film are from such places as Colombia and Spain.
What we learned that shocked and horrified us working on the 2000 TVPA is mild compared to what we are learning now. We could never have imagined the scope of the evil: trafficking little children, even for organ harvesting — and for child sacrifice — in a $152 billion dollar a year business.
Opening Our Eyes to the Victims of Trafficking
Eduardo Verastegui went even further in the FlashPoint interview, when he was asked how he got involved in the anti-trafficking movement and decided to make a film. He shared about how he met Ballard and what Ballard had revealed to him about what happens to children as victims of trafficking:
Children — three-year-old boys; five, six, seven-year-old girls — are being raped ten to fifteen times a day for many years. And after the clients don’t want them anymore because they are not ‘fresh,’ they jump into the second business, which is the black-market organs traffic. They open them and sell their parts.
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