Joshua Travers appeared on The Lars Larson Show recently to discuss Saved in America, their work, and more. Joshua is a law enforcement liaison with Saved in America— due to his experience in both military and law enforcement. He explains that SIA bridges the gap, filling in when law enforcement cannot find missing and exploited children. 

Works With Law Enforcement 

Law enforcement agencies around the nation are overworked, undermanned, and woefully underfunded. As a result, they simply do not have the needed resources that are required to track down and find missing children who have become victimized by the sex trafficking industry. While they are able to become more involved with a kidnapping situation like in the movie Taken is suspected, in most cases when kids end up in human trafficking rings, they leave their homes willingly and are instead runaways. This limits what police can do and makes the work that SIA does that much more important. Thankfully, SIA can step in and do all the legwork for the case, using surveillance and social media investigation, and more. Then, they find the missing child and call in the location to the area law enforcement who then go to the scene and rescue the child. 

SIA Does More Than Find Missing Children

After the child is rescued from human trafficking, SIA stays involved to help them find the help they need to recover. This can be helping them find placement in a safe house to get counseling or other needed services. It also includes Saved in America’s legal team working on behalf of these families to prosecute these criminals to the fullest extent of the law. All of these services from locating the child initially to eventually helping them find a place to recover are all done for these families free of charge. That is why it’s so important that SIA continue to host fundraising events and have the help of communities through donations and other means to ensure that they can keep working on behalf of the kids who need them the most. While SIA cannot guarantee a conviction for the people responsible, they can do everything they can to help the families seek— and in many cases obtain— legal justice.