How Traffickers Prey on America’s Youth: Jaco Booyens

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This is an abbreviated version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Jaco Booyens that was released on The Epoch Times on Jul-24-2025.

Watch the full version of this episode here:https://ept.ms/4f72VlM

“A quarter to a half of the exploitation that’s happening to our own nation’s youth … it’s a caregiver doing it—it’s a familial figure,” Jaco Booyens says.

He is the founder of Jaco Booyens Ministries (JBM), an anti-human trafficking organization working to protect American children from predatory exploitation.

“We’re talking about a $52 billion industry of buying and selling predominantly women and children inside this country—American citizens. The discussion about an immigrant child or an immigrant in the country is a completely separate conversation,” he says.

Booyens says laws against human trafficking are not being sufficiently enforced. Why are cases continuing to increase, while prosecutions decrease? And how is pornography a “gateway drug” into the trafficking industry?

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.