IRS Auditing Victim Families and the Scale of Human Trafficking

• 1:24:31When asked why her ex-husband wasn't as vigilant in the investigation, she responds simply: "Well, he wasn't me."
• 1:25:27She received a disc with 500 pictures including images of other children and offered it to the FBI and West Des Moines Police, but they never returned her call.
• 1:26:16A computer forensics expert cracked a Russian pedophile website that required multiple passwords to access.
• 1:26:43The National Center for Missing Children told her they had been trying for four years to crack the website password that her forensic expert obtained.
• 1:27:23The investigation resulted in 700 arrests across multiple countries, with 200 of the pedophiles located in the United States and Interpol involvement.
• 1:27:58Children are the most vulnerable members of society but lack organized advocacy, especially those in foster care or at Boys Town, which were both targeted by the ring.
• 1:29:06She wrote legislation at her kitchen table that passed in Iowa and was copied by surrounding states, and testified at multiple state legislatures to help them pass similar laws.
• 1:29:24The IRS audited her family for deductions taken for expenses connected to finding their kidnapped child, claiming the child chose to leave home.
• 1:29:47When the IRS came after them, she responded that her child was missing, not that he chose to leave home, calling the situation insane.
• 1:30:02Tim asks whether she thinks the photos acquired by private investigator Gary Carradori have been destroyed or if any hard evidence still exists.

Lawrence E. KingNational Center for Missing ChildrenFBIBoys TownInterpolGary Carradori