A quick warning before we get started. This episode contains discussion of sexual assault that may be disturbing.

Listener discretion is advised. As a note, we reached out to Tim Ballard's attorney to request an interview.

Our request went unanswered. And one less thing. After

Tim Ballard left the anti-trafficking organization O-U-R in 2023, it was renamed

O-R Rescue.

Its new leaders say they do not condone Tim Ballard's alleged actions

while part of the old organization. You're going to. Depending on who you talk to, Tim Ballard is either a superhero.

Tim Ballard has one mission to track down child traffickers.

Or a supervillain.

He was standing there completely naked.

And it's almost, I like, I remember freezing.

And he pushed me against the wall and like slam me.

The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that Ballard tells a gripping, even exhilarating story about how he became the man the world knows today.

A man who went undercover in unfamiliar territory to save children who had been

subjected to unthinkable horrors.

This was the first time I saw one of the kids from the video

and it like changed my life.

I jumped up and I'm like, I'm in.

I'm in 100%.

Bala's origin story is that of a reluctant hero.

It's the story that spawned the 2016 documentary,

The Abolitionists, directed by members. on the

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