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This episode is about young male victims of sextortion. They will panic and take their own lives. In the case of Tevan Tobler, he was being black mailed by a global underground criminal organization from the Ivory Coast.  This trend has and will become more prevalent as the entire world is connected by internet We are also seeing Al used to alter images and voices to exploit our youth. 

Foster youth are some of the most creative and resilient young people in our communities. They often overcome incredible odds. However, foster youth also face some of the greatest challenges of any one in our society.  Most foster youth experience feelings of abandonment, trauma, and struggle to find the important feeling of inclusion and stability that many of us take for granted.  This week our...

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Have you ever wondered how some folks seem to be healthy, mature adults with great attitudes and excellent decision-making skills and then others seem fearful, anxious, immature, dominating or extremely negative and seem to make poor choices?  Another scenario is when parents are frustrated and concerned that their child will be easily groomed for sextortion or sex trafficking because they seem ne...

Human trafficking often strikes us as being rare and extremely and many people  believe that mostly happens in third world countries.  Certainly, it is true that for many third world countries, many people live in poverty and often their children are kidnapped or seduced into situations where they believe everyone will have a better life.   However, human trafficking is also very prevalent in the...

January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.  Human Trafficking is the commercial exploitation of individuals through force, fraud or coercion. The most common type of trafficking encountered is sex trafficking.  Nearly half of people trafficked in California are U.S. Citizens. However, the foreign-born share of trafficked people has risen dramatically from 36% to 54%.   For the past ten...

As we prepare for 2024, we are all acutely aware that our world and nation is in a place that most of us have never known before.  Nations around the globe are at war. Our own country is literally without borders and we wonder how long we can remain a sovereign nation as millions of unknown people from all over the world enter our country.  As we look around or read social media it seems that home...

Cell Phone Forensics Services Social Media Analysis Services   Million Kids started the Missing Kids program in 2014 and since then we have sent out tens of thousands of flyers and been involved in the location and return of many missing kids.  When a child goes missing, it is one of the most dangerous situations for everyone involved. Parents feel angry, helpless and frustrated that they do not k...

Holidays are important in our lives.  It is a time of assessment, a time to look around us and realize all that we know and love and how much people mean to us. For some, it is a time of seriousness as we miss those that are no longer in our lives. We take stock of what is important and what we would like to change. Gratitude is one of the most powerful anecdotes to stress and fear. It is the expr...

Sometimes I hear people say the world is becoming a scary place.  Working in a world where we combat sex trafficking and social media exploitation, I could not agree more.     The Federal Trade Commission states that older adults (55-64 yrs. old) lost nearly $139 million in romance scams in 2020.    Almost daily we hear new dire warnings about protecting ourselves from “deep fakes” created by glob...

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING LINKS CONTAIN DISTURBING MATERIAL AND SHOULD ONLY BE VIEWED BYADULTS. MILLION KIDS SAYS THIS IS THE “PERFECT STORM” FOR HUMAN EXPLOITATION.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Nb30xZyMg   Prostitution in National City   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Y8zVE7Yns PROSTITUTION IN LOS ANGELES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A91O7DtxXVc Prostitution in Salinas, California   H...

According to the California Attorney General’s Office there were on average 450 missing children in Riverside County last year. There are many factors on why teens run away from home including online enticement, bullying, family conflict, pregnancy, to be with a friend or romantic interest, gang involvement, sexual abuse, or lack of acceptance of gender identity or sexual orientation. The National...

If you asked your child to name five life values that are important to them, would they be able to do it?  What about yourself?   As a parent, you don’t have to have all the answers, but there is nothing more insightful than an open discussion with your child about what they believe in.  Someone once told me that if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything. As the world seems in h...

Our hearts bled at the sights and scenes taking place in Israel.  Nearly every news outlet immediately questioned how Israel could be so caught off guard.  Only time will tell and history will decide what the contributing factors were.  But we do know that many of the enemy attacked from INSIDE of Israel supporting the attack that took place outside the borders.  And that allowed quick and easy ac...

According to the California Attorney General’s Office there were on average 450 missing children in Riverside County last year. There are many factors on why teens run away from home including online enticement, bullying, family conflict, pregnancy, to be with a friend or romantic interest, gang involvement, sexual abuse, or lack of acceptance of gender identity or sexual orientation. The National...

STING IN MORENO VALLEY  On September 20, 2023, the Moreno Valley Sheriff’s Station Problem Oriented Policing (POP) and Gang teams, along with the Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force (RCAHT) conducted a comprehensive “John” prostitution sting in an effort to reduce the demand for sex trafficking in the city of Moreno Valley. The operation resulted in 14 arrests, 11 males for solicita...

I recently returned from vacation in Scotland and Ireland.  Such beautiful countries with lots of open spaces and sheep and cows and homemade cheese and mile upon mile of green grass, rolling hills and beautiful seaport villages. The people seem to live a simple life with wonderful hospitality, and old fashioned friendship.  It was delightful.     Immediately upon my return I was blasted with stor...

This is a fast changing world and sometimes, at least to me (Opal) it seems like everything is upside down. We are witnessing corruption in this country at the very highest level through the media.  Is it true?  How can anyone know? I remember an America where we could “be all we could be”.  That we are proud to take the high road, and if you committed a crime, there were consequences. How does AN...

There is real excitement with movie goers about the Tim Ballard's latest movie project filmed in South America.  It is called Sounds of Freedom and it is indeed riveting and insiteful about human trafficking in foreign countries.     However, trafficking and social media exploitation in the U.S. present quite differently.  During this week's show of "Exploited: Crimes and Technology&q...

Many people have contacted me (Opal Singleton) regarding the film, Sound of Freedom and wanted to know my thoughts about it.  Congratulations to Tim Ballard of Underground Railroad and lead actor Jim Caviezel for delivering a powerful message about how foreign national trafficking and global child CSAM rings operate. These folks created a riveting story that will open the eyes of people around the...

DATING SITES AND HOOK UP SITES. Victim conned out of $55K in romance scam on Plenty of Fish speaks out | Fox Business Most programs provided by  Million Kids are focused on educating parents and first responders about young people staying safe online and preventing sex trafficking and sextortion. However, recently there has been a recent series of cases announced in the media where adults have bec...

Recently the FBI and ICE released a public service announcement alerting the public about “malicious actors manipulating photos and videos to create explicit content and sextortion schemes”.  Commonly known as “Deep Fakes,” individuals with criminal intent will electronically manipulate benign photographs or videos of individuals from images captured from an individual’s social media account, open...

Everyday we make decisions. The big decisions are obvious such as college, marriage, divorce, career paths, having kids or buying a house.  Most of us put significant time and effort into evaluating all the "what if's" before making a choice.  However, often times it is the small decisions that can change our lives forever.  The decision to do what is right rather than what is easy,...

Recently we saw the news release from two major news companies, The New York Post and The Washington Post that addressed the issues of how artificial intelligence and software algorithms expose "vast pedophile networks" to our children and what is being done about it by big tech companies.  Frankly, this is not news to Million Kids as we have been educating on this for years. Instagram i...

When most people hear about online sexual exploitation of minors or sex trafficking of minors they are appalled and want to do whatever they can to stop it.  Certainly that is a good thing as it important that we all educate each other, including parents, kids, educators, civic leaders and the faith based community so we can prevent exploitation and intervene if we see a situation when a child mig...