Patriot, 

This past week, I couldn’t stop thinking about how different the world feels for children today. 

When I was young, childhood was lived in the open, playing soccer outside, laughing with friends, walking home from school. 

But today, so much of a child’s world exists behind a screen. And it is there, in that hidden space, that predators have found their perfect hunting ground. 

Here is the hard truth: more than 70% of child trafficking cases now begin online. 

It doesn’t start with a van pulling up. It doesn’t start with a stranger on the street. It starts with a message on TikTok. A chat in a video game. A “friend” request on Snapchat. 

Will you give $25, $50, or even $125 today to help stop predators who use the internet to hunt our children?

Traffickers exploit the very places where children feel most comfortable. 

They pose as peers. They send gifts, money, or fake opportunities. They build trust, then slowly isolate the child from family and friends. 

Studies show that traffickers often contact hundreds of children at a time, casting a wide net until one responds. When they succeed, the process is chillingly fast, experts say many children are groomed in a matter of days or weeks, not months. 

And here’s the devastating part: one trafficker can control 10–12 children at once. That means just one predator can shatter the lives of more than 90 children in a single year. 

Will you give $50, $125, or whatever you can today to expose traffickers and keep them from claiming more victims? 

That is why our vision is bold: to build a nationwide network of underground criminal investigators dedicated to infiltrating the dark web, baiting predators, and gathering evidence that leads to real arrests.

But this vision comes at a significant cost.

That is why I am searching for an army of Freedom Fighters who will step forward with generous gifts to lock up traffickers and set God’s children free.

Will you give now and be part of the army that stops predators online and rescues children in the real world?

The internet is now the number one marketplace for traffickers.  

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, reports of suspected online child exploitation have skyrocketed from 1 million in 2014 to more than 32 million in 2022. Every one of those reports represents a child in danger. 

But because of your support, the Sound of Freedom Foundation is helping fund investigators and law enforcement partners who go where these predators hide. They infiltrate their networks. They gather evidence. They shut them down and put them behind bars. 

When one trafficker is arrested, hundreds of children are spared from ever being touched. 

Will you give $25, $50, or even $100 today to lock up traffickers before they can hurt another child? 

Think about the phone in your child’s hand, or your grandchild’s, niece’s, or nephew’s. That same device that lets them learn, laugh, and connect is also where predators are waiting with lies designed to trap them. 

This is not something we can fight tomorrow. It has to be fought today. Every day we wait, another child loses their freedom. 

And that is why I will not quit. That is why I am asking you to join me in refusing to back down until every child is safe. 

Will you give your most generous gift today to protect children and shut down predators hiding online?

For God’s children, 

Eduardo Verástegui 
Sound of Freedom, Producer 
For the Sound of Freedom Foundation

P.S. Online exploitation is the fastest-growing form of child trafficking. With your help, we can stop traffickers before another child is trapped. Please — give today.