This isn’t something people in southern Illinois—nor much of anywhere else—likes to think about…but it’s happening, and we here at Disclosure personally know people who’ve been impacted by it.
It’s the white sex slave trade, and it’s part of international crime that’s creeping into the most unlikely of places, like the Midwest.
Because of an abduction attempt in the city of Fairfield, in Wayne County, in late November, we opted to produce what we know, and what we’ve heard about the possibility of some of these missing people having been abducted into the world of white sex slave trading. You can go to the FBI’s website and read all about the reality of it; but it’s very, very difficult to rein in, and those participating in it know that.
On the local level, those who abduct young girls (who generally all have a ‘look’—adolescent/teen, blond or red-headed, light-colored eyes, fully developed—that is desired on the slave trade market) are frequently transient, often hispanic, and usually “not from here.” That helps them get in and get out quickly if they’re trying to snatch someone off the street…and avoid detection. Because our downstate Illinois area has for the past eight or so years been saturated by “migrant workers” employed through grants to area farmers on “specialty crop” production (pumpkins, tobacco, melons, etc), we’ve all gotten used to seeing the hispanics lining up at Walmart and riding around town on bicycles or piling into vehicles where there’s no way they can have enough seatbelts to be legal.
But some of these people can be the very ones responsible for disappearances. And while we make NO suppositions toward the existing cases, we are saying that this is a possibility we’ve confirmed has not been explored: A hispanic male attempted an abduction, and NO ONE at the local law enforcement authorities went to check out any of the “migrant workers'” digs to see if anyone fit the description.
It’s real; whether it’s happened here or not remains to be seen. That’s why we’re presenting this article on the front page of this current (December 2014) edition, Is sex slave trade to blame for disappearances, your noontime Read the Lead.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WAYNE CO.—An alleged abduction attempt in the city of Fairfield November 25 has people on edge and authorities largely stumped as they try to sort out what happened and more importantly, who and why.
Unfortunately, it’s also raised questions as to the situation with another missing Fairfield resident, with some citizens wondering if her disappearance occurred along similar lines.
The November incident
Fairfield authorities reported that on the 25th, what could be considered an abduction attempt occurred on North First Street near Sibley Street on the north side of town.
According to the official report as issued by Fairfield Police Chief Keith Colclasure, at 4:24 p.m. a 15-year-old girl was walking from her house on North First when a man in a black truck pulled up next to her and asked her if she needed a ride.
When the girl told him she did not, he then reportedly ordered her into the vehicle, “threatening violence against her” if she did not.
The girl ran from the scene and to a friend’s house, and the man then drove away.
Colclasure said that it took another hour for the young girl to tell her mother about the incident, but the mother subsequently notified police and a more detailed description of the man and of his vehicle emerged with questioning.
According to you young teen, the man had dark skin and dark hair, could have been approximately 30 to 40 years of age, sported facial hair in the form of a goatee, had a prominent scar from ear to jaw….and spoke with a hispanic accent.
The truck was described as a black quad-cab, and had a large dent on the driver’s side rear quarter panel near the taillight.
The girl told officials she believed the license plate to be an Indiana registration.
Colclasure said police searched the area and alerted other districts, but nothing came back, neither immediately nor within the few days following.
They were, however, as of Friday the 28th reviewing video surveillance from the Huck’s Convenience Store located several blocks up from the scene of the incident.
Migrant workers not checked
Disclosure asked Colclasure if his department had checked with the various farmers in the area who were known to employ “migrant workers” during planting and harvest; but Colclasure said they hadn’t.
Interestingly, this incident prompted many Fairfield and Wayne County residents to contact Disclosure regarding the disappearance of 15-year-old Megan P. Nichols, who was last seen on July 3 of this year.
In late summer, a rumor was rampant around Lawrenceville that the “migrant worker” population in that county had Nichols in their custody, and that she had been abducted by them out of her home town. The rumors stopped there, and there was no further elaboration.
Disclosure at that time checked with Lawrence officials to see if there was any veracity at all to the rumor, including whether they had at least heard the rumor and had checked it out as a possible lead. They had not.
However, others who had been following the Nichols case opined that it was their fear that some of the less-than-legal hispanics in the area might be involved in the recruiting and/or abduction of young women fitting a certain description as a process in the white sex slave trade, which is unfortunately rampant and ongoing throughout the Midwest since a couple of decades ago, when it became commonplace for “migrant workers” to be brought in for farm…..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To read the rest of the article, simply click the headline link above the excerpt if you have an online membership to the e-Edition; if you don’t, click this link here to get started. An online membership to the e-Edition for right now gets you all the articles we’ve ever produced for the e-Edition dating back to mid-2012, so what are you waiting for? Sign up today, or visit any of our many vendors throughout Southern Illinois to pick up your hard copy of the December 2014 issue, which goes off stands in just two weeks…don’t miss it!