Matt Parker

You know, I was undercover just a few months ago, and I was asking one of the victims, hey, do you have any friends here?

That's one of the questions I tend to ask these days.

And she's like, no, I don't have any friends here.

um there's some mechanism of isolation and control that these women that look like knowing and willing participants maybe in the sex trade have things happening in the background most people don't know about and no one's asking about so when i started to understand what was happening in the northern villages of thailand i met with the thai royal police and i'm like look i i

I just want to help.

You know, how can I help?

And they wanted me to do some research for them and try to understand where people are bought and sold.

You know, 50 million modern day slaves is an overwhelming number.

When I first started this

the estimation was 27 million.

So this is getting worse, right?

But the police that I worked with were like, look, help us identify, you know, where the border crossings are, where people are being traded or illegally smuggled in, and where are the brothels, and where are the dark alleys?

And so...

I set about researching that for them, and it all built up to a singular moment where I had received a phone call from a nonprofit partner of mine.

And they were like, Matt, there's a child being sold.

Down this red light district, we've met with her.

Can you tell the police?

I'm like, yeah.

Absolutely.

And so I told the police what the tip, you know, like, hey, there's a victim of trafficking in this area.