Ballard became more of a known quantity after the release of the movie Sound of Freedom, a dramatization of his mission in which he was played by actor Jim Caviezel. Critics of the film have argued that Ballard’s claims about his accomplishments have been “dramatically overstated or without clear documentary evidence.”
Basically an article reporting that another journalist reported and investigated this, but yeah this org is sketchy and universally criticized by orgs that do real work. Their methods are basically to go buy kids under the guise of rescuing them, but they’re basically there creating a market demand for more kids to be captured. They have a bunch of issues with what happens to the kids after being “rescued” and in one instance had to let them go because they didn’t have capacity to support the kids they rescued.
Let them go?
Yeah like they couldn’t provide for the amount of kids they rescued so they just let them run free, or I dunno how these trafficking rings handle returns. I think it’s still referenced on their public wikipedia page, there were some articles about it a few years ago back when a journalist first looked in to the org.