A former Navy SEAL went from battling international terrorism to fighting a different war at home—the war against child sex trafficking.
Craig Sawyer, a former Navy SEAL and founder of Veterans for Child Rescue, told EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators” program how his background led him to rescue children from trafficking networks that are operating in plain sight.
Sawyer, who grew up in Houston, Texas, joined the Marines at the age of 19 and deployed to various locations.
“I was learning about what [traffickers] were doing, hijacking airplanes and everything, and I just thought that was horrible, and that was the worst evil that I could identify. And I felt compelled to go and stop that from coming here,” he said. “So I ended up … at the very top of the counterterror realm of special operations.”…