A Colorado statewide grand jury indicted Hye KyeungSeo and Sang Hyon Shim on 19 felony counts, including human trafficking for sexual servitude. A third defendant, SeonHee Wolf, faces 15 charges in connection to the operation, including pimping and money laundering.
The three defendants ran four massage parlors: Jewel Spa in Denver and, in Jefferson County, Pine Therapy, ABC Spa, and A Spa. Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, exposed the sex trafficking ring in her April 8th article.
A Nationwide Sex Trafficking Affliction
The Colorado action comes during a Florida grand jury accusation that the Biden Administration is “facilitating” the trafficking of child refugees. The accusation comes after a five-month investigation conducted at the request of Governor Ron DeSantis.
The panel denounced the Biden Administration, most notably the Homeland Security Department and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The panel concluded that ORR’s claim that child refugees are being cared for and united with their families is a lie.
“ORR is facilitating the forced migration, sale, and abuse of foreign children, and some of our fellow Florida residents are (in some cases unwittingly) funding and incentivizing it for primarily economic reasons,” the report stated.
Trump Administration Recognized the Problem
A February 26th Instagram post claimed that the Biden Administration had reversed an effort by then-President Donald Trump to combat child sex trafficking.
“Trump was the first President in U.S. History to acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S., and the first President to open a White House office to form coalitions with law enforcement to save America’s children,” read the post. “On his second day in office, Biden rescinded Trump’s Executive Order that helped combat child sex trafficking.”
USA Today proffered a tepid response on February 26th, countering with a “fact check” rating the claim as “false.”
“Biden did not rescind Trump’s orders on child sex trafficking. He introduced an updated plan to fight child trafficking on December 21st. The post is also wrong about Trump being the first president to acknowledge child sex trafficking.”
In truth, one of Biden’s 77 published orders DID alter the 2017 Trump order on trafficking by reassigning the same work to a new group.
Fuel to a Growing Wildfire
If anything, USA Today’s response added fuel to the fire. In a revealing report, DeSantis accused the federal immigration authorities of “human trafficking” in their oversight of unaccompanied children in the state.
According to the Miami Herald’s Carol Marbin Miller, on March 30th, “The statewide Prosecutors’ Office released an Acerbic 46-page grand jury report that denounces the federal Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), for leaving vulnerable migrant children with unvetted caregivers, or “sponsors” — and then abdicating all oversight of their welfare. The report suggests the policy amounts to criminal child neglect.”
The Statewide Grand Jury, an arm of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office, also accused the federal government of covering alleged misdeeds.
“The public is led to believe that the process described by our federal government in documents and popular media accounts at least resemble the truth.” The report said. “ORR asserts that children fleeing from danger are adequately identified, properly cared for, and reunited with their family here in the country.”
Information to Florida non-governmental organizations doing business with ORR was stymied and essentially ignored. The reasons given ranged from contractual restrictions to the information being proprietary in nature.
“We received instead from the organizations that they would be purposely ignoring some of the requests under the orders from ORR, with whom they have a contractual relationship,” the report stated.
A Potential Embarrassment to Biden Allies
“Human trafficking is a growing problem throughout Colorado, and preventing human trafficking-related offenses from illicit businesses represented as massage parlors is a high priority of the state. Human traffickers commonly use illicit massage businesses to exploit workers. It is critical for law enforcement and community partners to continue to work together to investigate and prosecute those who victimize and traffic people for sexual servitude,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said.
The year-long investigation had commenced when a man walked into Jewel Spa looking for a massage. Denver District Attorney Beth McCann explained the sequence. The man claimed to be surprised when a woman asked him if he wanted any sexual services.
The indictment referenced two victims of sex trafficking. Investigators believe that there are many more victims connected to the parlors. Is it conceivable that many of these victims entered the U.S. under the auspices of ORR?
In March, a federal judge ruling in a case filed by Moody’s office ordered the Biden administration to vacate and review a policy that has granted parole to tens of thousands of migrants who lacked proper documents. It is the latest in the long-running dispute between DeSantis, other Florida leaders, and Biden administration bureaucrats.
“This process exposes children to horrifying health conditions, constant criminal threat, labor and sex trafficking, robbery, rape and other experiences not done justice by mere words,” the grand jurors concluded.
Most of the victims are reportedly between 15 and 17 years of age. Jewel Spa may have represented the “end of the journey” for these migrants.
The question becomes how long can deeds so dire be ignored by a complicit corporate media? Had they been handled with comparable intensity, as witnessed in Donald Trump’s recent indictment, the country would be calling for resignations, indictments, and prison sentences for all concerned.
At the very least, the revelation that the Biden Administration has taken a leadership role in global human trafficking is an unthinkable reality. It should prove embarrassing for Colorado’s two Democrat Senators and Colorado’s Democrat governor. All are friends and supporters of Joe Biden.
