Rescue Ruse: How 'Sound of Freedom' Conned Christians

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Her name is Kelly Suarez. Kelly Suarez, real person, right? Kelly was Miss Cartagena, famous in town, and she recruited kids to her modeling agency. But she was selling them, 12-year-olds.

Kelly Johanna Suarez was branded. the kind of supervillain few could even imagine existed. A ruthless businesswoman whose product was child sex slaves. And they branded her that before a global audience.

In the case of Kelly, who is a real person. She is also a real character? Yes, very real.

Kelly became despised on an international scale. But what the filmmakers didn't tell the public is that she was never convicted of child sex trafficking. She'd eventually sue the filmmakers for destroying her life. And the Christian team behind the movie now claim that their true story was really just a work of fiction. Now Kelly Johanna Suarez speaks out for the first time since the movie's release.

I have been waiting for this moment for 10 years.

And she has a message for the world.

Tim Ballard is a fraud.

Sound of Freedom. It's hard to exaggerate its success. First filmed in 2018, it sat on the shelf for over four years. The filmmakers suggested Hollywood had something to hide. But that changed when a small Utah-based studio picked it up and made it into a phenomenon.

And I'm Adriana Cortez. When we first started investigating the alleged true story behind Sound of Freedom, we did not know where it would take us. But we did know that the hero of the movie claimed to be saving children. So, understanding the truth behind the film was of the utmost importance. We'd ultimately learn that the premise of Sound of Freedom was built on a lie peddled by Tim Ballard for at least a decade.

But it got much worse. New evidence obtained by Red Pilled America suggests that Tim Ballard effectively framed an innocent woman as a child sex trafficker, attempting to put her in prison for decades for a crime she never committed. And the sting operation Ballard used to condemn her? It spawned dozens of the same type of trafficking victims he's long claimed to be liberating. Which raised the question, were Christians conned by Tim Ballard?

Now, Kelly Johanna Suarez is speaking out exclusively to Red Pilled America to tell her side of this stunning story. This is her first interview since the film's launch.

But before we hear from Suarez, we need to take you back to the real-life Colombian sting. The one that would eventually become the plot of Sound of Freedom, and change her life forever.

It was October 11, 2014, and Tim Ballard organized what would later be branded as a monumental event in the liberation of child sex slaves. It turned out to be the biggest rescue operation.

that we ever did, I think, in the history of the world.

all of Cartagena, Colombia's child sex traffickers, to one island in hopes of saving over 50 child sex slaves, kids that had been kidnapped from their parents and forced to participate in.

unspeakable sex acts. We look at catalogs. They show us the kids on phones. We don't let them bring new kids. These are kids we have proof, have already been abused multiple times before we even showed up.

non-profit, Operation Underground Railroad, or OUR, he rigged the island destination with cameras. The trap was set. Once the children arrived at the island, his team locked them in a cabana. Ballard then brought the alleged traffickers to one table. for the most important part.

I don't hear the engines. I walk to the edge of the island and to the edge of the house on the dock. I don't hear the engines. The Colombian cop is sweating in the corner. I walk over to him.

be dead in 30 minutes. So Ballard thought fast. He came up with an idea for a new criminal business venture and presented it to the alleged traffickers. They began exploring the concept and the stall tactic lasted just long enough to give CTI the time they needed.

To the ground. Everyone to the ground. Silence.

sex slaves were found by Colombian authorities. Five suspected traffickers were arrested, four men and one Colombian woman. And it was this one woman that would capture the imagination of Colombian media. They said she was a former beauty queen turned child pimp.

The 20 year old woman is accused of being part of a network of child sex trafficking that offered children to foreign pedophiles at parties in Cartagena. Apparently, she was engaged in recruiting minors to induce them into prostitution. She is Kelly Johanna Suarez. She is 20 years old, a professional model. And less than a year ago, she was parading as a candidate for the popular queen crown.

and is considered extremely serious. The scandal quickly reached America's shores. And it was one report in particular that would catapult Tim Ballard into the company of superheroes. Last weekend, police broke up a major sex trafficking ring in Colombia, which has become a destination for tourists looking for sex with boys and girls. The police had help from an American who went undercover to rescue the children.

Tim Ballard has one mission to track down child traffickers. Four months ago, Colombian authorities asked him to investigate a tip that children were being sold there as sex slaves. Within a half hour, this individual walks up to me, starts asking me what I'm here for, what I want. And within minutes, he says, well, I've got, I've got kids as young as 11 years old. How they find these kids is?

sex. They're ready to be sold. The segment was opened by the same personality that hosts 60 Minutes, one of the most decorated investigative reporting shows of all time. Tim Ballard had.

arrived. Less than 24 hours after the operatives landed, the suspected traffickers arrived on the island. And the final deal, the undercover team began.

whose sole mission was to save children. It was an extremely touching story. The only problem was the island sting was a scam. More reality TV show than legitimate sting operation. Because, you see, not a single child discovered at the raid was a sex slave.

They stole my independence. They stole my life. They stole my dreams. Kelly, Johanna Suarez,

a Christian woman, believes that his stunt will eventually lead to a day of reckoning for Tim.

Ballard. I want to say something directly to Tim Ballard. And it is that, as he used his phrase, God's children are not for sale. I want to tell him that God cannot be mocked. God cannot be used.

Ballard's flair for fabricating heroic stories is nothing new. It goes back at least to the birth of his child rescue organization. In late 2013,. Tim Ballard was working for the Department of Homeland Security as a special agent, assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. But on the side, he was looking to raise money for a novel concept.

eventually share it with his audience. Not long ago, a horrific video of a five-year-old boy being sexually abused in the worst way was discovered by U.S. authorities. The boy was five and his 12-year-old sister. They had been kidnapped and they had been trafficked back and forth between the U.S.

and the boy was rescued from the monster. The story that Beck was describing was the 2006 case of Earl Venton Buchanan, but with some major discrepancies. A friend of mine, who I didn't.

know what he did for a living, he had a whole front story. I had no idea. He told me one day, I need to meet with you. And so I met with him and he told me what he really did. He is an undercover operative who infiltrates and dismantles child trafficking rings.

slavery still exists. Ballard would tell this story to major media personalities over the.

coming years. An American man was kidnapping children in Mexico, smuggling them into the United States. And I recognized him from the video. No way. The little boy had a necklace, that little boy, the five-year-old.

likely because either most couldn't have imagined someone with his credentials would play loose with the facts about a child rape story, or they didn't want to be labeled by Ballard and his team.

Having seen the movie, I don't understand what is political about this. Why is it being called a fantasy? Why is it saying you're going to get brain worms, you know, metaphorically speaking? Unless they're pedophiles. I don't know.

for human traffickers. Ballard has consistently suggested that those that question his work are at least as bad as child traffickers, perhaps worse. The greatest threat to children right now,

honestly, more than the traffickers in a lot of cases, are people that disparage.

others in the nonprofit industry. Ballard appeared to be exploiting a vulnerability in the human condition, one that shields alleged pedophile hunters from criticism. The dog tag moment, as it would come to be known, would go on to become the premise of The Sound of Freedom, the symbol of hope that was used by the hero of the film, Jim Caviezel, playing Tim Ballard. But as Red Pilled America reported in 2023, the dog tag story is a fabrication. Through court filings and documents obtained in a freedom of information request, we showed that Tim Ballard was not telling the truth about the incident.

new rescue outfit. I would like to introduce you to a website called Operation Underground Railroad.org, and I would like you to bring this to your churches, and I would like you to inform yourself and others, as many as you can. I'd like you to put this on your Facebook, and I'd like you to tweet this. Millstone around people's necks that are involved in this. And, I think, great and powerful blessings to anybody who can help free these children.

This is something that I truly believe in. His audience answered the call, reportedly crashing the donation servers. With hundreds of thousands pouring into his coffers, Ballard quit his government job. He'd eventually head to an American tourist spot in Cartagena, Colombia, called Baru Island, filming all along the way. He says that within minutes of walking on the beach, he was approached by a man named Fuego, who was offering up children for sex.

And he presented to me the most evil business plan I'd ever seen in my life. And he talked about this property that he just bought, just a 45-minute boat ride from Cartagena, these beautiful islands. He bought a few acres and he says, I need to build a hotel. But it's not a hotel, it's going to be a sex club. And I'm going to bring, it's going to cater to tourists who come in and it's going to be filled with children.

But this was another fabrication. Remember the stalling tactic Ballard had to perform to avoid.

being killed by the traffickers? And what happened that morning was the social worker's.

boat broke down. This was actually the moment where the child sex hotel idea was floated, and it wasn't conceived by the alleged traffickers. A TV series was produced on Ballard's rescue operations called The Abolitionists, and the first two episodes focus on the Colombian island raid. In it, it's clear that Tim Ballard came up with the idea for a child brothel, not Eduardo.

Is it possible to keep doing these kinds of parties here in a hotel? Do you know how to do that? Edward, is it possible? Of course.

It was another Ballard fabrication. And then he put the words into Eduardo's mouth. This is something that Ballard and his team do repeatedly. A perfect example is when the alleged traffickers arrive at the sting event.

to take them to the house, and they had prepped the children well.

Even with their faces blurred, they don't look like children. They look like the age of music festival goers. And when we dug a little deeper, we learned more about Ballard's tactic. Liner Salcedo. He's one of the alleged children Ballard claims to have saved at his Colombian island raid.

When you saw the movie, you saw this operation in Cartagena, on the island.

But when we looked into Salcedo, Ballard's, deception is further revealed.

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So, after meeting, Eduardo, Ballard says he and his team decided to pose as wealthy real estate developers who were in Colombia looking for a good time. He said Eduardo claimed he needed big.

money to develop his sex hotel. It's going to cater to tourists who come in, and it's going to be filled with children. And I said, well, what do you need? He said, I need a million dollars. I said, that's easy.

Again, this entire premise is not true, because the idea for a child sex hotel didn't arise until Ballard brought it up right before the raid. But going on with Ballard's story, he claimed he wanted to save as many children as possible. So he asked Eduardo for more kids than the alleged trafficker had in his roster.

So he thought about it and eventually did what I was hoping he would do, which was to call all of his competitors. And he brings all his competitors to the table, all the other traffickers in town. So now that number went to 50..

Ballard claimed that two of the other alleged traffickers were Samuel and Kelly Johanna Suarez.

Her name is Kelly Suarez. Kelly was Miss Cartagena 2012.. Beautiful model, famous in town. She won Miss Cartagena on the platform that she was going to help the impoverished youth of Colombia. And she did.

them. But there is no evidence supporting this claim. Kelly Suarez was never Miss Cartagena. There's no evidence that she gave scholarships to children. There's not even evidence that she ever had a modeling school.

If anything, she was the opposite. One day, I received an invitation from my friend Samuel Olive via Facebook. And he told me that there was a trip planned to an island.

According to Miss Suarez, Samuel said that the trip was being organized by rich Americans.

I was a model, but not a professional one. It was just here in the city of Cartagena. And my dream, more than anything, was to grow professionally in modeling.

By any measure, Miss Suarez was not a professional model. Her modeling career consisted of two noteworthy events. She'd been selected to represent her poor Abrero neighborhood in a Colombian Independence Day event. And she was an extra in a music video. You have to slow down the video just to notice her.

I wanted to become known internationally. And since they were Americans, I saw an opportunity.

in this. Suarez says she was told the island party was for singles and that the American paying for it wanted to meet a young black woman.

It was like a singles party, something like that, where gringos, Americans, were going to be.

At the time, Kelly was 20, but she looked 15,, which is likely why she was invited.

I told him that I would like to attend the trip.

After she met Ballard, Suarez says she was invited to meet the big boss. She decided to go.

Well, then they wanted to introduce me to the supposed American who was going to help me with my projects and future dreams.

And Colombian CTI agents help corroborate Kelly's claim.

Jorge Martez-Facet, one of the CTI agents working directly with Ballard, testified in the Colombian trial. He said that it appeared that Kelly was playing a passive role, and that it appeared like she was one of the people being offered up to the party organizers.

She was exhibiting a more passive role there. It seemed that she was accompanying Samuel. But it also seemed that she was being offered, as if she was going to be part of the group among the young people, that he was putting on the table to make the event happen.

Now, let's pause here for a second. If Ms. Suarez were the big child sex trafficker that Tim Ballard claims, wouldn't one of the lead CTI agents working on the case have known that? In the setting of a trial, when presented a video of Ms. Suarez, you'd expect one of the primary Colombian agents working on the case to say, yes, that's Kelly Johanna Suarez.

I went to meet a person who was a wealthy American, supposedly a businessman, who wanted to meet a simple black woman. And I decided to meet him because I saw it as an opportunity, that this person could help me with my projects. That's why I went to that place.

We pressed Suarez on this point, asking if she was told that the boss wanted to have sex with her.

Well, they told me that there would be wealthy Americans, a singles party,

The primary video that Ballard uses to incriminate Suarez as a trafficker is a clip where he asks him well, if there were any limitations to the type of sex that could be had with the attendees.

These are girls that aren't super experienced because they're little girls.

Ballard has used this clip to claim that Suarez was asking Ballard's team to be delicate with her child slaves. We asked Suarez why she inserted the delicate comment.

That part. If you notice, he is not having a conversation with me.

According to court filings, in a Utah defamation case, Suarez claims Ballard's team began talking about whether anal sex was on the table. In context, it's clear that she was actually concerned with how Ballard's team was going to treat her, because she was being offered up to them. And the Colombian court case reveals an even darker scenario. Two days before the sting, Ballard and the CTI agents organized a meeting with the alleged traffickers, Eduardo Samuel, a young man named Louis, and a young woman by the name of Natalie, who went by the alias Natty. A CTI agent on the case testified about the meeting.

That day we met Samuel,

meetings and alias Natty. Kelly Suarez was not at this meeting. According to Colombian law enforcement, in this meeting, Natty claimed that she could obtain about 15 children, mainly from Cartagena's high schools, guaranteeing that the oldest person would be 16 years old.

And Mr. Tim Ballard knew this because, according to the logs and the actual record, he was in.

meetings with her. At that same meeting, Samuel claimed to work at a modeling school. CTI agents noted that Samuel said he could recruit children from the school. Red Pill Demerica has acquired Colombian court documents showing that prior to the raid, Colombian law enforcement was already filing paperwork accusing Natty of inducing people into prostitution, a crime in Colombia. They even pulled her fingerprints to verify her identity at the raid.

What happened is that Natty attended three meetings, supposedly with minors, and this is in the actual record, in the logs.

And this is where the unethical nature of Ballard's so-called rescue is exposed. Child sex trafficking experts have long argued that through his rescue operations, Tim Ballard was creating the demand for child sex slaves, an accusation he's vehemently denied. Ballard has countered this argument by insisting on many occasions that the children on the.

We have a lot of ways to ensure that a child who hasn't been already taken is not taken. These are kids who are stuck in it already. We don't let them bring new kids. These are kids we have proof, have already been abused multiple times before we even showed up. These are kids that need rescuing.

But that's also not true. Proof has been presented that exposes Ballard's most famous operation. Colombian doctor Rita Lapera questioned the alleged child sex slaves immediately after the island raid. During the Colombian trial, she was asked whether the suspected victims she interviewed were victims of any kind of sexual abuse.

Did any of those young people tell you, or did you record in any of those reports?

No, señor.

According to Ballard, these were all child sex slaves that needed to be rescued. Yet Dr. Lapera reported no sexual abuse from any of the people she interviewed. Dr. Lapera was asked how the suspected victims heard about the island party.

What was the common denominator?

They were lured to the island several ways. Some said they were alerted to the party via a Facebook post. Some ultimately said a cousin or a friend. Others said Samuel, Fuego, Eduardo or Nati. Not a single person was invited by Kelly Johanna Suarez.

Remind us of your full name. Well, my name is Pedro Flores Ramos. I am 17 years old.

Another 17-year-old male named Pedro Flores Ramos was interviewed on the night of the Colombian island raid by aftercare workers, and he explained how he heard of the party.

First of all, Wednesday, I was on Facebook.

Flores would later sign an affidavit further explaining the Facebook invitation that brought him to the party.

I was informed of a Facebook party where North Americans would be present. This Facebook ad said that if you had sex with one of the Americans, you would be paid 1 million Colombian pesos and that all transportation, boat ride, food and alcohol would be included.

1 million Colombian pesos in 2014 is about 500 U.

Based on that invitation, I decided to attend the party to be paid 400,000 Colombian pesos to attend the party. We went to the party with no intention of having sex with anyone.

Flores himself even invited people to the island party.

I told my father, I told some friends of mine and my cousin.

He attended the party with a small entourage and you can see him in the footage amongst the festive crowd.

This little 11-year-old boy, I remember, he asked one of my operatives if they could give him some cocaine or something. He said they usually give me something because I'm really scared. This picture is just something so important to me. This little girl, she thinks she's about to be raped again. She's been told to get in position because the Americans are coming in.

In context, Ballard's statements. while holding back tears are jaw-dropping. There wasn't a single 11-year-old boy at the island raid. Ballard weaved an enormous fabrication, all while crying.

By the time the deal was done, the alleged traffickers were set to make $25,000.

The average annual salary in 2014 Colombia was $6,000.

We suppose here, with my defense, that they did not do it because the focus and the media show at that moment was on the queen, which was me.

With Natty a no-show and Kelly Suarez filmed seated at the table during the raid, the reality show apparently could go on. It appears that Tim Ballard simply placed Natty and Samuel's claims onto Kelly, Johanna Suarez, effectively framing her for the crime of pimping child sex slaves. And he did it with the help of a corrupt Colombian law enforcement agent.

Where I saw horrible things that I never imagined seeing at my young age. Fights, drugs, and death. Depressed people trying to commit suicide. Drug addiction and many other things.

When Colombian prosecutors failed to bring a case against her, she was released, along with the others, pending further hearings and a trial. To date, the five arrested on the island raid have not been convicted of child sex trafficking. The statute of limitations runs out on the case in October 2024..

But none of this stopped the team behind The Sound of Freedom to brand Suarez as a guilty monster that sold children into sex slavery. Because if Kelly Johanna Suarez was not the model turned child pimp the filmmakers claimed her to be, they no longer had a true story. To promote the film, the team turned to just about every faith-based outlet in America.

But I do know this, that Jim Caviezel loves Jesus, and I love Jesus, and so that's a really good starting point. Our love for God's children has got to be greater than our fear of evil, just as our love for Jesus Christ has got to be greater than our fear of the cross. She said to me, these are a direct quote, she said, I will not let you jeopardize my salvation by not doing this. Jesus carried me like a child and held me like a lamb. So, at the end of the day, because we're going to die and we're going to answer to God, and every day I think about this, how am I using my life?

They constantly pushed their Christian bona fides front and center to rally believers to their cause. And they did this all while the alleged hero of the film was trying to put an innocent Christian woman behind bars for 20 years. It wasn't long after the film launched that news quietly broke that Tim Ballard was ousted from the non-profit organization he founded. Questions about his operations slowly began to surface. For years, Ballard had been claiming that America was the biggest culprit in child sex trafficking.

The story is almost so bizarre, you go, they must have made a lot of this up.

No, it doesn't even seem real. I know. You tell these stories, and so much of it sounds unreal.

Seemingly under pressure, Ballard began telling the world that the children he'd saved in the Colombian raid that inspired the movie would soon come out to tell their story.

So we're bringing them up in August. I want you to be there. We don't know where, but we're going to bring them up because they want to say, we're the guys in the movie. Let me tell you, because they're adults now and they want to talk. These kids are real and I'm going to see them, by the way, in Bogota next weekend at the premiere.

But that was also not true. Red Pilled America acquired a voice, memo Ballard sent to the Angel Studios team, and in it, that 15 survivors number whittled down quite a bit.

Probably six of them, seven of them maybe would come. Could we arrange that? Could we arrange for them to get down and take care of them there? Like I've been dying. I've been saying in almost every press interview, like wait till these kids come out and tell their story.

But when the event arrived, Ballard could only produce two alleged survivors from the Colombian sting. One was Lanier Salcedo, an adult at the time of the raid. And the other?

I've been in close contact with the actual kids that were rescued on the island operation, including the kid who's Simba in real life. His name is Pedro Flores.

This was the same Pedro Flores Ramos that claimed he went to the island party to make the $200 for attending. Ballard, claimed that Flores was 11 years old when he allegedly saved him in the Colombian island raid.

He's an adult now, right? He's like 19 years old. It'd been like eight years.

But Flores wasn't 11.

Was it months or years? How long was it? No, not in trafficking. It was one day, completely one day.

Flores also claimed that the others from the island raid had also only been trafficked that one day.

Also the others too, one day?

In 2024, Flores also signed an affidavit stating that prior to October 11, 2014, he'd never been a subject of sex trafficking. He also declared prior to the island raid he did not know Kelly Suarez and that at no time had she invited him to the party or promised him money. In other words, Tim Ballard's alleged child survivor of the island raid both exonerates Kelly Johanna Suarez and proves Ballard creates demand for child trafficking victims. And again, Flores wasn't a child sex slave. He went there willingly for the $200 attendance payment.

They have a foundation called Tejiendo Sueños, Weaving Dreams. I have foundations that are supporting them, including the Spear Fund and others.

Which leads us back to the question, were Christians conned by Tim Ballard?

The true heroes. are you, our supporters.

Well, Sound of Freedom and Operation Underground Railroad have collectively generated roughly half a billion dollars on a bogus story. Some would call that perhaps the biggest con on Christians in modern history. For years, Tim Ballard has been claiming he saves kids who were already trapped as sex slaves. But that is simply not true. And the Columbian Island Raid proves it.

My case has not yet concluded. I was released on provisional liberty, pending trial. And that's why we are suing these people, Mr. Tim Ballard, Angel Studios, Operation Underground Railroad, because they violated my right to the presumption of innocence. These people condemned me to the world with a movie that is completely false from beginning to end.

As for Tim Ballard, in September 2023, news broke that the Mormon church denounced him for morally unacceptable behavior. Five women who'd worked with Ballard would eventually sue him for sexual misconduct.

We were subjected to sexual harassment, spiritual manipulation, grooming, and sexual misconduct.

The accusations include claims that Ballard employed a couple's ruse where the women posed as his wife to deceive traffickers, during which he allegedly subjected them to inappropriate behavior and sexual manipulation.

How many more women have to come forward for this to be taken seriously?

They claim that they had never seen a single child rescued on any OUR operations.

People are donating to OUR because they believe that OUR does what they say they're going to do. But they're not rescuing children. They're making a morality play for money and for donations, and they're using videos of us and other fake operations.

The women also claim that there are at least seven criminal investigations into the founder of OUR, and shocking news about the investigations continue to trickle out.

The Utah County Sheriff's Office is holding on to key evidence. Celeste Boris was the former assistant to Tim Ballard. Now she's accusing him of sexually assaulting her while working on what he calls the couple's ruse. In a new filing, her lawyers claim to have a skirt of hers with Ballard's semen on it. Ballard denies anything sexual happened between them, but the new filing claims Utah County detectives matched the DNA on the skirt to Ballard.

But Ballard continues to proclaim his innocence. He's argued that the allegations are financially motivated and part of a smear campaign. And now, since being denounced by the Mormon Church, Ballard appears to have found a new audience to fund his rescue operations, and he's pulling them in with a different kind of dog tag.

When I was talking to Tim back there just now, leading up to this, he spoke to me about, he's starting to consider the Catholic Church and the Catholic faith. He showed me the proof right there. Miraculous medal. he's wearing, the medal of our blessed mother. So we're going to pray for this guy.

RPA reached out to Tim Ballard, Angel Studios, and OUR for comment. Only OUR provided one, and they stated as follows.

Ms. Moya is currently being prosecuted by the Colombian government for her involvement in child sex trafficking, and OUR Rescue's prior statement about Ms. Moya was an exercise of its First Amendment rights reflecting that fact. However, to be clear, OUR Rescue did not participate in production of Sound of Freedom, the development of any of its characters, or have approval rights in the film. In fact, OUR Rescue was not mentioned or referred to once in the film.

The Utah judge in Kelly Johanna Suarez Moya's defamation lawsuit denied the Sound of Freedom defendant's request to dismiss the case. The judge stated in the decision, quote, the statements of the defendants were made with knowledge that such was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not, end quote. Suarez will have her day in court. Directed, produced, and written by Patrick Karelchi and Adriana Cortez for Inform Ventures. Associate Producer, Poetry.

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