EVIDENCE OF THE MASS ARRESTS OF PEDOPHILES | A MASTER LIST

October 27, 2019 Adam Riva

One of the Top Priorities of the Trump Administration

On February 9, 2017, one of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders was enacted called Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking. Its purpose is to strictly crack down on human trafficking, especially child trafficking both foreign and domestic.

In an article published on Zero Hedge on August 1, 2017, we can clearly see how cracking down on human trafficking and pedophilia is one of the top priorities of the Trump administration, presumably because he is aware that it leads straight to the top of politics and world power.

Upon taking office, President Trump made the fight against human trafficking and pedophilia a top priority for his administration – kicked off by a human trafficking awareness ad released in early February by the Department of Homeland Security (headed by… General Kelly, 67).

That was only the beginning. Five days later on February 9, Trump signed an Executive Order to combat human trafficking (“Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking”).

Then in late February, Trump told a room of advisors and representatives from anti-trafficking organizations that he vowed to fight the ‘epidemic’ of human trafficking, promising to bring the ‘full force and weight‘ of the U.S. government to address the problem. Of note, a record 1500+ arrests of pedophiles or sex traffickers were made during Trump’s first month in office.

And in a June speech at a launch ceremony for the State Department’s 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report, Ivanka Trump said that ending human trafficking is in our ‘moral and strategic interests,’ and a top White House priority.

Finally, last Friday, President Trump told a group of law enforcement officials on New York that human trafficking is possibly worse ‘than it’s ever been in the history of the world.’”

On December 29, 2017, President Trump proclaimed January 2018 to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month with an official decree on the White House’s website. The press release states the following:

“My Administration continues to work to drive out the darkness human traffickers cast upon our world.  In February, I signed an Executive Order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations, including those that perpetuate the crime of human trafficking.  My Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons has enhanced collaboration with other nations, businesses, civil society organizations, and survivors of human trafficking.  The Department of Health and Human Services has established a new national training and technical assistance center to strengthen our healthcare industry’s anti-trafficking response.  The Department of State has contributed $25 million to the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, because of the critical need for cross-nation collaborative action to counter human trafficking.  The Department of Labor has released an innovative, business-focused mobile app that supports private-sector efforts to eradicate forced labor from global supply chains.  And this month, I will sign into law S. 1536, the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act and S. 1532, the No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act.  These bills will keep those who commit trafficking offenses from operating commercial vehicles, improve anti-human trafficking coordination within Federal agencies and across State and local governments, and improve efforts to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking.”

On March 13, 2018, President Trump announced he would bring the full weight of the government to bring an end to human trafficking.

According to the official press release on the White House’s website,

“In March 2018, the President appointed nine human trafficking survivors to serve on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking for terms of two years.

President Trump declared January 2018 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

In September 2017, Ivanka Trump and Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan joined more than 20 world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly for a global call to end modern slavery and to announce the State Department’s $25 million grant to the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery.

In February 2017, the President signed Executive Order 13773, “Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking.” This Order directed the United States government to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle the transnational criminal organizations that engage in human trafficking.

In light of the impending Senate vote on H.R. 1865 – the FOSTA-SESTA legislative package designed to fight online sex trafficking – the Trump Administration is hosting a roundtable on human trafficking to review and discuss the path forward on this critical issue.”

On April 11, 2018, President Trump signed legislation intended to allow state prosecutors and sex-trafficking victims to sue advertisers, social media networks, and website operators that host or otherwise facilitate online sex trafficking. The legislation overturns previous legal protection that allowed technology companies to evade regulation and prosecution for such activities.

Large Scale Sting Operations

Provided below is a slew of headlines to demonstrate that mass arrests are occurring all around the world including prominent politicians and figureheads, particularly after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. We rarely hear about these headlines, but when they are consolidated and sequenced chronologically, the trend becomes quite apparent.

June 26, 2014

LA deputies arrested 275 pedophiles in southern California as part of Operation Broken Heart. Included in the arrests were a teacher’s assistant, a retired sheriff’s deputy, and a U.S. Army soldier.

February 20, 2015

Authorities arrest Peter Scully, a notorious pedophile who produced a movie called “Daisy’s Destruction” in which a baby girl is sexually abused and tortured to death. Access to that video and others was sold for $10,000 on a pedophile site on the dark net called “Hurt 2 the Core” which boasted 15,000 videos daily.

The Metro writes,

“According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the footage was so horrific police called it ‘the worst we have encountered in our years campaigning against child pornography.’”

August 24, 2016

A pedophile ring touting over 70,000 members was successfully busted by the FBI resulting in 184 arrests and over 230 rescued children in 30 countries. Operation Rescue had identified 670 suspects, one of whom is suspected of abusing over 100 children. Suspects included teachers, police officers, and scout leaders. The website, which was infiltrated and then subsequently taken over and run by the FBI as a trap, lured in tens of thousands of pedophiles. The organization, also known as the Red Circle, has ties to the Bilderberg group, the Knights of Malta, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Federalist Society, the Federal Reserve Bank of the US, royal families of Belgium and the Netherlands, and NATO.

November 23, 2016
Authorities arrest 51 pedophiles in Norway as part of a sting operation called Operation Dark Room. Authorities seized 150 terabytes (150,000 gigabytes) of data, including photos, videos and chat transcripts between members of various pedophile networks.

According to the Independent,

“The material shows, among other things, the penetration of toddlers, children being tied up, children having sex with animals and children having sex with other children.”

All of the men arrested live in Norway, but police confirmed they were investigating one individual living abroad. It is considered one of the largest sexual abuse cases ever in the country.

Some of those detained had live-streamed abuse of their own children. Those arrested include two elected officials, one teacher and a lawyer.”

January 27, 2017

Authorities arrest 42 human traffickers in Tennessee.

January 27, 2017

Authorities arrest 13 men in connection with a pedophile ring in Quebec, Canada. Several of the arrestees held positions as teachers and scout leaders.

January 29, 2017

Authorities arrest 474 pedophiles and save 55 victims, 28 of whom were children, in a sex ring bust in Los Angeles, California.

January 29, 2017

Authorities arrest 1 pedophile in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in hopes of cracking open a fetish-themed sex ring.

January 29, 2017

Authorities arrest 38 human traffickers in San Diego.

January 30, 2017

Police arrest 5 suspects of a Pennsylvania-based “furry fetish” pedophile cult where individuals dress up like animals and rape children and real animals.

February 1, 2017

The FBI rescues 11 women during human trafficking sting operation in New Orleans.

February 5, 2017

Authorities arrest 9 child traffickers and rescue 31 children and women in a bust in Haiti two days after the Clinton Foundation pulled out of Haiti altogether.

February 5, 2017

Authorities arrest 752 sex traffickers and rescue 92 victims as part of an interstate Super Bowl Sunday sting operation called Johns Suppression Initiative.

February 10, 2017

Authorities arrest 6 pedophiles aged 20 to 66 on child pornography charges involving 168 underage male victims in Japan.

February 13, 2017

Jeffrey Sandusky, son of child abuser Jerry Sandusky, was arrested on multiple child molestation charges.

February 13, 2017

Authorities arrest 22 pedophiles and human traffickers, rescuing at least 2 children and 14 to 15 adult victims.

February 14, 2017

A newly appointed special prosecutor in Cleveland, Ohio reopened over 70 child sex cases.

February 14, 2017

FBI raid an international adoption agency in Strongsville, Ohio international for “failing to adequately supervise preventing sale, abduction, exploitation, or trafficking of children.”

February 14, 2017

Authorities arrest 22 pedophiles in sex trafficking stings, saving 15 adults and 2 child vicimts, during the Detroit Auto Show.

February 14, 2017

Authorities arrest 11 pedophiles on child exploitation charges in VA as part of an undercover online sting operation.

February 14, 2017

Authorities arrest 42 pedophiles on child pornography-related charges in Polk County, Florida.

February 15, 2017

Authorities arrest 11 pedophiles during a child sex sting operation in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. One of the arrestees was working part time at a local Christian school.

May 6, 2017

Authorities arrest 870 pedophiles as part of Operation Pacifier, shutting down a child pornography website named Playpen. Over 300 children were identified and rescued.

According to RT,

“Nearly 900 members of a global ‘dark web’ pedophile ring sprawling Europe and the Americas have been arrested following a two-year investigation, the FBI and Europol reported after the website’s founder was handed a 30-year jail sentence.

Shedding light on the scope of the operation which is still active, the FBI revealed that in the US alone, 350 arrests were made as part of a wide-ranging investigation into Playpen – a secret website that is being referred to as possibly the biggest child pornography online dump that ever existed.

Europe accounts for the major share of arrests and convictions with 368 suspects being charged. A total of 870 arrests were made in connection with the case, according to Europol.

Over 300 children who had suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Playpen members have been identified or rescued.

Playpen’s founder, Steven W. Chase, 58, was sentenced Monday to 30 years behind bars. The site he set up in August 2014 boasted some 150,000 users worldwide until it was taken down by the FBI following a controversial covert operation.

Through a subsequent operation codenamed Operation Pacifier, the FBI succeeded in tracking down hundreds of the site’s users, sending “more than 1,000 leads” to FBI agents as well as to European authorities.”

July 6, 2017

German authorities dismantle the largest pedophile ring in history involving 87,000 pedophiles.

The American Herald Tribune reports,

“The site, known as ‘Elysium,’ “was used for global exchanges of child pornography by its members and to arrange meetings to sexually abuse children,” prosecutors in the western city of Frankfurt said in a statement.

Its 87,000 members traded images and video files of “the most serious sexual abuse of children, including babies, and representations of sexual violence against children,” the statement continued.”

July 27, 2017

Authorities arrest 3 pedophiles charged with sex trafficking and pimping 8 teenage girls aged 15 to 17 in California, Nevada, and Texas. That same day, authorities also arrested 13 human traffickers in California. Both of these busts were made on the same day that California deputy attorney general Raymond Liddy was prosecuted for possession of child pornography, which we mentioned a few minutes ago.

August 4, 2017

Authorities arrest more than 1,000 pedophiles operating a national sex trafficking ring as part of the National Johns Suppression Initiative involving 37 law enforcement agencies across 17 states. Included in the arrests were a state trooper and a pastor. According to the sheriff who spearheaded the investigation, The National Johns Suppression Initiative has led to the arrests of nearly 8,000 sex buyers since 2011.

September 17, 2017

Authorities arrest another 35 pedophiles associated with the same sex trafficking ring we just mentioned.

September 25, 2017

Authorities arrest 378 pedophiles as part of Project Spade, thereby rescuing nearly 400 children.

According to Symbol of Strength,

“Police seized over 45 terabytes of data from the $4-million business that distributed child porn to over 50 counties including Australia, Spain, Mexico, Sweden and Greece. As a result of the investigation thus far, 50 people were arrested in Ontario, 58 in other parts of Canada, 76 in the United States, and 164 internationally.

What was most alarming was that many of the arrests were of people who worked with or closely interacted with children. Among those arrested were 40 school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, six law enforcement personnel, nine pastors and priests and three foster parents.”

October 12, 2017

Authorities arrest 120 pedophiles and human traffickers as part of Operation Cross Country, rescuing 84 children including one as young as 3 months old.

October 20, 2017

Authorities arrest 277 human traffickers primarily in FL including doctors, pharmacists, and police officers as part of Operation No Tricks, No Treats.

October 21, 2017

Brazilian police arrested 108 pedophiles in the largest sting operation ever carried out in Latin America. Investigators found more than 150,000 files of child porn that had been shared on the dark web. Retired policemen, civil servants, and football coaches were among those arrested.

November 3, 2017

Authorities arrest Howard Rubin, George Soros’ investment funds manager and right hand man, for sex trafficking in his $8 million Manhattan penthouse. Although this is not directly related to pedophilia, I decided to include this in our investigation because it is further evidence that the world’s elite are engaged in vile acts and that there is a crackdown occurring on human trafficking. Bear in mind that George Soros is directly connected to the Clintons.

Please be aware, the following account contains very graphic content. The Daily Mail reports,

“Once in Manhattan, (the victims) say he drugged them then violently beat them while they were gagged and bound in the sex dungeon, hitting woman so hard that she passed out as he demanded she call him ‘daddy’.

Two of them say he warned them: ‘I’m going to rape you like I rape my daughter,’ before attacking them and one says he punched her breast so hard her implant ‘flipped’.

They say he then covered up the alleged rapes and attacks and hushed them by paying them up to $5,000 each. His associates then gave them money to cover medical expenses incurred by the injuries he inflicted on them, they said.

‘Rubin brought the women into this side room (the “Dungeon”) and immediately slapped [one of them] across the face.

‘Not only had the slap been unexpected and hurt, but [she] had recently undergone a cosmetic treatment to her face, known commonly as fillers, and was concerned that Rubin would damage the treatment,’ the lawsuit reads. 

He then allegedly ordered that woman to hit the other. When she refused, he said he hit her too. 

They say he then tied them up, gagged them and said: ‘I’m going to rape you like I rape my daughter.’

He then punched them in the backs of their heads, breasts and rib cages, calling them c**ts and becoming more violent if they screamed, they said.

Rubin then allegedly threw one woman to the ground and ordered her to call him ‘daddy’ while he beat her in the back of the head until she lost consciousness.

‘He continued to punch her, stating that: “Howie is the daddy. The daddy has to beat his baby.’  The woman says he then raped her so violently it caused ‘tears to her vagina’.

In December 2016, he allegedly attacked another of the women with a cattle prod while she visited him by herself. 

He raped her with the prod, then with a dildo and finally raped him herself, she claimed.”

November 21, 2017

Brock Franklin, leader of a human trafficking ring, receives the longest prison sentence ever given for a human trafficking case in U.S. history after he was found guilty for 30 counts of soliciting child prostitution, sexual assault, and kidnapping. His prison sentence was 472 years.

November 23, 2017

Interpol arrested 40 human traffickers thereby saving nearly 500 victims, 236 of whom were children.

January 16, 2018

Police arrest 5 pedophiles in Connecticut as part of Operation Not in My Town in association with Vets4ChildRescue led by Navy SEAL Craig Sawyer. The sting was filmed as part of a documentary that Vets4ChildRescue is producing to spread awareness about child sex trafficking.

February 6, 2018

Police arrest 7 pedophiles belonging to an Australian circus child sex ring who performed blood and sex rituals with at least 3 children under the age of 8. Together, they face 127 charges of kidnapping, abuse, and ongoing torture of minors.

April 6, 2018

The FBI seize Backpage.com, raid the founder’s home, and arrest 7 men related to child trafficking and prostitution charges. Backpage was the nation’s largest child-sex trafficking website, as nearly 3/4 of all the cases submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were traced back to ads posted on the website.

June 6, 2018

Deputies in Central Florida arrest 11 men for child pornography and pedophilia charges and filed 660 felony charges as part of Operation Guardians of Innocence II.

June 7, 2018

The FBI arrest 158 pedophiles and human traffickers as part of Operation Safe Summer, rescuing 149 children including one as young as three.

June 12, 2018

A concerted effort of more than 4,500 law enforcement agencies arrest more than 2,300 child sex offenders as part of Operation Broken Heart.

July 26, 2018

Authorities arrest 38 child sex predators as part of Operation Full Armor. Arrests included a Boy Scouts leader, a high-ranking officer at Fort Jackson, a corrections officer, and a member of a county ethics commission.

August 28, 2018

The father of a transgender politician belonging to the Green Party was arrested for kidnapping and raping a child in his home’s attic.  The man dressed up in adult sized diapers and dresses, called himself ‘Lucy,’ and proceeded to rape, whip, and torture the little girl using electric shocks. Aimee Challenor, the transgender politician, named her father as her campaign agent even after the abuse charges were announced by police. This decision drew a deluge of public derision against her and she eventually withdrew her campaign from the race.

October 3, 2018

Michigan authorities find 123 missing children as part of Operation MISafeKid.

November 1, 2018

German police arrested 8 child predators on pedophilia charges involving a mother who was prostituting her nine year old son to men on the internet who raped the young boy.

January 30, 2019

Police arrested internationally renowned spiritual healer Joao Teixeira de Faria, more commonly known as John of God. Faria stands accused of sexually assaulting over 600 women and operating a baby trafficking farm in Brazil where he held hundreds of women aged 14 to 18 captive and used them to produce babies that were then sold off to childless couples around the world. After 10 years of giving birth, these women were then killed. For the sake of comprehensiveness in our presentation, it is worth mentioning that Faria is connected to the Clintons and Oprah Winfrey who have all vouched for him over the years.

February 21, 2019

Authorities arrest 22 child sex predators in Pierce County, Washington in a multi-agency sting operation.

March 13, 2019

Keith Raniere, founder of the sex cult NXIVM, was charged with two counts of sexual misconduct with minors. NXIVM is a massive story in and of itself which we will not cover in its entirety here.

May 3, 2019

Authorities arrest 82 pedophiles and rescue 17 children in Georgia as part of Operation Southern Impact III.

May 20, 2019

Authorities arrest 13 pedophiles in underage sex trafficking ring in Montgomery County, Florida.

June 24, 2019

Authorities arrest 85 human traffickers in Florida as part of Operation Trade Secrets. Some face additional charges of child pornography.

July 22, 2019

Authorities arrest 25 in child sex trafficking sting in Arizona as part of Operation Summer Shield.

July 22, 2019

Authorities arrest 4 human traffickers in Tennessee.

August 6, 2019

The FBI arrest 67 suspected human traffickers and rescue 103 children as part of Operation Independence Day. The sweep resulted in 60 new federal investigations.

August 19, 2019

Authorities arrest 4 additional human traffickers in Tennessee.

October 16, 2019

Authorizes arrest 337 child porn users including a South Korean “kingpin” after shutting down the world’s largest child porn marketplace on the dark web. The website, called Welcome to Video, contained more than 200,000 unique videos of children, toddlers, and infants. One particular user from Washington, D.C. was found to have downloaded more than 50 years worth of video footage.

October 16, 2019

Authorities in Ontario arrest 31 human traffickers including a central “kingpin” as part of Project Convalesce.

Hacking Group “Anonymous” Takes Down Child Porn Sites and Assists FBI

On October 24, 2011, the international hacking group known only as Anonymous carried out Operation Darknet, taking offline 40 websites that traded in child porn. Additionally, it published the names of 1,500 pedophiles who used the website Lolita City. As a side note, I’d like to point out the strange similarity of the name of this child porn website and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, the Lolita Express.

Then, two years later, the FBI busted a dark net hosting site called Freedom Hosting.

On August 5, 2013, The Verge reported,

“A man in Ireland believed to be behind Freedom Hosting, the biggest service provider for sites on the encrypted Tor network, is awaiting extradition on child pornography charges, reports The Independent. Denied bail until there is a ruling on the extradition request, Eric Eoin Marques has been described by an FBI special agent as “the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet,” and faces up to 30 years in prison if tried in the US.”

On March 13, 2014, a lone wolf hacktivist held the portal domain The Hidden Wiki hostage while demanding that all links to child porn be removed.

On February 3, 2017, Anonymous struck again, this time shutting down 10,613 Tor-accessible websites, or approximately 20% of the dark net, by compromising the servers of Freedom Hosting II, the second iteration of the popular dark net web hosting service. The hackers claimed that half of all the data stored on the servers was child pornography. According to the International Business Times, the hackers stole 75GB of files and 2.6GB of databases.

Mass Arrests of High Profile Individuals

May 19, 2016

Authorities arrest Charles Wade, prominent Black Lives Matter organizer and co-founder of Operation Help or Hush for pimping an underage girl.

May 27, 2017

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration was rocked by a pedophilia scandal of epic proportions. Jacob Schwartz, working for de Blasio at the time as well as the standing president of the Manhattan Young Democrats, was arrested for possession of more than 3,000 child porn images and 89 videos on his hard drive, all of which he downloaded from the internet.

June 5, 2017

A councilman in Lehigh Valley, PA was arrested for sexually molesting a young girl from age 5 to age 12. Before becoming a councilman, he had been a deacon at a Baptist church.

July 27, 2017

It was reported that California deputy attorney general Raymond Liddy (a democrat) was prosecuted for possession of child pornography. He is the son of former FBI agent Gordon Liddy who was a key figure in the Watergate scandal. A deputy attorney general is pretty staggering to imagine, but that pales in comparison to some of the high-ranking politicians we will look at in a few minutes.

September 13, 2017

The Daily Caller reported that at least 11 mayors have been accused of child sex abuse related crimes since 2016.

The list includes:

1. Seattle, WA Mayor Ed Murray, accused of molesting 5 children
2. Stilwater, NY Mayor Rick Nelson, arrested on child porn charges as well as decades of sexual misconduct with teenagers and children as young as 5 including rape and sodomy
3. Clayton, NY Mayor Dale Kenyon, indicted for sexual abusing a teenager repeatedly for 3 years
4. Randolph, NE Mayor Dwayne Schutt, repeatedly abusing a child for 4 years starting when the victim was 13
5. Warren, OH Mayor named Richard Keenan, given a life-sentence after pleading guilty to raping a 4 year old who he claimed was a “willing participant”
6. Stockton, CA Mayor Anthony Silva, arrested for providing alcohol to underprivileged children and then filming them play strip poker in addition to embezzling hundreds of thousands  of dollars from the camp
7. Winston, OR Mayor Kenneth Lewis Barrett, arrested as part of a sex sting when he and 3 other men met with a 14 year old girl for sex
8. Dawson, GA Mayor Christopher Wright, pled guilty to raping a 12 year old girl and forced her to perform oral sex on him but was let off without a prison sentence
9. Rockdale, TX Mayor Darral Gene Walker, indicted for sexual misconduct involving touching a young boy’s genitals which he claimed was for “purely educational reasons, not for sexual gratification.”
10. Millbrook, NY Mayor Donald Briggs, indicted on felony charges in December 2016, in relation to “alleged inappropriate sexual contact with a person younger than 17”

October 25, 2017

Phillip Ahr, the chairman of Radnor Township’s board of commissioners, was arrested on child porn charges after graphic sexual abuse images involving babies and toddlers ages 1 to 6 were allegedly found on his computers. Ahr was charged with child pornography possession and child pornography dissemination, sexual abuse of children, and criminal use of communication facility. Once again, we notice that Phillip Ahr is a democrat.

November 17, 2017

Indianapolis councilman Jeff Miller was charged with 3 counts of child molestation under the age of 14.

February 9, 2018

Former District Court Judge Timothy Nolan pleaded guilty to 21 counts of human trafficking including 19 victims, some of which were minors. He was later indicted on 28 felony counts and two misdemeanor counts and sentenced to 20 years in prison and a $110,000 fine that will mostly be paid to the Human Trafficking Victims Fund in Kentucky.

April 3, 2018

Former attorney Mark Benavides was found guilty on 6 counts of human trafficking and sentenced to 89 years in prison. Police arrested him while he was running for Bexar County District Judge.

May 6, 2018

Micah Rhodes, ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter leader, found guilty of statutory rape.

August 28, 2018

The father of a transgender politician belonging to the Green Party was arrested for kidnapping and raping a child in his home’s attic.  The man dressed up in adult sized diapers and dresses, called himself ‘Lucy,’ and proceeded to rape, whip, and torture the little girl using electric shocks. Aimee Challenor, the transgender politician, named her father as her campaign agent even after the abuse charges were announced by police. This decision drew a deluge of public derision against her and she eventually withdrew her campaign from the race.

July 19, 2019

George Nader, a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian collusion probe, is charged with transporting a 14 year old boy for sex, child pornography, and carrying obscene materials.

July 23, 2019

Authorities arrest former Vice President of Walt Disney Company, Michael Laney, for 4 counts of sexual abuse of a 7 year old girl.

October 10, 2019

Authorities arrest Arizona’s Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen in human trafficking adoption scheme. Petersen was charged with counts of human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.