Tim Ballard, the real-life inspiration for the controversial film Sound of Freedom, was reportedly investigated for sexual misconduct while leading anti-sex trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad, and producer Paul Hutchinson reportedly felt the breasts of an underage sex trafficking victim, according to Vice.
Ballard, the founder and former CEO of Operation Underground Railroad, reportedly resigned from the organization soon after an independent law firm investigated claims made by seven women (OUR declined to comment on the outcome of the investigation to Vice).
Sources close to OUR told Vice Ballard would encourage women to act as his wife on undercover rescue missions, urging them to share a bed and shower with him in order to fool traffickers.
The sources told Vice Ballard sent a picture in his underwear to at least one woman and asked another “how far she was willing to go” to save children from traffickers.
Ballard denied the allegations in a statement, calling them “baseless inventions designed to destroy me,” and maintained that sexual contact was forbidden on sex trafficking missions.
Hutchinson, an executive producer and investor for Sound of Freedom and anti-trafficking activist, allegedly touched the naked breasts of a girl who was believed to be 16 years old during a 2016 undercover mission in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, according to another Vice report.
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