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Libertas International Podcast - 32-"Exploit Others? You're Going to Lose your Liberty and We're Going to Take Your *Stuff"- The Healing Power of Justice with Alessandra Serano

32-"Exploit Others? You're Going to Lose your Liberty and We're Going to Take Your *Stuff"- The Healing Power of Justice with Alessandra Serano

04/11/24 • 50 min

Libertas International Podcast

Libertas is honored to be welcoming Alessandra Serano to the Libertas International Podcast!
*Content warning. Contains strong language.
Alessandra Serano rejoined the United States Department of Justice and currently serves as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division for the Eastern District of Virgina where she handles child exploitation cases and cyber related matters.

Ms. Serano was previously employed by the United States Department of Justice in various roles for over 18 years. From 2003-2017, Ms. Serano served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of California where she prosecuted child exploitation and trafficking cases as well as organized crime and gang-related cases involving narcotics, human and sex trafficking. She litigated numerous immigration and border related crimes, firearms offenses, and national security cases. From 2017-19, she worked at Main Justice as the Department of Justice's National Project Safe Childhood Coordinator in Washington D.C. where she served as a subject matter expert on child exploitation, human and sex trafficking involving minors, and other federal child sexual exploitation offenses. Ms. Serano also served as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy where she worked on human trafficking policy for the Department. From 2020-21, Ms. Serano served as the First Assistant United States Attorney and Criminal Chief for the U.S. Attorney’ s Office – District of the Virgin Islands. Ms. Serano received numerous individual awards relating to her work and expertise in human trafficking including the U.S. Attorney General’s Award, the Federal Bar Association’s Hon. Sarah T. Hughes Civil Rights Award, and Women in Federal Law Enforcement’s “Top Prosecutor” Award. She has received several team awards including the Commissioner’s Award from the San Diego County Juvenile Justice Commission, Meritorious Unit Citation from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department for Operation “Stolen Souls,” Investigative Team of the Year Award by the California Narcotic Officers’ Association, and Outstanding Overall Partnership Award by the U.S. Department of Justice. Since 2014, Ms. Serano serves as an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of San Diego where she teaches an upper division class on human trafficking and child exploitation and guest lectures at the California Western School of Law and Georgetown Law. Ms. Serano graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami, School of Law in 1999, and received her B.A. in Political Science/Law & Society from the University of California, Riverside in 1993. She is currently working on her Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Ms. Serano is a licensed real estate broker in California and earned her private pilot's license.

Mr. Serano's work achieved over 150k in restitution for the survivors of Project Bat Bridge.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/former-aisd-teacher-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-paying-for-sex-with-columbian-girls-minor-children-federal-court-austin-isd-us-department-of-justice-attorney-medellin-columbia-round-rock-sadler-means-ywla-garcia-ymla-navarro-echs-indictment
A past case of her's when she was with the Department of Justice
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-1m30child235650-ex-teacher-37-arrested-child-porn--2008dec30-story.html

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Libertas is honored to be welcoming Alessandra Serano to the Libertas International Podcast!
*Content warning. Contains strong language.
Alessandra Serano rejoined the United States Department of Justice and currently serves as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division for the Eastern District of Virgina where she handles child exploitation cases and cyber related matters.

Ms. Serano was previously employed by the United States Department of Justice in various roles for over 18 years. From 2003-2017, Ms. Serano served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of California where she prosecuted child exploitation and trafficking cases as well as organized crime and gang-related cases involving narcotics, human and sex trafficking. She litigated numerous immigration and border related crimes, firearms offenses, and national security cases. From 2017-19, she worked at Main Justice as the Department of Justice's National Project Safe Childhood Coordinator in Washington D.C. where she served as a subject matter expert on child exploitation, human and sex trafficking involving minors, and other federal child sexual exploitation offenses. Ms. Serano also served as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy where she worked on human trafficking policy for the Department. From 2020-21, Ms. Serano served as the First Assistant United States Attorney and Criminal Chief for the U.S. Attorney’ s Office – District of the Virgin Islands. Ms. Serano received numerous individual awards relating to her work and expertise in human trafficking including the U.S. Attorney General’s Award, the Federal Bar Association’s Hon. Sarah T. Hughes Civil Rights Award, and Women in Federal Law Enforcement’s “Top Prosecutor” Award. She has received several team awards including the Commissioner’s Award from the San Diego County Juvenile Justice Commission, Meritorious Unit Citation from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department for Operation “Stolen Souls,” Investigative Team of the Year Award by the California Narcotic Officers’ Association, and Outstanding Overall Partnership Award by the U.S. Department of Justice. Since 2014, Ms. Serano serves as an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of San Diego where she teaches an upper division class on human trafficking and child exploitation and guest lectures at the California Western School of Law and Georgetown Law. Ms. Serano graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami, School of Law in 1999, and received her B.A. in Political Science/Law & Society from the University of California, Riverside in 1993. She is currently working on her Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Ms. Serano is a licensed real estate broker in California and earned her private pilot's license.

Mr. Serano's work achieved over 150k in restitution for the survivors of Project Bat Bridge.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/former-aisd-teacher-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-paying-for-sex-with-columbian-girls-minor-children-federal-court-austin-isd-us-department-of-justice-attorney-medellin-columbia-round-rock-sadler-means-ywla-garcia-ymla-navarro-echs-indictment
A past case of her's when she was with the Department of Justice
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-1m30child235650-ex-teacher-37-arrested-child-porn--2008dec30-story.html

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Welcome back to the Libertas International Podcast!
Today, Tyler talks about one of his personal heroes and the most famous ring in Guatemala. A ring that represents not only education and empowerment but also represents a date where all of that as well as her freedom was made possible.
This wonderful survivor is named Desi. She was featured in an earlier podcast and is part of the survivor leadership counsel at Libertas International 2024. And today, you will hear a version of that story in English similar to what she shared in Spanish episodes earlier.
She is the "ring bearer" and we love her for it!
For more information on Libertas International visit the following links.
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33-"I Hope God Forgives You Because I Won't." Project Eternal Spring and the Story of Victor Galarza and Herbert Fletcher

In this episode, Tyler shares the case that started it all.
Victor Galarza and Herbert Fletcher were the two men that brought Libertas International to Colombia after they were traveling to Medellin to abuse young girls and upload the abuse to Pornhub. At current count, Project Eternal Spring has resulted the recovery of 9 survivors of human trafficking and numerous lawsuits vs. Mindgeek.
And they are still coming. At least once a year, a survivor will listen to a radio interview or read a news article about Libertas International and reach out for help after having been exploited by Galarza, Fletcher, and their friends.
The following are news articles about the crimes committed by Victor Galarza and Herbert Fletcher. Most of them are in Spanish.
https://www.alertapaisa.com/noticias/valle-de-aburra/medellin-recibe-los-peores-americanos-vestidos-de-turistas-organizacion
https://www.elcolombiano.com/medellin/condenado-herbert-fletcher-por-explotacion-sexual-de-menores-de-edad-en-medellin-BF21718922
https://www.wradio.com.co/2022/06/07/no-es-justo-que-pedofilos-viajen-a-colombia-a-abusar-gente-tyler-schwab-de-our/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html?searchResultPosition=1

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