Incredible story of American supercop who's rescued more than THREE THOUSAND ... trends now
A Wyoming man has made it his life's mission to help rescue girls in Colombia who have fallen victim to sex trafficking.
Tyler Schwab was first introduced to sex trafficking while on a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dominican Republic.
He started to notice a lot of young girls with older men but didn't think much of it until he took a human trafficking seminar at Utah State University.
'It was an injustice I couldn't ignore,' Schwab told Cowboy State Daily.
In 2014 he started the non-profit Libertas International, which has gone on to save more than 3,000 girls from tourist pedophiles in Colombia.
In 2014 Tyler Schwab launched the non-profit Libertas International, which has gone on to save more than 3,000 girls from tourist pedophiles in Colombia
'There were kids, especially young girls reporting that they had been abused by American tourists,' Schwab said. (pictured: him hugging a young girl that he helped save)
'Colombia is a very beautiful country for tourists, but over the span of time, we've had an influx of sex tourism, especially after the pandemic,' Schwab said.
'There were kids, especially young girls reporting that they had been abused by American tourists.'
Maj. Johan Aldana from the Colombian National Police, told Cowboy State Daily that sex tourism has been on the rise in cities like Medellin, Cali, Cartagena and the county's capital, Bogotá.
In 2023, there were 1,259 possible sexual exploitation cases of minors in Bogotá, Colombia, 60 percent higher than the previous year, the Associated Press reported.
Around 1.4million tourists visited the country last year as crime and violence has dropped down following the leadership of the notorious Pablo Escobar.
Many of those tourists were Americans, and though Escobar has been dead for more than three decades, the prostitution culture that he normalized has lingered in the country.
In January, a 19-month-old girl was rescued by Schwab and his team after former NYPD officer, Agmad Beharry, 46, sexually exploited her.
The little girl is the youngest survivor that the non-profit has saved.
'We are committed to supporting this survivor as she grows, learns to speak, etc,' Libertas International said in a Facebook post.
Beharry was also charged, along with his accomplice, Gisainet Cristina Chirinos Viloria, with sexually exploiting photographs of a nine-year-old girl, the US Attorney's Office said.
Following his arrest, Beharry, who was assigned to the NYPD's terrorism unit, was suspended without pay and was charged in the US attorney’s office in Manhattan with one count of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of possession of child pornography.
On April 3, Federico Gutiérrez, the Mayor of Medellín, implemented a temporary prostitution ban after an American man was found with two Colombian teens, ages 12 and 13.
The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has also been involved in trying to decrease prostitution in the country.
In January, a 19-month-old girl was rescued by Schwab and his team after former NYPD officer, Agmad Beharry, 46, sexually exploited her
Following his arrest, Beharry, who was assigned to the NYPD's terrorism unit, was suspended without pay and was charged in the US attorney’s office in
