An Author's Horror Story

So I decided to experiment. Using all the trusty writer's resources I could dig up, and concentrating in the genre of my scribbles. I contacted more than 86 literary agents. Some didn't respond, a few were not currently looking at the specific genre I submitted, and a couple found my work compelling and provided positive feedback. Then there were the other agents. The ones that told me a first novel at sixty years of age would not net a contract with anyone. For them to invest there time and money, there had to be greater longevity. There were those agents who questioned how I might manage the circuit of conferences in the lower forty-eight states, to be a viable asset. Well, I'm Alaskan. And I'm sixty. And I have authored "Due Process," and "Lawless Measures." I will continue to write because that is what I do, regardless of New York agents opinions. I don't write for them, I write for people who want to read crime novels.  

PUBLISHING PLANS 2014

Our publishing plans for 2014 will see "Lawless Measures" go to print. This is the sequel to "Due Process" and will set in motion the development of the Palatini Series. The third novel is being written now. "Due Process" dealt with child sexual assault and child pornography. "Lawless Measures" took on the Toronto Mob and the illegal immigration racket (human trafficking). The third novel will again take on real problems in society with real solutions.

I am a crime fiction writer/author.    

SILENCE

HUMAN TRAFFICKING SECOND LARGEST CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN THE U.S.

By 2012, human trafficking had become the second fastest growing criminal activity in the United States, following drug trafficking.” 

In my novel "Due Process " My vigilante took a REAL scenario (child pornography and sexual abuse of minors) and worked justice out appropriately. 

The sequel, "Lawless Measures" is complete and being prepared for publication. Again, Walter is on the prowl! He opposes organized crime who are engaged in human trafficking and child exploitation. They are REAL scenario's, but Walter knows how to deal with the problem, and he doesn't dial 9-1-1. 

http://bismarcktribune.com/news/columnists/human-trafficking-to-get-legislature-s-attention/article_e8e16732-8f77-11e3-879b-0019bb2963f4.html

Pedophile beware!

Armed vigilantes surround Mexican city

Armed vigilante groups who have risen up to combat the vicious Knights Templar drug cartel in the Mexican state of Michoacan had surrounded the city of Apatzingan, a main cartel stronghold, Monday and were threatening to invade the city.  http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2022664135_mexicovigilantesxml.html

The simple village people of the region are tired of beheading's, whole families murdered and wiped out, and the drug cartels kidnapping and raping their children, so they took up arms and said we'll defend ourselves. Now, that the drug cartels that bring in tons of money to a depressed Mexican economy, has decided to step in and intervene in the violence. Could it be, the writing was on the wall for the cartel and the government was stepping in to save their asses from the vigilantes. Vigilantes did not cause the problem, they simply said enough is enough, and responded the only way the cartels will understand. 

Robert David Wright, 35, of the 10000 block of Hillgreen Circle in Cockeysville, was found to have “downloaded to his home computer thousands of pornographic images of female babies, toddlers, and prepubescent girls, including images of children being raped,” Baltimore County Police said.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/cockeysville/ph-tt-child-porn-arrest,0,2390589.story#ixzz2qOoXprMR

Man arrested just 40 miles from Youngstown for human trafficking

Man arrested just 40 miles from Youngstown for human trafficking

"Due Process" Walter Eloy Goe at work.

Available in softback and all digital formats. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Publication Consultants, and www.lyle-oconnor.com

Sacred Beginnings

http://www.sbtp.org/

Sacred Beginnings is a support center in Michigan who, since 2005, have help over 400 trafficked children. Check them out, it's an amazing story.

A Truism

 

It's the type of story that warms the cockles of your heart. Drunk peeping tom neighbor and a mad dad protecting his little girl. Walter wonders why they called the cops...must have been witnesses or this handsome fella would have been alligator bate (and Walter don't eat no gator's)!

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/455124/clifford-davis/2012-10-16/jacksonville-father-catches-peeping-tom-police-say

Notable Quote on Human Trafficking:

"There’s more slaves today, 27 million, than ever existed during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. This is a huge problem.” Timothy Ballard, Operation Underground Railroad (January 2014)

Through The Eyes Of Walter

National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month (not some other country—but America (Land of the free . . . You know the jingle)

Campaign cracks down on Oakland child-sex trafficking

By Lee Romney

January 9, 2014, 3:52 p.m.

OAKLAND -- This city is a national hub for the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

But the plague of underage girls -- and to a lesser extent, boys -- who are prostituted by often violent pimps has now received a big boost in visibility.

And Alameda County prosecutors, along with leaders of a nonprofit that helps exploited youth rebuild their lives, hope that bringing the problem into the light will increase arrests while sending a signal to the victimized that there is a way out.

On Thursday, Alameda County Dist. Atty. Nancy E. O'Malley and MISSSEY Executive Director Nola Brantley announced that they have teamed with Clear Channel Outdoor to launch an educational campaign at ProtectOaklandKids.org, and to plaster the city with billboards, posters and bus shelters underscoring the problem.

The campaign -- the creative work and outdoor ad space is all being donated -- aims to educate the public that underage girls who are selling sex are not prostitutes, but victims of sexual exploitation who are being sold by others.

"Buying a teen for sex is child abuse. Turning a blind eye is neglect," reads one billboard that shows two teddy bears askew on a made bed.

Viewing teen girls who sell sex as criminals rather than victims "allows communities to ignore them as invisible," said O'Malley, whose Human Exploitation & Trafficking Unit has since 2006 prosecuted nearly half of the state's child-sex trafficking cases.

(Of 325 cases filed, 278 have been resolved, with an 82% conviction rate, she said.)

"My message is clear: If you see something, community, say something. And to those who are trafficking -- buying and selling -- my office will prosecute you to the full extent of the law."

The posters, bus bench messages and massive billboards are being strategically placed to also send a message to those still embroiled in what some consider modern slavery.

"I depended on my pimp for everything and had nothing," states another billboard, quoting a survivor named Darlene who left "the life" four years ago. "Now I have my own apartment, car and money. ... I got out. U can 2."

The FBI has designated the San Francisco Bay Area as a "high-intensity child prostitution area," and by many accounts, Oakland is the epicenter.

To blame, Brantley said, are the phenomena of multi-generational abuse, particularly sexual abuse; ingrained poverty; and an absence of caring stable adults in the lives of youth recruited into the trade. 

MISSSEY, which stands for Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth, currently serves about 250 clients a year and has filled each new program it has launched since 2007 to capacity, Brantley said. 

High-crime cities that direct the bulk of enforcement to homicides are more likely to have vibrant markets for child prostitution, Brantley said. Both she and O'Malley, however, credited the Oakland Police Department for joining in the push to treat the youth as victims, while cracking down on pimps and johns.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oakland-child-sex-trafficking-20140109,0,6254651.story#ixzz2q4n1JfLZ