Human Smuggling, Sale of A Child, Communications Fraud, Adoption Scheme: Republican Begins Sentence
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'Republican facing multiple convictions for human trafficking and fraud begins sentence.' Daily Kos, Jan. 25, 2021
In October of 2019, former elected county assessor for Maricopa County Paul Petersen was charged by Utah’s attorney general with 11 felonies. Those felonies included “human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud.”
The charges stemmed from what prosecutors said was an illegal “adoption scheme” where Petersen recruited and transported at least 40 pregnant women from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to Utah, where they birthed and then gave up their babies. Petersen cut a plea deal in Arizona and was sentenced to 74 months in prison.
On Jan. 21, Petersen began his sentence at a federal prison near El Paso, Texas. Petersen is still facing sentencing for fraud convictions in Arizona and the human trafficking convictions in Utah. The Associated Press reports that Petersen is appealing the sentencing in the Arizona case after the judge gave him two years more than the guidelines recommend.
Petersen was able to cut a deal allowing him to plead guilty to “Alien Smuggling For Financial Gain,” a way of saying he’s a straight-up monster and that Arizona is racist. According to CNN, Petersen is also on the hook for $105,100 in fines and court costs and will submit to three years of supervised release after his time in federal prison. The Utah conviction was a deal with Petersen pleading guilty to “three counts of human smuggling and one count of communications fraud.”
QAnon are still running around looking for human traffickers at pizza shops. -
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/25/2011765/-Republican-facing-multiple-convictions-for-human-trafficking-and-fraud-begins-sentence
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- Child harvesting or Baby harvesting refers to the systematic sale of human children, typically for adoption by families in the developed world, but sometimes for other purposes, including trafficking. The term covers a wide variety of situations and degrees of economic, social, and physical coercion. Child harvesting programs or the locations at which they take place are sometimes referred to as baby factories or baby farms...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_harvesting
- Baby farming is the historical practice of accepting custody of an infant or child in exchange for payment in late-Victorian Era Britain and, less commonly, in Australia and the United States. If the infant was young, this usually included wet-nursing (breast-feeding by a woman not the mother). Some baby farmers "adopted" children for lump-sum payments, while others cared for infants for periodic payments...(the crime is worldwide) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_farming
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- 'Life on the Baby Farm, Killing kids for cash,' Psychology Today, 2013,
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201305/life-the-baby-farm
- 'Sparrows' is a 1926 American silent film about a young woman who rescues a baby from kidnappers. The film, which was originally titled Scraps, starred and was produced by Mary Pickford, who was the most powerful woman in Hollywood at the time...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrows_(1926_film)
- The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating about 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, abused, or homeless children...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train
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Paul Petersen: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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4. Petersen Is a Member of the Mormon Church & Served as a Missionary in the Marshall Islands For Two Years
Paul Petersen is familiar with the Republic of the Marshall Islands because he lived there for two years. Petersen claimed on his bio with the Arizona Bar that he was the “only attorney involved with the Marshallese community in the United States who is fluent in the Marshallese language… Paul lived in the Marshall Islands for two years, and therefore is familiar with their language, customs, and unique cultural perspective on adoption.” Petersen’s Facebook page states that he previously lived in the capital city of Majuro.
Petersen is a practicing Mormon. The Arizona Republic cited court documents that stated that Petersen was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During his two years in the Marshall Islands, he served as a missionary for the church.
Many of the American parents who adopted Marshallese children are also members of the Mormon church, according to the Phoenix New Times.
Paul Petersen wrote on his bio for the Maricopa County Assessor website that he is a “fifth-generation Arizonan” and a “lifelong resident of Mesa, Arizona.” He is married with four young children. The Washington Post reported that Petersen is a member of the Arizona Republican Party.
More:
https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/paul-petersen/