Author: Ariana Erickson

By Ariana Erickson — Plying her with p0rn first, Barbi’s uncle SA-ed her barricaded in a room. Barbi (yes, that’s her real name) finally told someone when she was 15. The uncle was arrested and sentenced to jail. Today, Barbi is working with Fight the New Drug to educate people about the dangers of p0rn0gr@phy. We are told it’s just innocent fun when behind the viral world of evil images (from the Greek: porneros = evil, graphe = written down), exploitation abounds more than we admit. “P0rn0gr@phy is happening. It’s all over,” Barbi says. “(My uncle) had a lot of…

By Ariana Erickson — She got in to OnlyFans for the money — to live in a $6,000 a month apartment, to travel to Europe all summer and to have free time. But when Taylor Brazinsky tried to get out of OF, she had to get a lawyer and fight her manager. The trouble: she signed a two-year contract. She argues the contract is for the manager to outsource text response from fans, not to force her to do “sex work,” she says. “I work with like one of the most amazing lawyers ever who’s very called to this mission,”…

By Ariana Erickson – Extremist Muslim militia on the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo killed 89 Christians with machetes and gunshots in recent months, as totaled by the United Nations. In one attack in September, militants of the Allied Democratic Forces attacked a funeral service and unleashed indiscriminate mayhem in the villages of  Ntoyo and Potodu of the North Kivu province. “The ADF arrived in Potodu,” says Pastor Paluku. “They killed Christian farmers who were camped in their farms and those who were returning. It is a night of sadness and desolation for Christians.” Rev. Alili was…

By Ariana Erickson– Don Allison was staring down the barrel of a gun. The man pulled the trigger. The bullet tore through Don’s leg, missing a major artery by inches. He barely survived. “If it nicks that artery, you’d bleed out in about four to five minutes,” Don says. The man holding the gun was Marcus Cheffen, who admits that before that incident, he had never shot nor robbed anybody before. “I could’ve taken that man’s life; it still haunts me,” Marcus says. Caught and convicted within a day, Marcus received a 95-year prison sentence. “I thought I’d never see…

By Ariana Erickson– At the age of 13, Elisha was addicted to cocaine and speed. He sold drugs and was stealing cars. To support his habit, he fell into prostitution by age 16 in the Arab town of Jaffa. “My dad was a pastor. That’s why I tried to do the opposite,” Elisha says. At age 17, Elisha decided he was burned out on jail, vice and crime. Returning to his father’s house, he kneeled and begged for forgiveness. “You need Jesus,” his father said. The precipitous descent into a life of hell started with Elisha’s rebelliousness. Wanting to turn…

By Ariana Erickson – Clarissa’s fiance drove up on his motorcycle just to wave hi. He gave her flowers, sent her surprise gifts to her house and left romantic cards on her windshield. On New Year’s Eve 2012, waiters brought out dessert on a plate with the silver dome covering. When she lifted it, there was a Vera Wang diamond ring. “There was parts of me that felt worthy of that,” Clarissa says. “I felt like ‘God, I’ve honored you with my life, with my body, so this is my reward. But the happily-ever-after life of owning a home and…

By Ariana Erickson – Police officer Brian Zach will never forget the day he met little Kaila at a welfare check in march 2018. The mother and her boyfriend on counts of physical abuse. “But she was still smiling,” Brian said. At the police station in Kingman, AZ, where they waited for Child Services to pick her up, Brian and Kaila watched Wreck It Ralph. “She grabbed my hand and put it in her lap like I was the one who needed to be consoled,” Brian said. “It melted my heart right away.” A few days later, Child Services asked…

By Ariana Erickson – In a month, 111,000 unique IP addresses downloaded, shared or distributed sex abuse and rape images of children under the age of 12 in the U.S. alone*. Meanwhile, the federal government has only seven investigators to pursue these criminals. A bill to beef up the staff to 200 is languishing in congressional committees. “On the other end of the red dots, there’s a boy or girl suffering on the other end,” said Tim Tebow, who after football took on their cause. “They’re not just downloading it. Fifty-five to 85% of them are also hands-on offenders. Your…

By Ariana Erickson – Before joining CIA, Andrew Bustamente trained Air Force skills, fitness and knowledge. At the same time, his buddy, Meredith Jessup, trained him about the Gospel. “I treated Jessup like sh-t, all the time, telling him, ‘Don’t you know you’re stupid? Don’t you know you’re ignorant?’” Andrew recalls. “And for a whole year, he never fought back. He never argued with me. He never did anything except just show patience and forgiveness and love and his own opinion.” Today, Andrew is a born-again Christian. For a guy who was raised not just unreligious but stridently ANTI-religious, the…