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As the movie "Sound of Freedom" is shown to packed out movie theaters across the U.S. to millions of people sitting in air conditioned theaters eating their popcorn, shaking their heads at the "horror of child sex trafficking" that is portrayed in poor countries like Columbia, tens of thousands of young children are being sexually abused and trafficked right here in our own borders every day, begging for help, with their voices falling on deaf ears. And it is all "legal," because it is being done under the color of law in our nation's child welfare system. One of those cases actually made the corporate news this week, but was obviously drowned out by all the hype behind the Sound of Freedom movie. A jury in New Mexico awarded $485 million to an 8-year-old female victim of Clarence Garcia, a 66-year-old foster parent in New Mexico who sexually abused the girl while she was in his care. As horrible as this crime was, Garcia had been sexually abusing you