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All profits from book sales go to help children.

Give without giving

Christmas is coming. The goose is getting fat. Please put someone else’s penny in Freedom13’s account.

Sign up for Amazon Smile and they will give Freedom13 .5% of each of your purchases. Click here to read how to sign up and use Smile. Be sure to pick the Freedom13 in Kingston, WA.

 And...Fred Meyer will donate to Freedom13 every time you use your rewards card if you sign in to Community Rewards and specify Freedom13 (Kingston WA). Click here to learn how.

Thanks for your support.

Scholarship Orientations

Sandy gave orientations for the Freedom13/Our Gems Scholarship Competition at several schools this week. We loved meeting all the girls.

Safety Tips for Back to School

Missing and Exploited Children has some great tips to get kids to and from school safely. Click here for the tips.

Ask Amazon to stop selling How-to-Pimp books

Trending petition There's a new petition taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it. Petitioning #PimpsEnslave Amazon, please stop selling sex trafficking how-to books Petition by #PimpsEnslave 1,426 Supporters Sign the petition

National Night Out

Aug 2nd, 5-8 pm Freedom13 has a booth at the National Night Out at the Silverdale YMCA to give out fingerprint kits and Be Safe coloring books.

Invite your friends and be sure to stop by and say hi.

Support Freedom13, Free to You

Fred Meyer Community Rewards:

Re-enroll for this year or sign up and link your rewards card to Freedom13 and Fred Meyer will send us a check each quarter based on how much you spend at Freddies, at their expense. You keep all your rewards, but have to re-enroll each year, like now. Click.

https://www.fredmeyer.com/#/login?redirectUrl=%2Faccount%2Fcommunityrewards%2Fenroll

smile.amazon.com

When you shop using smile.amazon.com they will give Freedom13 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases, free to you. Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ and sign-in using you regular Amazon username and password. Pick Freedom13 from the charities list (be sure it’s the one in Kingston) and you are good to go. Just remember to shop using smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com, prices are the same.

Thanks for all your support!

Former school volunteer guilty in child rape case

PORT ORCHARD — After deliberating for about a half-day Monday, a jury found a former Bremerton School District volunteer guilty of sexually assaulting five girls.

Stephen Jabs, 53, shook his head as Kitsap Superior Court Judge Kevin Hull read the lengthy verdict forms. Jabs was convicted of 10 felonies: five counts of first-degree rape of a child and five counts of first-degree child molestation. (Kitsap Sun, July 18,2016)

Homeschool Convention

Sandy discusses apple products at Washington Homeschool Convention.

We handed out hundreds of tools at our booth to help keep children safe.

About 850 Trucks Converged on Salem OR Memorial Weekend

We handed out about 900 key chains with the number to call printed on them to report sex trafficking activity. We asked truckers to keep an eye out for trafficking and be watchers on our roads. We 're happy to report there's now a team of trucker volunteers watching and reporting!   

Many thanks to friends Pat and Mike who helped with key chains as well as passing out tools for families to help keep children safe. They gave up their Memorial weekend to help. You're the best!

Sandy liked the model trucks. This one was used in wind tunnel testing.

The Abolitionists movie-Poulsbo May 16th

An excellent movie on modern day abolitionists and how they rescue victims of sex slavery.

May 16th, 7:30 pm,
Poulsbo Regal Cinema.

WOW!

Great News - Deadline Extended for the Kitsap Great Give!

First, we would like to thank everyone who has donated to Freedom13, you’re the best and we appreciate your support!

It’s not too late to donate and have your donation eligible for matching funds. Because the website that accepted donations for the Kitsap Great Give crashed,  they extended the deadline to May 4^th at 9 pm. If you have problems with the website as an alternative you can make donations directly to Freedom13.org with the button to the right. The Great Give has assured us those donations will be eligible for matching funds. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Gene & Sandy

Great Give Website Crashed—Alternative

The website that accepts donations for the Kitsap Great Give has crashed and it is not clear when it will be operational. You can make donations directly using the button to the right as an alternative. The Great Give has assured us those donations will be eligible for matching funds. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Gene & Sandy

TODAY’S THE DAY, THE KITSAP GREAT GIVE

Freedom13 would like to setup a college scholarship fund for a student who is interested in stopping minor sex trafficking. With your help today, your donation and funds from the Kitsap Great Give we could make the scholarship a reality. Please join us today and give, it makes a heart happy!

Click on www.kitsapgreatgive.org and select Freedom13.org.

Thanks,

Gene & Sandy

Two Days to the Kitsap Great Give

May 3^rd is your chance to give to a donation to the nonprofit of your choice, hopefully Freedom13. No amount is too small because we will receive matching funds to increase your gift. Watch your inbox on May 3^rd for details. Let’s join together to end sex trafficking of minors.

No child trafficked, ever!

Gene & Sandy Hill

Kitsap Great Give--Save the Date

Mark the date on your calendar, May 3^rd. That’s the Kitsap Great Give as part of the National Day of Giving. You can donate by credit card online that day to Freedom13 and your other favorite non-profits. Increasing your donation will be funds added from a pool of sponsors. So give until your heart feels good. We will give details later.

Central Kitsap Firefighter Caught in Sting

‘LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- When Kevin Best (Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue) showed up in Lynnwood on Saturday detectives said he believed he was meeting a woman and 12-year-old girl for sex.

Six men, including Best, were arrested during the four-day undercover operation in Snohomish County that involved child rape and commercial sexual exploitation of minors.

Detectives said Best told them during the conversations that he had sex with other children in the past- including some he even drugged.

"You're being proactive. You're getting people who are not on the radar," said (Sgt.) Rodriguez. "These are people that are not (registered) sex offenders, nobody knows about-- these are the ones that I think are more dangerous."

Best, who has been with Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue since April 2004 is now on administrative leave. He's being held on a $500,000 bail.’ (KomoNews, February 22, 2016)

Do parents sell their children?

We have been asked if parents actually sell their children. Here is the answer:

‘EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A 35-year-old woman in Washington state has been found guilty of more than a dozen sex crimes involving her 6-year-old daughter.

The Herald reports that prosecutors say the Marysville woman and her husband solicited customers through Craigslist to sexually assault the girl. Detectives say they found a video of the girl being abused by a man while her mother watched.’ (Q13Fox.com, Feb 4, 2016)

Alert: Freedom13 advises removal of “Kik” App from phones

“Sexual predator warns parents about ‘kik’ app.

To demonstrate his concerns, the sex offender showed Target 8 the Role Play function inside of the kik app on a Target 8 phone. That function allows users to change their personal information and select the age range of those they want to contact.

Within minutes of creating a profile and without contacting anyone, two people — purportedly teenage girls — reached out to chat.’ (WoodTV.com, Feb 2, 2015)

All profits from Sandy's latest book go to stop sex trafficking.

January 4^th was the official release date of Leyni’s God Adventure. Sandy’s new book encourages children that they can make a difference in this world, at any age.  The book is available from www.SandyHill-writer.com, Tate Bookstore, Amazon.com and other booksellers. All profits from all her books are donated to stop sex trafficking.