# Missouri governor and Senate candidate accused of enabling slavery ring **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 4, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955 "2022-09-04T22:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CastletonSnob1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@CastletonSnob1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob1)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/1 "2022-09-04T22:34:28Z")
Eric Garland dropped a MAJOR bombshell on Twitter today, accusing Missouri governor Mike Parson and Senate candidate Eric Schmitt of enabling a child slavery ring. > ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/2 "2022-09-04T22:40:21Z")
Maybe a brief description or something? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/3 "2022-09-04T22:47:26Z")
The twitter link has pages of description, most of it too sickening to repost. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/4 "2022-09-04T22:47:56Z")
_Julio Sandoval tells parents he wants to help their wayward sons get on the right path. He assures them, through the website for his transport business, that he will deliver their children safely to a boarding school. So parents hire Sandoval’s company – Safe Sound Secure Youth Ministries – to remove their so-called “troubled teens” from their homes and transport them to the schools._ _Now, Sandoval, 41, awaits his next court appearance, arrested this week after a federal grand jury indicted him for violating a restraining order — issued at the request of a minor boy against his mother — by transporting him against his will to Agape in southwest Missouri. The jury also indicted the estranged mom of the teen, who was dropped off at Agape last summer after a 27-hour drive from California, the indictment says, his hands cuffed behind his back the entire way._ The article in the OP doesn’t say a thing about the Governor or the Senate candidate. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/5 "2022-09-04T22:49:19Z")
Who the hell is Eric Garland? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/6 "2022-09-04T22:56:12Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The twitter link has pages of description, most of it too sickening to repost. That’s not good. But I’m not clicking a link without a little something to go on. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/7 "2022-09-04T23:04:52Z")
This Eric Garland had better have some solid proof, because that would be a killer libel case against him if he doesn’t. Or maybe he wants them to sue him, so he can bring out some evidence that isn’t enough for a criminal court, but is enough to ruin the careers of those two politicians. > [@bobot](#): > > I’m not clicking a link without a little something to go on. It’s the Kansas City Star (newspaper). ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/8 "2022-09-04T23:22:55Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > It’s the Kansas City Star (newspaper). Which you need a subscription to read. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/9 "2022-09-04T23:24:38Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > Which you need a subscription to read. Here it is reprinted in the Seattle Times, which should let you read one free article per day. > **[‘Literally kidnapping’: Teens taken against their will to boarding schools...](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/literally-kidnapping-teens-taken-against-their-will-to-boarding-schools-across-us/)** > > “For many years, I slept with my bed in front of my door. I slept with a knife under my pillow. I slept in my clothes, ready to run and live on the streets rather than suffer through this again.” ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/10 "2022-09-04T23:28:20Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Who the hell is Eric Garland? 10 to 1 someone will suggest he’s related to the AG. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/11 "2022-09-04T23:37:24Z")
What I what to know is how can the revelation that a governor and a Senate candidate were covering for child sex slavery be _2nd most important thread_ he has ever started? What was more important than that? ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/12 "2022-09-04T23:47:25Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > It’s the Kansas City Star (newspaper). > > Which you need a subscription to read. I didn’t. Just had to disable my ad blocker. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/13 "2022-09-04T23:48:24Z")
Ok, I’m going to hit the pause button on this, because as I read the article (and thanks @Smapti for a version I can view!), it’s horrible, reprehensible behavior that NO caring parent should submit a child to - but it’s not slavery and (probably) not illegal in many jurisdictions. It’s part of the horrific paid ‘home for wayward/troubled teens/tweens’ that like conversion therapy, continues to ooze out of a society where parents want their children to conform with their desires at any cost - certainly at major mental health costs to said children. And depending on the state, the forceful abduction (and I have ZERO problems using that term) of said children, even with parental consent, is immensely troubling and may rise to the bar of kidnapping. But the fly in the soup is said consent: we have long complained that in some ways, we are more accepting of parental abuse of their authority over children than we are over their pets. So, let me be clear, the OP’s title, and the tweet that spawned it seem to border on clickbait, but it’s a sufficiently sickening business that it should be widely spread. (as for the political implications, that’s not covered in the context of the Seattle Times article, but I would not be surprised to see various flavors of conservative politicians endorsing some form of ‘tough love’ options for kids who won’t comply) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/14 "2022-09-04T23:53:03Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Who the hell is Eric Garland? Apparently, a futurist and consultant. [https://www.ericgarland.co/](https://www.ericgarland.co/) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/15 "2022-09-04T23:59:11Z")
I would hope that these kids are able to get counselling when they are adults, and are advised to cut off any and all contact with parents, grandparents or other adults who arranged their kidnapping and incarceration. Relative or not, there is no reason to have any relationship with someone who is that twisted. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-governor-and-senate-candidate-accused-of-enabling-slavery-ring/970955/16 "2022-09-08T21:49:27Z")
Four days later and I see nothing in print about the governor or senate candidate being named in a slavery ring. Now Josh Hawley has been named in the original thread. Either Missouri is a totally corrupt state or the evidence is not quite as up front as Garland released it. All I can find is charges against the schools and the transport agency.