KGTV’s Kimberly Hunt goes undercover to expose the world of child sex trafficking on the streets of San Diego.

Charles Bonner and Glenn Morshower

 5 reasons you must buy The Bracelet novel: 

3. The Bracelet Novel can guide parents how to instruct your child how to survive if they become a victim of Child Sex Slavery.

4. The Bracelet Novel can guide parents how to teach your child how a Child Sex Slavery Predator thinks.

5. The Bracelet Novel can guide parents how to teach your child how to heal after a horrifying life and altering experience.

Glenn Morshower
started his acting career in 1975 with the leading role in the feature film Drive-In. He has been working consistently in television and film since that time. Selected television credits include The Dukes of Hazzard; Matlock; Full House; Quantum Leap; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Dark Skies; JAG; Arli$$; Bones; The West Wing; Alias; ER; Monk; and 24, where his character (Agent Aaron Pierce) is the only one to appear in all seven seasons of the highly acclaimed series.
Selected film credits include Tango & Cash; Under Siege; Star Trek: Generations; Air Force One; Pearl Harbor; The River Wild; Black Hawk Down; The Core; Hostage; Good Night and Good Luck; and Transformers.

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Famed Crusading Human Rights Lawyer Charles A. Bonner Pens a Novel Approach to Child Sex Trafficking: The Bracelet 
 
 

The lines between fiction and nonfiction are blurring and giving rise to a new form that might best be called “true fiction”.  

So it is with Charles A. Bonner’s groundbreaking new novel The Bracelet that is presented as fiction but is based on literally thousands of cases, some he litigated as a Civil Rights Trial Attorney, many dealing with child prostitution and child safety issues. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience art?  Bonner does several things at once. Taking his cue from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Bonner dons a memoirist’s hat as he interweaves his own experiences as a lawyer fighting to expose serial sexual predators. And as a facile prose stylist, he vividly convey the sights, sounds, and smells that their victims encountered living in the ghastly chamber of horrors, the windowless, underground room, the dirty foam bed, the grate with a metal chain, the bucket for a toilet. The daily beatings, rape, humiliation of the young women who tell the same horror story of being dragged off the street into a dungeon losing all contact with the outside world. With Bonner’s deft, artful writing, we meet multi-millionaire Karl Burmel (John Jamelske in reality) a collector of women – a serial rapist who scooped up runaway girls and other vulnerable women off the street and stashed them, one by one, in his windowless, concrete cocoon until he finally released them, blindfolded or in the dead of night, after months or years of captivity. This is true fiction, freed from rigid constraints, the boredom of statistics.  What remains is an unforgettable tale that demands attention.  

Bonner is not one of God’s easiest creatures, but he surely is one of the best.

There are adjectives that come to mind when describing famed African-American lawyer Charles A Bonner, who for thirty years has set the standard for prosecutorial skill in America. Some are intrepid, brave, independent, brilliant, driven, indomitable, respected, focused, relentless and confident. Each fits perfectly well. But after reading The Bracelet one is compelled to add two more adjectives to that already formidable list: principled and enraged.  Beyond all other characterizations one may ascribe to Bonner, the principal descriptors today for this inherently honorable man that is he is committed to protecting the world’s children. 

Of course, there’s another descriptor that has long been associated with Bonner That descriptor is justice, to which he has devoted his life. Yet not until now – until this searing new chiller of a thriller about child sexploitation, has justice assumed an even greater role.  Justice has morphed from a noun to a verb – enacted by Bonner with a vengeance – fueled not only by his intense love of justice, his profound knowledge of law, but his unparalleled ability to dispense it. Charles A Bonner is a man of action. While others speak of justice, Bonner creates the ways to achieve it – and he has done so in this book casting a sharp eye over the political and cultural landscape as he takes a literary scalpel and a shotgun to the guilty parties.

The fact is, Bonner is as decent a man as you’ll ever meet. He’s written the book that others were too afraid, too inexperienced and too unskilled to write. America’s good fortune is that there is no one better than Bonner to write the case to end all cases of child slavery.

The book’s action begins when Macie, a bored young African American teenager is tricked into sexual servitude by a perverted old predator that chains her into submission. Karl Burmel apparently was a master of manipulation and cunning. After liberation, Macie went undercover to discover the other children imprisoned by her depraved jailer.   It is horrifying to see up close the psychic damage to the young victims.  A number had become alcoholics, some developed suicidal tendencies and post-traumatic stress.  What is truly alarming is how closely their stories resemble one another, according to their ages when they were abused. Secrecy and shame are first cousins.

But Macie was determined to survive and thrive and not to let Burmel win.  Survival with vengeance. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sail.” After winning a legal victory through Adam Conner (Bonner) she discovers four other girls who were also enslaved by Burmel.  With the proceeds from his estate, the girls  bravely  band together to become counter traffickers.  Determined to rescue the victims of the global sex trade, they find the source players who profit from the billion dollar business of human sex merchandising. They infiltrate brothels in Thailand, Japan, Brazil, Ukraine and Israel. They hold first-hand interviews with victims, their pimps, and their abusers. They map the trafficking routes of the sex tourism industry, and chart the commerce fueled by the purchase and sale of minors—discovering that virtually the entire globe is involved and affected by this maliciously evil growing industry.

Brought to light are the established mafias that dominate the trade. The big players in Europe today are Russians, Albanians, and Ukrainians (and recently, in Italy, Nigerians). In southeastern Europe, Turkish, Kurdish, Serbian, Greek, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Romanian networks move Eastern European women into Western Europe and the Middle East. Many of these groups simply added human trafficking to existing crime portfolios, often running women alongside traditional contraband, like drugs and arms.

Even those in the group at highest risk—poor young women—tend to see trafficking as something that may happen to someone else, but not to them. In surveys, most victims say that they don’t know anyone who’s been trafficked. That may be partly because women often conceal this experience, even from their own families. Add desperate poverty and an unhappy household—the standard “push factors”—and the pipeline of likely trafficking victims neve runs dry.

By gracefully weaving in interviews with madams and other sexual gatekeepers   — and sometimes even the pimps or johns themselves —Bonner constructs an insightful, resonant, and nuanced narrative that details just how complex and massive this problem.

Why do we treat children as victims in cases of sexual abuse, but as soon as money is exchanged, we deem these sexually abused children as “criminals?” Why is there such an overwhelming demand for sex with a child? Are we adequately teaching our children sexual respect? Why are men obsessed with power, property, and world domination of women? The problem is monumental:                                                               

Bonner makes compellingly clear that if we’re not seeing the problem, it’s only because we’re not looking. But Bonner’s book charts a clear path:  

      . The secret ancient power of the divine feminine

      . The key to the gender code

      . The debt men owe to women

      . Who profits from the $10-billion-a-year business of sex slavery 

A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to the Bracelet Charitable Foundation Freedom Fund to empower victims of all forms of slavery.

Verily Publishing Company, 261 pages, $9.99  

Verily Publishing, 105 Buchanan Drive, Sausalito, CA 94965 USA

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Proverbs 8

 ¹Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

 ²She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

 ³She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

 ⁴Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

 ⁵O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

 ⁶Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

 ⁷For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

 ⁸All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

⁹They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

 ¹⁰Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

 ¹¹For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

 ¹²I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

 ¹³The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

 ¹⁴Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

 ¹⁵By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

 ¹⁶By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

 ¹⁷I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

 ¹⁸Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

 ¹⁹My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

 ²⁰I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

 ²¹That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

 ²²The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

 ²³I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

 ²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

 ²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

 ²⁶While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

 ²⁷When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

 ²⁸When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

 ²⁹When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

 ³⁰Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

 ³¹Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

 ³²Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

 ³³Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

 ³⁴Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

 ³⁵For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

 ³⁶But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.