Veterans For Child Rescue (V4CR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in April 2017 by Craig "Sawman" Sawyer, a veteran Navy SEAL and U.S. Marine. The team is made up of military professionals, former and current law enforcement, senior intelligence-community veterans, survivors and volunteers. To date V4CR has supported more than 53 arrests with a 100 percent conviction rate.
Assets
- Logos, images and video: a shared cloud folder. If you have trouble accessing it, contact us.
- More resources and links: a working document with background and references.
- Operations and outcomes, ways to give and media and interviews on this site.
Contraland
V4CR's free documentary on trafficking in the United States, produced by Craig Sawyer. Full film, abridged cuts and subtitled versions at contralandmovie.com and on the Contraland page.
Radio show: Defending Our Children
Founder Craig "Sawman" Sawyer, executive director Forrest Sealey and special guests discuss prevention, education, the justice system, politics and government, and what V4CR is doing to end trafficking. About the show.
Social media
- Instagram: @VeteransForChildRescue
- Facebook: @Vets4ChildRescue
- YouTube: Veterans For Child Rescue
- LinkedIn: Veterans For Child Rescue
- TikTok: @VeteransForChildRescue and @ChildRescue
- X: @V4CR_official
Main hashtags: #VeteransForChildRescue, #V4CR, #AwarenessMatters.
Recognition and recent features

- 2023 recap: counter-trafficking operations, investigations, media and newsA year-in-review video of V4CR's operations, investigations and media presence.
- Craig Sawyer on The Hagmann Report: the truth about trafficking in the USACraig's special-operations and federal-investigator background and why it suits this mission.
- Coffee with Kim Crabill: exposing trafficking in the USAThe mission, the team and what it takes to end trafficking.
- Is the Sound of Freedom movie a conspiracy theory? Craig Sawyer on TRTTrafficking in the USA is not a theory.
- Fox & Friends: trafficking in the USA awarenessWhat trafficking is and is not.
- Real America with Dan Ball on OANNFewer than one percent of trafficking victims are ever rescued; most are never reported.
