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JENNY,
PART 2
‘Prostitution literally
ate me from the
inside out’

STORY BY KATHERINE LYMN FORUM NEWS SERVICE

PHOTO BY BENJAMIN EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY

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n 8-year-old girl sits in the sixth
row of the ornate theater, sharing
INSIDE spirits, just as she was, unable to perform
simple tasks without energy and enthusiasm
popcorn and soda with her mom, WHAT’S NEXT? lent by others.
Jenny Gaines, behind her. North Dakota poised And when the women waver, wondering what
Behind Jenny sits her mother, and as the to consider new law they’re missing out on those streets, Jenny
lights dim, the three generations settle in on human trafficking
and additional law
helps them stay on track. Because she knows. I’ve been with the
for the show: a documentary produced by “We got your high-end strippers, your drug-
Breaking Free, a Twin Cities organization enforcement,
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addicted street walkers. We got your best of the best, the
that helps women trying to leave
prostitution.
homeless people who maybe just did it once
for a place to stay. I can relate to every single one of worst of the worst.
As the film begins, Jenny whispers with her friends,
other women who work at Breaking Free, as they see
these women, you know,” she said. “ ’Cause I did it all.”
“I’ve been on Lake Street, I’ve tried to commit There’s not one
faces they recognize.
Just a couple minutes in, a friend points at the
suicide five times, I’ve been to prison, I’ve been
homeless, I’ve been on crack, I’ve been in Vegas woman in here that I
screen and leans over to Jenny.
“She just died,” the woman whispers.
making $3,000 a night, I have had nice shit, no shit, ...
stuff, sorry,” she said. can’t relate to in
Soon, they see another one – a woman alive on-screen
but dead now.
“I’ve been with the best of the best, the worst of the
worst. There’s not one woman in here that I can’t some kind of way.
But not Jenny. relate to in some kind of way. And all I know is nobody
She is now three years out of a life of prostitution tried to make prostitution work harder than me. I
JENNY GAINES
that took her to rough places near and far, including really wanted to be successful and great at it. And I SEX TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR,
the oil boom counties of western North Dakota. She couldn’t make it work. I could not be happy in ABOVE, ON WORKING WITH
uses her story today to help others still caught in prostitution. Prostitution literally ate me from the WOMEN AT BREAKING FREE
dangerous, demeaning situations she knows well. inside out.”
As an advocate at Breaking Free, Jenny helps other
women get medications they need, set up therapy JENNY: Page A4
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A4 Saturday, January 10, 2015 INVESTIGATIVE SERIES

ABOUT
THE SERIES
Forum News Service
takes on the issue of
human trafficking and
female exploitation
in this seven-part
in-depth reporting series.
We explore the emerging
crisis as it unfolds in the
Oil Patch of western
North Dakota, as well as
in Minnesota and South
Dakota.

SUNDAY
A Booming Crisis
Understanding the
global human trafficking
crisis and its connection
to the Oil Patch of
western North Dakota,
where an influx of men
and money in recent
years has brought an
increased demand for
commercial sex.

MONDAY
The Game
We take a deeper

“
psychological look at
pimp control, which is
the manipulation of
often already vulnerable
women. Pimps are
I’m totally free.
masters at making
unwanted, perhaps I’m on my own.
discarded women feel
wanted.
JENNY GAINES

TUESDAY
Difficulty
in Detection
How is human
trafficking detected?
Hospitals, hotels and
other groups are taking
various steps to detect
and report possible
human trafficking.

WEDNESDAY
Prosecuting
Prostitution
Conversation, rather
than arrest and
interrogation, is one of
the tactics officers are
using today to gain
information about
traffickers and put them
behind bars. It’s no easy
task. While going after
traffickers is a priority,
those cases are difficult
to prove.
THURSDAY
Making the
Connection
The Internet has
become the new
battleground for sex
trafficking. It’s where
women and traffickers
go to promote sex for
sale, but it’s also a
powerful tool for law
enforcement in arresting
them.
FRIDAY
PHOTO ABOVE BY BENJAMIN EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY
Jenny Gaines, now 45, has been out of the life of prostitution for three
years. She is seen at right at age 15, a year after she was recruited by her
first pimp.
since the ’90s, working hard to get out of “the life.” They
JENNY FROM A1
shared the despair, and now they share the hope. No one
else gets it; no one else understands like the women under
that old roof, couches and armchairs pushed too close
together to get around gracefully. The house is crowded
THE 109-YEAR-OLD HOUSE and you’re always in the way, but it’s OK, there’s no
Up in her office on the creaky second floor of the Breaking judgment here.
Free house, Jenny’s phone rings, her clients needing rides. Peterson looks for something to do: There are no children
This October afternoon, it’s go time. The annual today. She and other sisters of survival talk hair, kids,
candlelight vigil is just a couple hours away, and the house Halloween costumes and lunch. As the pasta cooks, the
and its front and back patios are filling with supporters. St. Paul house fills with more women, women who have
Breaking Free leaders and the St. Paul police chief rally hope and who want the same for their sisters on the streets.
the walkers before the march begins. Once Peterson had 30 kids in that 109-year-old house, she
At Point B, a United Methodist church four blocks and says in between hugging women as they come through the
many car honks away, people line up to read the names of common area.
women who died while in the Girls out there need places
life. Forty-three with like Breaking Free, she says,
premature, violent ends: killed places where they can build
by a pimp, killed by a trick, self-esteem.
killed by herself or killed “To know what to run from,”
accidentally by drug overdose. she says. “And know what to
The names are read to
remember, year after year. The
run to.”

Squaring Up names are read with an LIBERATED

Law enforcement and
victim service providers
in North Dakota are
identifying more victims
of sex trafficking, but the
closest dedicated
shelter for trafficking
victims is more than 500
miles away.
TODAY
What’s Next?
Human trafficking will be
a major topic of
discussion in the next
legislative session,
including a proposal to
adopt a new uniform law
on human trafficking.
JAN. 11
The Documentary
WDAY’s Kevin
Wallevand digs deeper
into sex trafficking in
North Dakota in a
30-minute
documentary-style
news program, airing at
10:35 p.m. Sunday.
ONLINE
Many additional stories,
photos, videos and
more can be found at
traffickedreport.com
unspoken sense of gratitude It’s mid-October, sunny, and
that the women in the room, so Jenny Gaines is on the move.
many of them fresh off the She blows in a machine to
streets or decades into their start her car. She’s OK with
recovery, aren’t on the list. that. In fact, she almost can’t
Jenny takes her turn and wait to get pulled over again so
remembers “Brenda,” stabbed she can flash her driver’s
52 times and stuffed in a trash license – a privilege she once
can. went without for 17 years.
The next day, the Breaking She is liberated now.
Free office is unusually quiet – On her way to pick up a
to the regulars anyway. To Breaking Free client in
others, it may seem bustling, southeast Minneapolis, Jenny
women young and old passing
lights a Newport and admits
through, checking in, stopping she’s gotta quit – she’s up to
for lunch. The furniture is old
two packs a day, but she gives a
and mismatched, probably lot of them away. With her
donated like everything else.
career at Breaking Free and
It’s quiet for this Wednesday, working weekends at a
says Geri Peterson, who cares
restaurant, she’s financially
for the children of the mothers independent for the first time
who walk in the door needing in her 45-year life, but she still
homes, jobs, love.
The receptionist, with a
isn’t where she wants to be.
“I was doing the math. What
radiant smile and a loud laugh
I make at Red Lobster pays for
you can soon recognize from
my cigarettes every month. So
the other room, answers and
that’s gotta go.”
transfers calls. One caller
She cruises down the
wants to register for “John
School,” Breaking Free’s interstate connecting the Twin
Cities and pulls on her
daylong program for convicted
solicitors of commercial sex. cigarette.
Others calling are clients, Three years out of
fragile girls needing their busy prostitution, she has an
advocates to call them back. apartment rented in her own
name for the first time – the
One of them walks in,
first time she didn’t break any
needing to fax a housing
application. Fifty-one single laws to pay the rent: no
units for sober living just prostitution, no sugar daddy in
opened up, but demand is high. the background.
Girls and women talk about “I’m totally free. I’m on my
how they’ve been coming here own.”

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ND TO CONSIDER TRAFFICKING LAW,
MORE FUNDING FOR ENFORCEMENT
By Amy Dalrymple
and Katherine Lymn
Forum News Service
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lans to invest in law enforcement and
strengthen human trafficking laws appear
to have support as North Dakota’s
legislative session begins this week,
although proposals to expand victim services still
lack the promise of funding.
Other than adding a victim advocate to the
Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the only
proposal put forth so far for victim services
would allocate $500,000 to a pilot project in four
counties, three in the Oil Patch and one in Fargo.
But Gov. Jack Dalrymple says he is committed
to addressing human trafficking in western
North Dakota and last month outlined a budget
plan that calls for spending $90 million in new
money next biennium on law enforcement to
fight human trafficking and other crimes.
Dalrymple said hearing directly from BCI
agents about the frequency of trafficking in the
Oil Patch and around the state is shocking.
“They’re stories that I never would have
thought of being any part of western North
Dakota. I think the average citizen in North
Dakota, too, would be amazed,” he said. “But that
just means that we have to take it very seriously,
we have to address it and we’re moving the
resources out there right away.”
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says
supporting victim services is critical to
prosecuting human trafficking cases. He said he
asked the governor for a victim advocate to follow
up with potential victims the BCI identifies and
connect them with services.
“It takes a tremendous amount of work to gain
the trust, to make these victims understand they
aren’t going to be prosecuted, and make them so
they trust law enforcement,” he said.
Fighting human trafficking was a major reason
Stenehjem cited in asking the governor for a big
staffing increase – about 25 additional positions
for his office and the BCI. The proposed positions
include:
Seven new BCI agents primarily assigned to
Oil Patch communities, including two in Watford
City where currently none are based.
Two new agents with the BCI’s division that
investigates Internet crimes involving children,
who would spend a lot of their time on human
trafficking cases.
An additional criminal attorney to help
county prosecutors with major cases.
An additional criminal intelligence analyst.
The new positions will not be designated to
handle only human trafficking. But many, such as
the intelligence analyst, would be key for
investigating complex cases.
“There’s lots of information, but it doesn’t do
you a whole lot of good to have a whole bunch of
information coming in if you don’t have the
people who can analyze it and decide what to do
with it,” Stenehjem said. “That’s especially true
when we’ve got interstate operations going on.”
Some of the budget request calls for positions
to be funded before the next biennium begins so
agents could be hired this winter if legislators
approve the proposal, Dalrymple said.
“I was convinced that they need more
personnel, they need more boots on the ground,”
Dalrymple said.
A decision announced by the FBI late last year
to open a permanent office in Williston is another
major step forward, Dalrymple said.
“In order to be effective at all in dealing with it,
you have to be able to get to the source of the
problem. And that quite often is people who are
outside of North Dakota,” Dalrymple said.
Investigating human trafficking cases is a
priority issue for the FBI in the Bakken, along
with addressing an increase in cases of drug
distribution and crimes of violence, said Kyle
Loven, spokesman for the FBI region that
includes North Dakota.
Agents have been temporarily rotating to
northwest North Dakota, but have not had a
permanent presence. Local sheriffs and police
chiefs complained in a roundtable hosted by U.S.
Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., last year that the FBI
agents cycled through the Bakken too quickly to
adequately take on long-term investigations.
“I think we will most likely be in a more
effective position to deal with not only human
trafficking, but to deal with other crimes once we
get a permanent established presence in the
area,” Loven said.
Since Hoeven announced the new Williston FBI
office last November, no details have been
released about a specific location, when it will
open or how many agents will be based there.
Finding office space for additional staff in the
booming Oil Patch communities will be a
challenge for the FBI, as well as the BCI.
For state and local law enforcement, additional
training for officers to recognize the signs of
human trafficking also is a priority addressed in
the budget proposal, Stenehjem said.
“
They’re stories that I never would have thought of being
any part of western North Dakota. I think the average
citizen in North Dakota, too, would be amazed. But that
just means that we have to take it very seriously, we have
to address it and we’re moving the resources out there right away.
JACK DALRYMPLE
NORTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR, RIGHT, ON SEX TRAFFICKING IN THE OIL PATCH
THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE BAKKEN AND BEYOND
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Funding for training will come out of
$20 million Dalrymple proposes in grants to law
enforcement agencies in oil-impacted counties,
an increase of nearly $3.5 million over this
biennium.
While many officers from around the state have
attended human trafficking training recently, a
trainer who led daylong sessions in Minot,
Williston, Watford City and Dickinson said more
in-depth education is needed.
“The next step is to bring really specialized
training,” said John Vanek, retired lieutenant
with a San Jose, Calif., human trafficking task
force, adding that the class he led was mainly to
raise awareness.
Nationally, law enforcement personnel lack
sufficient training on human trafficking, Vanek
said. In California, where Vanek said aggressive
efforts to promote training have been underway,
he estimates 10 to 15 percent of officers
“understand exactly what trafficking is and how
to investigate a specific aspect of it, particularly
documenting the level of coercion.”
The increase in state and local law enforcement
funding is focused on western North Dakota, but
some resources would be for the whole state.
“These crimes are statewide, they’re not
isolated to western North Dakota. But because of
the population influx and because of the nature
of the workforce out there, it is very, very
dramatic how it’s increased,” Dalrymple said.
The victim advocate will be key to building
rapport with victims, critical to convicting the
traffickers, as well as helping the victim connect
with services, Stenehjem said.
He acknowledges that more support for victims
is needed, including long-term relief.
“You don’t get into these things overnight,”
Stenehjem said, “but getting out of it has to be
one of the most difficult things that any woman
would ever have to face.”
The governor’s budget proposal also includes
more funding to support behavioral health
services, as well as $500,000 more for domestic
violence programs, investments that could also
support human trafficking victims.
NEW LAW
Stenehjem also plans to support a law that will
be introduced by the North Dakota Uniform Law
Commission that decriminalizes prostitution for
minors, often referred to as a Safe Harbor law.
The proposal, more comprehensive than North
Dakota’s current human trafficking laws,
addresses criminal penalties, provides more
protections for victims and promotes public
awareness.
Rep. Larry Klemin, R-Bismarck, a member of
the state’s uniform law commission, said a major
goal of the law is to make victims aware that they
should not be considered criminals.
In addition to immunity for minors, the law
would allow women charged with prostitution to
assert an “affirmative defense” if they are victims
Saturday, January 10, 2015 A5
“
It takes a
tremendous amount of
work to gain the trust, to
make these victims
understand they aren’t
going to be prosecuted,
and make them so they
trust law enforcement.
WAYNE STENEHJEM
NORTH DAKOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL
of trafficking. Victims also could seek to vacate
convictions of prostitution and some other non-
violent offenses that resulted from being
trafficked. The law also allows victims to take civil
action against traffickers.
“We want these victims to understand that they
are victims and they can get out of this and there
is help for them,” Klemin said.
Other key components of the law include:
Increasing penalties for some circumstances,
such as recruiting a victim from a domestic
violence shelter, runaway youth home or similar
facility.
Requiring traffickers to pay restitution to
victims for expenses such as attorney fees and
compensation for the income owed to the victim
for labor or sexual activity.
Rest stops and hospitals will be required to
display public awareness signs advertising the
National Human Trafficking Resource Center
hotline.
Business entities that knowingly engage in
human trafficking can be held liable.
The bill does not include any appropriations.
“That always makes passage of a bill more
difficult,” said South Central District Judge Gail
Hagerty, also a member of the uniform law
commission.
Rep. Gail Mooney, D-Cummings, who has been
active at recent anti-trafficking discussions, said
adopting the uniform law is a priority, but she
wonders how the efforts can be effective without
additional funding.
“If we can get the laws changed, that’s the first
most important thing. But myself, I think we
really need to put some of our money where our
mouth is,” Mooney said, adding that the state is
“bursting at the seams” with money and people.
But while oil revenues have driven the state’s
budget surplus to record numbers, the recent drop
in oil prices could make legislators nervous about
spending big money on new initiatives.
Sen. Ray Holmberg, R-Grand Forks, said
creating new full-time state positions always
creates debate among legislators, even when the
price of oil is strong.
While there is uncertainty about the state’s
budget forecast, Holmberg, chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, said the general fund
is somewhat cushioned from the ups and downs of
oil prices. Legislators will have a better picture
when they receive the budget forecast in March,
and decisions about funding new programs will
likely come toward the end of the session.
“I haven’t run to the bomb shelter or anything
like that,” Holmberg said. “We just need to wait
and see.”
He added that he hopes dollars will be dedicated
to fighting human trafficking.
“It’s a serious problem. It’s a problem recognized
by our congressional delegation, it’s certainly
recognized by the attorney general and the
governor. And I think and hope that the
Legislature does fully address the problem,”
Holmberg said.

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U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., left, and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., talk in September from Heitkamp’s office in Washington, D.C., about
their joint efforts to combat human trafficking.
HEITKAMP, KLOBUCHAR TEAM UP
TO BATTLE HUMAN TRAFFICKING
By Amy Dalrymple
Forum News Service
Washington
A
s local police chiefs and sheriffs gathered
in Minot to discuss increased crime in
North Dakota’s Oil Patch, U.S. Sen. Heidi
Heitkamp interjected when one cited a
spike in prostitution.
That may be human trafficking, she said.
“Understand that maybe behind that, what
you’re seeing as prostitution is some of the worst
victimization that’s out there. There may be
somebody who is in fact being trafficked, forced
to do this against their will,” said Heitkamp, D-
N.D.
Raising awareness of human trafficking in her
state while also working to advance federal
legislation to combat modern-day slavery has
been a major focus for Heitkamp, a former North
Dakota attorney general.
Working closely with her is U.S. Sen. Amy
Klobuchar of Minnesota, another Democrat who
also comes from a law enforcement background.
In a joint interview with Forum News Service in
Heitkamp’s Washington office, the senators
talked about their passion for an issue that knows
no state boundaries.
“This is an example of how Minnesota and
North Dakota can work together,” Klobuchar
said.
Both have teamed with Cindy McCain, wife of
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and a national leader
on anti-trafficking issues. The three visited
Mexico last year to learn how officials there are
addressing trafficking.
Klobuchar, a former top Hennepin County
prosecutor, said it became clear to her that
EDUCATION NEEDED TO ADDRESS ‘A MAN’S ISSUE’
By Amy Dalrymple and Katherine Lymn
Forum News Service
A
s a truck driver more than 20 years ago,
Larry Medhurst traveled at times with
other truckers who wanted to stop by a
brothel in Nevada if they were passing
through the area.
Medhurst said he never joined them, but he
didn’t speak up, either. He would act differently
now.
“Knowing what I know now, I would have taken
a stand and said, ‘Hey, guys, that’s not what we
need to be doing,’ ” Medhurst said.
While law enforcement ramps efforts to lock up
sex traffickers and service providers seek to
better help trafficking victims, many say more
education aimed at eliminating the demand for
commercial sex should also be a priority.
“It’s a man’s issue,” said Medhurst, a Williston
man who recently participated in training
seminars on human trafficking. “It has to stop
with the men. And it’s all of us men who have to
hold each other to task.”
Last year, Medhurst began dating Windie
Lazenko, founder of 4her North Dakota, an
organization that helps victims of trafficking and
sexual exploitation. The relationship led him to
get more educated about sex trafficking, and he
began seeing things differently.
Medhurst, general manager of operations for
Secure Energy Services in the Bakken, has
THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE BAKKEN AND BEYOND
changes needed to be made to human trafficking
laws while her office attempted to prosecute sex
rings.
Often the victims would recant their stories,
saying they were scared of their pimp.
“Pretty soon you realized this isn’t working
very well. We’re not really, as a country, going
after the people that are really doing these
crimes,” Klobuchar said.
Following efforts to raise awareness in the
state, Minnesota adopted a Safe Harbor law,
ensuring that minor victims of sex trafficking
are treated as such, not as criminals.
“The only way you’re going to be able to build a
case against their pimp, someone running a sex
trafficking ring, is if you have a victim who’s
really able to tell the whole story,” Klobuchar
said.
Now, one federal initiative Klobuchar and
Heitkamp are working to advance would push all
states to adopt Safe Harbor laws. That bill did not
pass last year, but it did elevate the importance of
the issue. Many states, including North Dakota,
are now moving to adopt Safe Harbor laws on
their own.
They also support federal legislation aimed at
increasing penalties for traffickers, providing
more services to domestic sex trafficking victims
and providing funding for runaway and homeless
youth programs.
More work needs to be done in both states, they
say, although Heitkamp said North Dakota is
further behind.
“We’ve got a long way to go compared to
Minnesota,” Heitkamp said. “Now it’s our turn
to pick up the ball, to be as aggressive as
invited Lazenko to provide training sessions for
his employees, and he displays awareness posters
at work locations.
Another oil company operating in the Bakken,
Enerplus Resources, also is working to promote
education and awareness about human
trafficking for employees and contractors in
North Dakota, said Jessie Koerner, public affairs
coordinator.
But Koerner said she wishes more oil industry
professionals were working to raise awareness of
trafficking in North Dakota.
When asked if oil companies should be engaged
in a discussion about human trafficking to
address the demand, Gov. Jack Dalrymple,
chairman of the state commission that regulates
the oil industry, said it’s “probably a good idea.”
“Generally speaking, it’s an employer-employee
situation. We can suggest that employees be
counseled, educated and advised on the
seriousness of it. That probably would be the first
step,” Dalrymple said.
Tessa Sandstrom, spokeswoman for North
Dakota Petroleum Council, said while the
industry group hasn’t specifically addressed
trafficking, individual companies focus heavily
on safety and responsibility and their employees
are active members of their communities.
“They work very hard to promote social
responsibility within their companies,” she said.
Medhurst said he plans to continue educational
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Minnesota and learn from them as well.”
Heitkamp and Klobuchar share concerns about
the threat of sex trafficking facing Native
American populations in their states.
“It makes sense when you have people who are
very poor who are in a concentrated area, that
you’re going to see more of this trafficking,”
Klobuchar said. “It’s really one of the saddest
things to see these proud, Native American
families have to deal with the fact that their child
is a victim of sex trafficking.”
In addition to sex trafficking, Heitkamp also
reminds people that the potential for labor
trafficking, particularly in the Bakken where
workers are in high-demand, needs attention,
too.
In North Dakota, Heitkamp would like to see
more funding invested for training of law
enforcement, victim service providers and
others. She’d also like to see resources dedicated
to a shelter and helping victims.
“The best a lot of our domestic violence
shelters can do in the Oil Patch is a bus ticket.
That’s not an answer,” Heitkamp said. “Housing
prices are so high, it’s just really hard to help
people transition into a safe place. We really need
to listen to what the victim advocates are saying
they need in western North Dakota, not just on
trafficking, but all crimes against women.”
After touring programs such as Breaking Free
and 180 Degrees in Minnesota, Heitkamp said it
gives her hope knowing that helping sexually
exploited women and girls leave the life is
possible with the right long-term programs.
“I’m so encouraged that you can, in fact, with a
lot of hard work, help people through recovery,”
Heitkamp said.
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Windie Lazenko, the founder of 4her North
Dakota, and her boyfriend, Larry Medhurst, listen
to a panel discussion during the 2014 statewide
summit on human trafficking in Bismarck.
efforts with his employees, which have been well-
received, and he plans to reach out to others in
the industry.
“I can influence 100 individuals on the team
that I’ve got here in North Dakota,” Medhurst
said. “If I can get each of them to influence one
more person or just educate their sons, we can
end this.”