Peterson was new on the job. And this article is fine but I think there's a Mormon connection, somehow. Mesa is a Mormon stronghold. There are more trafficking and birth tourist schemes than just sex trafficking.

Added: Peterson had been a missionary there. He has connections at both ends and I think that's how he found the support system here. Church denounces: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mormon-church-leader-denounces-officials-adoption-scheme-66918354 Mormons are about 11% of Marshallese Islanders. If those islands have the crowding other islands do, mothers could easily be sold on giving their baby American citizenship.

Peterson was new on the job. And this article is fine but I think there's a Mormon connection, somehow. Mesa is a Mormon stronghold. There are more trafficking and birth tourist schemes than just sex trafficking.