Trafficking fighter warns students of porn, other sexual sins

Kevin Malone spent much of the 1980s and 90s moving up through the ranks of baseball front office staff for multiple organizations before becoming the general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

But his life took a sharp turn later in 2001 when he decided to get out.

He wasn’t sure what he wanted to do at first, but he knew he wanted to get into some type of ministerial work that helped those who were in dire need of help.

By 2007, he’d founded the organization, Kids Not for Sale, an organization devoted to stopping sex trafficking and any kind of sexual exploitation of children.

On Nov. 15, he was in Jackson speaking at two events. The first one was at chapel that morning at Union University, and the second one was that evening at a fundraiser for Scarlet Rope Project.

While the message for the two events may have sounded different, he hoped they came closer to the desired end.

“Stopping injustice toward children,” Malone said. “The Bible says we should fight injustice, and I know the word ‘fight’ has a lot of negative connotations for some of us, but fighting in itself isn’t a bad thing if it’s for the right reasons.

“And God told us as Christians to fight injustices in this world, and injustices don’t happen without victims. There are a lot of children in our world today who have been made victims by violent men.”

Malone’s purpose at chapel with a room of a few hundred college students seemed as if his primary goal in the morning was to do his part in steering them away from being addicted to pornography.

He cited a number of statistics that indicate porn is affecting people in the church as much as people outside the church, and he discussed how it’s easily addictive and leads to other things once the porn becomes normalized for the viewer.

“Oftentimes, porn addiction leads to men - sometimes women but mostly men - wanting more, and that more that they eventually get is children who are being trafficked,” Malone said. “I’m telling you today that if you’re looking at porn on any kind of regular basis, stop because it’ll pull you down roads you don’t want to go down.”

Julanne Stone, the executive director for Scarlet Rope Project, was more about trafficking itself and the fight to stop that, which Scarlet Rope Project is involved in.

“He was very engaging and answered some questions for our supporters who were there,” Stone said.

Malone ended his sermon at chapel by urging the students to commit to a life free or porn because of its abilities as almost a gateway to other sexual sins.

Brandon Shields, brandon@jacksonpost.news