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Project Rescue Children (PRC) claims to have rescued hundreds of children around the world from human traffickers. But an intensive investigation by the BBC casts major doubts on this claim. Reporter Hayley Mortimer found that multiple PRC stories—including one involving a baby “saved from traffickers”—appear to have been false and that several of the rescue centers it was supposedly fundraising for didn’t exist. PRC called the BBC’s allegations “completely without merit, misleading and defamatory.” But the BBC’s story appears deeply reported, with Mortimer having physically traveled to allege…

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