UPDATE: Amy Morgan Davis Responds to Tim Ballard's Defamation Suit - American Crime Journal

Attorneys for Former Miss Utah Condemn Tim Ballard’s Frivolous, Retaliatory, and Repugnant Lawsuit

For added articles overlaying O.U.R., please go to ACJ Investigates: Derailed: Operation Underground Railroad.

Replace 9/28/2024: To incorporate the supplemental submitting

On Wednesday, Tim Ballard, founding father of Operation Underground Railroad and self-styled crusader in opposition to human trafficking, launched a defamation go well with in opposition to former Miss Utah, Amy Davis, whereas hinting at broader authorized reprisals in opposition to different ladies accusing him of sexual misconduct.

Davis is certainly one of 5 ladies who filed a lawsuit in opposition to Ballard in October final 12 months, accusing him of exploiting a misleading scheme—ostensibly designed to entrap baby traffickers—to coerce them into sexual encounters. Whereas initially nameless, Davis and the opposite plaintiffs have since come ahead publicly, most lately in a New York Instances exposé earlier this month.

In a authorized submitting dated September 26, 2024, attorneys for Amy Davis and the opposite ladies accusing Tim Ballard—Suzette Rasmussen and Alan Mortensen—forcefully rebutted Ballard’s false and deceptive claims. The submitting marks a pointed response to what seems to be a calculated try by Tim Ballard and Chad Kolton to shift the narrative surrounding the disgraced anti-trafficking figurehead.

There are two filings: