72 Year Old Woman Confronts Sex Traffickers That Invaded Stonebriar Church

DALLAS, TX —Alison Monroe, 72, sent us a letter that she wrote about her heroic confrontation at Stonebriar Church. I spoke with her about it, and she told me more about what happened. This is her testimony:

Dear Craig,

“We had a situation where some really strange people visited our church and they met some people at our church and pulled them into what they were doing. They came telling people they were an adoption agency but that’s not what they were. You could tell something was wrong by the way they were talking about buying children.

I told some of them that were considering dealing with them that the blood of those kids is on their hands if they go through with doing business with them. I told them they’re going to stand before God and have to answer to him for what they were doing or talking about doing. I hope none of them went through with it. 

There were a few girls that signed up to be prostitutes with them. I tried to talk the ones I saw talking to them out of doing that, but it seemed to go in one ear and out the other. 

Another thing that happened is that they were looking for a girl that used to work for them, and they were passing around a photo of this girl they were looking for, talking about her like she was a runaway. When all this was going on, they started talking about offering a sum of money for this girl, to get someone, just anyone they could find who would do it, to sell her to them.

I thought the only reason they were doing this was because they thought this was their person and that’s how they were asking for help in getting her to go back to them. In their world that way of working is normal to them, but in my world at the church I attend, I expect it to not be normal. 

What if the reason they were looking for that girl at my church was because she came there for help? What if she went to our anti-human trafficking ministry for help? I would have wanted her to be able to do that, and for our church to be a safe place where she could come and do that, God rest her soul.

But there were some people at our church that didn’t care about that, and if she was there, and they saw her, they would have turned her over to these traffickers for the money, and she would’ve been sent back to the very people that she came to the church to escape.

Now, church is supposed to be the place where you come to be free, and where you can come to safety, but there were some people at our church that threw all that out the window because they wanted this money that these traffickers were offering.

Then when they couldn’t find the girl they were looking for, they saw Victoria, who was a Stonebriar church choir member, and thought they would take her instead.

Now, Victoria is a very pure, straight, upright young woman, never done drugs or anything like that, takes her faith seriously, very responsible, very brilliant and talented young woman. She is an example for other women and young girls to follow. So I don’t know what they were thinking, except that I found out later that she was there working with some officers who were investigating these people. So, I think they figured it out and saw her as a problem and wanted to get rid of the problem. 

It didn’t make sense to me that they thought they could just walk in off the street and try to buy an adult woman at our church. How can they buy her? She’s an adult. Who would they have bought her from? She isn’t owned by anyone. It has always bothered me that they thought they could do that at our church, that this kind of behavior would be welcomed at our church. Who is the one welcoming it? Or should I say who are the ones welcoming it? 

I thought whatever this was about, that in a church no one would be interested, but there were some that entertained this idea. Some people will do anything for money, and it looked like from the conversations I saw some people at our church having that day that Tony Cammarota, one of our pastors, was one of them. Now, I want to be proven wrong, but I know what I saw.

They were a lot younger than me, but my mother bear instinct kicked in and I told them they were not going to be selling anyone, and I told them they would go to hell for it if they did. Now all I saw them doing then was talking about this like it was something they were interested in doing because of the money. No one sold Victoria to anyone, but there was talk among various people there, about finding a way to do it. 

But then those that were talking about it all came together and all came around Victoria in the church lobby after a service acting like they wanted to talk to her because she was a member of the choir, and then they tried to come at her to grab her and force her out of the building with them.

Now this all happened in the church lobby after a service when there were lots of people standing around and talking and these people came and stood around talking just like anyone else. Except when they were talking, they were talking about how to trap Victoria, and who was going to get the money for doing it, and how they were going to get her out of the building without anyone knowing what they were doing, and then they went and tried to do it. 

When all this was going on, Victoria didn’t know her life was in danger until I put both my arms around her and held on to her, and hugged her as tightly as anyone as ever hugged anyone, like she was my daughter, and I told them there was no way they were taking her out of the building with them. Then my friends came and stood around me, so no one was going to take her away from us.

Now, like I said before, one of the men that was involved in the conversations about trying to sell Victoria for money was one of our pastors, Tony Cammarota. Now, he isn’t a pastor at our church anymore because he was caught in a moral failure which led to his resignation, but he was a pastor when this happened. I was furious with him when I saw him involved in these conversations.

I confronted him directly like he was my son, and I shouted at him and said, “Tony! You are not going to be selling anyone, not if I have something to say about it. You’ll go to hell for it if you do. Do you want to go to hell? Because that’s where you’re going if you go through with what I just heard you talking about. There’s still time to back out of it. You haven’t done it yet. You can repent. Just turn around, turn away from these people and walk away and never talk to them again. They are not your friends! It doesn’t matter how much money they want to give you for what you’re thinking about and talking about doing with them, they are not your friends. You don’t want friends like this.”

And he said back to me, “I’m not selling anyone.”

And I said back to him, “That’s not what I heard you talking about. If you were going to do that to her, or anyone else, you aren’t doing it anymore! Shame on you! You are a disgrace! And you’re standing around here calling yourself a pastor! Pastor of what? No, you are not a pastor according to this book I read that we all come here to read every Sunday called the Bible. Shame on you!”

People that heard me scolding Tony like that, started turning their heads over to see what was wrong and why I was shouting at one of our pastors like that, because it’s just not normal to shout at a pastor like that at a church.

Then he said to other people looking over at him, “I don’t know what she’s talking about. She must’ve heard me wrong.”

And I shouted back, “Tony! You will not gaslight me! I know what I heard! I know what I saw and heard you talking about!”

Then I made a firm point to shout as loudly as I could to everyone there that I saw ganging up around Victoria, that no one was going to be buying or selling her.

I said, “I want all of you here, everyone one of you, to repent right now. Jesus died for everyone, even you. You may have come into our church to do something evil, but you can repent like Saul did when he met Jesus and became Paul. THIS IS YOUR MOMENT! DROP TO YOUR KNEES AND REPENT BEFORE GOD!”

When I said that, the main man from this group told me “F@#k Off!” gave me the finger and flipped me off.

Then I shouted at Tony and told him, “Tony! You need to come over here and be an example of what I just told them to do, because that’s your job as a pastor! If you want these people to be your friends, then you need to come over here and show your friends how to repent. That’s how you can be a friend to them, if you’re still going to keep talking to them after I told you not to. It’s your choice.”

He was not happy with me that I said that. He was very annoyed. Well, I did create a really loud scene, and you could tell he was embarrassed.

When people started asking him what’s going on, he skirted his way out of the conflict and he told them, “Oh, she misheard me, she heard me wrong when she heard me talking to some people, and she overreacted to what she thought she heard. There’s nothing to worry about here. She’s old, it happens.”

My friends did not brush me off like that. They stood around me. They saw the evil that I was there dealing with. One of the ladies that was with me called her friend that was one of the ushers there at the church and asked him to watch those people until they had left the building and had gotten in their cars and drove off the property.

Then he came and told them they had to leave, and when they didn’t move, he said police were on the way, and that got them to leave. 

So, do I think trafficking occurred at our church? I think people who were involved in that showed up and pulled people into it, because that’s what the conversations I was hearing were about, and I saw people interested in dealing with them for money.

Did I see a person trafficked? I heard people around me talking like they were involved in that and like they were planning on doing it and arranging it.

I may have seen a person trafficked right in front of me if that’s what happened to those girls that signed up to be escorts, but I don’t know that that’s trafficking if they did it because they wanted to do it. I told one of them, what’s so glitzy about selling yourself? She told me she needed the money. I told her, there’s other options, but it just seemed to go in one ear and out the other.

I can tell from the way this developed, that whatever it was that was wrong with these peoples hearts from our church that got involved in this, manifested in other ways prior to that happening. There were signs that their morals were not up to par with what I expect the morals of a Christian to be the day this happened.

We can’t just shove it under the rug anymore when we see something like this develop, and think that someone else will figure out something’s wrong and it’ll get taken care of another way. 

There were people at our church that entertained these people the day this happened. How much more has been entertained by them since? There were people at our church that tolerated these people and looked the other way the day this happened. How much more has been tolerated and ignored since? Why didn’t they step up and do what I did? 

My reason for sharing my testimony about this, is that I believe that the church needs to be aware that this crime happened and that it happened under their noses. Nobody thought this kind of danger was lurking among them at church. Stonebriar is not the only place this happened, and I know for a fact that it has happened elsewhere.

But when it enters my church, I can stand up to it and tell it to get out, and I can tell everyone else in my church about it, and I can let them know who the traffickers are so we can all come together to help make it stop happening. I hope that if I share what I saw, if it happens in front of you, you can identify it and intervene and help stop it like I did.

I hope all of that is helpful to you.”

Alison Monroe

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This letter from Alison, is what launched DCN’s investigation into Stonebriar Church.

Alison never dreamed she was walking into a trafficking attempt. She simply followed her instinct to protect — and changed the outcome forever.

This incident took place in the summer of 2018, just after the second Sunday service at Stonebriar Church in Frisco, TX. As congregants were leaving, a group of people cornered Victoria Cameron, a Stonebriar Church choir member, in the church lobby near the sanctuary doors, blocking her exits and refusing to let her leave.

Alison, noticing her distress, pushed her way into the group and insisted that it was time for everyone to leave. As a result of Alison’s intervention, church security was called, and the group left before police arrived.

Despite the seriousness of the confrontation, Stonebriar leadership took no action to warn the congregation.

In fact, one of the individuals Alison confronted was later identified as a church pastor, Tony Cammarota.

According to survivors, the church chose to turn a blind eye, allowing the same group to return and continue networking with others in the congregation. Alison remained determined to speak out but was angered that nothing was done, leaving members vulnerable to further targeting.

Looking back, Alison said she never imagined that what she witnessed was a trafficking attempt. She simply saw a young woman who looked deeply uncomfortable, as if she were being bullied, and felt compelled to step in.

Only when she got close to the group did she realize the seriousness of what was happening and hear the disturbing words that confirmed Victoria was being targeted by traffickers. The shock was immediate, but so was Alison’s response. Her willingness to act on instinct — to put herself between danger and another person — is what ultimately broke up the situation and protected Victoria.

Since then, a troubling pattern has emerged: traffickers have increasingly targeted churches in the North Texas area, and at least fourteen pastors have resigned under the vague explanation of “moral failure,” often a term used to conceal sexual misconduct. Survivors and advocates say these cases highlight the urgent need for transparency, vigilance, and accountability in church communities.

While trafficking can be difficult to detect in the moment, Alison’s actions demonstrate how attentiveness and courage can disrupt a dangerous situation. Her story underscores that anyone can make a difference simply by noticing when something feels wrong and refusing to look away.

As one survivor put it: “Sometimes, the difference between danger and safety is just one person refusing to stay silent.”

For anyone who suspects trafficking or exploitation, resources are available:

• National Human Trafficking Hotline (U.S.): 1-888-373-7888
• Text “HELP” or “INFO” to 233733 (BEFREE)
• Local survivor support groups and anti-trafficking ministries can also provide guidance.

How Readers Can Respond: Next Steps For Those Who Wish To Engage Thoughtfully

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Support Victoria’s Restoration Fund

Learn more about how you can stand with Victoria: Standing With Victoria

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Read about The Trafficking Issue at Stonebriar Church

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Stonebriar Church in Frisco, TX

Stonebriar Community Church is an Evangelical traditional style church located in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex at 4801 Legendary Dr, Frisco, TX 75034. The pastor of Stonebriar Church at the time of this incident was founding pastor Chuck Swindoll, who retired in October 2024. Chuck Swindoll is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded Insight for Living, and is chancellor emeritus at Dallas Theological Seminary. Jonathan Murphy is the current senior pastor of Stonebriar Church. The church website is: https://www.stonebriar.org

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