The Faith of a Hero

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THE UNITED STATES —Victoria Cameron is a woman who has rescued others from sex trafficking. I asked her to talk to me about the way her faith was shaped, to learn more about what kind of faith journey she went through, that gave her the trust in God she needed to put her neck on the line to save the lives of others.

I asked Victoria what kind of Bible she read, and was stunned with what she showed me.

She is a child trafficking survivor, and she showed me the cover of a Bible she had when she was child trafficked, one that she painted.

I asked her what the painting was about. She said it was about the worship song, “Shout to the Lord,” by Darlene Zschech, and about a prophetic word she received when she was trafficked about how God was going to use a mission trip to Switzerland to rescue her and help her get home to her family.

She painted her Bible with an illustration that was inspired by the song and the prophetic word, to give her faith to believe that God could still work in her circumstances, despite what had happened to her.

Look at the top of the photo. There is a handwritten line that looks like notes from a sermon she heard. It reads, “You have to fight for the presence of God sometimes.”

The note in her Bible — “you have to fight for the presence of God sometimes” — became more than a phrase; it was a survival principle. For Victoria, fighting for God’s presence meant refusing to let darkness define her story, even when evil seemed to surround her. It meant clinging to worship and prayer when fear tried to silence her, and choosing joy when despair pressed in. And each time she fought to hold on to God’s presence, she found that God was fighting for her, too.

Look at the edges of her Bible. You can see how the edges of the Bible are worn.

Look at how she has taped the Bible together with duct tape and packing tape.

It makes me think of what Charles Spurgeon said, “A Bible that is falling a part usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”

I asked her who taught her how to have faith.

I asked her what church she went to where she heard the sermon that she took notes about, that I was able to see one line of, on this photo she shared with me of her Bible, and who was the pastor that preached that sermon?

She told me about a church she found in the Kansas City, Missouri, area, that was located out by the Kansas City airport, surrounded by cow pastures and cornfields. The name of the church was River of Life, (now The Rock of KC). The name of the pastor is Phillip O’Reilly.

I asked her how she found his church. She told me she found it when she was child trafficked. Let me explain what happened to her.

She went through an ordeal where she was child trafficked in 1989 by Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with the intention of selling her as a child sex slave. However, an intervention happened along the way that caused her to be sent to “an adoption” instead. Then after she was rescued, they came back and child trafficked her again in 1996, sent her back to the exact same family she had been trafficked to before, stating they were reinforcing “an adoption.”

While still a minor, having barely turned 15, they trafficked her as Victoria Cavendish to a family in Kansas City, Missouri. It had something to do with her father’s activism and the work he was doing in the movement for Scottish independence. His name was Jason Cavendish, and he was a solider in the Israel Defense Forces, and he was also a citizen of the UK. He had never broken a law, yet his daughter was trafficked as a retaliation for the way he was expressing his freedom of speech.

This trafficking arrangement was treated like an adoption, and the people she was trafficked to wanted her to feel like she was a part of their family. Their own daughter had been removed from their family due to a child rape by her father that resulted in a pregnancy. This family didn’t want anyone to know this had happened, so they bought a similar looking girl from a trafficking organization, and paraded her around as their daughter. They even called her their daughter’s name.

Some people in the community could tell she wasn’t their daughter. To them, the mother gave a brief explanation, stating she had been in a car accident and had plastic surgery. Others who knew something was wrong with the family, just shook their heads, and didn’t ask questions.

Victoria didn’t want to be a part of their family, but started actively looking for a way out, especially when she heard them talking about their plans to sell her to a brothel. They called her “inventory on the shelf,” and talked often about when they were going to start selling her.

Victoria tried contacting the police to get them to help her, but because of how the child trafficking situation she was in was masked as an adoption, they had limited resources. To them it just looked like she was a girl that had trouble adjusting to an adoption.

When it looked like they weren’t able to help her, she turned to God, and tried to find a way out through prayer and fasting.

Victoria had been trafficked into an illegal adoption, and the traffickers worked hard to mask their crimes. They presented themselves as Christians and deliberately embedded themselves into church life, making it appear as though they were an ordinary family. The mother even sang in the church choir and taught Sunday School.

To reinforce this false image, they brought Victoria to the same church they attended, ensuring the community would see them together. By blending in with worshippers and churchgoers, they used the trust of the church environment as a cover for their exploitation.

Victoria made friends with a girl at the church the traffickers went to, another girl who visited the church youth group. Her friend was in a foster care situation as a victim of child sex abuse who had already been exploited. Her foster parents put her in church to help her heal from her past traumas and redirect her life. The two girls connected through their displacement trauma, as they could relate with each other, though each had different circumstances. But they both decided they wanted God to intervene in their lives and they wanted him to heal them from their traumas and redirect their lives to the path he created for them.

They decided they wanted to learn more about the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Bible, so they decided to visit charismatic churches in the area. They visited Metro Christian Fellowship when Mike Bickle and Bob Jones were leading it, back when they were working on laying the foundation for The International House of Prayer, and they visited Phillip O’Reilly’s church out by the Kansas City airport, called River of Life.

Her friend had a car, so they drove to the two churches together, usually on Saturdays as the traffickers Victoria was living with demanded that she appear in church with them on Sundays to maintain appearances that they were “a family.”

At Mike Bickle’s church, the two girls learned about saturating their environment with prayer and worship, creating a consecrated environment for the Holy Spirit to work. At Pastor Phillip’s church they learned about tenacious faith and how to have faith that moves mountains.

It was at his church that she received the gift of praying in tongues, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, a moment she will never forget. She says she knows she received the real gift of tongues because when other people heard her praying in tongues, they were able to hear an identifiable language that was interpretable by anyone who knew that language.

Both churches preached about the rewards of fasting, and about fasting and prayer for breakthrough. She listened to every word. She remembers that they challenged their congregations to engage in a corporate fast together as a church for God’s breakthrough in their lives. She said it was interesting that both churches seemed to be preaching similar messages at the same time and looked at it like it was a confirmation from God that this was an message she needed to follow, so she decided to engage in a fast, and she got her friend to do it too.

They made a list of prayer requests to pray for during the fast, read scripture everyday, prayed everyday, sang worship songs everyday, prayer in tongues everyday, and called each other to keep each other accountable to keep the fast. Then at the end of the fast, they tested the fast by going to the pastors of the churches they were visiting and asking them for prophetic words.

The girls were really interested in testing the gift of prophecy, to see if this gift they read about in the Bible was really alive and active in the church today, and not discontinued after the time of the disciples of Jesus in the Bible like some churches preached. Victoria said she was amazed when she heard people at the churches deliver a prophetic words from God, and sat on the edge of her seat with anticipation to hear the words, amazed to think that God still speaks to people now the way he did in the Bible. This gave her faith to believe that God to speak to her directly about her own life through the gift of prophecy.

By visiting these churches, she had begun to believe that there is a way to hear God’s voice today, just like people in the Bible heard God’s voice. That’s all she wanted, was to hear God’s voice. She wanted him to speak directly to her about her circumstances and set her free. She knew he was the only one who could help her.

She said that both churches talked a lot about deliverance, about how fasting and prayer delivers a person from bondage, and that’s what she wanted more than anything, to be delivered from the people that she had been child trafficked to, the people who lied and said she was their daughter. To her, they are bondage. This gave her faith to believe that fasting and prayer could set her free from these monsters.

Though every message she heard at the churches built her faith, she told me about a very specific message she heard Pastor Phillip preach about the time Paul and Silas were in prison that became ingrained in her.

He said that when Paul and Silas were in prison, they didn’t accept the circumstances their enemies put them in. They didn’t just roll over and die. They chose to pray to God. They chose to have faith. They didn’t just lay around and wait for the executioner to come, they worshipped God. Then God delivered them in a miraculous way.

Hearing that message inspired her to have faith in her circumstances for her own deliverance.

Pastor Phillip also said to take God at his Word, and that when God says something in the Bible, that those words are true, and that you can depend on his words.

He told everyone there to pray with faith. He talked about Matthew 21:22, and he said, that when Jesus says in his word, “Whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive,” that he means what he says, and that you can stand in faith on that. He encouraged everyone to pray with faith, to pray believing that you have received what you have prayed for.

She listened to him and she hung onto every word he preached. She went on a fast like he preached about, and she set time aside everyday to pray, and to pray in tongues, and to read the Bible. She made a list of prayer requests and positioned her heart and her mind to pray about them with faith like the kind Pastor Phillip preached about

This is what she did when she was child trafficked.

This is what she did when she was in a hostage situation in Kansas City, Missouri with the people that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to, the people they told her to call her family.

There are so many things she could have done with her time, and we saw examples of other people who were victims of the same people who did those things.

But Victoria chose to go to church. She chose to pray. She chose to have faith. She chose to do what Pastor Phillip told her Paul and Silas did when they were in jail.

Victoria told me that when she was child trafficked, she felt like she was in jail like Paul and Silas were, and as far as she saw things, that her jail sentence started the second her feet hit the ground in Kansas City, Missouri, and she was taken to that family.

But she did not accept the circumstances her enemies gave her. She chose to do what Pastor Phillip said to do in the sermon he preached that she heard.

Her heart was pure and blameless before God, and God heard those prayers, and he came to set her free.

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Victoria’s Amazing Rescue

Victoria and her friend attended both churches every week. After the fast they went on together, they went to the pastors of both churches and asked for prophetic words.

Her friend made an appointment for them to meet with Mike Bickle in his office in Grandview, Missouri —an experience Victoria says she will never forget. He let them ask him anything they wanted to ask about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and how they operate.

Mike Bickle looked straight at her after the prayer and told her, “The Lord is telling me that the people you are living with are not your real family, and he is divinely orchestrating a situation where he is going to upset the applecart of that situation, whatever it is, and he’s going to send you home to your real family, which he’s telling me is in another country, and he’s going to use a mission trip to Switzerland to send you home.”

Bob Jones also prayer for her.

Later that evening they went to the Saturday night service at Pastor Phillip O’Reilly’s church, which was clear on the opposite side of the city, out by the Kansas City airport. They had planned to also ask him for a prophetic word from God. They didn’t set up an appointment at his church. They thought they would just talk to him after the service when he was praying for people and greeting guests. But that day, he held an altar call for everyone who wanted prayer for God to move in areas in their lives that where they seemed to have impossible circumstances. Victoria went forward for prayer.

When Pastor Phillip walked by her, he laid his hand on her head, and prayer for her briefly and told her that he heard the Spirit of the Lord telling him that God was going to use a mission trip to Switzerland to get her home to her family —the same word she heard hours earlier. She saw that as confirmation that God was working in her circumstances, and that he had answered her prayer.

There had been a mission trip to Grindelwald, Switzerland that was being advertised at the church the traffickers went to, and the church had been inviting teenagers to sign up to go on the trip. The trip was for 10 days at a camp called Euroventure, a camp for teenagers, youth groups, missionary kids and military kids from all across Europe that was hosted annually by the IBC, the International Baptist Convention. The trip cost about $2000. She had asked the “family” she was trafficked to several times, to allow her to go on the trip. Each time, they told her, “Absolutely not,” and the excuse was that they couldn’t afford the trip.

Despite the money these traffickers made from their illegal dealings, they hid this from outsiders by assuming an appearance where they were living like they were poor. They were as cheap and stingy as possible, and always loudly complained in public about never having enough money, and talked like they were on the verge of losing their house for being unable to pay their mortgage.

She knew they had money and had tried negotiating with them for weeks to let her go on the trip, but nothing had worked.

She had not told either pastor about the mission trip to Switzerland, but after they both talked about it in a prophetic word, she had faith to believe that something would change and she would be able to go on the trip. The trip was really important to her because she thought if she could just get back to Europe, maybe there would be a way to get back to her family. She thinks this was an idea that God planted in her heart.

But after she received the prophetic words, she painted a picture on the Bible she had to help her have faith for that word to come to pass. The painting was a stained glass style painting of the Swiss Alps with a dove flying over it that represented the Holy Spirit, and hands lifted in worship. Every time she looked at the painting on her Bible, she thought about that prophetic words, and hoped and prayed that they would come true.

Just two days after the prophetic words were given to her, she noticed a Christian newsletter that had been mailed to the traffickers’ house. It was laying on the dining room table with the rest of the mail. She picked it up and read it and saw that it was advertising the same mission trip to the youth camp in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Victoria thought about the prophetic words she had received and believed this was the trip that the word was talking about.

She wondered if something had changed, if her faith had caused something to change. She tried asking the mother of the family she was living with to please let her go on the trip, but was again told no. This was discouraging. She chose to believe that if something happened where the trip didn’t work out, that God would find another way to rescue her.

Later that week on Saturday afternoon, before going to the Saturday night service at Pastor Phillip’s church, the two girls had met to talk and pray as Christian accountability partners over a lunch of gyros, Greek salad, and baklava at Jerusalem Cafe in the Westport area of Kansas City, Missouri.

When her friend asked her how she could pray for her that week, Victoria told her she was really homesick. She opened up about her family and told her friend all about her father who was a solider in the Israel Defense Forces. She told her about a boy she missed at home that she had hoped to marry one day, and she told her about a man from her church who had been like a father to her and had rescued her from a previous child trafficking incident—Joseph Cameron. All she wanted to do was find a way to contact him, but didn’t know how. She cried all throughout the lunch and talked about everything she missed about the life she had before she ended up in Kansas City, and it had been weighing on her heart all day.

That evening, at Pastor Phillip’s church, there was a time in the service where the worship leader at the church told everyone to stand up and pray for the person next to them. He told them to ask them what they needed prayer about, and to pray for them. When her friend asked her how she could pray for her, Victoria told her she was very homesick and all she was thinking about was her family and how much she wanted to go home. And so her friend prayed for her.

After the service that day at River of Life Church, when the two girls were leaving the building and walking to her friend’s car, her friend told her that she thought God spoke to her heart when she was praying for her during the service, and that he may have spoken to her about a way they could try to help her get home.

As they were walking to her friend’s car, her friend told her she felt her pain and prayed for her all throughout the service and thought the Holy Spirit was telling her that they they should call the telephone operator and describe the types of departments and offices that Joseph Cameron worked with, and have the operator help them get connected with these other types of departments, in order to try to find someone who had worked with him, that could help her get connected with him.

Victoria had been very discouraged with trying to get help to get out of her circumstances, as she had tried calling 911 and talking to the Kansas City police, and had even made a call that afternoon, which had been frustrating and counterproductive. They told her not to call them for help anymore. They said they had already heard her story and that they did not believe she was trafficked, and if she called them again, they would not respond. The father of the family she was trafficked to told her that he owned the Kansas City police, and that he paid those officers through his trafficking revenue, so he was protected by them instead of arrested and prosecuted. At that point, she believed him, so, she decided to try her friend’s idea.

The two girls then sat in the church parking lot in her friend’s car and prayed in tongues and sang worship songs and made phone calls on a cell phone for 45 minutes.

Then suddenly, somebody called them back and put Victoria in connection with FBI agents that worked with Joseph Cameron. They told her they had called him and talked to him personally, and he had confirmed that she was missing. He had been in the process of planning a funeral for her, as she had been presumed dead, after months of searching for her. Then through many tears and much emotion, he said that it was a miracle that she was found alive.

When she was on the phone with the officers from the FBI, she chose to have faith to test the word from God she received about how God was going to use a mission trip to Switzerland to help her get home. She told the FBI about the trip, and asked them if this could be something they could use to help her get home.

They had been talking about handling her circumstances through a lengthy complicated court system process that could have taken months. This made Victoria nervous, because of how the traffickers she was living with, the ones who made her call them “Mom” and “Dad,” had been talking about selling her to a brothel. She did not want to wait months for the authorities to fix her circumstances. However, because of the legal complications that were involved where the traffickers insisted they legally adopted her, the officers could not just show up and remove her from their house. They had to prove she was trafficked.

The officer Victoria spoke with told her he would take a look at the trip she was talking about, and would call her back, but they said he wouldn’t make any promises, because he had to review it and talk with his boss about it to see if it was something they could make possible. He asked her to stay by the phone, and told her he would call her back within an hour.

Victoria was very discouraged and thought his answer meant no. But her friend said she thought it was an encouraging answer and that they should pray in tongues and sing worship songs until he called back, so they did.

When he called back he said he and his boss had researched the missions organization that was advertising the mission trip to Switzerland in the newsletter and had researched the trip and decided this would be an acceptable way to get her home.

Victoria said she was so excited that prayer and faith and prophetic words worked, but held her breath hoping nothing would go wrong.

The officer explained to her that he was going to call the traffickers church and tell them that they had paid for her to go on the trip as anonymous donors. Then they would arrange her travel plans to Grindelwald separately, so she would not be traveling with anyone from the church. They explained that anyone from the church who knew the traffickers, whether they knew they were traffickers or not, were considered high risk people and could not be trusted, as they may default to being loyal to them, and this could cause things to go wrong. He explained that her part in this rescue operation was that she could not tell the traffickers that she had spoken with the officers. In order to get her on the plane, the traffickers had to believe she was going on the trip with the missions organization that sponsored the trip, and that she was coming back from the mission trip. He told her, “Once we’ve gotten you on the plane, you’re home free.”

This arrangement worked.

This was how a mission trip to Switzerland was used to get a child trafficking victim out of the hands of the people she was sold to, without the traffickers knowing what they were doing.

One of the reasons this worked so well was because, in 1996, there just so happened to be a United Nations military base operating in the underground bomb shelters in Switzerland, stationed in Grindelwald, Switzerland —the exact same city as the Euroventure summer youth camp.

When Victoria arrived in Switzerland at the youth camp, she was met by Israeli officers who were stationed there who then took her to the UN military base where she went through an identification process and was identified as Jason Cavendish’s missing daughter.

She was then reunited with her family on July 4, 1996 —Independence Day in America.

After Victoria was reunited with her family, she stayed in Grindelwald to attend the Euroventure summer camp while she was going through an official questioning process, to share information with officers from the UN about what had happened to her.

While at the camp, she went hiking in the Alps and stood at the top of a mountain peak near the camp and sang the worship song “Shout to the Lord,” as a song of worship and praise for the way God delivered her from being trafficked.

The painting she painted on her Bible was a way for her to have faith for the message of deliverance she heard to come true. It was used as a point of reference for her to have something to look at every day to encourage her to have faith for it to happen—and then it happened.

The lyrics to the Christian worship song “Shout to the Lord” by Darlene Zschech

My Jesus, my Saviour
Lord there is none like You
All of my days I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love

My comfort, my shelter
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You

Shout to the Lord all the Earth, let us sing
Power and majesty, praise to the King
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of Your name

I sing for joy at the work of Your hands
Forever I’ll love You, forever I’ll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have
In You

Victoria Cameron is now one of my heroes for having the strength and courage to live out the faith she heard, that was preached about at the church.

Victoria’s testimony reminds us that the presence of God does not simply rest on us by chance—it is something we fight for, pray for, and cling to in moments of trial, by fighting to stand in God’s presence even when the battle rages. Her life shows us that survival is not just escape—it is choosing faith over despair, light over darkness, and God’s presence over the lies of the enemy.

May this testimony remind us that our faith isn’t passive. Even in our darkest hours, faith can paint a path to freedom.

Editor’s Note:

Victoria Cameron was first child trafficked in 1989, and trafficked again in 1996, with her rescue and reunion with her family occurring on July 4, 1996. Both times, she was trafficked from London, UK, by Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell and then was trafficked to the same people in America.

Though Maxwell has denied that she knew Epstein in the 1980’s, and told the Department of Justice that she met Epstein in 1991 in his Manhattan office, a 2021 investigation by The Guardian reported that her association with Epstein began in the 1980’s, years earlier than commonly understood, and that she was sharing her “little black book” of contacts with him during that time.

During their investigation, The Guardian cross referenced the testimony from interviews with over 200 sources, rather than relying on a single piece of hot evidence, which allowed them to assert that Maxwell had known Epstein much earlier than she admitted to the Department of Justice. They also utilized court documents as a starting point for their investigation into Epstein’s business in London during the 1980’s, and found that Maxwell’s famous and wealthy friends were being used to build Epstein’s influential network as early as the 1980’s, and that her association with him was in tact in the 1980’s.

It is alleged that Maxwell has deliberately lied about when she met Epstein to direct people away from the crimes she committed with him in the 1980’s, including child trafficking Victoria Cameron.

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Scotland’s Les Misérables Seeks Justice For Victims Trafficked by Members of the British Government

Scotland’s Les Misérables is a multi-media justice project — a work that spans a memoir by child trafficking survivor Victoria Cameron, investigative journalism, documentary development, film concepts, musical theater, archival testimony, and historical research. Cameron emphasizes that her forthcoming memoir is just one component of a much larger undertaking. 

The purpose of the project is not merely to recount her personal story, but to expose the larger system in which it occurred: the child-trafficking networks operating inside the UK, the political and institutional failures that protected perpetrators, the intersections with Epstein and Maxwell, and the historic vulnerabilities created by Scotland’s lack of sovereignty. Her memoir is one doorway into that truth — but the project as a whole seeks to tell the wider story: the victims who never returned, the systems that failed them, and the national reckoning still required.

Scotland’s Les Misérables is not only Victoria Cameron’s testimony of child trafficking, survival, and rescue — it is a multi-layered historical record and creative project designed to bring the full truth into public light.

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