Stonebriar Church Child Traffickers said They Worked for War Child
Sex traffickers posed as adoption agency at Stonebriar Church where they bought children from congregants and gave finders fees in exchange for their lives in an alleged procurement for child trafficking scheme. Child traffickers were seen actively networking in the Stonebriar Church lobby according to Stonebriar Church attenders.
____
DALLAS, TX —Sex traffickers posed as adoption agency at Stonebriar Church where they bought children from congregants and gave finders fees in exchange for their lives in an alleged procurement for child trafficking scheme. These traffickers were seen actively networking in the Stonebriar Church lobby according to Stonebriar Church attenders.
According to John Brent, Stonebriar Church attender, they said they were representing a humanitarian organization called War Child, but it is unknown if they actually work for the organization.
War Child states on their website, “The War Child Care System is an integrated suite of interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing of children and youth affected by conflict. Grown out of more than 25 years of experience working with children in war zones, it enables us to meet children’s varying needs – all according to the highest standards of humanitarian care.”
This organization provides care and solutions to children whose lives and communities have been affected by war and conflict and works to rebuild their lives and communities. That’s understandable. But at Stonebriar Church in Frisco, TX, there were people networking in the lobby of the church who said they worked for that organization and they were asking people at the church to give them children to send through their adoption agency. Doesn’t that seem a little off practice for an agency who specializes in improving the lives of children that are affected by war?
”Last I checked, Stonebriar Church was not a war zone,” said Matt Reynolds, a Stonebriar Church attender, “so I don’t’ know what War Child would be doing here.”
According to Stonebriar Church attenders that DCN spoke with, most people who interacted with the people who said they were affiliated with War Child, thought they were looking for Christian families to adopt children who were the victims of overseas conflicts. But that’s not what they were promoting. They wanted people from Stonebriar Church to give them children to be adopted, and they promised very large cheques in exchange for the children.
They were asking people to refer children to them that were referred to as “problem children,” which was defined by them as children who are the product of teenage pregnancies, or who are in single parent homes, or who have behavioral problems.
As it is not unusual for there to be costs involved with adoptions, that didn’t seem to raise red flags with most people, but some people were suspicious.
“If you knew that Ghislaine Maxwell was the one that was in charge of the group that was networking in the lobby asking for children, would that make you think something wasn’t right?” asked Anita Hill, a Stonebriar Church attender.
“Back when this first started at Stonebriar Church, people didn’t know how bad of a criminal she was, as she had not been arrested yet or charged for sex trafficking. But when the most notorious sex trafficker of modern times shows up at your church and asks you to give her kids to “adopt” in exchange for a cheque, wouldn’t you think something was wrong?” asked Hill.
According to Ross Monroe, another Stonebriar Church attender, “The problem a lot of people had in recognizing that this was child trafficking was that on the surface, if all you see is someone passing out business cards and talking about adoptions, just that doesn’t give anyone enough material to say I know this is child trafficking. But when you know Ghislaine had her hand in the pot with it, that changes your perspective, but then how do you constructively prove it?”
These representatives that said they were affiliated with War Child, also sold sensual massage packages that they said they ran through their sister company, an escort business. They asked people at the church to recommend girls to them that might be looking for a job.
“Now, what is an adoption agency doing connected with a sensual massage and escort business?” said Monroe, “that right there tells you there’s more going on than just adoptions. It’s suspicious. It makes you uncomfortable. It suggests that something nefarious could be happening or is most likely happening to these kids that are run through this agency, but again, how do you prove it?”
Monroe and Brent said they both contacted War Child through their website to ask them if the people who were networking in the Stonebriar Church lobby who said they were affiliated with them had any connection with their organization, and they never received a response. They also filed complaints on the War Child website about them, but never received a response. Then when they tried to follow up on their complaints, the representatives they spoke with from War Child were not able to locate their complaints.
“It was kind of fishy,” said Monroe.
“The thing I didn’t like about this whole situation, was that it got people who would not normally be interested in trying to help a family that was having a hard time with a child, actively looking for kids to give to this organization, because of the large cheques they said they gave them for kids, which they called their finders fees,” said Brent. “These people got themselves involved in the affairs of others simply to get a cheque, and not because they actually cared about what was best for the child. They were totally motivated by the money.”
Most people who reported encounters at Stonebriar Church with the individuals that said they represented War Child, stated they engaged in conversations with a short petite woman with short black hair who identified herself as “Bri,” and a man about 6 feet tall, who was muscular with white hair who identified himself as “Kevin.” Some people also reported encounters with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who have been confirmed by FBI field officers to have visited Stonebriar Church on a few occasions with Kevin and Bri.
Kevin was seen reminding Bri that they were Kevin and Bri at “this church,” which indicated they may have been visiting other churches engaging in the same type of business, under different names.
When these individuals visited Stonebriar Church, they walked around the church lobby after the services and talked to different groups of people that were standing around talking. They shook hands with various people and passed out their business cards. They told people Stonebriar Church was their church, and that they watched it online. They said they were affiliated with War Child, and said they helped facilitate adoptions, and that they pay finders fees for children they acquire for adoptions.
In addition to networking in the Stonebriar Church lobby, the sex traffickers that visited the church may have also visited the church’s women’s bible study ministry.
Janiey Robinson, another Stonebriar Church attender, said she knew a couple women who received these finders fees for giving children to the people who said they were affiliated with War Child.
“The women I know who both got finders fees from them were both in women’s bible study at Stonebriar. I don’t think they knew or understood they were selling a child to traffickers, as I think they really thought they were referring a child to a legitimate adoption agency. One of my friends said she used the money she got from the finders fee she got to have the floors replaced in her kitchen, and did some other home improvement renovations with it, and my other friend said she used her finders fee to upgrade her lawn and have the landscaping in her yard redone by a professional company, because she didn’t like the way her husband did it,” said Robinson.
Alison Monroe, another Stonebriar Church attender, is furious about what happened at the church.
“To think you could be going to a home Bible study at a person’s house here in the church at Stonebriar and walking around on the floor they put down with the money they got for selling a child,” said Alison.
“Why is that floor more important than a child’s life? Who sells a child so they can get the floors in their house replaced?” said Alison.
The people at Stonebriar Church are digging graves by letting this go on like that, and they are letting it go on by ignoring and turning a cold shoulder to them that try to talk about it. How many people’s grandbabies have died in the hands of these traffickers because there are those that are tolerating this kind of behavior, just looking the other way when it happens, saying I don’t want to be involved.
“I have grandbabies at my church dying because they got in the hands of these traffickers. This is an urgent matter of life and death! I am tired of these people at my church at Stonebriar operating under the radar and trafficking people’s grandbabies,” said Alison Monroe.
*In our ongoing look into what happened at Stonebriar Church, DCN spoke with undercover officers to confirm information reported in this article. These officers were a part of the undercover investigation that led to the arrests of Epstein and Maxwell, and are officers in association with the office of James Dennehy, assistant director of the FBI’s New York field office. They requested to be referred to as “field officers” in order to maintain their integrity as undercover officers and so as not to jeopardize ongoing investigations.
We reached out to Stonebriar Church for questions and comments when we worked on this, and we were ignored.
How Readers Can Respond: Next Steps For Those Who Wish To Engage Thoughtfully 
Support Victoria’s Restoration Fund
Learn more about how you can stand with Victoria: Standing With Victoria
Read about The Trafficking Issue at Stonebriar Church
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
