Girls Signed Up to be Escorts for Epstein in the Stonebriar Church Lobby
In 2018, sex traffickers approached girls at Stonebriar Church, recruiting them as escorts. They discussed job benefits linked to an escort service. Why did sex traffickers walk into a church expecting to find people that were interested in what they had to offer? And what can we do as Christians to prevent this from happening again?
DALLAS, TX — DCN previously reported on the child trafficking suspects that were operating at Stonebriar Church in Frisco, TX, that had an association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Epstein and Maxwell visited Stonebriar Church a handful of times in 2018, but their associates, Kevin and Bri, were the ones most people interacted with. According to information DCN obtained from field officers who conducted an undercover investigation at the church, it looked as though Epstein and Maxwell may have been training them as their apprentices. Epstein and Maxwell also sometimes used the aliases “Kevin” and “Bri,” which was confusing to some, and thought to be a way to distance themselves from The Miami Herald investigation into their activities.
The field officers who provided information for this article and our ongoing look into what happened at Stonebriar Church, are undercover officers who were a part of the undercover investigation that led to the arrests of Epstein and Maxwell, and were 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.
One officer stated about the suspicious activities that took place at Stonebriar Church,
“Evil does not always knock on the back door, sometimes it walks right down the center aisle.”
While visiting Stonebriar Church, Maxwell and her associates claimed they were affiliated with War Child, a humanitarian organization that is a charity that works to improve the lives of children affected by conflict, known for their work in education, child protection, and psychological support. They also claimed the adoptions they arranged were run through that agency and offered very large and generous finders fees for children that were given to them to be adopted.
However, because of their association with Epstein and Maxwell, these adoptions were suspected to be procurement for child trafficking.
Maxwell and her associates openly talked about the sensual massage business and escort operation they ran alongside their adoption business. They sold massage packages to interested individuals at the church and set out to recruit girls from Stonebriar Church to work as escorts.
This started, according to witnesses, in March of 2018, and continued throughout the summer.
They were observed by field officers as they approached girls in the church lobby after the Sunday services let out, and offered them jobs as massage therapists and escorts. Officers said they saw the group actively talking to various girls in the church lobby after the services, pitching their escort jobs, talking about the high salaries they pay, and the opportunities they would have to work their way up in their organization to travel internationally and visit resorts.
“How would you like to make living at a five star resort your way of life?” asked Epstein, to interested girls at the church.
“We secure the clients for you, and all you have to do is show up for work,” said Epstein, “It’s as simple as pie.”
According to witnesses, Epstein told the girls who were interested, to take sexual pictures and videos of themselves, just whatever they would normally send to their boyfriend on a sex chat, and talk to him like he’s their boyfriend, and he would judge based on how that went, if they were good fits for the job. This appeared to be his way of screening job candidates. He called the sex photos and videos “a portfolio,” and said they needed a good portfolio to work for him.
According to witnesses, Epstein told the girls that people who work for him make more money in their job if they refer people to him and the referral results in that person being hired.
Alison Monroe, a Stonebriar Church attender, said,
“They were just out there in broad daylight in my church lobby talking to people about signing up to be escorts. How did this happen at my church?”
According to Monroe, a girl who was a member of the church orchestra, was actively listening to Epstein talk about his job offer, and was very excited about the job opportunity and said she thought she could get other girls to sign up for the job. She said she also attended The Upperroom Church in Dallas, TX, and said she also knew a lot of girls at that church that she thought would be interested.
According to Monroe, the girl told the recruiter that they were practically already doing all of that in their dating relationships anyway, but this was better because they would get paid for it.
Field officers who were monitoring the group, told DCN reporters that members of this group and their associates had visited other megachurches doing the same things they witnessed them doing at Stonebriar Church. They said there were a number of locations of interest in the Dallas Fort Worth area and other places as well that were being monitored, but did not specify which locations were being monitored.
They stated it was unknown how directly involved Epstein and Maxwell were with what their associates were doing at megachurches, as it looked like their associates were the ones who were predominately involved.
Stonebriar Church Choir member, Victoria Cameron, was among the witnesses that saw Epstein and Maxwell engage in conversations with girls about becoming escorts.
Cameron is a former child trafficking victim of Epstein and Maxwell’s and said she had post traumatic stress disorder reactions towards them when she recognized them visiting her church. She said she had hoped to never ever see the two of them again anywhere, and then their paths crossed in the most unlikely place, right there at her church.
She said, “It was blindsiding to me that they showed up at my church. Satan did this.”
She tried to steer the girls at the church that she saw had interest in working for Epstein away from signing up as escorts, and strongly discouraged them from taking these jobs.
Cameron said, “Watching these girls talk about how excited they were about this job opportunity was heart wrenching for me.”
She said all she thought about was her friend who had been destroyed by one of Epstein’s massage jobs. DCN has confirmed the identity of her friend as well as her friend’s case, and is referring to her friend as “Jane Doe,” for the purposes of her safety.
She said, “I know because of what happened to Doe where that road he was offering them ends. I don’t know want to see anyone go through what happened to her.”
Cameron rescued Doe from a house where Doe had been sex trafficked and then turned her over to federal officers. Doe is now in a federal recovery program as a protected witness.
Cameron explained that when she tried to steer the girls she knew at Stonebriar Church away from the job Epstein was offering them, they thought she was overreacting.
“There was absolutely nothing I could do to convince them not to pursue this. They had stars in their eyes when they talked to him, when he was courting them with this job offer. He seduced them like a serpent. It was so sickening.”
Of the six girls that signed up to work as escorts, Cameron was casually acquainted with two of them. She met them April 1, 2018, at an Easter Sunday brunch that was hosted by Marsha, an alto in the Stonebriar Church choir. One of the girls was a member of the church orchestra. The other used to live in the guest room at Marsha’s house.
She said she was disappointed with the way these girls flocked to the escort job, because it told her a lot about their character, and about what kind of people they were, and it told her they couldn’t be trusted.
She said, “I want friends that have a pure whole hearted devotion to God, the kind that don’t compromise their Christian moral values, and they weren’t who I wanted them to be.”
Linda Smith, a 72 year old Stonebriar Church attender, said,
“I told those girls that taking a job like that was irresponsible, and that there were risks involved that no person should want to take. They didn’t seem to think that an old lady like myself knew what she was talking about.”
Epstein talked to the girls who signed up to be escorts about an orientation they would have to go through on a Saturday after he approved them for the job. He introduced Kevin to them and told them that he was going to be their contact person for this area, and that they would rarely see him or hear from him because Kevin was who they would be working with.
Smith said, “I didn’t like anything that I was hearing them talk about.”
She said she was upset when she saw what they were talking about and that she became even more upset when she heard Kevin talking about Pastor Tony Cammarota when he was talking about the orientation, like this man was somehow involved with it.
She said “I thought, did I hear that right? Then when they kept talking on about it, I about had a heart attack on the spot.”
She saw two of the girls at church that signed up to be escorts the week after they had their orientation. She asked them how it went. The one in the church orchestra said she got in right away. She said all she had to do for her orientation after her portfolio was approved, was try to seduce the guy that did her orientation, and that if he got turned on by her and it led to a sex act, then she would be hired, and she said she got hired.
The other girl said she got a review and was given suggestions to improve her portfolio. She was complaining about being rejected, and said she was going to try again.
The girl that was rejected said, “It’s good feedback. It’s good feedback. I didn’t want to hear it, but it helps me. He’s just telling me why none of my failed relationships worked out.”
The one that was rejected may have signed up at a later date.
Smith said she saw Cammarota, laughing and giggling with the girl in the church orchestra who signed up to be an escort, while the two of them were walking through the church lobby together on a Sunday right after the church service let out, as she was in the lobby talking with her friends about where they were going to go for lunch. The girl in the orchestra pinched Cammarota and he took a church program and playfully swatted her behind.
Smith explained she was upset by what she saw because Cammarota, who was married to another woman, was playfully flirting with this girl like she was his girlfriend, something a spokesperson for Cammarota stated was a misunderstanding.
She said, “He had something to do with whatever that orientation was about. I can tell by the way they’re acting.”
The spokesperson for Cammarota DCN spoke with stated that Cammarota was suspicious of the talk about the orientation that he saw the girl from the church orchestra engaging in with Epstein and Maxwell, then thought by some to be individuals named “Kevin” and “Bri,” so he stepped in and told them he would do the orientation instead of the person from their organization they had planned to use, in order to protect the girl from the orchestra and steer her away from them.
According to onlookers, he was seen scolding the girl as they walked away from the conversation and said, “Do you want to tell me what that was about?” suggesting he did not have prior knowledge of the group’s activities, and may have stepped into the conversation as a concerned pastor to get information about the context of the job that was being discussed.
“I was there, I saw it. He acted like he saw something going on that rubbed him the wrong way when he stepped into the conversation. I thought he was just doing his job as a church staff member, looking out for people,” said Julie, a Stonebriar Church attender.
Field officers also observed Cammarota in the church lobby the week after this orientation took place.
He was observed standing with a group of teenage boys and talking with them in graphic detail about sexual encounters, something observers thought was inappropriate.
Cameron also saw this and said it really struck her when she saw the way he was talking about his sexual encounters with women. She said what she heard sounded degrading to women, and did not like manner women were spoken of like they were sex objects, and said it told her that something was wrong.
“Because of what I went through when I was child trafficked, I expect the people who are pastors to the complete opposite kind of people than them, and it made me feel vulnerable and unsafe when I saw a pastor at a church talking and acting like he was more like them than a pastor,” said Cameron.
Another church attender who also observed the conversation stated, “I thought it was inappropriate for a pastor to be engaging in conversation like that, and I would have liked to see him turn talk like that around to encourage young boys to have respect for women.”
Cammarota ignored DCN reporters who questioned him about this and refused to comment. The two girls who are alleged to have shown an interest in the escort job also ignored us and refused to comment.
Why did sex traffickers walk into a church expecting to find people that were interested in what they had to offer? And what can we do as Christians to prevent this from happening again?
We reached out to Stonebriar Church for questions and comments when we worked on this, and we were ignored.
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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
