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Internet Is On Fire With Speculation That Podesta Emails Contain Code for Child Sex

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Emails revealed by Wikileaks from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta's account contained lots of strange talk about food, ties to human trafficker Laura Silsby, and a photo of Asian girls eating pizza — so naturally the internet has been set on fire with theories about secret codes and a child sex ring.

Silsby was found guilty in Haiti of child trafficking in 2010, after she attempted to cross the Haiti-Dominican Republic border with 33 Haitian children — all but one of the children had at least one living parent and were not orphans. Nine others who were arrested along with her were freed, thanks to the efforts of the Clintons.

"Along with the Haitian justice system, some observers excused the missionaries' actions, even though they rose to the level of child trafficking. They did so essentially because we place such little value on the integrity of poor families; the idea that the missionaries were acting to 'save' these children justified the damage they would have caused to the children and their families," Shani M. King wrote for the Harvard Human Rights Journal. "In this way, the Silsby case offers a window into international and domestic child placement schemes that disrupt poor families and disregard traditional forms of child placement."

Jorge Puello Torres, Silsby's legal adviser, was later arrested for running an international sex trafficking ring. Torres was accused of luring girls from the Caribbean and Central America into prostitution by offering to make them "models."

In 2011, he was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for "alien smuggling."

"Hillary has a LONG history of interest in Ms. Silsby. Wikileak emails dating back till at least 2001 have been found in her archives discussing Laura's NGO (EmailID 3776). Laura had claimed she planned to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, but authorities in the country said she never submitted an application for this purpose. They instead located to Haiti," the Redditor wrote.

On Friday, Wikileaks released their 28th installment of the Podesta Files and the speculation online grew even stranger.