What is the difference between self-defense and cold-blooded revenge? In this short video, U.S. Concealed Carry Association Director of Content Kevin Michalowski reacts to a Spokane police department press release about a man who abducted and murdered the teen responsible for allegedly selling his daughter into sex slavery. How far is too far?

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Authorities solved a 2020 murder in late 2021 when John B. Eisenmen admitted to killing his daughter’s boyfriend. The Washington state father claimed to have killed the 19-year-old after obtaining information that his daughter had been sold into sex slavery.

Human trafficking is an all-too-common occurrence. Families should be proactive in teaching their children to look out for suspicious actors. Below are some tips to avoid becoming a victim.

  • Travel in groups whenever in public and be aware of your surroundings. Don’t walk alone in secluded areas. Traffickers are known to abduct individuals.
  • If you plan to meet someone you befriended on social media, do not go alone. Traffickers regularly employ social media as a means of luring victims to them.
  • Trust your gut. Don’t put yourself in an uncomfortable situation or around suspicious people.

The details of sex trafficking in this case were murky, and Eisenmen’s daughter has not issued comments on the situation. Eisenmen also admitted to using meth before killing the 19-year-old victim. While this man used a knife to enact his revenge, it is important to remember a concealed carry permit and a gun are not equal to a badge. If you have information or evidence of a crime, work with the necessary law enforcement to bring criminals to justice.

Transcript

Is this justice? What is appropriate punishment when someone does something unthinkable to a member of your family? In this video, I’m reacting to a story on how a Washington state father killed the boyfriend of his 19-year-old daughter for selling that girl into a sex trafficking ring.

Alright, here’s the story. A Washington state father killed his daughter’s 19-year-old boyfriend for selling her into a sex trafficking ring. Police report that the boyfriend’s remains were discovered in the trunk of a car abandoned on east Everett avenue in Spokane, Washington, last month. So investigators believe that the victim was killed in November of 2020.

Here’s how this played out. The girl’s father — John Eisenmen, 60 years old — he’s charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond. Police said Eisenmen learned in October of 2020 that his juvenile daughter had been sold into a sex trafficking ring in Seattle. And he obtained information — I don’t know how he obtained it — he obtained information that her boyfriend was responsible.

So Eisenmen, he was able to rescue his daughter and get her back to Spokane that same month. When the father learned where her daughter’s boyfriend was going to be, he drove there, waited for the 19-year-old to arrive and, during that encounter, Eisenmen abducted the victim. He abducted this girl’s boyfriend, tying him up, putting him in the trunk of the vehicle. He then subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the head with a cinder block and stabbing him repeatedly, causing his death. This is all according to the police press release that came out with this after the homicide.

Eisemen drove the vehicle to a remote area in north Spokane county and abandoned it with the body still inside. The car remained in this remote area, apparently, until last month when somebody drove it into Spokane and left it on east Everett avenue.

The remains were discovered after people began rummaging through the vehicle because it was abandoned. So Amber Hellman said her boyfriend and a friend were working outside and noticed the car had been left there on the street for a while. “We were just looking around, and, for some reason, they decided to look in the trunk. And all I hear is ‘there’s a body,’” she told a reporter from NBC over there in Spokane. Authorities said they didn’t believe the person who moved the car was aware that there was a body in the trunk.

Okay, so what do you think about a situation like this? Is this going too far? Understand, this was not a gun crime at all. This was a father who was getting revenge on his daughter’s boyfriend because the boyfriend sold her into a sex trafficking ring. This is something that’s all too common. And we need to teach our children to watch out for stuff like this. And a lot of kids just don’t want to hear it. They don’t believe that it’s going to happen. But understand, it happens all too often, and a lot of times young women don’t even know that it’s happening until it’s way too late. Tell us what you think about this father’s punishment. Did he do the right thing? Did he go too far? Where does the balance work when we’re talking about defending our family?