When the
Mirror asked Hansen about her experience as an advocate, she responded through the RGA and pointed to a march that she participated in that happened at the Arizona state Capitol to “raise awareness about the truth of human trafficking happening right here in Phoenix.”
That march was organized by local conspiracy theorist Adel Belgaied,
who organized several “Save the Children” events. Belgaied, who Hansen specifically mentioned in her email to the
Mirror, was also a
Stop the Steal organizer.
Belgaied was a
frequent presence at
protests at the Maricopa County Elections Department often spreading mistruths about the election. His other priority was to “Save the Children,” a mantra that
helped mainstream many QAnon beliefs.
Hansen cited creating t-shirts to raise money for organizations as one of the ways she advocated for victims of human trafficking.
One of the organizations that she said received the funds was Operation Underground Railroad. The group has a checkered past and itself
embraced QAnon when the #SaveTheChildren hashtag began gaining popularity. The group was
found to be fabricating statistics and has been
under criminal investigation related to alleged investigations that never took place.
Hansen said she also has helped raise $3000 for the Streetlight Foundation and assembled kits for law enforcement to give to victims of human or sex trafficking. The only public evidence the
Mirror could find of Hansen’s work were two Facebook posts. One was from
CeCe’s Hope Center thanking Hansen for an event to assemble kits for victims. The other was a post by Hansen advertising “Save the Children” t-shirts.
“The few fundraisers and events I put together were amazing and beneficial to victims and survivors, but I’ve also been able to speak and educate a lot of people and spread awareness on this matter,” Hansen said to the
Mirror in her statement. “Advocating isn’t always ‘how much money do you donate’ or ‘what physical actions do you take.’ It comes in different capacities and the main focus should be on the victims and how we can fight human trafficking. Not focusing on the capacity at which someone advocates.”
According to a
federally funded report, the
vast majority of human trafficking victims come from local sources. Oftentimes, local gangs are involved in the coercion of young teens in high schools. Nationwide, QAnon is
causing issues for real world anti-sex trafficking efforts and has
complicated education on those issues for researchers when it gets tangled up within the depths of QAnon, which posits there is a global ring trafficking children for sex and demonic rituals that is controlled by a sinister cabal of elites.
Hansen has also spread conspiracy theories online about COVID-19. A post found by the Mirror found that Hansen shared the misinformation film “Plandemic,” one of the first viral coronavirus conspiracy theories, during the early days of the pandemic.
“Youtube (sic) keeps removing it but here is one that works,” Hansen wrote in the post. “Like they say, it’s time to wake up and be mad we’re losing our freedoms!”
The film was widely debunked and criticized for making
countless unsubstantiated claims, including that the virus is “activated” by face masks. Hansen defended the film in comments on the post vigorously also claiming there was a “hidden agenda” behind the virus.
