The organization is led by Tim Ballard, a high ranking officer in the government, who during his many operations overseas, uncovered the dark enterprise of human trafficking happening to young children.
These children were being sold for sex, labor, and organ harvesting.
When he tried to do something about it and realized that as a government official, there was nothing the government could do because they weren’t American cases, he decided to leave his job, his pension, and his ranking, to start an organization called Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.).