Kathryn Bolkovac Courtesy Palgrave Macmillan. In the late s Kathyrn Bolkovac — a Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three — answered a job ad to work in Bosnia for a U. She looked forward to a good salary, travel and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country as a human rights investigator.
She expected hard work and real challenges. But she never expected her investigations into sex trafficking and prostitution rings would implicate some of her U. Whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac on fighting the sex trade — and why she was fired from her job. Her story has been made into a major motion picture coming to theaters this summer. It's about an ex-cop from Nebraska, Kathryn Bolkovac, who went to work as a human rights investigator in Bosnia.
There she came upon victims of sex trafficking, many of them teenage girls from former Soviet Bloc countries. Bolkovac found evidence that UN personnel were involved. When she tried to do something about it, she was fired. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this really very, very important subject. Join us on Send us your e-mail, you can join us on Facebook or Twitter.
Good morning to you, Kathryn, and thanks for being here. I had been a police officer in Lincoln, Neb. I hadn't heard too much about DynCorp. A couple of my fellow colleagues had gone to work for them in previous years, actually, but I'd not heard any bad reports about them and I thought it sounded interesting, intriguing and thought I would try something new. He was Croatian. And I had watched from my sofa in Lincoln during the Bosnian wars and the turmoil those people had gone through and it was just sort of a premonition that I would someday go there, but I had no idea how.
So in and , I started investigating it and went ahead and applied and was accepted to go. There wasn't much. They started out by sending basically reference questionnaires to me through faxes and mail packets. They interviewed a couple of my colleagues and supervisors and then nothing actually was done after that until we were told we were hired. I was told I was hired and taken to Forth Worth, Texas for what was sort of an orientation.
