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Prosecution of Child Traffickers Plummeted Under Trump - Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News
Prosecution of Child Traffickers Plummeted Under TrumpLink to tweet
(CN) – For many victims, last week’s incarceration of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein represents belated justice after more than a decade of impunity and governmental complicity.
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, right, accompanied President Donald Trump, left, speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on July 12, 2019, announcing his resignation over his handling of a 2008 case involving Jeffrey Epstein.
Beneath that gloomy surface, however, an even darker picture emerges: federal prosecutions of those who trafficked children for sex dropped 26.7% over the last year.
The startling numbers appeared Tuesday in a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
more:
https://www.courthousenews.com/prosecution-of-kiddie-traffickers-plummeted-under-trump/
...and under ACOSTA FFS
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