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proverbialwisdom

(4,959 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 08:37 PM Jun 2014

168 Juveniles Recovered in Nationwide Operation Targeting Commercial Child Sex Trafficking

Source: FBI National Press Office

During the past week, the FBI; its local, state, and federal law enforcement partners; and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) conducted Operation Cross Country VIII, a week-long enforcement action to address commercial child sex trafficking throughout the United States. This operation included enforcement actions in 106 cities across 54 FBI field divisions nationwide and resulted in 168 recoveries of children who were being victimized through prostitution. Additionally, 281 pimps were arrested on state and federal charges.

“Targeting and harming America’s children through commercial sex trafficking is a heinous crime, with serious consequences,” said FBI Director James B. Comey. “Every child deserves to be safe and sound. Through targeted measures like Operation Cross Country, we can end the cycle of victimization.”

“Child sex traffickers create a living nightmare for their adolescent victims,” said Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. “They use fear and force and treat children as commodities of sex to be sold again and again. This operation puts traffickers behind bars and rescues kids from their nightmare so they can start reclaiming their childhood.”

Operation Cross Country is part of the Innocence Lost National Initiative that was established in 2003 by the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, in partnership with the Department of Justice and NCMEC, to address the growing problem of child prostitution.

Read more: http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/168-juveniles-recovered-in-nationwide-operation-targeting-commercial-child-sex-trafficking

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168 Juveniles Recovered in Nationwide Operation Targeting Commercial Child Sex Trafficking (Original Post) proverbialwisdom Jun 2014 OP
This is what I pay taxes for! genwah Jun 2014 #1
+1,000! freshwest Jun 2014 #2
Your tax dollars at work meow2u3 Jun 2014 #3
Humans are depraved and should probably go extinct tabasco Jun 2014 #4
thanking the FBI Skittles Jun 2014 #5
Many of those rescued hadn't been reported missing. Ptah Jun 2014 #6
.... Sad 840high Jun 2014 #8
Hopefully they're checking the churches, too. xfundy Jun 2014 #7
High on anything IronLionZion Jun 2014 #10
I've heard that all these child porn/abuse arrests of late developed out of NSA intercepts. marble falls Jun 2014 #9
The reason that they haven't been reported as missing... lexx21 Jun 2014 #11
WHY is this not the #! story in America?? BadGimp Jul 2014 #12

Ptah

(32,951 posts)
6. Many of those rescued hadn't been reported missing.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 10:23 PM
Jun 2014
One impediment to the FBI's job: Many of those rescued hadn't been
reported missing.
"But for operations like this, these children likely would
never have been found," said John Ryan, head of the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children. He said states need better laws to make child
welfare services report missing children.



Many of those rescued hadn't been reported missing.


Many of those rescued hadn't been reported missing.



Many of those rescued hadn't been reported missing.



Many of those rescued hadn't been reported missing.


http://www.newser.com/story/188896/kids-not-reported-missing-rescued-in-fbi-bust.html


xfundy

(5,105 posts)
7. Hopefully they're checking the churches, too.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 10:26 PM
Jun 2014

As well as mosques and synagogues and temples. Those who are high on religion seem to believe they can get away with anything.

IronLionZion

(45,162 posts)
10. High on anything
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 01:22 PM
Jun 2014

people high on power, money, hard drugs, etc. seem to think basic human decency is for other people.

lexx21

(321 posts)
11. The reason that they haven't been reported as missing...
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:23 PM
Jun 2014

is because the foster "family" would not receive money if the kid was not there. Don't report them missing and social services will continue to send them that check. There are some people who should never be allowed to foster a child much less even be near a child.

Also... WAY TO GO FBI!!!! Kudos!

BadGimp

(4,008 posts)
12. WHY is this not the #! story in America??
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:38 PM
Jul 2014

A single amber alert can send an entire state into a tizzy but we have 168 kids recovered from child sex slave rings and the us media is SILENT! 281 arrested!

Our society is sick my friends.. very very Sick!

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