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 Americas 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 FBIs 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
genwah
(574 posts)meow2u3
(24,774 posts)the way they should be! WTG, G-men!
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Let evolution try again.
Skittles
(153,220 posts)Ptah
(33,044 posts)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)As well as mosques and synagogues and temples. Those who are high on religion seem to believe they can get away with anything.
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)people high on power, money, hard drugs, etc. seem to think basic human decency is for other people.
marble falls
(57,353 posts)lexx21
(321 posts)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
(4,020 posts)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!