Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Child traffickers arrested in Mississippi

The FBI issued the following statement.


FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
Nationwide Underage Sex Trafficking Crackdown Leads to Recovery of 84 Minors

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), announced today that 84 minors were recovered and 120 traffickers were arrested across the United States as part of Operation Cross Country XI, a nationwide effort focusing on underage human trafficking that ran from October 12-15, 2017.

The FBI Jackson Division’s Child Exploitation Task Force and its partners arrested two traffickers and 20 individuals associated with prostitution in Mississippi. The overall goal of the operation is to recover underage human trafficking victims. All suspects arrested during this operation will be charged in the local jurisdiction where they were arrested.

This is the 11th iteration of the FBI-led Operation Cross Country (OCC), which took place this year in 55 FBI field offices and involved 78 state and local task forces, consisting of hundreds of law enforcement partners. This year’s coordinated operations took place with several international partners, including Canada (Operation Northern Spotlight), the United Kingdom (Aident 8), Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines.

The FBI Jackson Division partnered with the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, Prentiss County Sheriff’s Office, Ridgeland Police Department, Jackson Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Rankin County Sheriff’s Office, Madison Police Department and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi for Operation Cross Country. The University of Mississippi Medical Center provided medical support for the operation.

“We at the FBI have no greater mission than to protect our nation’s children from harm. Unfortunately, the number of traffickers arrested—and the number of children recovered—reinforces why we need to continue to do this important work,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “This operation isn't just about taking traffickers off the street. It's about making sure we offer help and a way out to these young victims who find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of abuse."

As part of Operation Cross Country XI, FBI agents and task force officers staged operations in hotels, casinos, and truck stops, as well as on street corners and Internet websites. The youngest victim recovered during this year’s operation was 3 months old, and the average age of victims recovered during the operation was 15 years old. Minors recovered during Cross Country Operations are offered assistance from state protective services and the FBI’s Victim Services Division. Depending on the level of need, victims are offered medical and mental health counseling, as well as a number of other services.

“Child sex trafficking is happening in every community across America, and at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, we’re working to combat this problem every day,” said NCMEC President and CEO John Clark. “We’re proud to work with the FBI on Operation Cross Country to help find and recover child victims. We hope OCC generates more awareness about this crisis impacting our nation’s children.”

Operation Cross Country XI is part of the FBI’s Innocence Lost National Initiative, which began in 2003 and has yielded more than 6,500 child identifications and locations. For additional information on Operation Cross Country XI and the Innocence Lost initiative, please visit www.fbi.gov.

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Examples of stories from various cities that took part in Operation Cross Country XI:

On October 13th, FBI Denver recovered two minor girls—one 3-month-old and one 5-year-old. The subject, a friend of the children's family, offered an undercover officer access to the two children for sexual purposes in exchange for $600. The FBI is working with Child Protective Services to conduct a forensic interview and secure safe placement of the children. The subject was placed under arrest.

Also on October 13th, a 16-year old female victim was recovered by FBI El Paso, after an undercover agent called an online advertisement for entertainment. Shortly thereafter, the agent met with a 21-year-old female, who offered a fee of $200 to engage in sexual intercourse with her and another female, the 16-year-old victim. Further investigations revealed that a second adult female drove the minor and the 21-year-old to the undercover’s location. Both female subjects have been arrested on federal charges.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank God and these agencies. Though this probably doesn't put a dent in it. There are a lot of sick, sick individuals in this world.

Anonymous said...

You really have to have some serious marbles loose running around upstairs to want to violate a child for sexual gratification. There should be a special place in jail hell for these sick-tards.

Anonymous said...

3 month old kids. What the *&^* is wrong with these people and why is this country so lenient on sex traffickers. Make it a mandatory life sentence for these animals.

Anonymous said...


I SAY NO LIFE SENTENCE---HANG THEM---I'll let you use the Oak Tree in my front yard !!!!!!!!!!!!

John said...

I believe that mandatory lobotomies are appropriate for people who are found guilty of child trafficking. If you're not familiar with the procedure, read up on it. It would save us a lot of money and a whole lot of grief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

Anonymous said...

Deviance is age old (think Caligula) -- but now it is on steroids with the internet, and with the destruction of the nuclear family. All this has exponentially increased the occurrences of this type of activity. First, I"m sick to my stomach. Second -- 50 years ago this would have been easily handled by Dad and the "family"......EASILY handled. Dad's not around any more sadly.

Now we incarcerate, rehabilitate (NOT) and release, and we extinguish Darwinism. The weak and mentally ill, are taking over society and we are allowing them to become our moral compass. The perp's rights trump everything, including the victims, and more importantly -- we wonder why replacement on the Supreme Court is critical. Courts are part of the reason we're here at this point.

Remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- DEFINING DEVIANCY DOWN -- I'm a Republican but have to respect him for having the vision and the guts to tell us how it would end.

"In 1993, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) coined the phrase “defining deviancy down.” Moynihan’s thesis was that, as a society, America has been “re-defining deviancy” so as to exempt conduct previously stigmatized, and quietly raising the “normal” level for behavior that was abnormal by earlier standards."

Anonymous said...

7:38 pm Your Dad and his " family" didn't think child abuse of any kind existed and certainly wouldn't believe anyone he knew was diddling with the children.
The first child abuse case in this country had to use animal protection laws as a child had zero legal protections in society. And, children still have few protections from their parents.
Do you have any notion what the " marriage age" was in Mississippi or how many men " sold" their daughters into " marriage" What do you think arranged marriages and asking for the father's permission were?
Do you think preachers and priests molesting children started in the '60's? Did you not do the math on the ages of those who came forward in the Catholic Church scandal or the ages of the priests involved or how long the church had hidden this ? It wasn't for just one or two generations!
Incest is a family tradition that goes back for generations as well and has happened in prominent families that would surprise you.
Male dominated societies still think they should be able to screw anything that moves ( cause the guy can't help it, right? ) Don't you get that radical Islam is all about the subjugation of women ? Or how about the male dominated Mormon sects in Utah?
You think " casting couch" is a term invented by Weinstein?
The difference is that you now know and your Dad didn't want to know. He was perfectly happy for child abuse to stay a secret and for women to have no power to tell.
You ought to read some old child abuse case records...sadly you can't...but you'd actually know that some girls enter puberty long before their teens and get raped and get pregnant. You'd know many didn't survive the pregnancy when abortion was illegal. You'd know we force teachers and doctors and police to report now because for years they wouldn't. They didn't want to " get involved' or spend time waiting to testify in court. Do you know you've in the last decade made it harder, not easier to protect children by gutting social services and reducing the ability for those protecting children to do so?
If you'd gone to national child abuse conferences where those dealing with the problem could talk about their cases ( without using names just describing the predators), you'd know Mississippi had a huge problem and abuse was the worst in the Deep South and big cities always.
And, by the way, if you want Darwinism to work so badly, you should be for making birth control available to the poor and make sure the girls who get raped by these predators ( whether they are strangers or not) aren't forced have the baby with her predators genes.
You might also want to learn enough about sexuality to make sure your little son or daughter isn't left sterile by some of the toxic chemicals and STDs and viruses we have now. Nor do you want your boys left sterile from the mumps! I'm sure you think your children are fit for survival.
I know ignorance is blissful. That's why you are so nostalgic. If you grew up in a decent family, you were mostly oblivious to the world around you and had zero responsibility for surviving in that world. Ignorance fine for children but it is dangerous for adults! Grow up!




Kingfish said...

Rack him.

Anonymous said...

7:41

You have things backwards and looking at life through the "world-view" glasses instead of the family/community glasses.

Ignorance is, indeed, bliss. And as the Thomas Gray original poem suggests, it is bliss because one is unaware of "bad" things and the dark realities of life. It is not my responsibility to make changes to the cultural issues in whichever backwater, seedy-corner, hedonistic casting couch to which you attest. It is my responsibility to keep that type of intimate knowledge from my children. It is my responsibility to keep numerous things secret from my children until they are old enough to bear the burden of that kind of knowledge.

Take a lead from those of us who have served in the military and saw things that haunts the soul. These are the type of people who have the knowledge and understand that others' ignorance is indeed bliss. Knowledge is indeed powerful, but power is not always a good thing.

My responsibility to my children/community does not mean that I ignore what is happening around me, but means that I don't go looking for it in other places at national child abuse conferences. If you need a conference to explain to you that child abuse is wrong, then perhaps something is wrong with YOUR ignorance.

The issue here is that we have somehow, culturally, raised the station of thespian to some high regard such that they are revered as mentors, leaders or that their personal opinion on any given matter is relative or even note-worthy. I am sorry, but people who lie and pretend to be someone else for a living are going to be aberrant.

With deference to the previous poster's idea of deviance. Deviance is just different from normal. Normal is just what people "think" of as normal. Life is very simple. I have every right to be as deviant as I want and every right to corrupt my children with said deviance as long as said deviance does not impinge on another person's similar rights. That DOES NOT mean that the other person has some right to not be offended.

As with everything in this modern one-upness world, kids come along and have to expand the definition of political correct phrases to create a new hill to climb. The reference to Moynihan's "defining deviancy down" is presented like it's negative. It wasn't a thesis. It is a political attempt to rewrite logic. As a society becomes more aware of other cultural or societal differences, those differences no longer deviate from the norm. Common sense, right?

Let's explain this backwardness more. Today, people are derided because they offer an opinion about a general subject. Yet, others are celebrated because they "demonstrate" or riot or initiate violence over their opinion on something else. Today, people openly suggests one get involved with the affairs of others in far away places but are the same ones that won't stop and help someone in need on the side of the road or intervene in an obvious situation to save a life or even save someone from injury. We have people who suggest it is the government's responsibility to take over the individual responsibility. In fact, modern society continues to move the responsibility goal posts to the point that the average citizen is no longer responsible and with the loss of those responsibilities.... what happens? Deviancy.

Anonymous said...

It would be nice to have pictures, names, and COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN of the traffickers.

It would also be nice to deport the traffickers, AND THEIR ENTIRE FAMILIES, when that is an option.

And for those fools who're talking as if they're sitting in the Senior Men's Sunday School class - this isn't about 'Americans' in the traditional sense. These traffickers are generally NOT the Americans portrayed by Norman Rockwell. It isn't about a shift in "values". It's about a demographic shift. Third World people do Third World things.

You import Third World people, and you import Third World "ways". The Bad Guys - both traffickers and customers - for the most part, do NOT look like the Bad Guys on 'Law & Order Special Victims'.

Anonymous said...

7:41 - -Can you read? Not let's rephrase that -- do you comprehend what you read?

It appears not because you went on a rant and did not at any level respond to what was said. My guess......social worker.

Anonymous said...

8:33 -- I'm confused....you lost me along the way and couldn't tell what your position was/is....kind of like the Whiskey Speech by Rep. N.S. "Soggy" Sweat Jr. delivered on April 4, 1952. I have an advanced degree but your attempt at profundity left me confused.

Anonymous said...

8:33 pm I'm 7:41 and the topic is sexual trafficking. You don't get to be " as deviant as you want" with your children because there are laws that prevent that. Children are no longer the same legally as your property.
An opinion is not the same as having factual knowledge of the subject which I do since I investigated child neglect and abuse.
You accuse me of a "world view" and I suppose you are defending "provincialism" though it's hard to tell since you don't stay on subject.
Nevertheless, I would point out to you that children leave home. They may not always live in your sphere in this century. What happens in, say, N.Korea, will affect them. More importantly, you will make them vulnerable to sexual predators if you remain so ill informed.

Anonymous said...

6:52

Try quoting the whole sentence in your retorts if you pretend to want to actually argue a point. Arguing against a point that wasn't made is... pointless.

Opinion is what you provided. Your opinion on whether it is based on factual knowledge is just that, your opinion.

But, alas, you started your original retort with "7:38 pm Your Dad and his " family" didn't think child abuse of any kind existed and certainly wouldn't believe anyone he knew was diddling with the children."

You have to state an irresponsible fact of certainty with absolutely zero credibility, just to start your attempt at dissertation. Projecting that 7:38's Dad didn't think child abuse of any kind existed is the type of obfuscation used to move goal posts.

Children are legally "my property" as long as I am legally responsible. Your jump to the absurd is duly noted and I will play within that stupidity.

Pretty simple. Property rights are simply rights enforced against everyone else. As a parent, I have the responsibility of a parent and the custodial duty... property rights. My responsibility and custodial duty is not subjugated to anyone else until it is. As a child gets older and is more responsible for their own self, then the rights and their respective responsibilities also grow with them.

Your stupid attempt at argument suggesting "children leave home" as some sort of higher understanding bemoans the entire reason for having children.

Now, back around to your taking a quote out of context. First, look up what "deviant" means. There are football players, Presidents, community activists, teachers, preachers, doctors, etc that are all deviant. Deviation from the norm requires one to define what normal is. So, try more to stick to those factual knowledge points and away from the fun trigger words and you can have an argument that actually discusses something real.

Einstein was a deviant. You made the word deviant with a bad connotation, not the definition.



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