Posted on 01/04/2013 10:49:28 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: More than 100 children rescued from clutches of pedophiles in ground-breaking raid across 19 states that saw 245 arrested
More than 100 children have been rescued from the clutches of pedophiles after a massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency raid.
The ground-breaking investigation - named 'Operation Sunflower' - was executed America-wide between November 2012 and the first week of December, and resulted in 245 arrests.
A total of 123 sexually exploited children were identified by ICE agents working with Homeland Security Investigations by targeting people who own, trade and produce child pornography.
Of those, 44 victims were rescued from their abusers and another 55 were saved from being exploited by people they knew outside the home. Another 24 victims were identified as adults who were preyed on as children.
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'The sexual abuse of young children, often at the hands of people they trust, is a particular wrong,' said ICE Director John Morton.
'Whenever our investigations reveal the production and distribution of new child pornography online, we will do everything we can to rescue the victim and prosecute the abuser even if it takes us years or around the world to do it. A relentless fight against child exploitation is the only answer.'
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Is there slavery in Muslim countries? Yes.
What is the basis for you saying the majority of slavery is in Muslim countries? I've never seen any data on slavery to support that statement.
OK, thanks. I was just guessing, since as usual the reporter left out some of the basic details that used to be reported, before it became politically incorrect to discuss almost anything.
Look up any UN report and you’ll see it. The UN may not act upon it, but it is well known that the only countries where slavery is legal are Muslim countries.
One of the interesting things is that the new Egyptian constitution (unlike the old one) did not ban slavery.
What is the basis for you saying the majority of slavery is in Muslim countries? I've never seen any data on slavery to support that statement.
It will all come out on judgement day.
thank you..
Which could readily if not easily be planted during the search in your home or mine, or on our computers by hackers.
Anyone can be arrested for child pornography if they cross the wrong people, and this includes our own government.
The first thing seized in any raid is computers and hard drives. Wonder how many are sealed till the contents are examined only in the presence of defense counsel? The answer is none, of course.
That likely has less to do with the number of slaves in the world today than does the fact that trade has become global.
They never tell you the details. Is it a Caribbean or Mexican gang stable, is it a room full of drugged Chinese teenagers being rented over a Chinese restaurant (which we had here in Florida) or is it commercial infant porn produced by Germans using children captured in the US?
If it was an ICE raid, I’d say it was a big commercial foreign operation. But as you say, that could be anything.
I’m beginning to feel a little bit like a slave........
Sexual slavery and human trafficking is a worldwide problem. It's not legal in the Philippines, or India, or Los Angeles, or China, or Cambodia, or Eastern Europe. Brick-making slavery isn't legal in India.
The boy soldiers of African are forced to serve. Do we count that as legal slavery?
We have caste slavery in India and Nepal, and slave migrant workers in Indonesia.
Slavery exists in some form in every country.
NO....because in doing so you're giving a pass to the domestic, homegrown American perverts who are the primary recipients of this horrible trash.......
Among those arrested were 51-year-old Gerald Roberts, of Pageland, S.C., who is accused of producing child pornography using a 6-year-old girl. Roberts, who has pleaded not guilty, was arrested Nov. 8 and is facing federal charges. His attorney, Michael Allen Meetze, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Michael Wioskowski, 54, of Eastpointe, Mich., was arrested Nov. 27 on charges of possession and receipt of child pornography. Investigators found a video in his home of two underage girls showering at his house when they served a warrant at his home. Wioskowski was a court security officer and formerly a reserve police officer in Michigan.
Wioskowski has not entered a plea, according to court records. His attorney, Robert S. Harrison, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In Fresno, Calif., 26-year-old Bradley Vaine, a convicted sex offender, was arrested Nov. 6 on federal charges of distribution and possession of child pornography. ICE said a 7-year-old mentally disabled girl was rescued. According to court records, Vaine was in federal custody and has not entered a plea. His attorney, Victor Chavez, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/hundreds-arrested-in-child-exploitation-probe#ixzz2H2dyYsIO
Have you been to a Muslim country? Their doors need a key to enter and leave. They lock the maids in when they leave for the day. They treat their hired help like slaves.
They had an incident in Central Florida a few months ago where a couple of Arabs (muslims) had an African woman locked away in their house, theye were not feeding heer etc and she was finally able to escape, the poor woman did not speak English.
.....they didn't, they followed online trafficking of the materials and busted the individuals who were committing these attrocities and those who were recipients of the trash......
Most child pornography in this country is committed in typical neighborhood homes by friends of family, neighbors or by family on their own children........
It doesn't have to be a European or Mexican cartel working within the borders of this country.......
I am an advocate that if we brought back public executions (specifically gallos) and as a prerequisite for getting a drivers license, HS diploma, or any government assistance you had to witness one.
I stated that there were 27,000,000 men, women, and children in slavery in the world today. For some reason, we've decided to deflect that gut-wrenching fact by saying "hey, look over here, Muslims!"
There have been more slaves through out history that were not of african descent. Just an avenue for special status.
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