Officials: 42 Arrested in Tennessee Sex Trafficking Operation

The Epoch Times ^ | February 8, 2017 | Jack Phillips

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At least 42 suspects were arrested in during a sting targeting human and sex trafficking in Memphis, Tennessee, police said.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, in a release, said that 38 men and four women were arrested, which included “eight men responding to the ads tried to buy sex from a minor.” Meanwhile, “those arrested include a medical professional, engineers, a law student, a tow truck driver and construction workers,” the TBI added.

Two juvenile female victims of human trafficking were also recovered in the sting and were referred to the Department of Children’s Services.

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ping

[Blood of Tyrants]

Melania ought to adopt human trafficking as a cause.

[PGR88]

Any bets the women/girls being trafficked were illegals?

[humblegunner]

So.. 40 administration, support staff and customers busted.. and only 2 hoes?

Clearly this industry is over-regulated.

The producers are criminally outnumbered by the support staff.

[MayflowerMadam]

Got scared when I saw Tennessee. Looks like Memphis, which is a world away from where we are. Thank God.

[BykrBayb]

I wonder why they didn’t give names.

Oh, who am I kidding. I don’t wonder.

[M Kehoe]

Did the Intel to make these arrests come from Anthony Weiner’s computer or a WikiLeaks hack?

Or Anonymous?

5.56mm

[MrEdd]

We need to get serious about johns who buy underage prostituted waifs from pimps.

Bailiff, whack his pee pee.

[Red Badger]

Some were ‘customers’..................

[Red Badger]

Memphis.................

[Karl Spooner]

"Agents posted four ads each day on Backpage.com for about 7 hours each day, and some 475 men responded to them in total."

Good thing that these things can't happen in Washington, DC.

[pax_et_bonum]

Looking like these creeps are everywhere.

[MeganC]

They were not two ‘hoes’, they were two underage victims of sexual predators.

[buckalfa]

"Memphis................."

used to be one great place to live and raise a family some fifty plus years ago. Sigh, what has happened to my home town.

[Red Badger]

I was raised near there in Mississippi. Had relatives there 50 years ago. Most all have died off. Yes, it was a quiet nice place to raise a family. Now it’s trash city...............

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“Melania ought to adopt human trafficking as a cause”

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Good idea.

There’s so much more of this going on than I ever imagined.

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Probably a good chance they’re illegals.

Poor kids.

[BykrBayb]

Thank you for pointing that out. It seemed obvious to most of us, but some people aren’t so bright.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

“We have said all along that this is a demand-driven crime, and this operation demonstrates how very prevalent that demand is,” TBI Director Mark Gwyn said in the release. “Let me speak directly to men: The women you see advertised online are people, not products. We need men to step up and demand better from themselves and the men around them.”

Says it all.