Posted on 11/09/2010 9:58:58 AM PST by Libloather
FBI: 69 child prostitutes rescued, 99 pimps held
Nearly 900 adults arrested across U.S.; kids ranged in age from 12 to 17
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 1 hour 43 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — More than five dozen child prostitutes have been found as part of a three-day nationwide crackdown on the sexual exploitation of children, the FBI said.
FBI spokesman Jason Pack said Monday that 69 children were removed from prostitution and 99 suspected pimps were arrested in 40 cities across 30 states and the District of Columbia. Authorities arrested 785 other adults on a variety state and local charges, Pack said.
All the children found were placed into protective custody or returned to their families.
The children were found during Operation Cross Country V, a three-day roundup targeting child traffickers and pimps. The largest group of child prostitutes, 24, was found in and around Seattle, according to the FBI.
FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry said the children found ranged in age from 12 to 17. Authorities are working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to confirm their identities.
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OMG! When I read the headline, I thought this was going to be a news story from another country!
Sponsored by ACORN, no doubt.
I am so grateful that at least this one sexual perversion is still prosecuted/reviled in this country.
Poor kids.
all registered Democrats Im sure.....
No mention of Somali gangsters this time, although there’s a link to the Somali article. I guess that forbidden word must have slipped out, earlier.
After all, they’re just doing what Muslims do. Especially Somali Muslims.
ANOTHER 168 jobs created by the Obama administration! I can feel the change now!
Mostly kids on drugs or runaways. At first I thought they were kidnapped or something.
LOL! Probably true. The pimps should get the death penalty for exploiting children.
LOL! Probably true. The pimps should get the death penalty for exploiting children.
In my world, every single pimp would have been shot and killed on sight - johns too if they were included in the roundup.
30 cities!!!
Why can’t the Amish stay in Pennsylvania???
This meme is flushed down the memory hole. Please forget that you ever knew it.
Sickening that there is a ‘market’ for this.
I hope they round up all the johns and prosecute them for rape.
I would have guessed they were Somalis
My mistake - 30 states - not 30 cities - those Amish got lots of ‘splaining to do!!
I once saw this documentary about prostitutes. The women were complaining about how they feared for their lives and what the pimp would do if they left the job.
The reporter doing the job paid like a fee to the pimp to set the women free and drove them out of town.
He returned to the same place the next week, and the exact same women were back there. It seems a lot of them are drug addicts, but they tell themselves they are not there of their own choice.
The really disgusting thing is that is such a DEMAND for this in this country.
Yeah, it’s not like the trafficing that’s going on in Eastern Europe say, where these girls think they’re going to another country to be an Au pair(sp?) and they get there and have their Visa’s taken away and they’re put into prostitution with no way home.
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