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Sting Sex Trafficking at the Source... Its Buyers
Family Research Council ^ | September 23, 2019 | Patrina Mosley

Posted on 09/23/2019 7:40:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Authorities have arrested more than 100 people in a massive child sex trafficking sting in central Ohio. Yes, you heard correctly: 100 people, in the state of Ohio, for child sex trafficking. The Homeland Security special agent in charge of the investigation warned, "We are just scratching the surface... it's that way across the country."

Human trafficking, particularly for sex, is a global enterprise -- and the United States is, unfortunately, the leader in driving demand. Because human trafficking is no small business, this Ohio sting operation involved more than 30 law enforcement agencies.

As reported by The Columbus Dispatch, "[a] report commissioned for the city of Columbus last year found that the National Human Trafficking Resource Center in 2015 received 1,066 trafficking calls from Ohio, the fourth-highest volume in the country. Central Ohio rescue groups have served more than 700 human-trafficking victims since 2008; girls between the ages of 12 and 18 are at the highest risk."

The child sex-trafficking ring outed by this particular sting was not operated on the streets or in dark alleys as one might expect but on the internet. The perpetrators defied stereotypes as well. Among the arrested suspects were an emergency room doctor and a church youth director! Traffickers and predators can be anyone.

In his remarks relating to the sting, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) acknowledged the "real dangers on the internet for children." He continued, "[c]riminals involved in trafficking other human beings prey upon those individuals that are already at risk, subjecting them to prostitution and addiction. . .. Predators who seek to harm our children and grandchildren are not hiding in the bushes, they're lurking on the internet."

(Excerpt) Read more at frc.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 13thamendment; arrests; catchcourt; childtrafficking; humantrafficking; johns; ohio; pedophiles; pimps; prostitutes; sextrafficking; sting
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1 posted on 09/23/2019 7:40:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

I’m not sure how what she suggested will help: hiring a prostitute is already illegal in most of the country, as far as I know.


2 posted on 09/23/2019 7:41:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And me making suggestions that are never going to ever happen is a waste of time.

No cruel and unusual punishment is spelled out as clearly as the 2nd amendment.

Just put them in prison and let everyone know what they’re in there for.


3 posted on 09/23/2019 7:46:17 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: dp0622

“Yo, Bubba—fresh meat on the block!”


4 posted on 09/23/2019 7:50:00 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

To put this in perspective, there are 11.6 million people in Ohio.

“Of the 104 arrested, there were 24 male suspects (ranging in age from 20 to 59) accused of attempting unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and importuning, 43 women accused of selling sex, 36 men accused of trying to buy sex, and one man accused of promoting prostitution.”

104 people were arrested.

That is 11.6m / 104 = 0.00091% of the population impacted.

Bad people do bad things, but this is really down in the noise.

Until they form a parade, demand rights, and capture the hearts of the MSM.


5 posted on 09/23/2019 8:00:13 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: lightman

lol


6 posted on 09/23/2019 8:02:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: dp0622

The firing squad is not cruel or unusual.


7 posted on 09/23/2019 8:03:52 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
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To: Farcesensitive

And it’s not an incredible deterrent. It will just get rid of them.

Nothing painful in dying instantly. Nothing to really fear.


8 posted on 09/23/2019 8:05:28 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Buyers can be a cause but they are not a source.


9 posted on 09/23/2019 8:10:04 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Noooo! I loved that band! Not Sting!


10 posted on 09/23/2019 8:12:36 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I wonder how much this particular aweful crime has increased since the advent of the internet, social media and smartphones. I think it has probably increased dramatically since porn became ubiquitous and free.

Freegards


11 posted on 09/23/2019 8:16:22 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: dp0622

BOOM!


12 posted on 09/23/2019 8:23:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: MV=PY

And no real children were actually involved in any of the arrests....


13 posted on 09/23/2019 8:25:56 PM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping


14 posted on 09/23/2019 8:30:43 PM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: Ransomed

Porn has always been a factor.
Viagra is new, and probably a bigger factor.
Were it up to me, I would never have allowed it on the market.


15 posted on 09/23/2019 8:33:24 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Well, we don’t know whether or not that is true at all.
Sometimes an allert parent notifies the authorities when their child encounters someone attempting to groom them. Detectives then try to round up whomever it was when they run operations like this.


16 posted on 09/23/2019 8:37:11 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

From the article:

He says it starts with online chats between the men, and who they believe to be underage boys and girls.

It’s actually an officer posing as a juvenile.

“The reality that they were operating in, is that there absolutely was a child at the other end of that device, and that’s who they were coming to see.”

And he says each of the 24 men followed through.

The rest of the arrests were for adult on adult crimes.
FYI


17 posted on 09/23/2019 8:49:24 PM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: MrEdd

The new thing in porn is most people being able to see anything anytime anywhere for as long as they want almost free if they want to do so. That has never happened before.

Freegards


18 posted on 09/23/2019 8:52:57 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This smells like a bait and switch. It dangles ‘think about the children’ and subtly moves on to what looks like a general prostitution ban with no reference to age.

Also it calls for accelerating current practice among feminist activists to get law enforcement to shift blame and start to exclusively punish only men for prostitution. Which is funny because some of the same people will turn right around and insist that only the purveyors of drugs should be punished.

Regardless of how you feel about prostitution, (I personally feel we have no business going on a crusade with feminists against it with all the other things we celebrate) I would recommend against helping groups which use such shady tactics


19 posted on 09/23/2019 9:34:56 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: MrEdd

And before that The Pill, circa 1961: It made fornication “safe.” That was the real start of the so-called Sexual Revolution.


20 posted on 09/23/2019 9:49:57 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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