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Dozens of missing children, some as young as just one year old, rescued from sex traffickers in massive sting
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ^ | 12/20/2025 | WILKO MARTÍNEZ-CACHERO, US REPORTER

Posted on 12/20/2025 11:49:23 AM PST by bitt

More than three dozen missing children were rescued from sex traffickers in North Florida after a massive sting.

The rescue effort, named Operation Northern Lights, found 43 missing children across 14 counties with more children found in other states, the US Marshals Service announced Thursday.

Federal authorities said the youngest victims were one-year-olds and that one of the young victims had been abducted from Florida and located in Louisiana.

Nine people were arrested after the staggering operation, which law enforcement said took two weeks to conduct.

Additional charges could include human trafficking, child endangerment and custodial interference.

The sting turned up additional missing children in North Florida, but also in Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.

'This was the most successful missing child operation ever conducted in Northern Florida,' Greg Leljedal, acting US Marshal for the Northern District of Florida, said.

'Because of the tireless dedication of the U.S. Marshals and our law enforcement partners, 43 endangered children will now be home safe for the holidays.'

He said the mission was 'not only about finding the missing children, but also providing immediate physical and psychological care to help them begin the path to healing'.

The victims included a one–year–old who authorities said was missing from Leon County and had been found in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Another one–year–old missing out of Okaloosa County was found outside Jackson, Mississippi, alongside a 17–year–old.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: batonrouge; childabuse; children; childsextrafficking; crime; florida; humantrafficking; leoncounty; northernlights; opnorthernlights; sextraffickers; sting; usmarshals
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1 posted on 12/20/2025 11:49:23 AM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 12/20/2025 11:49:39 AM PST by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Some people need to have their bodies torn apart, very slowly.


3 posted on 12/20/2025 11:55:57 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: bitt

Why izzat that democrat authorities don’t really seem to care about child trafficking?


4 posted on 12/20/2025 11:57:33 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: ConservativeMind

Drawn and quartered in 1/4 time.


5 posted on 12/20/2025 11:58:53 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: bitt

In other news, the DOJ released 0.83% of the Epstein files, most of it heavily redacted. But they’re really serious about exploitation victims… promise!


6 posted on 12/20/2025 12:01:21 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: jimtorr
Why izzat that democrat authorities don’t really seem to care about child trafficking?

The Hussein/Biden/Harris Regime opened the border to everyone, including sex and child traffickers. One can speculate how many democRATs received their 10% of the cut.

7 posted on 12/20/2025 12:01:57 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: jimtorr

Because they benefit from it.


8 posted on 12/20/2025 12:04:03 PM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: jimtorr

Because they are involved.....


9 posted on 12/20/2025 12:04:33 PM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: DesertRhino

You’re pathetic.


10 posted on 12/20/2025 12:04:40 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: DesertRhino

I am less worried about the files than the government’s complete failure to arrest and prosecute the pervs. Just give us the list of the creeps and check off the ones than are in jail.


11 posted on 12/20/2025 12:06:14 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: bitt

This needs to be laid at demoncrats feet.

Regularly & repeatedly.


12 posted on 12/20/2025 12:06:45 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: bitt

Now if only there would be a connection to the Pedosta bros and Comet Ping-Pong. Take out half of the DC Dems.


13 posted on 12/20/2025 12:08:33 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: bitt

This is probably why demonicRATS hate Trump so much. He is a threat to their child trafficking operations.


14 posted on 12/20/2025 12:10:07 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: bitt

A YEAR OLD?! Good God.

Kill them. Kill them dead.


15 posted on 12/20/2025 12:13:50 PM PST by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jacknhoo

You’re a chowderhead… Easily let around by the nose. They love you in DC.


16 posted on 12/20/2025 12:14:54 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Dutch Boy

Exactly. I think there’s about a one percent chance those people will ever get arrested. But it would be wonderful for us to know the names and drive them from public discourse. Bill Gates, the bankers, foreign leaders, royalty,, the billionaires, the Hollywood people… Just us having our hands on the knowledge Would do a lot to write the wrongs in the world. I think everybody knows they will never be prosecuted. But they can be humiliated and driven from society.


17 posted on 12/20/2025 12:17:33 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: bitt

Biden and company have nothing to say.

All sales are final.


18 posted on 12/20/2025 12:19:41 PM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: bitt

I believe human trafficking is demonic, even when trafficking for sex victims is not involved. A God-fearing parent or even just potential parent, just considering how they do, or intend to, love and protect their own child could not steal children from anyone else. Adults that steal children, to me, are irredeemable as far as human society, lost for good; to be locked up and the key thrown away.


19 posted on 12/20/2025 12:22:29 PM PST by Wuli ( )
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Execute them or make sure they go into the prison general population. Same same.


20 posted on 12/20/2025 12:28:47 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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