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Scores arrested in child prostitution crackdown (150 arrested)
CNN ^ | July 29, 2013 -- Updated 1719 GMT (0119 HKT) | Joe Johns and Tom Cohen

Posted on 07/29/2013 10:39:08 AM PDT by Pan_Yan

Washington (CNN) -- In what it called its largest crackdown to date on child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday that a nationwide operation over the weekend resulted in 150 arrests, with 105 children rescued.

Authorities said the operation, which took investigators to race tracks and truck stops, also targeted the use of social media sites for child prostitution activity.

Overall, the three-day undercover roundup Operation Cross Country took place in 76 cities and involved 230 law enforcement units, according to the FBI.

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He said at a news conference that a prime environment for child prostitution is major sporting events such as the Super Bowl, where authorities had "multiple recovery of children" in the past.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; humantrafficing; pedophelia; prostitution
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To: JimRed; knarf

I don’t get it. Are there really that many men who hire prostitutes? And child prostitutes????

If so, it’s very depressing. I know there is evil in the world, but I don’t understand this at all. How could anyone get pleasure from hurting and exploiting a child?


41 posted on 07/29/2013 4:26:51 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Hot Tabasco

have you ever worked for any of these agencies?

I have

Showmanship sometimes costs people dearly


42 posted on 07/29/2013 5:59:30 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
No mention that the pimps were Illegal Aliens

In all likelihood, so are the children. Human traffickers use promises of a better life in another country to lure people to use their services--the people think they are just getting help to cross the border. By the time they are sold into slavery and figure out what was really going on, it's too late.

Failure to enforce immigration laws is failure to stop human trafficking (aka slavery).

43 posted on 07/29/2013 7:04:55 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Pan_Yan

I wasn’t always this cynical, but I am now, and just because the media reports something that the government (or Wall st or the corporate world) says, is not something I necessarily and enthusiastically accept as the truth.

For instance a bi-partisan government that for over 35 years has not enforced existing immigration law is a big part of this problem, and they still refuse to admit it. The elites that push for immigration amnesty do not want it tainted by reality and truth. Propaganda and misinformation now runs rampant here just like in the Soviet Union.


44 posted on 07/29/2013 8:28:26 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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To: FES0844
First publish their names, addresses, pictures.

Bears repeating.

How many are "upstanding citizen" principals, coaches, politicians, clergy, and...Boy Scout leaders??

45 posted on 07/29/2013 8:32:01 PM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: Mr. K
Showmanship sometimes costs people dearly

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

46 posted on 07/29/2013 8:34:30 PM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: Pan_Yan

How many homosexuals were nabbed with underage male hustlers in runaway/drug/gay districts in Houston and San Francisco?


47 posted on 07/29/2013 8:55:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Mr. K

How many of these underage prostitutes were advertised in the corrupt Village Voice Media ads from coast to coast in “alternative newsweekly papers”?


48 posted on 07/29/2013 8:57:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: USNBandit

Regardless, even one young woman returned to her family is a win. Also, at least ‘scratching the surface’ now and then may be a deterrent.


49 posted on 07/30/2013 4:25:27 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")
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To: Pan_Yan
In what it called its largest crackdown to date on child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday that a nationwide operation over the weekend resulted in 150 arrests, with 105 children rescued.

Somehow, somewhere, 0dumb0 & Holder have to be the root cause & main driving force behind this. If not, I will still blame them & hold them accountable for yet another despicable atrocity in their 5 1/2 yrs house of horrors so far.

50 posted on 07/30/2013 7:38:33 AM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Pining_4_TX
Are there really that many men who hire prostitutes? And child prostitutes????

A lot of them are children in the same sense that Trayvon Martin was a "child". I've seen many 14-15 year olds who are physically adult, though they're still kids. How many half-drunk conventioners or fans ask the age of the individual about to service them?

That don't make it right, but it 'splains it some. < /barroom vernacular >

51 posted on 07/30/2013 8:01:48 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: The Cajun
That sure as heck disappeared off the radar real quick.

Senator Martinez has the protective "D" after his title and name. Move along, nothing to see here.

52 posted on 07/30/2013 8:04:03 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

That, of course is Senator Menendez. Sorry, Martinez, wherever you are!


53 posted on 07/30/2013 8:05:27 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

I know. The whole thing makes me sick. Anyone who thinks prostitution is a victimless crime is delusional. It’s a horrible thing for these women and girls.


54 posted on 07/30/2013 9:02:19 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: JimRed

if a wife or a girlfriend has to worry that their beloved is going after CHILDREN, then there are far more problems than just infidelity...


55 posted on 07/31/2013 9:38:03 AM PDT by cherry
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To: exDemMom

you can almost bet that most of the victims are actually white girls, early teen years....most races go after white girls, or light brown or asian girls.....just from what I understand of the situation....and a goodly number of the pimps are black...


56 posted on 07/31/2013 9:43:03 AM PDT by cherry
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