Posted on 03/16/2022 5:00:19 PM PDT by infool7
The Polk County Sheriff's Office stated Wednesday that more than 100 arrests were made during a six-day human trafficking sting. "Operation March Sadness 2" started March 8, according to a press release.
Police departments in Winter Haven, Haines City, Lake Wales and Auburndale assisted in the investigation.
According to the Sheriff's Office, detectives identified prostitutes who posted online advertisements as well as the "johns" who were seeking them out online.
Detectives also identified and investigated adults who engaged in online "sexually charged" communications with those they believed were children.
"The arrests of a human trafficker and four child predators alone makes this whole operation worthwhile," stated Sheriff Grady Judd in a press conference. "The online prostitution industry enables traffickers and victimizes those who are being trafficked. Our goal is to identify victims, offer them help, and find and arrest those who are profiting from the exploitation of human beings. Johns fuel the trafficking and victimization. Where there is prostitution, there is exploitation, disease, dysfunction, and broken families."
Undercover detectives communicated online with the suspects and arranged for a meetup at a location where they were arrested after their arrival.
Members of anti-trafficking organizations were on hand to speak with the prostitutes to help determine if they were human trafficking victims.
The suspects ranged in age from 17 to 67.
As Judd was talking about some of the suspects who were caught, he focused on 27-year-old Xavier Jackson, who he said worked at Disney World.
“He thought he was chatting with a 14 year old. And he sent photos of himself doing things that’s totally inappropriate,” said Judd durig a press conference on Wednesday. “… Oh, did I mention that it just happens to be a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort for Disney? You think there’s a few children around there? That’s right. I didn’t stutter. He was a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort for Disney and was bragging about that.”
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office assisted in Jackson’s arrest, who is from Orlando, Judd said.
Jackson was charged with three counts of harmful material and one count of unlawful communication.
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Sheriff Brady is a legend
For example, the bust of the Florida massage parlor Kraft was caught in was called a trafficking bust but it eventually came out none of the women had really been trafficked.
IIRC Floria is one of the top 4 or 5 states for human trafficking.
I don’t understand why some adults can sexualize children, or even teenagers. I don’t know. Even in my 20s I dated older women.
The pictures they post always look like the bar scene from Star Wars. Eech.
Just a hunch but
would you say that adult prostitution
should be legal/normalized?
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Yup, suddenly all prostitution is ‘trafficking’ these days. Its rampant in international stories. Alot of these women who have no idea they are considered slaves chat with activists for a few minutes then go back to their life freely switching between sex work and their day job unaware that they’re now written into a story about human trafficking.
I think it comes from bad/no parenting
generations of children raising children eventually
leads to severely messed up adults
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prostitution is a moral issue not a legal one. Society has no business chasing down and busting grown men and women engaging in a consensual relationship while feeding children sex change drugs is legal and encouraged.
Sheriff Grady Judd. :)
Would you consider hiring woman engaged in “sex work”
a normal activity for yourself? Just asking...
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I’ve never hired a prostitute but I don’t really obsess on someone who does like you imply we should. Some guys just can’t get it any other way and prostitution/’trafficking’ hysteria is just part of the way old jealous spurned feminists use the system to try to control men’s private lives.
Sure there are moral/religious dimensions to the argument over prostitution but I believe the hypocrisy of a society which tries to stamp out men and heterosexual behavior while giving free rein and encouragement to the opposite is a bigger problem that needs to be fixed first.
“For example, the bust of the Florida massage parlor Kraft was caught in was called a trafficking bust but it eventually came out none of the women had really been trafficked.”
Interesting how all these only Chinese women not fluent in English made their way to a ring of massage parlors in Florida!
II. THE SEX RING
On February 19, after staging dramatic raids on nearly a dozen massage parlors in South Florida, Sheriff William Snyder held a press conference. Local officers, he announced, working alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, had busted a $20 million sex trafficking ring with tentacular reach to New York and China. Many of the women, he said, had been tricked into coming to the United States and had been working to pay off debts to traffickers before being rescued. “I don’t believe they were told they were going to work in massage parlors seven days a week, having unprotected sex with up to 1,000 men a year,” Snyder said.
Sex trafficking, under law, involves recruiting and transporting women by force or fraud, and coercing them to work as prostitutes. The traffickers, Snyder continued, had covered their tracks by moving the women every 10 to 20 days to different spas, where they were forced to sleep on massage tables and cook on hot plates. Some were unable to leave, the sheriff said, because the traffickers confiscated their money and passports.
“Yup, suddenly all prostitution is ‘trafficking’ these days. Its rampant in international stories. Alot of these women who have no idea they are considered slaves chat with activists for a few minutes then go back to their life freely switching between sex work and their day job unaware that they’re now written into a story about human trafficking.”
CT misspoke. See my #14.
Human Trafficking Suspect: 32-year old Tiffany Nash of Orlando was arrested for trafficking another woman in prostitution. The woman, an adult female, arrived at the residence as a prostitute, but an investigation revealed that Nash repeatedly threatened violence against the victim if she didn’t prostitute herself. Nash would take all money derived from the victim’s prostitution. When Nash arrived at the location to check on the victim, she was taken into custody and charged with: Human Trafficking (F1), Deriving Proceeds from Prostitution (F2), Possession of Cocaine (F3), Possession of Methamphetamine (F3), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (M1). Nash’s victim was provided the assistance of one of the anti-trafficking organizations.
Child Predators: 39-year old Timothy Finley of Mulberry began communicating online with an undercover detective, thinking he was chatting with a 13-year old female. Finley traveled to the residence with the intent for sexual conduct with her. He was arrested and charged with: Travel to Meet a Minor/Using Computer to Lure (F2), Attempted Lewd Battery (F3), Transmit Material Harmful to Minor (F3), Possession of Methamphetamine (F3), Resisting (M1), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (M1).
41-year old Shannon Johnson of Orlando believed he was chatting online with a 13-year old female, sent a nude photo, and then travelled to the residence with the intent for sexual conduct with her. He was arrested and charged with: Travel to Meet a Minor/Using Computer to Lure (F2), Attempted Lewd Battery (F3), and Transmit Material Harmful to Minor (F3).
36-year old Jody Rose of Gainesville communicated online and via text with an undercover detective posing as a 13-year old girl. Rose sent sexual images and graphic descriptions of what he wanted to do. A warrant was obtained on Rose for Transmission of Material Harmful to a Minor (10-counts, F3) and Unlawful Use of 2-Way Communication Device (F3), and he was arrested in Alachua County.
27-year old Xavier Jackson of Kissimmee communicated online and via text with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year old girl. During the communication, Jackson sent sexual images and graphic descriptions of what he wanted to do. A warrant was obtained for Jackson for Transmission of Material Harmful to a Minor (3-counts, F3) and Unlawful Use of 2-Way Communication Device (F3).
Now, trafficking does happen and it's not just sex work. But I think by conflating two different activities and offenses LE will erode their credibility on fighting actual trafficking, which is a very serious crime.
And it’s all goes into the human trafficking statistics. As do other things that the general public would not consider appropriate to add. Human trafficking is beyond evil, but the bullshit surrounding it is sky high. It’s big business and raising awareness or funds for yet another two bit worthless organization formed to fight it is a favorite way for people to make themselves feel important.
It won't happen anytime soon but I would support a legalize but regulate policy similar to what most European countries have.
Well thanks for clearing that up for me.
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