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(Support Free Thought) - Washington, D.C. – This week the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected child sex offenders, including a member of the U.S. Secret Service, and identified nearly 400 abused children during the three-month operation that ended in May. Of those arrested, 195 were suspected of producing child pornography or committing child sexual abuse.
“No child should ever have to endure sexual abuse,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions noted in a Justice Department press release. “And yet, in recent years, certain forms of modern technology have facilitated the spread of child pornography and created greater incentives for its production. We at the Department of Justice are determined to strike back against these repugnant crimes. “
The operation, dubbed “Broken Heart,” was conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforces operating in all 50 states across and involved more than 4,500 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.
Operation Broken Heart, which is funded through the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, has been an annual law enforcement operation since its inception in 2014. It has resulted in the arrests of thousands of suspected child sex predators.
“It is estimated that at least 100,000 children—girls and boys—are bought and sold for sex in the U.S. every year, with as many as 300,000 children in danger of being trafficked each year. Some of these children are forcefully abducted, others are runaways, and still others are sold into the system by relatives and acquaintances,” according to the Rutherford Institute.
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