FBI crackdown leads to recovery of 84 exploited children

Snejana Farberov reports at Daily Mail,

The FBI’s annual nationwide sex trafficking crackdown has led to the recovery of 84 exploited children, among them infants and toddler, and landed 120 suspects behind bars.

Over the course of four days, from October 12-15, FBI agents from 55 field offices and hundreds of state and local law enforcement officials participated in Operation Cross Country XI targeting human traffickers.

As part of the operation, FBI agents and task force officers carried out stings in hotels, casinos, and truck stops, as well as on street corners and Internet websites visited by pimps, prostitutes, and their johns.

…The FBI first launched its Innocence Lost National Initiative in 2003. Since its creation, the program has resulted in the identification and recovery of more than 6,500 children from child sex trafficking and the prosecution of countless traffickers, more than 30 of whom have received life sentences.

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