This is a 'good news/bad news story The Good news is that pimps were arrested and kids taken away from them. The bad news is that this is happening. This is not a 'heterosexual' or 'homosexual' issue- but a human issue- as all child sex abuse is. I fully support our law enforcement dollars being used for these efforts. The authorities rounded up 281 pimps and freed 168 juveniles last week, targeting child sex-trafficking operations in more than 100 U.S. cities. Police arrested 21 pimps in Phoenix, the most of any FBI division. Other hotspots in the coordinated raids were centered in Denver, Cleveland, and Los Angeles. As NPR reported in March, "The Justice Department estimates that each year at least 200,000 children are trafficked for sex in the U.S., and it is said to generate upward of $32 billion a year." A full list of the number of juveniles recovered and pimps arrested is on the Department of Justice website. It shows several FBI divisions in double-digits in both categories: Atlanta (11 juveniles recovered, 15 pimps arrested) Cleveland (16 juveniles recovered, 12 pimps arrested) Denver (18 juveniles recovered, 11 pimps arrested) Los Angeles (10 juveniles recovered, 12 pimps arrested) "Child sex traffickers create a living nightmare for their adolescent victims," said the Justice Department's Leslie R. Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division. "They use fear and force and treat children as commodities of sex to be sold again and again. This operation puts traffickers behind bars and rescues kids from their nightmare so they can start reclaiming their childhood." The FBI says nearly 3,600 children have been recovered from the streets since it began pursuing the week-long enforcement program under the Bush administration's Innocence Lost National Initiative. Under the program, titled Operation Cross Country, "1,450 convictions have resulted in lengthy sentences, including 14 life terms," the FBI says. The agency says the cases include work by local, state, and federal agencies.
China outlaws sex with underage prostitutes... Sex with underage prostitutes declared rape in China Aug 29, 2015, Chinese legislature has reclassified sex with minor girls including child prostitutes as rape. The move comes after decades of child abuse and abusers getting away with lighter sentences.
Again...I'm sure we wont see any of the usual posters in here...not a single word of outcry because they can't publicize this to be against gays. Because we all know the sad truth is that female children are the target of most of these sex traffickers...and they don't actually care about the female victims because they can't use them to fear monger against gays.
Oh there is plenty for the "usual posters" to address. This pandemic is almost exclusively minority driven... gang stuff. http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2012-07-innocence-lost The excluded link explains that these arrests were the continued good work of the Bush innocence lost initiative http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...eed-168-u-s-children-in-sex-trafficking-raids So you see... there is more than enough outcry for the right. I fear you will become mute soon however.
The fact that this thread went unnoticed for more than a year just goes to show that you're right. Seconded.
You missed the irony of my post. This OP was made a year ago and was then bumped back up to the front page. Guess what? No one said anything about it for a whole year because the usual posters who jump on child victimization...only do it when it's a man molesting a young boy. They don't care it's it's a female victim.
Or maybe because the thread is over a year old. But way to play that gay-as-victim card. Lol.... I'd say "right on cue", but.... 15 months later ?!
That makes no sense. People didn't notice a thread so they are guilty of only wanting to bash gays ? Lol...ffs How about if people had intentionally avoided the thread... then you two might have some insane point. Prove anyone did that and get back with us. "Unnoticed" is quite different from "avoided". You guys are welcome.
That's why my post was ironically funny...because none of the usual suspects had even bothered to post on the thread. But I know sarcasm doesn't travel well via text. Just illustrated my point though.
No it wasn't. Your buddy already said it was "unnoticed". Then I made fun of how you guys equate "unnoticed" to gay-hate. Everything is gay-hate, isn't it. You know... that victim card we always see tossed around.
Funny how you try to avoid decades of fear mongering against gays by trying to link gays to pedophiles.
