Sixty-Nine Children Rescued During Operation Cross Country V 

Washington, D.C.November 08, 2010

FBI National Press Office(202) 324-3691

Over the past 72 hours, the FBI, its local and state law enforcement partners, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) concluded Operation Cross Country V, a three-day national enforcement action as part of the Innocence Lost National Initiative. The operation included enforcement actions in 40 cities across 34 FBI divisions around the country and led to the recovery of 69 children who were being victimized through prostitution. Additionally, nearly 885 others, including 99 pimps, were arrested on state and local charges.

“Child prostitution continues to be a significant problem in our country, as evidenced by the number of children rescued through the continued efforts of our crimes against children task forces,” said Shawn Henry, executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch. “There is no work more important than protecting America’s children and freeing them from the cycle of victimization. Through our strategic partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies, we are able to make a difference.”

Task Force operations usually begin as local actions, targeting such places as truck stops, casinos, street “tracks,” and Internet websites, based on intelligence gathered by officers working in their respective jurisdictions. Initial arrests are often violations of local and state laws relating to prostitution or solicitation. Information gleaned from those arrested often uncovers organized efforts to prostitute women and children across many states. FBI agents further develop this information in partnership with U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and file federal charges where appropriate.

To date, the 39 Innocence Lost Task Forces and Working Groups have recovered over 1,200 children from the streets. The investigations and subsequent 625 convictions have resulted in lengthy sentences, including multiple 25-years-to-life sentences and the seizure of more than $3.1 million in assets.

In the spring of 2003, the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, in partnership with the Department of Justice’s CEOS and NCMEC, formed the Innocence Lost National Initiative to address the growing problem of children forced into prostitution.

“The leadership of the FBI and the Justice Department in attacking domestic child trafficking and prostitution is historic,” said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “Once again, Operation Cross Country has awakened the nation to the fact that today, American children are being marketed and sold for sex in American cities. These kids are victims. This is 21st century slavery. We are proud to be a part of this extraordinary partnership to rescue children, save lives, and bring the pimps and operators to justice.”

This program brings state and federal law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and social service providers all from around the country to NCMEC, where the groups are trained together. In addition, CEOS has reinforced the training by assigning prosecutors to help bring cases in those cities plagued by child prostitution.

The FBI thanks the over 2,100 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers representing 186 separate agencies who participated in Operation Cross Country and ongoing enforcement efforts.

The charges announced today are merely accusations, and all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.

For more information on Operation Cross Country and the Innocence Lost National Initiative, visitwww.fbi.gov, www.justice.gov, or www.ncmec.org.

DOJ: Innocence Lost National Initiative and Operation Independence Day 2019 - No Word On Foster Care & Adoption

I sincerely hope this initiative will expand to include foster care and adoption, where the trauma of being drugged, raped, beaten, and tortured for years takes a toll on a kid, that is if they are lucky enough to make it to the age of consent.

You know what they say, "A foster kid has to eat!"

The procuring and purveying of tiny humans crosses the spectrum of society, from our police departments to churches, you will find some operation where a kid is doing what they do not want to do, and it will be done online, cloaked by propaganda.

Then, there are the ones who run the servers and networks.

No one talks about those, highly technically skilled individuals.

"Have a great day!"

FBI Announces New Program Focusing on the Recovery of Child Victims From Commercial Sex Trafficking

The Department of Justice announced today the FBI-led recovery or identification of 103 child victims and the arrest of 67 sex traffickers through Operation Independence Day.  This initiative — a revamping of a previously successful program — was executed during the month of July through 161 operations conducted nationwide.

Operation Independence Day relied on the 86 FBI-led Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Forces (CEHTTFs), which leveraged the resources and intelligence of other federal, state, local, and tribal partners.  Overall, more than 400 agencies participate in these task forces.

Operation Independence Day prioritized locating and rescuing missing minors who are at great risk for sexual exploitation, and arresting the traffickers exploiting them.  To that end, through its partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), FBI special agents and intelligence analysts reviewed information provided through NCMEC’s CyberTipline, to identify missing minor children at risk for sexual exploitation, and then worked with state and local partners to execute law enforcement activity designed to recover those children and arrest traffickers.

The health and welfare of recovered minor and adult trafficking victims was a further priority.  To facilitate these efforts, the FBI’s Victim Services Division and victim specialists stationed in each of our 56 field offices also worked closely with the task forces during the operation to ensure recovered children received the help they needed.  Victim specialists put internal and external resources in place before the operation to ensure victim assistance was a priority in the aftermath of the law enforcement operations.   

“This initiative has two crucial goals: rescuing children being sold for sex and prosecuting their adult traffickers,” said Attorney General William P. Barr.  “Child sex trafficking is a heinous crime that preys on the most vulnerable in our society.  Perpetrators victimize children in communities throughout the country, and we are determined to find and rescue them.  Through the FBI’s leadership, we have recovered thousands of child victims, and this latest operation adds to the success of that decades-long effort.”  

“Make no mistake, the FBI is fiercely focused on recovering child victims and arresting the sex traffickers who exploit them,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.  “Through operations like this, the FBI helps child victims escape the abusive life of sex trafficking.  Our agents, intelligence analysts, professional staff, and victim specialists work tirelessly before, during and after these operations to make sure that victims get the help they need to reclaim their lives.”

“The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is proud to be part of this extraordinary partnership with the FBI.  The FBI and the Department of Justice have been instrumental in spearheading multi-agency collaboration between organizations to locate and provide resources to victims of child sex trafficking,” said John Clark, President and CEO of NCMEC.  “We know this horrendous crime impacts communities across our country every day and we applaud the FBI for continuing to work tirelessly to locate these victims and hold accountable those who are selling children for sex.”

In June 2003, the FBI, in conjunction with the Justice Department Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and NCMEC, launched the Innocence Lost National Initiative (ILNI).  This combined effort was aimed at addressing the growing problem of domestic sex trafficking of children in the United States.  In the years since its inception, the ILNI has expanded to 86 dedicated CEHTTFs.  These task forces, with the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the FBI’s Victim Services Division, have worked successfully to rescue thousands of children.

Through ILNI, the FBI, along with its local law enforcement partners, uses task forces to leverage resources and intelligence to identify and recover child victims and prosecute those responsible for their exploitation.  This collaborative effort has led to the recovery or identification of more than 6,600 child victims.  The initiative has also led to more than 2,750 convictions, including more than 15 life sentences and many other sentences ranging from 25 years to life.

In 2008, the ILNI initiated Operation Cross Country (OCC)—a focused, national campaign that targeted the venues where children were the victims of commercial sex trafficking.  Since 2008, there have been 11 iterations of OCC, recovering more than 900 child victims and arresting nearly 1,400 traffickers.  The last operation was held in October 2017 with 78 task forces participating.

The FBI determined that after 11 years of OCC success, it was time to re-evaluate the program.  The newly renamed Operation Independence Day was conducted over an entire month, rather than a few days, but continued to focus on the recovery of child victims from commercial sex trafficking.

The FBI’s Crimes Against Children and Human Trafficking Unit and DOJ coordinated the operation.  For additional information on Operation Independence Day and the Innocence Lost initiative, please visit https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-independence-day-2019.

I noticed there were no partnerships with Child Protective Services.

Awesome.

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Another Conjugal Collaborative: DOJ Partners With U.S. Postal Inspection Services, FinCEN, DEA, ICE, ITS To End Drug & Tiny Human Trafficking

What we have here is another conjugal collaborative with the U.S. Department of Justice, DEA, ATF, ICE, FinCEN, IRS and the U.S. Postal Service Inspection Service, which, on a side note found out years ago just how powerful the Inspector General is.

But I just found out today that it does possess powers to stop the trafficking of tiny humans, and I was humbled because the first mass system of trafficking tiny humans was through the postal service called orphan trains and it started all in Coldwater, Michigan through the Michigan Children's Institute.

The USIS also has control over the Frank, the postage of Congress.

I found out that there is law allowing a Member of Congress to place upon any of its official mailings a picture of a missing child.

I tried to get Congress to do it, but they snubbed me.

U.S. Postal Inspection Service

VICTIMS OF CHILD EXPLOITATION

For more than a century, Postal Inspectors have investigated the sexual exploitation of children. The Postal Inspection Service was the first federal law enforcement agency to aggressively identify, target, and arrest those who produce, sell, and purchase child pornography. Specially trained Postal Inspectors investigate crimes related to the sexual exploitation of children. We partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the United States to investigate child sexual exploitation involving the mail and the Internet.

A parent who suddenly learns that a teacher, Boy Scout leader, or coach close to their child was arrested for possessing child pornography or for child exploitation can undergo great stress. Parents may be unsure of how to approach the situation. To learn more about the signs of abuse, visit Learn the Signs. Children’s advocacy groups are available to speak directly with parents and interview children believed to have been abused. To find a local organization, visit One With Courage.

Restitution for Victims of Child Exploitation

When an offender views, possesses, or distributes child pornography, it harms the child depicted in the picture every time it changes hands. Congress and courts around the country recognize the ongoing physiological, emotional, and mental harm done to children depicted in this manner. Courts have awarded restitution for child victims abused in pictures in cases prosecuted for the receipt, possession, and distribution of the pictures. To learn more, contact an attorney experienced in restitution.

Help for Parents of Exploited Children 

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) offers peer support for families with sexually exploited children through its Team Hope program. Team Hope matches families with trained volunteers who can provide them with support, friendship, coping skills, and compassion. 1-866-305-4673

Too bad there is no help for parents who have had their children Legally Kidnapped.

I have a serious issue with NCMEC, or rather with a few Members of Congress affiliated with this NGO.

I will be address her, soon.

Can You See Me?I am here, can you see me
I am here and still breathing
As I sit in the dark I wonder
I wonder, why me
Why was I chosen by evil
Why was I chosen to be your prize
I am innocent yet I feel guilty
I am here, can you see me
I am here and still standing
Hear my voice, all secrets are gone
Yes, I can see me now.

By an Inspection Service Victim-Witness Coordinator

“The Postal Inspection Service will continue to aggressively identify, target, and arrest those who dare prey on our children."

—Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service

“One of the most important things the U.S. Postal Inspection Service can deliver is a child's safety. Postal Inspectors have a long history of aggressively investigating predators who attempt to sexually exploit children through the use of the U.S. Mail. Although predators now employ more sophisticated technology, Postal Inspectors will continue to remain steadfast in our mission, no matter what means or methods they use.”

—Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service

In standing oration I bestow upon this conjugal collaborative my sincerest blessings in the diffusion of this model to the darkness of cybersphere because where you find purveyors of death, you find privateers of children.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Announces Results of J-Code’s First Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Trafficking on the Darknet

Today, the Department of Justice, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced the results of a four-day long, nationwide law enforcement operation, called Operation Disarray, which targeted vendors and buyers of opioids and cocaineon the Darknet.  This operation was the first coordinated action by the new Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) Team.

These results were announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Chief Postal Inspector Guy Cottrell.

“Synthetic opioids are responsible for nearly one-third of the unacceptable 64,000 drug overdoses in America in 2016,” said Attorney General Sessions.  “Some of the deadliest drugs can be purchased with a few clicks of a button and ordered online. That’s why I ordered the creation of J-CODE—the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team—back in January.  J-CODE coordinates our efforts to stop online opioid sales, and it is already getting results.  Today, we announce the first nationwide J-CODE operation, one that led to the arrest of alleged traffickers across America. I want to thank all of our law enforcement partners at the FBI, DEA, ATF, our Postal Inspectors, IRS-CI, NCIS, FinCEN and ICE-HSI who helped make this possible, and I want to thank President Trump for his strong support of our efforts. J-CODE is helping us keep deadly drugs out of this great country.”

“Our work to combat drug trafficking has taken us from coast to coast and to the darkest corners of the web.  The opioid epidemic is a public health crisis, and those of us in law enforcement must be relentless in our efforts to disrupt this illicit activity,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.  “We thank our partners in this operation; through J-CODE, we will continue to work together to target the sale of opioids on the Darknet.”

“The Postal Inspection Service is dedicated to protecting the American public,” said Chief Postal Inspector Guy Cottrell.  “One of the ways we fulfill this mission is by working tirelessly with other law enforcement agencies in operations just like this one to keep dangerous drugs out of the communities we serve.”

During the March 27 to 30 operation, FBI, USPIS, and local law enforcement made eight arrests related to Operation Disarray.  Agents conducted more than 160 interviews nationwide of people who have bought or sold opioids and other drugs online.  Leads from the investigation identified 19 overdose deaths of persons of interest.  FBI, USPIS and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) also executed numerous search warrants, which resulted in the seizure of weapons, drugs, counterfeit currency, and computer equipment.  During the operation, law enforcement agents distributed literature regarding the dangers of opioid abuse, as well as, offered support for those affected by the opioid epidemic.  The investigation is ongoing. 

The J-CODE Team is a new FBI initiative announced by Attorney General Sessions in January 2018, and is aimed at targeting drug trafficking, especially fentanyl and other opioids, on the Darknet.  With this team, the FBI is bringing together agents, analysts, and professional staff with expertise in drugs, gangs, health care fraud, and more, and our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners from across the U.S. Government, to focus on disrupting the sale of drugs via the Darknet and dismantling criminal enterprises that facilitate this trafficking.  Operation Disarray is the J-CODE’s first joint, nationwide coordinated operation.

Attorney General Sessions thanked our law enforcement partners on the J-CODE team, to include the FBI, USPIS, Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and the Organized Crime and Gang Section; Drug Enforcement Agency; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; Department of Defense; IRS-CI; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for bringing expertise, professionalism and a shared desire to combat this epidemic.  Through continued collaboration and determination the successes J-CODE will continue to forge a positive difference and outcome. 

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Did I Hear FBI Operation Cross Country XI Say "Foster Care"?

Yes, that is correct.

The FBI said "Foster Care".

They have alot of work ahead of them, and I shall be by thier side to assist.

The objective is the resuce these children, but there is another item which caught my attention, that this is an international operation.

As I have been saying, for many, many years, these child welfare organizations are nothing but a money laundering operation because they refuse to speak upon this.

The State of Kansas has reported that more than 70 foster kids are missing and dismissed with chagrin as its elected officials have thier hands all up in the privatized cookie jar.

I believe someone is listenting, finally.  

Here is raw footage of Michigan & Maryland Cross Country X.

FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI

Underage Sex Trafficking Crackdown Leads to Recovery of 84 Minors

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), announced today that 84 minors were recovered and 120 traffickers were arrested as part of Operation Cross Country XI, a nationwide effort focusing on underage human trafficking that ran from October 12-15, 2017.

This is the 11th iteration of the FBI-led Operation Cross Country (OCC), which took place this year in 55 FBI field offices and involved 78 state and local task forces, consisting of hundreds of law enforcement partners. This year’s coordinated operations took place with several international partners, including Canada (Operation Northern Spotlight), the United Kingdom (Aident 8), Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines.

“We at the FBI have no greater mission than to protect our nation’s children from harm. Unfortunately, the number of traffickers arrested—and the number of children recovered—reinforces why we need to continue to do this important work,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “This operation isn't just about taking traffickers off the street. It’s about making sure we offer help and a way out to these young victims who find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of abuse."

As part of Operation Cross Country XI, FBI agents and task force officers staged operations in hotels, casinos, and truck stops, as well as on street corners and Internet websites. The youngest victim recovered during this year’s operation was 3 months old, and the average age of victims recovered during the operation was 15 years old. Minors recovered during Cross Country Operations are offered assistance from state protective services and the FBI’s Victim Services Division. Depending on the level of need, victims are offered medical and mental health counseling, as well as a number of other services.

“Child sex trafficking is happening in every community across America, and at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, we’re working to combat this problem every day,” said NCMEC President and CEO John Clark. “We’re proud to work with the FBI on Operation Cross Country to help find and recover child victims. We hope OCC generates more awareness about this crisis impacting our nation’s children.”

Operation Cross Country XI is part of the FBI’s Innocence Lost National Initiative, which began in 2003 and has yielded more than 6,500 child identifications and locations. For additional information on Operation Cross Country XI and the Innocence Lost initiative, please visit www.fbi.gov.

Examples of stories from various cities that took part in Operation Cross Country XI:

• On October 13, FBI Denver recovered two minor girls—one 3-month-old and one five-year-old. The subject, a friend of the children’s family, offered an undercover officer access to the two children for sexual purposes in exchange for $600. The FBI is working with Child Protective Services to conduct a forensic interview and secure safe placement of the children. The subject was placed under arrest.
• Also on October 13, a 16-year old female victim was recovered by FBI El Paso after an undercover agent called an online advertisement for entertainment. Shortly thereafter, the agent met with a 21-year-old female, who offered a fee of $200 to engage in sexual intercourse with her and another female, the 16-year-old victim. Further investigations revealed that a second adult female drove the minor and the 21-year-old to the undercover agent’s location. Both female subjects have been arrested on federal charges.

Note to Editors: B-Roll and interviews associated with Operation Cross Country can be downloaded at www.fbi.gov.

Resources

• Operation Cross Country XI
• Inside the FBI: Operation Cross Country XI
• FBI, This Week: Operation Cross Country XI
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• Federal and Local Law Enforcement Combat Commercial Child Sex Trafficking
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• FBI Announces Results of National Child Sex Trafficking Operation in Oregon
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• Operation Cross Country XI, Salt Lake City
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• Eleventh FBI-Wide Operation Cross Country Arrests Three Suspected Sex Traffickers in Washington State
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• FBI San Francisco Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI
• FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI

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The U.S. Blue Plastic Bag Of International Child Trafficking Propaganda

A 15-year old was in the process of being sold into
forced labour by suspected traffickers and was intercepted
just before the transaction could be completed.
The blue plastic bag contained her entire possessions.

"The blue plastic bag contained her entire possessions"

This is the description of a child rescured by an INTERPOL led human trafficking operation.

Does this sound familiar?

Well, of course it does because it is foster care, the U.S. model of human trafficking, in the name of the tax exempt God.

Now, take the time to watch this high quality, U.S. foster care propaganda video to see how trafficking children is all warm and fuzzy, and how they raise money to make sure they have something better than a "blue plastic bag" when they are trafficked from place to place.

What they will not tell you in these videos is about the rapes, tortures, drugging as lab rats, and how their trust funds are stolen.

Some, not many, U.S. foster kids get blue duffle bags, now.

So, what is the difference?

To begin, U.S. children who are trafficked now have "blue duffle bags" to carry around their worldly possessions, well, not all of them, just a few, a very few, because the money they raise has to pay operational expenses like funding political campaigns, luxury vacations, and personal shopping sprees to look good for the fundraising events. 

Then we have the issue I previously raised with Faith Based Initiative funding inder the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. State Department.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Faith Based Initiative Human Trafficking Blue Campaign

The federal End Human Trafficking Blue Campaign is now under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, with its international sister program in the U.S. State Department United States Agency for International Developmemt (USAID) of the U.S. Department of State Office of Religion and Foreign Affiars, the same Office Brownback is taking over.

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: FBI, DHS, Faith Based Initiatives & Child Welfare Fraud In Detroit http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2017/12/fbi-dhs-faith-based-initiatives-child.html#ixzz51SryXlqy
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 

These federal departments only fund propaganda campaigns to make it look like they are doing something to end child trafficking.

Even the U.S. House Judiciary Committee jumped on the "blue" child welfare propaganda fundraising campaign by co-opting pinwheel symbols to launch their reelection campaign fundraising.

Notice the blue fundraising pinwheel is at the end of the Judiciary video, then compare it to the child abuse and neglect awareness fundraising campaign of blue pinwheels.

But wait, there is one more agency that has powers over missing and exploited children, The U.S. Secret Service.

In 1994, Congress mandated the Secret Service provide forensic and technical assistance in matters involving missing and exploited children. The Secret Service offers this assistance to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.  (WARNING: The link to NCMEC is not secured for some reason.  It may be due to the recent redo of the Secret Service website, or the fact that NCMEC engages in questionable activities.)

So, what has the Secret Service been doing all these years to deal with child trafficking in the U.S. and what is their budget?

I say it is fine time for what I like to call a collaborative conjugation and pool all this propaganda coverup money, hand it over to FBI so they can construct and lead centralized operations in the U.S. to better work with the States and INTERPOL.

Perhaps, I will just go ahead, design a model and advocate for more independence of the FBI in ending child welfare fraud by allwoing them to blossom and do what they can do best.

Child trafficking is foster care and adoption, neatly packaged and sold to the public in a blue plastic propaganda bag.

Much love to my INTERPOL #Superfans but it is time to do that collaborative conjugation and hit the profiteers behind human trafficking, and I know exactly who they are.

INTERPOL-led operation rescues 500 victims of human trafficking, leads to 40 arrests 

COTONOU, Benin – Nearly 500 victims of human trafficking, including 236 minors, have been rescued following an INTERPOL operation carried out simultaneously across Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.

 In total, 40 suspected traffickers were arrested and will now face prosecution for offences including human trafficking, forced labour and child exploitation.

They are accused of forcing victims to engage in activities ranging from begging to prostitution, with little to no regard for working conditions or human life.

 In one case, a 16-year old Nigerian girl was promised work in Mali which would allow her to care for her family.

She was taken on by a ‘sponsor’ who then forced her into prostitution to reimburse her travel costs. In another case, a 15-year old was in the process of being sold into forced labour by suspected traffickers and was intercepted just before the transaction could be completed.

The victim was found holding a blue plastic bag containing their entire possessions.

 To ensure that victims received the necessary care following their rescue, the International Office for Migration (IOM) and several NGOs were involved in post-operation interviews and treatment. Operation Epervier was held under the aegis of the Sahel Project, an initiative funded by the German Foreign Office which targets the organized crime groups behind human trafficking across the region. Officers from INTERPOL’s Regional Bureaus in Abidjan and Yaounde assisted in coordinating the operation, which also included specialist officers from INTERPOL’s Trafficking in Human Beings unit at its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France.

 “In addition to arrests, this operation has opened a number of ongoing investigations to further disrupt the crime networks involved in trafficking in human beings, emphasizing the effectiveness of such operations via INTERPOL’s international network,” said Yoro Traore, a Police Inspector with the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Bamako.

 “The results of this operation underline the challenge faced by law enforcement and all stakeholders in addressing human trafficking in the Sahel region,” said Innocentia Apovo, Criminal Intelligence officer with INTERPOL’s Trafficking in Human Beings Unit and coordinator of the operation.

She also thanked the German Foreign Office for their continued support of such initiatives.

 The operation was followed by a regional working group meeting in Cotonou, gathering 100 participants from 15 countries across West Africa and the Sahel. Discussions focused on the outcomes of Operation Epervier as well as the way forward for future activities in the region.

 “This type of regional exchange is important to ensure that good and not so good practices are shared, to ensure that we collectively improve on prevention, protection and prosecution,” said Anke Strauss, IOM’s Chief of missions in Mauritania. Emerging trends in human trafficking will be high on the agenda of the 5th INTERPOL Global Conference on Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants, which will be held on 6 and 7 December 2017 in Doha, Qatar.

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Day 68.5. Task Force Visits NCMEC.

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Day 125 - Hillary's Henchmen, McCabe Has Been Spying For Hillary A Long Time

McCabe's Spying Goes Back To Bill Impeachment

Brian Podesta's Top Secret Clearance at NCMEC

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DOJ: South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin

Typically, the perpetrators were once the victims.

It is generational.

Praise the lord for there is much more to learn what is done to children in the name of the tax exempt god.

Dozens of Minor Victims Who Were Being Actively Abused by the Users of the Site Rescued

Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for his operation of Welcome To Video, the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content.  The nine-count indictment was unsealed today along with a parallel civil forfeiture action.  Son has also been charged and convicted in South Korea and is currently in custody serving his sentence in South Korea.  An additional 337 site users residing in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington State and Washington, D.C. as well as the United Kingdom, South Korea, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and Australia have been arrested and charged.   

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, Chief Don Fort of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and Acting Executive Associate Director Alysa Erichs of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), made the announcement.

“Darknet sites that profit from the sexual exploitation of children are among the most vile and reprehensible forms of criminal behavior,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.  “This Administration will not allow child predators to use lawless online spaces as a shield.  Today’s announcement demonstrates that the Department of Justice remains firmly committed to working closely with our partners in South Korea and around the world to rescue child victims and bring to justice the perpetrators of these abhorrent crimes.”

“Children around the world are safer because of the actions taken by U.S. and foreign law enforcement to prosecute this case and recover funds for victims,” said U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.  “We will continue to pursue such criminals on and off the darknet in the United States and abroad, to ensure they receive the punishment their terrible crimes deserve.”

“Through the sophisticated tracing of bitcoin transactions, IRS-CI special agents were able to determine the location of the Darknet server, identify the administrator of the website and ultimately track down the website server’s physical location in South Korea,” said IRS-CI Chief Don Fort.  “This largescale criminal enterprise that endangered the safety of children around the world is no more.  Regardless of the illicit scheme, and whether the proceeds are virtual or tangible, we will continue to work with our federal and international partners to track down these disgusting organizations and bring them to justice.”

“Children are our most vulnerable population, and crimes such as these are unthinkable,” said HSI Acting Executive Associate Director Alysa Erichs.  “Sadly, advances in technology have enabled child predators to hide behind the dark web and cryptocurrency to further their criminal activity.  However, today’s indictment sends a strong message to criminals that no matter how sophisticated the technology or how widespread the network, child exploitation will not be tolerated in the United States. Our entire justice system will stop at nothing to prevent these heinous crimes, safeguard our children, and bring justice to all.”

According to the indictment, on March 5, 2018, agents from the IRS-CI, HSI, National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom, and Korean National Police in South Korea arrested Son and seized the server that he used to operate a Darknet market that exclusively advertised child sexual exploitation videos available for download by members of the site.  The operation resulted in the seizure of approximately eight terabytes of child sexual exploitation videos, which is one of the largest seizures of its kind.  The images, which are currently being analyzed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), contained over 250,000 unique videos, and 45 percent of the videos currently analyzed contain new images that have not been previously known to exist.

Welcome To Video offered these videos for sale using the cryptocurrency bitcoin.  Typically, sites of this kind give users a forum to trade in these depictions.  This Darknet website is among the first of its kind to monetize child exploitation videos using bitcoin.  In fact, the site itself boasted over one million downloads of child exploitation videos by users.  Each user received a unique bitcoin address when the user created an account on the website.  An analysis of the server revealed that the website had more than one million bitcoin addresses, signifying that the website had capacity for at least one million users. 

The agencies have shared data from the seized server with law enforcement around the world to assist in identifying and prosecuting customers of the site.  This has resulted in leads sent to 38 countries and yielded arrests of 337 subjects around the world.  The operation has resulted in searches of residences and businesses of approximately 92 individuals in the United States.  Notably, the operation is responsible for the rescue of at least 23 minor victims residing in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom, who were being actively abused by the users of the site.

In the Washington, D.C.-metropolitan area, the operation has led to the execution of five search warrants and eight arrests of individuals who both conspired with the administrator of the site and were themselves, users of the website.  Two users of the Darknet market committed suicide subsequent to the execution of search warrants.

Amongst the sites users charged are:

• Charles Wunderlich, 34, of Hot Springs, California, was charged in the District of Columbia with conspiracy to distribute child pornography;
   
• Brian James LaPrath, 34, of San Diego, California, was arrested in the District of Columbia, for international money laundering; and was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release;
   
• Ernest Wagner, 70, of Federal Way, Washington, was arrested and charged in the District of Columbia with conspiracy to distribute child pornography;
   
• Vincent Galarzo, 28, of Glendale, New York, was arrested and charged in the District of Columbia with conspiracy to distribute child pornography;
   
• Michael Ezeagbor, 22, of Pflugerville, Texas, was arrested and charged in the District of Columbia with conspiracy to distribute child pornography;
   
• Nicholas Stengel, 45, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography and money laundering and was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release;
   
• Eryk Mark Chamberlin, 25, of Worcester, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to possession  of child pornography and is pending sentencing;
   
• Jairo Flores, 30, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in the District of Massachusetts to receipt and possession of child pornography and was sentenced to serve five years in prison followed by five years of supervised release;
   
• Billy Penaloza, 29, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in the District of Massachusetts to possession and receipt of child pornography. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 22, 2019;
   
• Michael Armstrong, 35, of Randolph, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in the District of Massachusetts, to receipt and possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to serve five years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.  Restitution will be determined at a future date;
   
• Al Ramadhanu Soedomo, 28, of Lynn, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced in the District of Massachusetts (Boston), to serve 12 months and one day followed by five years of supervised release;
   
• Phillip Sungmin Hong, 24, of Sharon, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in the District of Massachusetts (Boston), to receipt and possession of child pornography and is pending sentencing;
   
• Eliseo Arteaga Jr., 28, of Mesquite, Texas, pleaded guilty in the Northern District of Texas to possession of prepubescent child pornography. He is pending sentencing;
   
• Richard Nikolai Gratkowski, 40, of San Antonio, Texas, a former HSI special agent, was arrested in the Western District of Texas.  Gratkowski pleaded guilty to the indictment charging one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of access with intent to view child pornography.  Gratkowski was sentenced to serve 70 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $35,000 in restitution to seven victims and a $10,000 assessment;
   
• Paul Casey Whipple, 35, of Hondo, Texas, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, was arrested in the Western District of Texas, on charges of sexual exploitation of children/minors, production, distribution, and possession of child pornography.  Whipple remains in custody awaiting trial in San Antonio;
   
• Michael Lawson, 36, of Midland, Georgia, was arrested in the Middle District of Georgia on charges of attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography.  He was sentenced to serve 121 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release following his plea to a superseding information charging him with one count of receipt of child pornography;
   
• Kevin Christopher Eagan, 39, of Brookhaven, Georgia, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in the Northern District of Georgia;
   
• Casey Santioius Head, 37, of Griffin, Georgia, was indicted in the Northern District of Georgia for distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography;
   
• Andrew C. Chu, 28, of Garwood, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with receipt of child pornography. Those charges remain pending;
   
• Nader Hamdi Ahmed, 29 of Jersey City, New Jersey, was arrested in the District of New Jersey, for sexual exploitation or other abuse of children.  Ahmed pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of distribution of child pornography.  He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 1, 2019;
   
• Jeffrey Lee Harris, 32, of Pickens, South Carolina, pleaded guilty in the District of South Carolina for producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography;
   
• Laine Ormand Clark Jr., 27, of Conway, South Carolina, was arrested and charged in U.S. District Court in South Carolina Division for sexual possession of child pornography;
   
• Jack R. Dove III, 38, of Lakeland, Florida, was arrested in the Middle District of Florida for knowingly receiving and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
   
• Michael Matthew White, 39, of Miami Beach, Florida, was arrested in the Southern District of Florida for coercion and enticement;
   
• Nikolas Bennion Bradshaw, 24, of Bountiful, Utah, was arrested in the State of Utah, and charged with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, and was sentenced to time served with 91 days in jail followed by probation;
   
• Michael Don Gibbs, 37, of Holladay, Utah, was charged in the District of Utah with receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography;
   
• Ammar Atef H. Alahdali, 22, of Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia to receipt of child pornography and was sentenced to serve five years in prison and ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution;
   
• Mark Lindsay Rohrer, 38, of West Hartford, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in the District of Connecticut to receipt of child pornography and was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release;
   
• Eugene Edward Jung, 47, of San Francisco, California, was indicted in the Northern District of California on possession of child pornography and receipt of child pornography;
   
• James Daosaeng, 25, of Springdale, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced in the Western District of Arkansas (Fayetteville) to serve 97 months in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release;
   
• Alex Daniel Paxton, 30, of Columbus, Ohio, was arrested and indicted in Franklin County Ohio Court of Common Pleas for pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor;
   
• Don Edward Pannell, 32, of Harvey, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Louisiana for receipt of child pornography. He is pending sentencing;
   
• Ryan Thomas Carver, 29, of Huntsville, Alabama, was arrested and charged under Alabama State Law.  He was charged federally in the Northern District of Alabama with possession of child pornography. His case is pending in Huntsville, Alabama;
   
• Andrew Buckley, 28, of the United Kingdom, pleaded guilty to 10 offences in the UK of possession and distribution of indecent images of children, possession of extreme and prohibited images and possession of a class A drug.  He was sentenced to serve 40 months in prison for the distribution of indecent images and possession of class A drugs. Buckley is also subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order;
   
• Kyle Fox, 26, of the United Kingdom, pleaded guilty to 22 counts including rape, sexual assault, and sharing indecent images, and was sentenced to serve 22 years in prison; and
   
• Mohammed Almaker, 26, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was arrested in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), charged with KSA Law involving the endangerment of children.  He is awaiting judicial proceedings in furtherance of criminal charges.
   

A forfeiture complaint was also unsealed today.  The complaint alleges that law enforcement was able to trace payments of bitcoin to the Darknet site by following the flow of funds on the blockchain.  The virtual currency accounts identified in the complaint were allegedly used by 24 individuals in five countries to fund the website and promote the exploitation of children.  The forfeiture complaint seeks to recover these funds and, ultimately through the restoration process, return the illicit funds to victims of the crime.

The charges in the indictment are merely allegations, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. 

The international investigations were led by the IRS-CI, HSI and the NCA.  The Korean National Police of the Republic of Korea, the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom and the German Federal Criminal Police (the Bundeskriminalamt), provided assistance and coordinated with their parallel investigations.  The Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs of the Criminal Division provided significant assistance.   

The cases are being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zia M. Faruqui, Lindsay Suttenberg, and Youli Lee, Paralegal Specialists Brian Rickers and Diane Brashears, Legal Assistant Jessica McCormick, and Records Examiner Chad Byron of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorney C. Alden Pelker of the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.  Additional assistance has been provided by Deputy Chief Keith Becker and Trial Attorney James E. Burke IV of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and former U.S. Attorney’s Office Paralegal Specialists Toni Anne Donato and Ty Eaton. 

Attachment(s): 

Download Son Indictment

Download Graphic of Seizure Page

Download Screen Shot of Webpage

Download Complaint for Forfeiture

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OVERSIGHT: Gosar Makes History By Asking About Child Protective Services, DHS & The Trafficking Tiny Humans Databases - SACWIS, NCMEC

Start @23:26 where Representative Paul Gosar asks McAleenan about ICE detaining children.

He asks about Child Protective Services.

He sets up the caveat of a children being taken across state lines where someone cannot provide water and safety, like ICE.

I want to see someone calling in California, Texas, Arizona Child Protective Services come in and execute their process of legally kidnapping children.

How come children in ICE do not get CPS intervention, considering CPS will snatch a kid if the wind blows in a different direction.

Elijah Cummings is not happy because ICE refuses to release information about the children.

Elijah does not know that "in the best interests of the child" DHS does not have to release anything.

Those kids are being fast tracked on concurrent planning, which means adoption.

Chatter on the streets, as Michigan got those contracts, is new identities are being assigned.

DHS cannot even mesh with SACWIS, well, at least not in Michigan because Nancy Edmunds allowed the state to dole out more money, to try and fix a human trafficking data base, that was never designed to do anything but to generate false claims in modern day residuals of the peculiar institution.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has a database, too.

Thank you, Paul, for making history.

For McAleenan to say he does not know what to do, is ground for his removal from office because all he had to do was to use google because I have databases, unless I am suppressed by Google in searches, which would mean he is being improperly advised in search results, but I digress.

The U.S. has other borders, but no one is talking about the trafficking of tiny humans from our ports or Norther boarder, or our other Southern border, in Michigan, or children from other countries, like Russia, Ukraine, Kosovo, Poland, Haiti, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya....and the list goes on.

What is going on is the policy of Lebensborn.

I broke this down to its most simplistic factors for understanding about the industry of the residuals of the peculiar institution called Foster Care & Adoption.

Just close your eyes and allow the imagines of The Good Ship Jesus, whose cargo was tiny humans, trafficked across borders.

Once a border baby is placed in the privatized contract of a state, Michigan, the financial ratlines commence for a life of hell for these children... under Michigan laws, where MIED Judge Nancy Edmunds will not do a damn thing about for the last 15 years or so about Michigan, Child Welfare System, because it all started in Michigan.

How come no one asked the State Department to come in and discuss USAID and its foreign, child welfare corporate NGO contractors like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops?

DWS got real on McAleenan not knowing about interior children being picked up and placed in Un Accompanied Children policy care.

This is more CPS activity of privately contracted Child Placing Agencies.

This is about parental rights.

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DOJ Project SAFE Childhood To Prioritize Civil Rights Protections For Children And Families in Foster Care

April Fools!

The U.S. Department of Justice, Offices of the U.S. Attorneys, have done absolutely nothing to prioritize civil rights protections for children in foster care or ending Medicaid fraud in child welfare. 

In fact, the U.S. Department of Justice has not even updated its website to replace the former Attorney General's name, Eric Holder, with the current Attorney General, Loretta Lynch.

Perhaps it would behoove the DOJ to confer with the California Attorney General on how to design a bureau for children's justice to continue working on justice reform.

U.S. Department of Justice Project Safe Childhood

The Department of Justice and each United States Attorney’s Office are committed to protecting our children. Our goal “is to prevent child sexual exploitation from occurring in the first place, in order to protect every child’s opportunity and right to have a childhood that is free from sexual abuse, trauma, and exploitation so that they can become the adults they were meant to be. [We seek to] accomplish that goal by efficiently leveraging assets across the federal government in a coordinated manner.” - The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction.

Overview

• A Victim's Voice

More Resources

• Facts & Figures
• The FBI's Child ID App Putting Safety in Your Hands
• NCMEC Cybertipline[external link]
• Take 25[external link]

Useful Links

• Project Safe Childhood
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children[external link]
• Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force[external link]
• Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS)

Internet safety links

• iKeepSafe (Faux Paw)[external link]
• iSafe[external link]
• WebWiseKids[external link]
• NetSmartz[external link]
• FBI Parents’ Guide
• FBI Kids’ Guidet

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