70 missing children, human trafficking victims recovered in 3-week Texas operation, officials say

[Hope32]

70 missing children, human trafficking victims recovered in 3-week Texas operation, officials say

Some of the missing children recovered were victims of human trafficking, according to Homeland Security Investigations.

www.usatoday.com

The recovered children were ages 10 to 17, and a majority were runaways. Authorities said some of the children were victims of sex trafficking, as well as physical and sexual abuse. Most of the children were in west Texas, but they were recovered in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, in Colorado and in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Agencies recover 70 missing children in West Texas

Those recovered included victims of abuse and sex trafficking.

www.newswest9.com

TEXAS, USA — Homeland Security Investigations announced on May 25 it had completed a three week long operation along with several other agencies.
"Operation Lost Souls" located and recovered 70 missing children in Midland, Ector, El Paso and Tom Green counties. This operation ran from the end of April to mid-May.
These children, many of whom were runaways, were aged 10 to 17 and included victims of physical and sexual abuse as well as sex trafficking.

 

[abr]

70 children? 70? Come quickly, Lord Jesus.

 

[borndem]

Bravo!! Great news!
Keep it up -- only 49 states to go! (I'm serious here.)

 

[nao]

Where are they sent to after..back home? Do they get therapy?....moo

 

[Bit of hope]

Bravo!! Great news!
Keep it up -- only 49 states to go! (I'm serious here.)

And a couple of operations more like this in Texas. Anything about the perpetrators or "costumers"? I hope they all rot in hell.

 

[borndem]

As @nao asked above -- What happens to the victims after their rescue?
I'm assuming LE's intent will be to rejoin them with their families. Also assuming that some of the victims left home because their homes were truly not good places to live. What will happen to those persons? How does that work?
Will the persons rescued be interviewed, etc., so that LE will find out how/why they came to be in the situation?
Also assuming that some of those victims may not have a family or parent or caretaker.
Does anyone know the procedures for dealing with the victims?

 

[Bit of hope]

I found a few articles about it, but there are many more.

2020

What Happens to Sex Trafficking Survivors After They're Rescued?

For many sex trafficking survivors, rescue is only the first—and maybe even the easiest—part of life returning to normal.

fightthenewdrug.org

And while we don’t want to take away from such stories and the impressive efforts of law enforcement, we do want to point out that, for sex trafficking survivors, rescue is only the first—and maybe even the easiest—part of life returning to normal.

“People think if we rescue them… they’ll be good,” the head of an Illinois-based anti-sex trafficking nonprofit exasperatedly told us during an interview. We’ll call her “Annie.” While the pasts of such survivors don’t control or define their futures, nor does it mean “they can’t be helped or functional… the cost for men, women, and children of being sex trafficked is a lifetime cost,” Annie said.

To put it simply, healing is a long and intense process for survivors of sex trafficking—a process that long surpasses a rescue.

From Colorado (2014)
What happens to children after they are saved from sex trafficking?

But what happens to the children after they are removed from sex trafficking? Though treatment of these cases is slowly improving, typically the children are handled no differently than any other juvenile criminal. First, they’re placed into a juvenile detention facility for evaluation and detoxification. This stage can last from days to months, depending on availability of beds at other “suitable” sites.

At the worst, such sites include coed group homes where girls freshly removed from sex trafficking are housed with male sex offenders. A step above is typical foster care (up to four children with no therapy), then group therapy homes. The highest current level is therapeutic foster care homes, with one or two children who are provided therapy, support, training and oversight.

However, the best outcomes result from the specialized therapeutic foster care model which incorporates foster parents, volunteers and professionals specifically trained in dealing with trauma resulting from sex trafficking. This model places each child into a stable, long-term home environment, supplies intensive therapy and a variety of other support services.

What do rescued child sex trafficking victims need?

Discover what Ark of Hope for Children says rescued child sex trafficking victims need to become thriving adults.

arkofhopeforchildren.org

Children and young adults rescued from child trafficking have far too few safe, qualified environments where they can be taken for habilitation and training for a normal productive life. All too often they have ended up in juvenile detention programs or traditional foster care. Juvenile detention is much too rigid and unforgiving, while foster care is simply not prepared for traumatized victims that have been sold many times a day for sex. They need more stability than traditional foster care, which often bounces children from home to home. They will most often run away, back to the dangerous life that had endangered them or succumb to suicide, alcohol, drugs on the streets.

Teens are often placed in foster care and juvenile detention. They are NOT criminals, but victims, and most foster parents will have no idea how to meet their complex physical and psychological needs. There is most often no stability as children bounce from home to home in traditional foster care. Plus foster care will not take children over 17 years old so where do they go? Of the 20,000 released from foster care in the U.S. every year, 25% are jailed within 2 years and a vast number homeless.

 

[Bit of hope]

I always say; where there is demand, there will be delivery. IMO it starts with the demand.

'Operation April's Fools': Arizona authorities arrest 29 men in undercover child sex crimes sting

Police say 29 men were arrested in connection to an undercover operation targeting child sex crimes and human trafficking in Arizona.

www.fox10phoenix.com

Operation April’s Fools, an undercover operation targeting the demand for child sex crimes and human trafficking. At the conclusion of the operation, 29 men suspected of soliciting various sex acts were arrested.

Here are a couple of those dirty bastards. Let's hope your son, husband, boyfriend, uncle, father, nephew is not among them. Not to offend any of you, just to bring some awareness.

 

[nao]

Dbm

 

[nao]

Moo...these are men ( only men..i find that weird) Ok that is sleazy but..what kinda bait do the cops show online?.... Moo

 

[wendybtn]

Many of these children are in the custody of the state and get 'lost.' The other agencies involved usually include DFCS. It's a way for the Children's agency to clear up their missing children before audits. Sometimes they actually rescue a kidnapped child or catch a perp, but that is not the main reason these operations are done. You can tell because NCMEC doesn't suddenly have 70 or 225 cases disappear from their site.
Operation April's Fools above was a different type of operation.

 

[azure]

Many of these children are in the custody of the state and get 'lost.' The other agencies involved usually include DFCS. It's a way for the Children's agency to clear up their missing children before audits. Sometimes they actually rescue a kidnapped child or catch a perp, but that is not the main reason these operations are done. You can tell because NCMEC doesn't suddenly have 70 or 225 cases disappear from their site.
Operation April's Fools above was a different type of operation.

Yes, these articles are posted over and over again and used as fodder for the misguided #savethechildren movement, but the articles are incredibly misleading. Virtually all of these kids are CPS fosters who get misplaced by the overburdened system. Sure, some of them end up being trafficked, but this isn't blonde haired, blue eyed suburban girls getting plucked off the streets and sold to the highest bidder. Many of these kids struggle with addiction and homelessness and turn to prostitution as a means of subsistence.

 

[Bit of hope]

Yes, these articles are posted over and over again and used as fodder for the misguided #savethechildren movement, but the articles are incredibly misleading. Virtually all of these kids are CPS fosters who get misplaced by the overburdened system. Sure, some of them end up being trafficked, but this isn't blonde haired, blue eyed suburban girls getting plucked off the streets and sold to the highest bidder. Many of these kids struggle with addiction and homelessness and turn to prostitution as a means of subsistence.

Hi, did I post an article with misleading content? Please let me know which one. Just to learn and get things straight.

 

[wendybtn]

Hi, did I post an article with misleading content? Please let me know which one. Just to learn and get things straight.

No, you didn't. It is in reference to the link in the original post. Most states have an operation now and again to clear missing children cases among children under DFCS care. But the headlines are so misleading, people think they are finding kidnapped children. The truth is many of these children are back home, or living with another family, or aged out of the system. That's where they are 'recovered.' It's so DFCS doesn't look so bad on audits.