Nearly three-dozen missing children have been recovered in Southern California during a recent Los Angeles-based operation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Friday.
Almost three-dozen missing children – including eight who were being sexually exploited at the time of recovery have been found in the Southland during a recent operation, the FBI announced today.
33 missing children recovered in joint Los Angeles-based operation
Several of the victims had been sexually exploited in the past and were considered vulnerable missing children prior to their recovery.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) Almost three dozen missing children, including eight who were being sexually exploited at the time of recovery, have been found in Southern California during a recent operation, the FBI announced Friday.
During January, which was Human Trafficking Awareness Month, the FBI worked with the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department and more than two dozen law enforcement and non-governmental partners to identify, locate and recover 33 missing children, said Kristi K. Johnson, assistant director in charge of the FBI s Los Angeles field office.
By Crystal McGough
PINSON – Pinson Mayor Joe Cochran gave a proclamation at the Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, Pinson City Council meeting to establish that the city of Pinson recognizes the month of January as “Human Trafficking Awareness Month.”
The council had Resolution 2021-2 on the agenda, establishing the city of Pinson as a “Trafficking Free Zone,” but that resolution was tabled after Councilor Robbie Roberts made a motion to remove the “zero-tolerance” wording.
“I’m always a little nervous about very rigid language, and so I would like for us to strike the section here where it says, ‘the implementation and enforcement of a zero-tolerance policy against any act which may support human trafficking,’” Roberts said. “Certainly, no one wants to be involved in human trafficking. I would like for it just to read, ‘the implementation and enforcement of a policy against any act which may support human trafficking.’ The zero-tolerance, I’m afraid somebody
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A multiagency investigation recently found 33 missing children in Southern California, including eight who had been sexually exploited, the FBI said in a news release Friday.
Operation Lost Angels began Jan. 11 amid Human Trafficking Awareness Month and involved more than two dozen agencies in an effort to identify and find missing children, the FBI said.
Officials said two of the children were found multiple times at known locations for commercial sex trafficking and explained endangered children often return to such situations for various reasons as a part of a harmful cycle of abuse.
Several other children had been sexually exploited in the past and were considered vulnerable missing children before officials located them, the FBI said.