33 Missing Kids Recovered In Joint Los Angeles-Based Operation Combatting Human Trafficking
LAPPL News Watch
January 25, 2021
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.
During January, which is 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 missing children, particularly those who have been or
were suspected of being sexually exploited and/or trafficked.
The
agencies recovered 33 children throughout the course of the operation,
according to Kristi K. Johnson, assistant director in charge of the
FBI's Los Angeles field office.
"Human trafficking is a pervasive and
insidious crime that threatens the safety of our young people, who are
the future of our communities," said Michel Moore, chief of the Los
Angeles Police Department. "We can only begin to take back the future of
our youth with the strong partnerships forged between outstanding
service providers and law enforcement."
Specific details about the
operation, nicknamed "Los Angels," were not immediately available. Of
the children recovered, eight were being sexually exploited at the time
of recovery. Two were recovered multiple times during the operation
while on the "track," a term commonly used to describe a known location
for commercial sex trafficking, Johnson said.
EDITOR'S NOTE: It is noteworthy that two of the kids were 'recovered' street hustling multiple times.
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