AP/Obama:
FBI, police rescue child prostitutes around US
WASHINGTON – The FBI has rescued more than 45 suspected teenage prostitutes, some as young as 13, in a nationwide sweep to remove kids from the illegal sex trade and punish their accused pimps.
Over a three-night initiative called Operation Cross Country, federal agents working with local law enforcement also arrested more than 50 alleged pimps, according to preliminary bureau data.
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Historically, federal authorities rarely play a role in anti-prostitution crackdowns, but the FBI is becoming more involved as it tries to rescue children caught up in the business.
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The federal effort is also designed to hit pimps with much tougher prison sentences than they would likely get in state criminal courts.
One day last summer, I happened to be at the front lobby of a certain large hospital complex in St. Louis. I won’t way which one, but there are reserved parking spots for police and law enforcement. For they frequent this hospital, and especially its ER so often, not only for shot and injured cops, but also so many of St. Louis’s thugs wind up going through there because their pals made holes in them. Hospitals are required by Federal law to contact a constabulary when someone comes in with a gunshot wound, so a St. Louis thug needing ER services at this hospital for a gunshot usually draws the interest of the SLPD. Also, the Bureau of Federal Prisons seems to favor this particular St. Louis hospital over others in the area to provide services to Federal prison inmates, and one sees Federal Hoosegow Paddywagons parked in these reserved spots.
On this particular day, the BFP had two vans parked in these spots. There were five agents accompanying one prisoner, who was coming to the hospital for a particular test. Once the five of them brought the prisoner into the lobby, one of the agents disembarked and sat down in the chairs in the lobby where I was sitting. The other four took him to where they needed to go within the complex.
I struck up a conversation with the agent in the lobby. He told me that this particular prisoner, who was black and obese, and looked to be in his 40s, was serving a Federal sentence for the interstate transportation of minors for the sake of prostitution (Mann Act?). One of the agents wanted to be stationed at the main entrance, just in case the prisoner somehow got loose from his impediments, made a run for it, and tried to get out through a familiar entrance — for they bought him in the front, he probably wouldn’t know the other ways out, and would very likely try to get out the same way they bought him in. So they wanted an agent at that entrance to tackle him, if the need arises. More than that, the prisoner knew that the guard was at the front entrance, so this would deter him from even trying to get away. The purpose of two paddywagons was just in case one broke down so they can stuff him in the other — they figure the longer he’s out of a van and outside in the open, the more likely it is that something bad will happen.
During our conversation, the agent admitted to me (not in so many words, but any idiot could read between the lines) that the biggest problem with interstate child prostitution is that these black gangs from the big cities like New York, Detroit and Chicago go into the suburban and rural upper Midwest and kidnap teenage girls of Scandinavian extraction (e.g. the prettiest blonds), and force them to be prostitutes in their cities, mainly to black johns. The agent told me that the prisoner they were transporting that day was from Chicago, doing time in the Greenville, Illinois Federal prison, and was directly involved in transporting kidnapped girls from Wisconsin into Chicago.
The FBI is pretty good at scuttlebutting existing rings, but their “commitment to diversity” precludes them from really solving the problem. You can’t solve a problem unless you first identify a problem, and you can’t identify a problem if you’re prevented from doing so by the dictates of political correctness.
