{"id":1497020,"date":"2022-05-30T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497020"},"modified":"2022-05-30T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:00:47","slug":"authorities-rescue-70-missing-children-including-sex-trafficking-victims-in-texas-colorado-and-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/authorities-rescue-70-missing-children-including-sex-trafficking-victims-in-texas-colorado-and-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Rescue 70 Missing Children, Including Sex-Trafficking Victims In Texas, Colorado, And Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fauthorities-rescue-70-missing-children-including-sex-trafficking-victims-in-texas-colorado-and-mexico%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497020&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Federal, state, and local authorities announced the rescue of 70 missing children in parts of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Lost Souls\u201d recovered the missing children \u2014 many of whom were runaways ranging between the ages of 10 and 17 \u2014 throughout Texas, as well as the state of Colorado and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/hsi-el-paso-locates-recovers-70-missing-children-multi-agency-operation#:~:text=TX%20Child%20Exploitation-,HSI%20El%20Paso%20locates%2C%20recovers%2070,children%20in%20multi%2Dagency%20operation&#038;text=EL%20PASO%20%E2%80%93%20Homeland%20Security%20Investigations,week%20operation%20in%20West%20Texas\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The operation ran from the end of April through the middle of May, and its results were announced on May 25, which is also National Missing Children\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued children included victims of sex trafficking and physical and sexual abuse. According to ICE, the agencies involved provided counseling to the children and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Lost Souls exemplifies Homeland Security Investigations\u2019 commitment to protecting the public from crimes of victimization. In this case, we are looking out for our children \u2014 our community\u2019s most precious resource,\u201d HSI El Paso Deputy Special Agent Taekuk Cho said in the press release. \u201cHSI is committed to continue working with our law enforcement partners to locate, recover and help missing children heal, while ensuring that perpetrators are held responsible for these heinous crimes and brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the Department of Public Safety, teamwork is one of our core values,\u201d Texas DPS Major Matthew Mull added. \u201cWe are grateful for all of our law enforcement partners who participated in this operation and who work around-the-clock every day to protect our communities, including our youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of \u201cOperation Lost Souls\u201d comes days after authorities arrested eight individuals in connection with a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-girl-trafficked-mavericks-dallas-suspects-arrested-oklahoma\">trafficked from a Dallas Mavericks game<\/a> on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>The girl allegedly separated from her father to use the restroom at the game and was later seen leaving the American Airlines Center with an unknown man. A few days later, the Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative found the girl\u2019s nude photos displayed on a website associated with prostitution. Police in Oklahoma City were able to recover the victim on April 18 \u2014 11 days after her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thankful for the work of the Oklahoma City Police Department and the recovery of our daughter. My heart breaks for the unimaginable things my daughter had to endure for the 11 days she was taken, and I am so glad she is safe as we work toward her recovery,\u201d the girl\u2019s mother said in a May 5 statement.<\/p>\n<p>Zeke Fortenberry, an attorney representing the family, questioned how the male suspect who allegedly lured the girl from the arena was able to obtain a fraudulent ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe systems and organizations involved in this case continually failed the victim. She should never have had contact with the man at the Mavericks game,\u201d Fortenberry said. \u201cThis victim\u2019s life will forever be changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/candace\">Candace<\/a> last year, Tim Ballard \u2014 a former Department of Homeland Security special agent and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/ourrescue.org\/\">Operation Underground Railroad<\/a> \u2014 explained that Americans are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-many-more-can-we-get-out-inside-the-frontline-battle-to-end-child-sex-trafficking\">largest drivers of demand<\/a> for the $150 billion global sex trafficking industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country with the highest demand is going to be the country most exposed to sexual material,\u201d Ballard said. \u201cAnd so, what country is as large as the United States where everyone has access to the internet? None. So that\u2019s my theory as to why the United States is the largest consumer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal, state, and local authorities announced the rescue of 70 missing children in parts of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. \u201cOperation Lost Souls\u201d recovered the missing children \u2014 many of whom were runaways ranging between the ages of 10 and 17 \u2014 throughout Texas, as well as the state of Colorado and Ciudad Juarez, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1481204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}