A three-month operation has resulted in the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected child sex offenders, including a Secret Service employee, the Justice Department has announced. The investigation also identified 383 abused children.
The nationwide operation, dubbed “Broken Heart,” ended in May. Conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforces working in all 50 states, the operation was carried out by more than 4,500 law enforcement agencies at federal, state, local and tribal levels.
The operation targeted individuals suspected of producing or possessing child pornography, engaging in online enticement of children for sexual purposes, sex trafficking of children, and traveling across state lines or to foreign countries to sexually abuse children.
DOJ says it has arrested more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a 3-month operation in US, including 195 offenders who produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse.
Also found 383 children survivors of this sick abuse. pic.twitter.com/hWx8fGacpl
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 12, 2018
According to local media reports, a Secret Service employee residing in Maryland was arrested in March as part of the nationwide operation.
“No child should ever have to endure sexual abuse,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, as quoted in Justice Department press release. “And yet, in recent years, certain forms of modern technology have facilitated the spread of child pornography and created greater incentives for its production. We at the Department of Justice are determined to strike back against these repugnant crimes. “
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1007022983901138944
The decision by some American news outlets to pass over the operation’s completion created a stir on Twitter – but there is likely a benign, although somewhat depressing, explanation for the lack of coverage: Operation Broken Heart has been going on for years. For example, Operation Broken Heart III, which ran from April to May 2016, netted over 1,000 suspected predators nationwide.
I wonder how many leo “courtesy/get out of jail free cards” were exchanged during the course of this investigation?
And there’s always a few of their own to sacrifice for the show, but hardly representative of who is really running this sick depraved f’d up operation.
I guess we will never know, outside our own investigations
And these people didnt exist during Obamas term? Clintons? Bush? etc … but not a dam thing done about any of it .. are we to surmise that the rank and file and all of its “enforcement ” bunch were being bought out to not uphold the RULE OF LAW? or least most of them be implicated?
(please dont label me as hitching my wagon to any political party , they all suck .. but theres a reason this is being exposed now and not than )
wonder why all this is just now coming out in such large amounts , a different DOJ? .. was the previous DOJ players and investigators going to be found as accomplices ? they sat on their hands for decades while these victims were destroyed, along with the evidence and lives
“… a Secret Service employee residing in Maryland was arrested in March as part of the nationwide operation.”
If he squeals (and he probably will), he’d better keep the Clintons out of it.