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Nearly 1,700 Suspected Child Sex Predators Arrested in Operation “Broken Heart”
- analreceiver 7y agogood ridance
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- vvvij 7y agoI'm surprised to see your comment being downvoted. I wonder why.
- SethTro 7y agoSeems to be well targeted at producers / distributes rather just consumers. Stop this at this source > The operation targeted suspects who: (1) produce, distribute, receive and possess child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the sex trafficking of children; and (4) travel across state lines or to foreign countries and sexually abuse children.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoThey're going to need another two federal prisons now.
- siphon22 7y agoSeeing as these are suspected child sex predators, they may be better off dead in a hole somewhere. I don't know if the prison population takes child predators too kindly and if we as a people should be paying to keep these alleged sickos alive.
- beenBoutIT 7y agoWhat's the average life expectancy for a convicted child molester in prison? Prisons keep records of all the I/O so the numbers should be somewhere.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoI can only attest to my experience in prison. I never heard of a sex offender being killed in one of the several state prisons I was at. In the two federal prisons, there was one guy murdered, but it was because he was stupid. When he arrived, he fell in with the Aryan Brotherhood gang, a white supremacist group. Pretended to be a drug dealer. When the law library stumbled upon his case and discovered he had run a child prostitution house inside Mexico, the AB's had to do him in to save face. The only people in prison who get hurt are the ones who deserve it. You might say, well, that guy is in for that heinous crime, but as long as the guy is respectful and doesn't overstep social boundaries he'll get along fine in federal prison.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoAppreciate you contributing your experience. This was interesting and enlightening.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoI've commented quite a lot regarding my prison experiences on HN.
- Fezzik 7y agoI have become so cynical that my first thought was “this seems like something Mr. Barr would exaggerate the magnitude of to distract from all the bad press he is getting right now...” What’s the old adage? When politicians start saying “think of the children!” they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes. (That’s not a direct quote, and I realize I am semi-misapplying it). I am not proud of that thought. I work in juvenile dependency law and know how vile sex-trafficking and child pornography are. Yet it still seems like a reasonable first impression given the political climate. Kudos to the Dept. of Justice though.