"A lot of these victims did not realize they were victims. While we will continue to prioritize the arrest of child predators, we cannot arrest our way out of this problem: education is the key to prevention." "Our agency is seeing a growing trend where children are being enticed, tricked and coerced online by adults to produce sexually explicit material of themselves. "Never before in the history of this agency have we identified and located this many minor victims in the course of a single child exploitation investigation," said ICE Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale.
victims offered support services from HSI victim assistance specialists. All victims have been contacted by law enforcement and U.S. Fifty nine victims were 16 and 17 26 victims were 10 to 12 four victims were 7 to 9 one victim was 4 to 6 and two victims were 3 years old or younger. The majority of victims, 159, were 13 to 15 years old. Five of these victims were identified from Dallas four from Tyler three from Lubbock two from San Angelo and one victim was identified from Amarillo.
Of those 251 from the United States, special agents from Dallas identified 15 victims throughout north Texas as part of this operation. Investigators have identified 251 minor victims in 39 states and five foreign countries. The effort is one of the largest online child exploitation investigations in the history of ICE, involving victims across the United States and the world. (KLTV) - Fourteen men are in federal custody accused of operating a child pornography website, announced Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday. The underground website was a hidden service board on the Tor network and operated from about June 2012 until June 2013, at which time the site contained more than 2,000 videos and had more than 27,000 members.
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