In June 2003, the FBI in conjunction with the Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched the Innocence Lost National Initiative.
Their combined efforts were aimed at addressing the growing problem of domestic sex trafficking of children in the United States.
In only five years since its inception, the Initiative has created and developed 24 dedicated task forces and working groups throughout the U.S. involving federal, state and local law enforcement agencies working in tandem with U.S. Attorney’s Offices.
To date, these groups have rescued over 575 children and led to the conviction of more than 300 pimps, madams, and their associates who exploit children through prostitution. These convictions have resulted in lengthy sentences including multiple 25-year-to-life sentences and the seizure of real property, vehicles, and monetary assets.
The Innocent Images International Task Force
The Innocent Images International Task Force became operational on October 6, 2004 and includes law enforcement officers from the following countries: United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Ukraine, Belarus, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Croatia, Latvia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Fiji, Cyprus, Iceland, Denmark, Panama, and Europol.
To date, more than 47 international officers have traveled to the United States and have worked side-by-side with special agents of the FBI at the Innocent Images Unit. The task force allows for the real-time transfer of information from and to the FBI and between task-force members and their countries.
Task Force officers stay in the United States for several months and remain an integral part of the task force once they return to their home countries. The FBI’s Innocent Images International Task Force successfully brings together law enforcement from around the world to address the global crime problem of online child exploitation.
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If only the funds and manpower going towards the sensless and unconstitutional ”war on drugs” were applied to the efforts to battle child pornagraphy,white slavery and predatory pediophiles,tens of thousands of children and women in America and elsewhere could be saved from torture and death.I do not understand why with the lives of innocent children at stake,that so few persons responsible for child sex slavery rings are brought to justice,but yet our prisons are full of adults whose only ”crime” was the use of a plant derivative ! Billions of dollars of tax payer’s money are spent yearly fighting a manifestation of normal human instinct,even as perverts of the worse kind prey on children and women,often going undetected for decades.
If you are affiliated with law enforcement please consider the truth of what I am saying. Every dollar and every man hour spent attempting to control the substances adults ingest of their own accord,amounts to that much less resources available to combat the worst kind of criminals;those who prey on innocent children.
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