By Pete Williams and Erin McClam, NBC News
More
than 100 teenagers involved in sex trafficking and exploitation were
rescued over the weekend in coordinated raids encompassing more than 70
cities, the FBI said Monday.
The youngest child was 13 years old, the agency said.
The
raids resulted in the arrest of 150 “pimps” involved in the commercial
exploitation of both adults and children, said Ronald Hosko, assistant
director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division.
It
was the FBI’s largest action to date focusing on the recovery of
sexually exploited children, and took law enforcement agencies to
streets, motels, casinos and social media platforms, Hosko said. He said
he hoped it would focus attention on sex trafficking, “this threat that
robs us of our children.”
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