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Tanuki

(14,922 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:49 AM Jul 2019

Prosecution of child sex trafficking plummeted under Rapist45

https://www.courthousenews.com/prosecution-of-kiddie-traffickers-plummeted-under-trump/

...."federal prosecutions of those who trafficked children for sex dropped 26.7% over the last year.

The startling numbers appeared Tuesday in a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

“If the present pace of such prosecutions continues, the fiscal 2019 total will be 162, compared to 221 last year,” TRAC’s report states.

The Obama administration dramatically ramped up such prosecutions, climbing threefold from 85 cases in 2009, the year the 44th president took office, to more than 260 during his final year in the White House.

While those prosecutions held steady in the first year under President Donald Trump, TRAC’s analysis of Justice Department data says they have taken a dramatic plunge every year since.

“Compared to five years ago, the estimate of FY 2019 prosecutions of this type is down 32.2 percent, from 239,” the study says. “However, prosecutions over the past year are still much higher than they were ten years ago, up 90.6 percent from the 85 reported in 2009.”

TRAC obtained the data under the Freedom of Information Act."...(more)

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Prosecution of child sex trafficking plummeted under Rapist45 (Original Post) Tanuki Jul 2019 OP
How can anyone but pedophiles & traffickers be in favor of this? CrispyQ Jul 2019 #1
How can my junior senator, Moscow Marsha Blackburn, claim to be Tanuki Jul 2019 #2
Do You Think They Prefer To Be Called, "The Party Of Kiddie Rape,"........ ChoppinBroccoli Jul 2019 #3
Could be Faux pas Jul 2019 #4
Acosta proposing 80% funding cuts for the government agency that combats child sex trafficking. keithbvadu2 Jul 2019 #5

CrispyQ

(36,527 posts)
1. How can anyone but pedophiles & traffickers be in favor of this?
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:55 AM
Jul 2019

How can women who wear tee-shirts that read "Believe the children" be okay with this?

Tanuki

(14,922 posts)
2. How can my junior senator, Moscow Marsha Blackburn, claim to be
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:00 PM
Jul 2019

an anti-trafficking champion yet support this depraved monster and his policies?

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)
3. Do You Think They Prefer To Be Called, "The Party Of Kiddie Rape,"........
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:35 PM
Jul 2019

..............or just plain old, "Rape-publicans"?

I have a feeling we can drive RW nut-jobs crazy by saddling them with the label "Rape-publicans." So I would suggest getting that little nickname out there trying to make it stick.

keithbvadu2

(36,933 posts)
5. Acosta proposing 80% funding cuts for the government agency that combats child sex trafficking.
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 10:53 PM
Jul 2019

Acosta proposing 80% funding cuts for the government agency that combats child sex trafficking.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212261991 July 10

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