'Disheartening': US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking

[babylonsister]

‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking
Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice
Katie McQue
Sat 24 Jan 2026 07.00 EST


The US Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children under the Trump administration, which limits their ability to carry out this work.

Major cuts include the cancelation of 2025 National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation, due to be held in Washington DC in June. The conference is an annual event that provides technical training to prosecutors, state and federal law enforcement officers on investigating online crimes against children.

The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child sexual exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

“You don’t want to speak too loudly, because you just fear retaliation, and that’s a heavy hand to be dealt when you’re just trying to do your job,” one prosecutor said.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/justice-department-cuts-child-sex-trafficking

[Norrrm]

1. While convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell gets favorable prison treatment.

Trump's good friend who he hints at pardoning..

[GoCubsGo]

2. Trump just making things easier for himself and his big money donors.

And, a lot of his toadies.

Anyone know the whereabouts of all those migrant children they kidnapped in his first term? How many are still missing?

[newdeal2]

4. Exactly. This is worse than disheartening

They want to make these crimes easier because their boss doesn’t view it as a crime.

And don’t forget the kids that ICE is rounding up.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Guardians of Oligarchs and Pedophiles

Cui bono?

[multigraincracker]

5. What next? DOJ instructions on how

to traffic kids?

[malaise]

6. Meh & Duh!

What would a party tgat defends pedophiles do?

That is all

[Grim Chieftain]

7. I'm reminded of the famous quote

"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch, special counsel for the US Army.

It appears there is no depth of depravity too low.

[barbtries]

8. i didn't really understand until recently

that the conspiracy theory about the pedophile sex trafficking ring in the pizza parlor was merely projection.

[Wild blueberry]

9. Pedophile protectors

[2naSalit]

10. Because they intend...

To expand their pedophile sex trafficking operations and they don't want any pesky serfs complaining about the stealing of children.

[cstanleytech]

11. Trump's planning on looking for a date maybe?

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Shameful Administration.

I cannot wait for the Democrats to get back into power so that everything begins to function again, the way it's suppose to.

[bluestarone]

13. How much more proof do we need that these bastards are

Anti kids, anti vaccines, anti laws, anti America?

[Fla Dem]

14. Someone protecting their sex offender pals or keeping those "pals" from ratting them out.

The US Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children under the Trump administration, which limits their ability to carry out this work.

[SergeStorms]

15. And the MAGAts will be OK with this.

Even though they were up-in-arms about Hillary and "pizzagate," the MAGA cult will overlook this because their messiah did it. Dear Leader can do no wrong.
Besides, there are still brown people on our country's streets. ICE needs more funding to rid the country of brown people. They want a return to the pre-slave colonial days in the U.S. when only white people were allowed (so they think, anyway).
Nope, the MAGAts won't care about this one iota.