'Operation Not Forgotten' resulted in the rescue of 26 children and the safe location of 13 others in Georgia; reaction from Fox Nation host Nancy Grace.
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Will thank you Jedediah.
Unfortunately, just a jaw
dropping stun going sad story.
Thirty nine children were found in
Georgia in a two week mission
called operation, not forgotten,
authorities, arresting nine
suspects,
also in Ohio, twenty five children rescued
by U Dot S marshals, saying one in
four of them are victims of
human trafficking.
The agency is looking to find
about two hundred more missing kids, just
in northeastern Ohio alone,
Nancy Grace its a happy story
to the extent that these kids
were found
to me, its a sad story that just
exists
im. Sorry, if im Naive, Nancy
im stunned
this number of children, this
number of missing children, this
kind of criminal enterprise
being found in two states. What
do we need to know here?
How common is this
Good news, bad news
operation, not forgotten, is going
on
it spanned a two hour swath
between Atlanta and Macon
Netting, thirty, nine children saved or
identified, and nine perps
behind bars on serious charges,
including sex trafficking of a
child.
Just let that soak in just a
moment.
Then we have operation safety
net in Cleveland there, children,
as in Georgia as young as thirteen
years old
one found all the way in Miami. I hope youre sitting down,
I hope youre sitting down
421000 plus children went
421000. Plus children went
missing
Heres the problem.
Many of them are described as
runaways.
The reality is about one in four
are being sex trafficked.
I remember my first sex
trafficking, investigation and
jury trial. The cops sent me into the room.
The cops sent me into the room
13 year old girl. I said where
13 year old girl, I said: where is she I dont see her? They
is she. I dont see her they
35 year old woman,
35 year old woman,
I didnt even recognize her and
its all under the radar.
We see these children at
shopping malls in hotels in
parking lots
theyre there
will its almost as written out
of an HBO series.
Nancy. When I see something like
is going on in Georgia and in
Ohio. Are these individual
instances that the authorities
are all cracking down on at the
same time? Or is this a criminal
conspiracy, a single entity,
thats trafficking, these kids?
Well, no, no, no,
its, not a single entity.
Very often it could be one pimp,
but then there are other times
that multiple typically men,
but women too. If you look at
the defendants in this case,
some of them are women work
together. They collaborate on
getting children, putting them
in houses and keeping them there,
beating them into submission,
not letting them leave.
So youll see several pimps at
once with child sex traffickers,
or just one
will Nancy. I want to get your
opinion on this story.
Lacey Peterson, in pain after
Scot Peterson, his death
sentence is overturned.
I wanted to get your reaction
well. Many of us have still
stayed in touch very close touch
of the Scot Peterson guilty
verdict, and I can tell you that
Laceys family is in such pain,
devastated,
remember Sharon, Roach, Laceys
mother went out and tried to
keep the death penalty.
The majority in California voted
not to repeal it, but Governor
Newsom has put a moratorium on
it.
That means Scot Peterson will
soon be in general population
right now. Hes still
San Quentin until either side
decides to appeal this ruling
well see. If that happens,
many people are arguing the cost
of retrying the penalty phase on
Scot Peterson in the death of
his wife lacey eight months
pregnant, an unborn son Connor.
I think they may go forward with,
will Nancy grace this morning,
im still stunned, as you said,
four hundred and twenty thousand kids two big operations
in Georgia and just stunning.
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