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investigations.
ed traffickers were arrested.
The sweep resulted in 60 new fed-
Agents and analysts at FBI Head-
eral investigations.
quarters and in the field worked
closely with the National Center for “The FBI is fiercely focused on re-
Missing & Exploited Children (NC- covering child victims and arrest-
MEC) to identify young runaways, ing the sex traffickers who exploit
missing kids, and juveniles who them,” FBI Director Christopher
may have been subjected to human Wray said in a statement.
trafficking.
“Through operations like this, the
In all, 103 juveniles were identi- FBI helps child victims escape the
fied or recovered and 67 suspect- abusive life of sex trafficking.”
(Atlanta, Houston, and Denver were among the cities that took part in Operation Independence Day,
a monthlong nationwide initiative in July 2019 to find human traffickers and rescue their underage
victims. Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and YouTube.)
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