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August 2019 - Edition 36
Operation Independence Day: Task Force in Denver (Courtesy of the FBI)
During a recent operation in Den-
ver, a victim specialist was there
while an agent and police detec-
tive interviewed a 17-year-old
boy who had advertised himself
online.
who are engaging in unsafe
methods online where they
agree to meet for a date in ex-
change for money or anything of
value,” said Anne Darr, a victim
specialist on the Denver Field
Office’s Rocky Mountain Inno-
The victim specialist talked to
cence Lost Task Force.
the boy, who was not arrested,
about the inherent dangers “It’s important that we intervene
of his actions and plugged and that we provide education,
him into the local network of awareness, and resources to
resources designed to help them. So that way they don’t go
back online and meet somebody
him.
who could be an online preda-
“What we see is underage boys tor.”
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