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Not a Conspiracy Theory: FBI Rescues 200 Victims of Human Trafficking, Including Children as Young as 11 Years Old

 The operation was in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Operation Cross Country led to the arrest of at least 126 suspects related to child exploitation, as well as 68 human traffickers. The 59 children were victims of sex exploitation and trafficking. The youngest was 11 years old.

Just weeks after members of the mainstream media dismissed “The Sound of Freedom” movie as “a QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theory” and a “delusion fomenting moral panic” over “this grossly exaggerated ‘epidemic’ of child sex trafficking,” the FBI announced that it has rescued 200 victims of the heinous crime, including 59 children, during a two-week operation in numerous states.
The FBI publicized the results of Operation Cross Country, a two-week anti-trafficking operation, last week. The operation was in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Operation Cross Country led to the arrest of at least 126 suspects related to child exploitation, as well as 68 human traffickers.
The 59 children were victims of sex exploitation and trafficking. The youngest was 11 years old.
Victims and suspects were from across the country, with 17 individual operations having been conducted.
In the San Francisco Bay region, 17 adults and 3 Bay-area children were rescued. Officers arrested nine suspects and found three illegally owned guns.
FBI San Francisco agent Bob Tripp stated, “Rescuing children has always been a top priority for the operation. They’re our kids. They’re living in our communities. They’re living in our streets, and they are not for sale.”
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said that services have and will continue to be given to the victims.
Children from Atlanta, Kansas City, and other areas were also rescued. One Atlanta teenager was found in Virginia. Dunwoody Police Sergeant Michael Cheek said they received a call on July 28 from a woman saying her granddaughter was missing. The police learned the teen had been chatting on social media with a 38-year-old man in Virginia who drove over 1000 miles roundtrip to meet the girl and drive her back to Newport News, Virginia, where she was found and he was arrested.
“I don’t think people are quite aware of what people who are in this illegal operation will do to keep it going,” Cheek cautioned. “Be involved with what your kids [are doing], especially their social media sites. It doesn’t matter the kid, the income level, the status, it doesn’t matter.”

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Police Officer Resigns After Being Told not to Post “Offensive” Views on Biblical Marriage

It is true that what Kersey wrote would likely be offensive to most homosexuals. That doesn’t mean there was anything wrong with him saying it. There was nothing hateful about Kersey’s words, certainly nothing about the inherent value of a person or anything wishing them ill will. The claim that what he said is the same as saying a racial slur or cursing all homosexuals is preposterous. Disagreement is not hate. 

The former officer, 19 year-old Jacob Kersey, began working for the Port Wentworth Police Department near Savannah, Georgia, in May 2021 and was reportedly doing well — until his Facebook post caused him to be placed on administrative leave. It’s not the first time social media posts have resulted in problems for police officers, but the content of this post was radically different. While some officers have been fired for posting racist, hateful, or obscene content, Kersey’s post was stating orthodox Christian beliefs.
Kersey spoke with John Wesley Reid about his experience:
God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church. That’s why there is no such thing as homosexual marriage.
The following day, he received a call from his supervisor letting him know that he had received a complaint regarding the post and told Kersey to remove it. Kersey refused, but was later contacted by Lt. Justin Hardy, who said that the Port Wentworth Police Department did not want to be held liable in a “use of force” interaction with an LGBT person. Kersey continued to refuse to remove the post.
The next day he was called by Maj. Lee Sherrod and told he was being placed on administrative leave while the department launched an investigation.
Kersey says that Police Chief Matt Libby told him what he posted was the “same thing as saying the N-word and ‘[expletive] all those homosexuals.’”
Kersey also said that Capt. Nathan Jentzen told him Kersey’s free speech “was limited due to my position as … a police officer.”
After a week of paid administrative leave, Kersey’s active status was restored. In a letter dated January 13, Maj. Sherrod, the department’s human resource director, stated that after a review of Kersey’s known social media accounts, including a Christian podcast he had run for years, “we did not find sufficient evidence to establish a violation of any policies.”
However, the letter continued, the views he had shared “would likely be deemed offensive to protected classes” and could raise “reasonable concerns” about his ability to serve the LGBT community “objectively.” Any failure on his part to be seen as objective could cause him to be terminated.
While he would not be fired, Kersey says he was told to not post anything that could be deemed offensive on social media. Kersey says he was told that he could post Scripture but could not post his “interpretation or opinion on Scripture if it was deemed offensive.”
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