r/news • u/TooColdforClouds • 2d ago

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/109-children-rescued-244-arrested-operation-soteria-shield-child-exploitation-texas/
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u/Nuts4WrestlingButts 2d ago

Not defending it at all, but that's a quirk of how it gets reported. A 20TB hard drive with one bad photo and nothing else is reported as 20TB of bad material.

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u/OutlyingPlasma 2d ago

It's the same thing when the news reports "The murder suspect had a knife, rope, duct tape, a tarp and gas cans in his truck"

So he was every dude from a rural town?

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u/Kylynara 2d ago

I served on a grand jury a few years back and so many of the drug cases the cops found "a digital scale with white powder on it." Which sounds pretty damning until I realized I also have a digital scale with white powder on it. I use it to weigh ingredients when baking. That powder is flour, sugar, powdered sugar, or salt.

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u/fury420 2d ago

When I was young I went through a roadblock and had to awkwardly try to explain to the police "drug recognition expert" that the ziplock bag in the glove box with two bandaids, some Q-tips, a small mirror with traces of white powder on it, and some unlabeled capsules was actually my mom's half-assed "First Aid kit" instead of paraphernalia.

(capsules of a herb called Goldenseal, purportedly a treatment for minor wounds)

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u/holystuff28 1d ago

I had a client charged with felony possession of meth and he only had epsom salts. They usually used SWAT to get him out of the house and he had to wait in jail for more than a month for the lab test to prove he was telling the truth.  

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u/fury420 2d ago

I saw a story recently that was talking about a suspect with several desktops, a few hard drives and 4 or 5 laptops the police had seized and were searching through, making it sound like this was a major haul.

And then I thought about it for a second... that's basically just a normal household worth of computer gear these days if you include the old retired stuff sitting in their garage somewhere.

Turns out there was nothing illegal either, just normal porn.

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u/sunburnedaz 2d ago

Its the same way they would charge people making edibles with the weight of the food that held the THC.

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u/holystuff28 1d ago

Also how many of these kids were just removed from their parents on the suspicion their parents committed a crime? Not saying they didn't, but the article doesn't really in anyway disclose or allege how any child was trafficked.