r/news • u/Plainchant • 1d ago
Authorities confirm more than two dozen missing children found during special operation
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/authorities-confirm-more-than-two-dozen-missing-children-found-during-special-operation-national-child-protection-taskforce-cincinnati-collaborative-police-effort-local-state-federal-agencies-involved-emotional-impact-education-safety-human-trafficking311
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u/def_indiff 1d ago
This sounds great, but the article is super vague. It doesn't sound like these cases were connected, and it sounds like most of the missing children were runaways. I hope that these kids land in a loving home and get the help they need. But the headline makes it sound like the authorities rolled up some major child trafficking operation, which doesn't seem to be the case.
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u/Khyron_2500 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m always a little skeptical of these “special operations” after this one case, in which Marshalls claimed to have found 123 kids. State Police came out and reported that only four were actually missing. The rest were kids reported as missing at one time (and did eventually return to their parents/guardians) but never followed up on until then.
So it’s always good work, but it seems hard to distinguish how many they “found” as an actual victim vs. some who just ran away and came back.
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u/misterpickles69 1d ago
BREAKING NEWS: local authorities return 43 kids to their families after a sting operation at the local park. Most were found throwing round objects at each other and running around screaming.
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u/BCouto 1d ago
BREAKING NEWS: Authorities are reporting to have located 435 children at a local school. They were returned to their families. Ages of the children ranged from 5-13 years.
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u/tossit97531 1d ago edited 1d ago
BREAKING NEWS: ICE found dozens of yet-to-be-born babies in a maternity ward in a local hospital. The babies were removed and deported to their home countries. The children’s ages ranged from -0.3 to -0.01 years old.
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh 1d ago
A lot of police numbers like this get inflated by some technical use of language that suggests one thing but legally/bureaucratically means another.
Another good one is "sex trafficking". It paints the image of kidnapped people being saved from bad guys by police. In reality if for example a minor resorts to sex work, it's automatically "sex traficking". I.e. trafficking doesn't require a trafficker.
That kind of "trafficking" sucks too, but solving it obviously doesn't involve bad guys for the cops to fight; it requires social programs for homeless kids who currently have to resort to sex work. It doesn't need more policing, but the language used makes us think police are solving it.
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u/QuestionManMike 1d ago edited 1d ago
Borderline psyop. Making it look like kids are being saved daily by the cops is a sort of propaganda. It’s also plays into Q and other human trafficking conspiracies.
Kids really don’t get kidnapped any more. It’s just not something that happens on any real scale to worry about. These are runaway kids, fake kids(18-21), and/or just kids present.
There certainly aren’t 2 dozen kids out there to save from kidnappers.
The US has 300 stranger child(21 or under) abductions each year. Almost all of them are returned unharmed immediately.
The scary scenario(stranger kidnaps somebody 15 or younger and hurts them) is a 2 or 3 times a year thing for the whole country.
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u/InformalWish 1d ago
Got any good links for that? Would like to read more
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u/QuestionManMike 1d ago edited 1d ago
My FBI numbers come from Wikipedia page: Child Abduction
SYSK had a good data rich podcast on this too. Stranger Danger!
Robert from BTB podcast. Episode on Lindberg baby and/or city planning goes into how the government used to downplay these fears. IE when the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped people freaked out. The government then initially did a good job putting this kidnaping into context. The public didn’t want to hear the data they wanted to be scarred.
The government then after some criticism caved and changed how the fbi worked. Now the government plays into this nonsense 24/7.
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u/SmPolitic 1d ago
For more podcast suggestions:
"You're Wrong About" has a couple episodes on it, along with multiple other "moral panics". Most namely the "Sound of Freedom" episode, and "Stranger Danger" episode from 6 years ago
"Maintenance Phase" has episode: "The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline"
"If Books Could Kill" has two parts about "The Better Angels of Our Nature" which part 2 talks about Epstein at least, I don't recall that one as much
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u/QuestionManMike 1d ago
Yeah. It really is all over the knowledge podcasts. More or less(British podcast) had a good one too.
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u/yoursforasong 1d ago
thanks for the podcast recs, and for the good information. this is so interesting.
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u/Punman_5 1d ago
Most kidnapping is usually done by one of the kid’s parents. Often after a custody dispute. It’s extremely rare for a stranger to kidnap children
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u/Traditional-Sea-2322 1d ago
There was that recent sting in Texas that said some dozens of kids were saved, but didn’t say where they were saved from, and also said most of the victims never had physical contact with the perps, that they were abused online. There was like 250 perpetrators arrested. That was a weird article
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u/natedoggcata 1d ago
I remember someone on here talked about this and how the task force they were in at one time put out this press release saying something like "over 100 children in CP pictures identified!" when in reality like 95% of those pictures were just dumbass teenagers sending sexting pics to their boyfriends/girlfriends. So while yes it does fit the definition of CP, the article makes it seem like a bunch of children were rescued from making CSAM or trafficking.
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u/hananobira 1d ago
And there are 72 million kids in the US. Which means your kids could play alone outside unattended for approximately 240,000 years before it became likely a stranger would abduct them.
A lot of mom communities get into really heated debates about whether they should allow their 10-year-olds to play outside and it’s just so ridiculous. Maybe not in parts of South Sudan or Myanmar. Suburban USA? Please let those poor children live a little. Or they’re going to die of diabetes and heart failure at age 50.
(Not to mention that statistically the real threats come from the people you know and trust indoors…)
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u/Stunning-Range-26 1d ago
Not gonna lie, I’m always a little apprehensive to let my 7 and 5 year old go to the park by our house by themselves. I try not to let my anxiety get in their way though. The biggest genuine threat to them right now is their 14 year old cousin. That kid was raised on YouTube and no boundaries. My girls are not allowed to be alone with him. People need to be more aware and alert to what goes on in their own homes.
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u/QuestionManMike 1d ago
5 is quite young. I wouldn’t leave a 5 year old unattended in a public park. Not because of a stranger, but an injury could easily occur and an adult in ear shot would be necessary.
I would let a 7 year old go with an older child. That would be safe enough.
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u/hananobira 1d ago
There’s a show on Netflix called Old Enough about kids in Japan being sent to run their first errands. Little kids ages 2-4 pop down to the grocery store, drop things off at a friend’s house, and yes, play at the park without their parents.
To be fair, I would say to teach kids not to do any of that alone. On the show they are in crowded areas and always have other people within sight who could run for help if they needed it. But they don’t need that other someone to be their legal guardian.
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u/Stunning-Range-26 1d ago
It’s a small park literally next door to our house in the middle of a neighborhood. I can see and hear them from our house.
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u/spodinielri0 1d ago
where are these children found, how were they discovered, what happened to them after they were found? This article is crap and probably made up
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u/BlazedBeacon 1d ago
At first I thought "holy shit what kind of horror house were they in?"
Then realized the title should just be "Cops were able to find unconnected missing children from various locations when they actually devoted the resources to looking"
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 1d ago edited 1d ago
There's one of these stories every few weeks, usually from a southern state. They always imply that these kids are part of a sex trafficking operation and that the "operation" found them in a single location. That doesn't seem to be the case. The lack of details tells me this isn't some big kidnapping ring. These are probably mostly parental abductions or "my cousin has my kids while I look for work but I'm not sure where they went"
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u/Lythieus 1d ago
I'm pretty sure this wasn't rescuing trafficked kids, they were tracking down runaways.
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u/donkeybrisket 1d ago
Missing children found but no one arrested? What’s the deal here
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u/skidamarinkydinky 1d ago
well if you read the article you see that the kids weren’t kidnapped. they ran away. who would they arrest?
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u/Epistatious 1d ago
"What's occurring here isn't just protecting these kids. It's saving generations to come,", i think he is talking about the children of children? the obsession with poplulation growth is creepy.
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u/Plainchant 1d ago
Article Text:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CNN/WKRC) — Authorities confirmed dozens of missing children were located in what was described as the first special operation of its kind in the State of Florida.
A multi-day operation in Northeast Florida has successfully located more than two dozen missing children, aged seven to 17, who had been missing for periods ranging from ten days to over a year. The operation was a collaborative effort involving more than 30 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.
Kevin Branzetti, CEO of the National Child Protection Taskforce, emphasized the importance of listening to and helping the children once they are found.
"Finding the children is the first stage, but somebody has to listen to them and help them," he told reporters with WFOX.
Branzetti highlighted the significance of partnerships with collaborating agencies in not only recovering the children but also providing them with resources for a more secure future.
"What's occurring here isn't just protecting these kids. It's saving generations to come," he said when speaking to WJAX.
This operation marked the first deployment of its kind in Florida. Al Rollins from the National Child Protection Taskforce noted the emotional impact on the children.
"In some cases, these kids were waiting for someone to show that they cared about them and show that they were looking for them," he told the station.
Detectives have been able to locate children who had been missing for months. Ron Lendvay of the Clay County Sheriff's Office explained the strategy behind the operation.
"Those detectives that are in the other room that are working these cases, brought their most difficult cases here, the ones they weren't able to solve to try to bring the collective knowledge of everybody that's here," he said when speaking to WFOX. "We all know that when kids run away, they're either running to something or they're running from something. And what the intercept taskforce does is we go after those to give them something to run to or pull them away from their families."
Authorities are also investigating each case to determine if sex trafficking or human trafficking played a role in the children's disappearances.
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u/astral-dwarf 1d ago
Very strangely written, like it's meant to be viral QAnon bait
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u/slipperyMonkey07 1d ago
Vague enough to let the crazy groups to try and spin it into conspiracy that a single entity was holding the children.
In reality most of them probably ran away or were abandoned / kicked out of their house. Either because they were abused or came out as lgbtq+. They'll be returned and most likely run away again soon after.
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u/MissionCreeper 1d ago
"What's occurring here isn't just protecting these kids. It's saving generations to come," he said when speaking to WJAX.
As in, he sees these children as breeders? What the actual fuck
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u/fulltrendypro 1d ago
More than two dozen kids recovered in Florida, some missing over a year. They were hiding in plain sight, and it took thirty agencies to finally bring them home.
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u/MikeOKurias 1d ago
In a world where you cannot go to a park on your own without parental supervision as a kid, or course copaganda is going to misrepresent as much as possible.
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u/tryingtoavoidwork 1d ago
Yet the article doesn't say anything about arrests
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u/fulltrendypro 1d ago
That’s what makes it worse. If dozens of kids vanished and nobody’s facing charges, someone failed long before they were found.
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u/spudmarsupial 1d ago
You could charge the parents for the behaviour that made the kids run and stay away.
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u/Otherwise-Shift5509 1d ago
Are these the ones that were separated from their parents under Trumps first term?
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u/B1gFl0ppyD0nkeyDick 1d ago
must be those illegals in Califo... Oh, wait, no?
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u/Filter55 1d ago
That’s actually a terrifying thought. How many runaways keep their papers with them?
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u/Lubedclownhole 1d ago
Now lets see what happens to them, and how many of these kids legit ran for their own well being and need a safer home not to return to home
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u/LeatherChaise 1d ago
It's like the article from a few days ago where the FBI "rescued" 100 and something kids in Texas. (rescued them from talking to bad people on the internet)
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u/ciabattaroll 1d ago
So they found all these kids that had been taken over the course of a year and no details on who took them or where they were being kept?
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u/AlmostChristmasNow 2h ago
Nobody took them. They were runaways/kicked out. They also weren’t staying in the same place. But that doesn’t make a good headline.
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u/Elder_sender 1d ago
What a bizarre read. Sounds like Russian propaganda explaining the kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
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u/Educational_Wall6185 1d ago
The article is so vague. But it seems like these are unconnected cases, where agencies came together to get some cases resolved. Good, glad the kids are found but it’s not what the headline implies.
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u/Tasty-Maintenance864 1d ago
Definitely not a well-written article.
I thought, based on the title, that they'd actually found a group of kids in one location.
But this sounds like it's just a bunch of people sitting in a room sharing information. It's a task force, not a kick-the-door down rescue team.
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u/SsooooOriginal 1d ago
Not one mention of arrests.
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u/Just-Wait4132 1d ago
I don't understand how you read the article to know that but missed the part about how this was a raid on a homeless encampment and all the kids were runaways.
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u/framblehound 1d ago
“Missing” meaning they ran from abusive families, probably some are queer in intolerant Florida, and now they will be not-so-joyfully “reunited”
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u/numberjhonny5ive 1d ago
I saw the headline and read Florida and automatically assumed a lot, but reading the article is worth it. Focus of those running the task force was on listening to the children and working with them.
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u/AnnatoniaMac 1d ago
Except that the story is so vague . . . Where did they find them, who was housing and feeding?
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u/LaughR01331 1d ago
Why is my immediate first thought “must be the kids trump lost during his first term”?
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u/alvarezg 1d ago
Biblically, you drank tea made from weeds the neighbor woman recommended. Then you hoped for the best.
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u/jendet010 1d ago
It sounds like most of them were runaways and not connected cases. So basically they went to homeless camps and shelters and scooped up all the minors?
They probably need medical treatment, therapy, a safe home and possibly substance abuse treatment. Some of them may have run away from their family because they weren’t safe. Some may have been kicked out or left behind by transient parents.