LA police catch 238 cyber child molesters in 2 months, adds to over 1,000 arrests across US — RT America

Nearly 240 alleged child molesters have been arrested in Southern California in just two months. It came as part of a nationwide crackdown on child sex abusers that netted nearly 1,400 predators, including a religious official and white-collar businessmen. 

 

“Operation Broken Heart III” was launched over the last two months by all 61 Internet Crimes against Children (ICAC) task forces, a US Department of Justice agency. The operation “resulted in the arrest of over 238 child predators,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement on Monday.

All the arrests are related to charges of possession and distribution of child pornography, sexual exploitation of children, child prostitution and sex tourism, major crimes on the ICAC’s radar across the US.
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Among those arrested is also a Laotian monk, Kounzong Saebphang, who came to the US on a religious worker’s visa. He was detained at the Wat Lao Buddhist Monastery in Riverside, California, in early June on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography.
 
LA police catch 238 cyber child molesters in 2 months, adds to over 1,000 arrests across US — RT America