by Jean Mondoro, LifeSite News:
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In May, the federal agency heavily edited its webpage describing child sex trafficking and outlining how the government addresses the issue. The DOJ deleted three sections entirely: “International Sex Trafficking of Minors,” “Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors,” and “Child Victims of Prostitution.”
The news was initially revealed in an investigative report by journalist Natalie Winters of Steve Bannon’s War Room.
The DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section’s (CEOS) includes child sex trafficking as a “subject area” of focus and concern. Since May 28, 2020, the CEOS section of the DOJ website featured a general description of child sex trafficking and certain challenges faced by law enforcement in identifying and rescuing victims. Within the child sex trafficking category, there also used to be three sections that explained in greater detail certain types of trafficking, including exploitation that occurs internationally and domestically and cases of child prostitution.
However, on May 12, 2023, the federal agency scrubbed the three detailed sections and a quote from James Cole, the Democratic U.S. Deputy Attorney General from 2010-2015, which warned that vulnerable children “can be recruited into a violent life of forced prostitution.” The remaining paragraphs include a broader overview of child sex trafficking and a general description of the CEOS’s role in fighting it.
The Biden administration’s update runs in direct contrast to former president Donald Trump, who issued an executive order in 2020 declaring it a mission of the federal government’s executive branch “to prioritize its resources to vigorously prosecute offenders, to assist victims, and to provide prevention education to combat human trafficking and online sexual exploitation of children.”
