Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice

The US Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children under the Trump administration, which limits their ability to carry out this work.

Major cuts include the cancelation of 2025 National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation, due to be held in Washington DC in June. The conference is an annual event that provides technical training to prosecutors, state and federal law enforcement officers on investigating online crimes against children.

The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child sexual exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

  • III@lemmy.world
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    And January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month. Supposedly…

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      Now we can be even more aware at the increase in slavery and human trafficking.

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    Pam Bondi turned her head and looked the other way as Attorney General for Flordia, when Epstein and Trump were trafficking children at maralago… Now she’s doing the same for the entire United States.

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    Lets be honest, the US does a shit job actually bringing justice to pedos anyways. Short of them actually raping kids and/or including up to murdering them straight after the raping, does the justice system finally step in.

    Pedophiles are slimy fucking creatures. I’ve came across a couple online and I’m not exaggerating when I say i’ve spent 8 freaking years, I and a few other people, just trying to get something done about them as they hounded young teenagers. Yet, they got away and are able to live comfortably getting into what sick perverted fantasies they have in mind out there. One of them even faked their name for a long time when we thought it was their real name, that’s how slimy these assholes can get.

    It doesn’t shock me that King Pedo of Pedophiles, is slashing funding.

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      Read something in reddit about woman who’s husband got caught on a pedophile site and was released due to having a good lawyer. Idiot went right back and used the same user name. You cant fix this level of stupid.

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      Short of them actually raping kids and/or including up to murdering them straight after the raping, does the justice system finally step in.

      And for some, “when you’re a star they let you do it.”

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      they dont even step in for that, unless its a white girl that almost always draws national attention, or a rich VICTIM.

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    “Taking tax dollars from billionaires to fund pursuit of CSAM and child sex trafficking is socialism”

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    Wow, the administration run by child sex offenders, is cutting funding for fighting, finding, and arresting child sex offenders?

    Who could have guessed?! /s

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    $200 billion for ICE but $0 to protect the taxpayers that money came from ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      he consistently wants to rape/incest ivanka on several occasion, plus mar-a-lago face is part of the perversion too, they all look ivanka. he also made rapey comments toward a young paris hilton too.

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      and later this month I’ll hear an American say “freedom fuck yeah murica” without any sense of irony

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      And if they do, they’ll say its fake news. You could show them the evidence from official DOJ sources and they’ll still say its fake news.

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        They will never see this. And if they do, it’s fake news. And if it isn’t, it’s not a big deal. And if it is, it’s your fault. Or however it goes…

        Just standard narcissist shit. Also syncs well with nothing being a problem until they are personally affected, and then it’s all “how dare people have let this happen to me?!”… 🙄

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        And if you do ever make it through their thick skull and get them to acknowledge it, they will have forgotten about it entirely (or forgotten to pretend to care) by the next day.

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    Remember the nazi program that gave foster children to pedophile? That’s what this is going lead to after decriminalization.

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    Good! The LESS Money we give towards COMBATING Child Sex Trafficking the MORE we can Give towards HEAVILY ARMED KIDNAPPERS TAKING CHILDREN TO LOCATIONS NOT EVEN LAWMAKERS CAN ACCESS!

    -Republicans LITERALLY!