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.

  • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 days ago

    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.