This is a story about how the language regarding the crime of sex trafficking has become so fuzzy that even the nation’s top law enforcement officer can speak before an international audience and utter wildly inflated statistics.
Throughout 2015, The Fact Checker has dug into dubious statistics concerning sex trafficking, so this recent speech by Attorney General Lynch caught our eye. Lynch has taken a keen interest in sex trafficking, recently announcing more than $44 million in grant funding to combat human trafficking in the United States, including supporting law-enforcement task forces and victims services organizations. She devoted a significant part of her speech to Interpol to discussing sex trafficking.
But laudable efforts to help victimized children can be undermined when advocates resort to hyperbole to tout their success. Let’s explore how that happened here. Full Article
Exaggerations have been the mainstay in the sex offender/sex trafficking hysteria arenas. The saddest part is that LE, whom should dwell in the house of truth are themselves the biggest perpetrator of lies. God! Save America.
This is why there is virtually no difference between Socialists and Republicans when it comes to sex offender issues. It provides them with a rare “oppurtunity for bi-partisan agreement.” Sickening.