U.S. Marshals Service Reveals Majority of Rescued Sex-Trafficked Children Came From Foster Care

The U.S. Marshals Service recently launched a nationwide effort to recover missing and exploited children. Three major operations rescued over 100 children, many of them from sex traffickers. But a disturbing trend discovered during the operation should launch a nationwide investigation into the American child welfare system. PJ Media reached out to USMS for details on the rescued children and was told that the majority of them came from foster care. This information was ignored in the initial media reports on the operation. Dave Oney, press contact at the USMS, responded via email to questions about the rescued children.

For the Northern Ohio Operation Safety Net: 25 of the 31 children recovered were in DCFS care in either a group homes or foster case. Additionally, seven children have been confirmed victims of sex trafficking.

For Operation Not Forgotten in Georgia: 28 of the 39 recovered were in the care of DFACS; 15 were victims of sex trafficking

For Operation Homecoming in Indianapolis: Of the eight children recovered, two were in foster homes or group homes. Five were runaways with risk factors. One was a noncustodial kidnapping. The bulk of the cases still being worked are foster/group home situations.

The State Department recently confirmed that a large number of children involved in sex trafficking in the United States are coming from foster care.

In the United States, traffickers prey upon children in the foster care system. Recent reports have consistently indicated that a large number of victims of child sex trafficking were at one time in the foster care system.

Why is the foster care system not under federal investigation? For the last several years I have investigated child welfare cases all over the country and have found glaring violations of constitutional rights by family courts and child welfare agencies. I discovered child welfare agents conspiring with doctors to illegally seize custody of newborns. PJ Media columnist Jeff Reynolds and I exposed disgusting living conditions in foster care group homes and incidences of horrific abuse that led to the murders of children in the system.

Child welfare departments have been found to remove children regularly without cause from good parents who struggle with health issues or addiction to put them into the homes of actual abusers. Social workers have been caught mocking parents’ rights online and modeling “professional kidnapper” t-shirts, lying to judges to intentionally keep children illegally, and actually abusing children themselves. Social services agencies regularly get sued and lose huge amounts of money for endangering children and violating rights.

What more will it take to convince the powers that be that there is a serious problem in our child welfare agencies?

If you are not a subscriber to my weekly VIP podcast, “The Fringe,” I encourage you to sample this week’s free show, where I interview a survivor of the foster care system. Juana’s story is a tale of incredible hardship and pain. She was trafficked through 82 foster homes through two states where she suffered rampant sexual abuse. Please listen and share it far and wide. Maybe one of our law enforcement agencies will hear it and finally do something about the foster care nightmare terrorizing American children.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/09/11/u-s-marshals-service-reveals-majority-of-rescued-sex-trafficked-children-came-from-foster-care-n920803

'Historic Moment' As UK Agrees To Post-Brexit Trade Deal With Japan While Talks With EU Flounder

The U.K. Department for International Trade said the deal will increase trade with Japan by an estimated £15.2 billion

The deal will also provide “strong tariff reductions” for U.K. pork and beef exports

Britain’s total trade volume with Japan in 2018 amounted to £29 billion

The U.K. has reached an agreement in principle on a trade deal with Japan, the world’s third largest economy.

The U.K.-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement will be Britain’s first major trade pact of the Brexit era.

U.K. Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss and Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi signed off on the deal during a video conference Friday morning.

The U.K. Department for International Trade said the deal will increase trade with Japan by an estimated £15.2 billion ($19.5 billion). (The Department did not specify a time frame for this figure)

“This is a historic moment for the U.K. and Japan as our first major post-Brexit trade deal,” Truss said in a statement. “The agreement we have negotiated – in record time and in challenging circumstances – goes far beyond the existing EU deal [with Japan], as it secures new wins for British businesses in our great manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries.”

The International Trade Department further said the agreement will provide a boost to Britain’s annual gross domestic product by £1.5 billion ($1.92 billion).

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: “The U.K. has just signed a major free trade agreement with Japan. We have taken back control of our trade policy [and] will continue to thrive as a trading nation outside the EU.”

Truss added: "From our automotive workers in Wales to our shoemakers in the North of England, this deal will help … create new opportunities for people throughout the whole of the U.K. and help level up our country."

Under terms of the deal, the U.K. will benefit from tariff-free trade on 99% of exports to Japan.

The deal will also provide “strong tariff reductions” for U.K. pork and beef exports and low tariffs for iconic British products such as Stilton cheese.

https://www.ibtimes.com/historic-moment-uk-agrees-post-brexit-trade-deal-japan-while-talks-eu-flounder-3044147

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Disciplining Police While Ignoring Deadly Rioters

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, where violent and even deadly riots have taken place nightly for more than 100 days, is now disciplining police officers who are accused of misconduct as they respond to rioters.

As Breitbart News reported, a majority of Portland voters disapprove of Wheeler’s job performance, and rioters have demanded he step down as mayor and police commissioner.

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), a taxpayer-funded media outlet that produces daily anti-Trump content, produced a video of a police officer “tackling and punching a protester”:

In recent weeks, the mayor has said he too is concerned the accountability process for police takes too long. Investigations by the Independent Police Review, the city agency responsible for digging into allegations of police misconduct, can drag on for months before there’s a decision. In a press conference on Aug 26, Wheeler said he wanted to meet with the police bureau to find a way to hold officers at protests “accountable in real time.”

Kristen Dennis, Wheeler’s chief of staff, said a new direction was passed on to the Chief’s office last week: certain police should be placed on administrative duty and taken off the street while investigations into potential misconduct wind their way through the system.

The officer who was captured by OPB tackling a protester and punching them repeatedly as they lay on the ground has been placed on administrative duty under the new direction, according to Dennis.

OPB reported that two additional officers had also been placed on administrative leave for unspecified reasons:

Press Release: Portland Police Bureau needs tools to protect community and themselves during riots that endanger life safety

Link: https://t.co/spU2j28FB9 pic.twitter.com/k43ZCAaFAw

— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) September 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Portland police issued a press release on Friday titled “Portland Police Bureau needs tools to protect community and themselves during riots that endanger life safety.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/11/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-disciplining-police-ignoring-deadly-rioters/