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In this weeks Behind the Badge report - we meet a couple of the new prosecutors and talk to the U.S. Attorney about how they are protecting Utah.
Cristina Ortega is an Assistant U.S. Attorney here in Utah.
"My primary focus in the violent crimes team is child porn. Child porn cases."
That means she prosecutes those who prey on our children and unfortunately, that happens frequently in Utah.
"I came in ready to work and the work was there."
The former Davis County and Salt Lake County prosecutor says this is what she has wanted to do since childhood.
"I knew I wanted to be a prosecutor when I was in elementary school. I knew this was what I wanted to do."
Ortega is one of six assistant attorneys hired in the fall after the Trump administration allocated three hundred positions nationwide to fight violent crime, drugs, and illegal immigration.