cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42096248

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.

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    “Fuck them kids” - ICE

    In case it wasn’t clear to every person with a functional brain, they never gave a fuck about stopping child trafficking.

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      Shit, I’d bet dollars to the amount of doughnuts ice agents eat that they want to be apart of it. They’re the type of dudes who say shit like “if it bleeds it can breed.” “If her age is on the clock, she’s old enough for the cock.” Type of sick shit.

      They’re rabid monsters.

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      They are tracking children, and Trump in all liklihood did for a long time with his bestie.