More than 50 arrests are made in Texas as part of a child sex crime sting dubbed Operation Broken Heart…(6…Twice On This Article…)
Operation Broken Heart led to the arrest of 51 people involved in online solicitation, sex trafficking of minors, and child porn, police in Texas say
Operation Broken Heart was spearheaded by the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
The operation took place through April and May, and involved multiple agencies
One of those arrested was a man who drove from California to Houston to meet a child for sexual relations
DAILYMAIL.COM
30 June 2019
More than 50 people have been arrested across the state of Texas as part of a nationwide a sting operations into online child sex crime.
The alleged perpetrators are believed to have attempted to meet up with underage children for sex, while others possessed and promoted child pornography.
Officers from the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force posed as underage children online for the sting, dubbed Operation ‘Broken Heart’.
The abuses are alleged to have occurred over several months in Montgomery, Fort Bend and Harris counties near Houston. Among those arrested were public employees.
Authorities have revealed some details on how the sting operation took place as well as information about some of the individual cases.
Officers said that the majority of the arrests involved adults grooming children online, or undercover officers posing as children.
‘This is not just something that is relegated to your next door neighbor or one town away,’ Houston Police Sergeant Luis Menendez-Sierra, who works closely with ICAC, said. ‘Parents need to be vigilant.’
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