Operation Not Forgotten: Georgia attorney general on rescue of 39 missing or endangered children
The first down that Ohio got that was complete bull My uncle my aunt and my dad are going crazy.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joins Martha MacCallum with insight on 'The Story.'
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The U.S. Marshals Service recovered at least 25 missing children in Ohio in a two-week stretch as part of an ongoing operation in the Buckeye State.
“Over the weekend U.S. Marshals rescued dozens of missing children across Ohio, many of whom were being trafficked.” Gov. Mike DeWine said during a Tuesday news conference.
“Operation Safety Net' is still in its first two weeks and is ongoing, according to the Marshals Service. It's being carried out in conjunction with local law enforcement agencies around northern Ohio.
DeWine described it as a 'great, great effort,' and although only some of the children were believed to be victims of human trafficking, he called on all residents to recognize and report signs of it.
They can include a young person who repeatedly runs away, individuals who move often, a young person with someone who is older and unrelated, or signs of physical abuse, among other indicators, he said.
The news comes days after a different Marshals-led task force helped recover 39 missing children from multiple locations in Georgia during Operation Not Forgotten. (Photo by: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals)
The children were missing for various reasons and were recovered in multiple locations. Some could be vulnerable to abuse or neglect at home. About a quarter of them were believed to be victims of human trafficking or forced prostitution.
The operation focused on cases in northern Ohio, but at least one child was found as far away as Florida.
“Sometimes the situations they—they go to, believe it or not, may be better than the situations they left from,” U.S. Marshal Pete Elliot told Cleveland-based WOIO. “We’ve had some cases where the mother or father, or both, may have been prostituting their own child.”
More than 90 percent of missing children in the U.S. are classified as “endangered runaways,” or children under 18 who fled their homes on their own, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But that designation also can include children who were enticed by online predators, who fled with mental health or special needs conditions, or victims escaping sex trafficking or forced prostitution at their own home.
One in six of the roughly 23,500 endangered runaways reported in 2019 were probable victims of child sex trafficking, according to the center.
Safety Net will go on for another couple of weeks, but Elliot told WOIO that due to its success, he plans to bring it back next year.
The news comes days after a different Marshals-led task force helped recover 39 missing children from multiple locations in Georgia during Operation Not Forgotten. That investigation led to nine arrests one more than two dozen charges.
The Marshals created a Missing Child Unit after the 2015 Victims of Trafficking Act, which gave the service broader authority to assist other law enforcement agencies with cases involving missing, endangered or abducted children.
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Last year, the Marshals assisted in the safe recovery of almost 300 children. Since 2005, 10 years before the Victims of Trafficking Act, they’ve helped recover more than 1,800.
The Jim Tressel era at Ohio State started on January 18, 2001.
It so happened the Buckeyes had a basketball game that night against Michigan, so it was a good time to introduce their new football coach. When Tressel stood up to speak, he knew exactly what they wanted.
He was hired on the heels of John Cooper, whose record at Ohio State was second only to that of Woody Hayes. But Cooper’s teams lost to Michigan an inexcusable ten times. Can’t do that. And you can’t say, “It’s just another game,” either – which might have been his biggest mistake.
Knowing all this, when Tressel told the crowd, 'I can assure you that you will be proud of your young people in the classroom, in the community, and most especially in 310 days in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the football field. The place went nuts. “At last,” they said, “somebody gets it!”
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Tressel got it – and he proved it, beating Michigan nine out of ten times – and the last seven in a row, a record. The Buckeyes have also won the last six straight Big Ten titles, another record, plus a national title.
Jim Tressel is clearly one heck of a coach. He was also pleasantly professorial, famed for his sweater vest, not his temper.
But smoke always billowed up behind him. His previous team, Youngstown State, won three Division I-AA national titles, but one of his stars got in trouble for taking money from a wealthy booster. The school got in trouble, not Tressel. At Ohio State, another star was suspected of academic fraud and taking money, too. But the player got in trouble, not Tressel.
Last spring, however, a few of Tressel’s players traded signed jerseys for tattoos. Yes, it was against NCAA rules, but it was still relatively small potatoes – until their coach lied about it to the NCAA. Not once, not twice, but three times. Once again, it’s not the crime, but the cover-up that does them in – but no one ever seems to learn this.
Tressel committed his third lie right before the Buckeyes’ big bowl game against Arkansas. The Big Ten the NCAA and the bowl officials were only too willing to play along. There was money to be made.
But after the Buckeyes’ victory, reporters dug a little deeper and discovered an oil spill of corruption -- money, cars, you name it.
The Jim Tressel era ended on Monday, May 30th, 2011, when he “resigned.” But don’t worry: Tressel will be fine. He’ll get to keep his national titles and his severance package and he’ll probably get a spot on TV as a color commentator, because the networks seem to prefer hiring only the most corrupt or incompetent coaches for those cushy jobs.
The mess Tressel leaves behind will be for everyone else to clean up: the players, the school and the next coach, for years. A few former opponents – like Michigan – might get some of their losses to Ohio State erased from their records, but it’s unlikely they’ll charge the field after getting the news.
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And that’s why coaches like Tressel cheat: It works. The Big Ten and the NCAA don’t want to catch you, and when they finally have to, it’s the guys after you who pay the price. Years from now, Tressel will be dotting the “i” in “Ohio” at half-time, while John Cooper looks on from the stands.
Cheating is excused. Losing is not.
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Winning is rewarded. Playing straight is for suckers.
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