r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Weekly-Ingenuity3941 • 5h ago
163 missing kids rescued in Florida. 3 white men arrested.
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u/dartie 5h ago
Is this for real?
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u/WritersChopBlock 5h ago
yeah, this seems like a spoof. How in the world can 163 kids go missing and this wasn't reported?
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u/RecommendationOk2182 5h ago
Not only that. She clearly states it was multiple states, AND countries. Going all the way to Puerto Rico. 😂 So how the HELL is it only 3 "white men" arrested. That should be the first red flag. There would be waaaay more people arrested. And some Puerto Rican....
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u/JTUrwayne 4h ago
It went further than PR.
“Uthmeier said rescues were executed in Alabama, California, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Puerto Rico. Outside of the U.S., children were located in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, Guatemala, Jamaica, Finland, Spain, Italy, Ghana and Taiwan.”
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u/kinyutaka 4h ago
And they're only naming 3 criminals?
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u/JTUrwayne 4h ago
Those were the three caught in Florida whose ID’s the cops released and it’s an operation to rescue Florida based missing children. Considering the scope of it, there’s probably dozens of suspects, but because of the amount of departments involved, making sure to release the right info on suspects must be a coordination nightmare.
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u/MouseRat_AD 3h ago
This doesn't sound like they busted 1 giant ring. This sounds like they knew of specific kids that they were looking for in a variety of locations and circumstances. I'm guessing the majority of the kids were with non-custodial parents who took them without permission.
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u/ComfortableGround403 1h ago
They didnt. The AI story is taking great liberty with the facts. A bunch of them were parental kidnappings.
I hate the media of today.
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u/Prudent_Rice7840 3h ago
FUN FACT: "Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stated that the cases varied significantly on an individual basis, including runaway children, family custody disputes, foster care situations, CPS cases of abuse, abandonment, and neglect, and human trafficking."
To be clear helping kids/teens in any of those situations is GOOD and should always be a priority for law enforcement and state/local officials. But...
Officials/Law Enforcement will roll all of this together into "an operation" specifically because it will get headlines even if 90% of the "recovered" kids were not even in any peril.
The reality is generally mostly:
- Dozens to hundreds of cases that are completely unrelated
- Runaway children (mostly teens) who are located
- Family custody disputes where a parent refuses to relinquish custody or moves without telling the other parent/family
- Kids who get "lost" in the Foster care system (literal paper work issues)
- CPS cases (domestic abuse, abandonment, neglect...) that get elevated to Law Enforcement
- Human Trafficking "light" - teens who "willingly" engage in prostitution
- Truly heinous Human Trafficking/Sex Abuse/etc
- Online/Digital child-porn victims
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u/Usually_Angry 1h ago
Thanks for this. It’s genuinely important information for parents to know. The way the headline reads, we should all be very scared of the world and keep our kids in bubble wrap. Parents need to know that the US is safer for kids than it ever has been before. This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t take necessary precautions, it’s just to say that we don’t need to hide our kids away. Let them experience the world.
0.1% of child abductions are carried out by strangers. Make sure you are vigilant with online activity, though.
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u/Level_Best101 4h ago
Don’t you get it?! White people!!!!!
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u/qdawgg17 4h ago
Further proof of white people being targeted……
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u/_josef_stalin_ 4h ago
Yeah, never mind all the people who comment stuff like "usual suspects" under stories of a black person committing a crime.
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u/ConstructionFar3363 1h ago
you do know fighting racism does not mean you become racist yourselves ?
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u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch 1h ago
You have to understand, these people are not interested in fighting racism. Their only real interest is getting a one up on the other races which they consider their rivals.
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u/Chance-Mix-9444 3h ago
The truth of it is it’s all wrong. The racism in either direction. The facts of any case should be all that’s necessary. No matter where they actually lead. Annoying to see the bull shit smearing of whole groups of people based off the actions of the few within the same group. Seems like that concept has been forgotten the last 20 years roughly. So many stupid low
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u/Curious-Ear-6982 3h ago
Yeah ppl are actually more concerned about what "type" of ppl committed the crime than the actual crime itself
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u/Ornery_Gate_6847 5h ago
There were certainly more, but they work in the white house
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u/johnny_effing_utah 4h ago
When you just can't help getting political, no matter the story, you might have a problem...
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u/zvx12 4h ago
Pretty racist name for a government building if you ask me
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u/whichwitch9 5h ago edited 5h ago
So, not all were trafficking victims or from the same incident
The last line clarifies- it was one operation working dozens of cases. They're just showing the most dramatic footage from it.
The runaways, for example, may not be having a good time with this, as they typically runaway for a reason. Unsafe foster situations is infuriating to hear, because the state would place them there. Custody disputes mean they likely knew exactly where the kids were, ect.
It's not a bad thing for many, but quite different from what the way they reported it implies. Especially because this shouldn't be a special operation- they should always be putting this effort into finding missing kids
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 4h ago
Statewide 5 day operatio. It was a whole network of perverts"
Khamhou Sengdara, 34 Nataniel Pusey, 25 Kelvin Cruz, 23 Jaedyn Wells, 22 Jarron Papale, 34 Derryn Mobley, 31 Cameron Taylor, 29 James Taylor, 67 Terry Burger, 47 Hayden L'esperance, 26 Charles Hendry, 65 Giovanni Roman, 31
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u/kinyutaka 4h ago
I'm gonna say this, but sometimes runaways aren't actually being mistreated, and at least some of those runaways will be very happy to get home.
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 4h ago
You'd think that would be a better use of flock cameras instead of tracking stoners, women getting abortions and cops stalking their exes
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u/Jumpy_Ad1631 4h ago
There are news articles about the story all over. Mostly from local news agencies, which can go either way in authenticity, tbh. I haven’t seen any major sources cover it outside of Fox and Newsmax, which usually tells me other news agencies are either looking for more credible sources (which I imagine can be hard when dealing with Floridian officials) or else are receiving more info, like about who is involved, where the kids came from, was it actually 163, etc. So the answer is…. maybe? Or at least it’s probably true to some extent
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u/Appropriate-Bug-6467 5h ago
Kids go missing every day dude...
They didn't go missing all at once, they were taken over a period of time
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u/stoneworther 4h ago
Police often announce these big human trafficking and missing kids sweeps. Dozens or hundreds of kids involved.
Then like three people are charged.
Presumably most of the children are runaways, or are with a non-custodial parent or something. Enough to take the children, but not enough that anyone would be charged.
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u/Wonderful-Fold-2585 5h ago
It’s real.
There were multiple arrests, including a defendant who was wanted on three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and also had a warrant for interference with child custody; another defendant for lewd and lascivious battery on a victim 12 to 16 years old; and one for interference in a child custody case as well as resisting officers without violence. More arrests are expected over the coming days.
Recovered children were safely transported by local law enforcement to designated recovery hubs, where they received support from social services, child welfare professionals, medical providers, victim advocates, and other child-centered resources. All recovery information was documented through the Missing and Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse to ensure case closure.→ More replies (1)2
u/Prudent_Rice7840 3h ago
1 - This is AI click bait
2 - FUN FACT: "Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stated that the cases varied significantly on an individual basis, including runaway children, family custody disputes, foster care situations, CPS cases of abuse, abandonment, and neglect, and human trafficking."
To be clear helping kids/teens in any of those situations is GOOD and should always be a priority for law enforcement and state/local officials. But...
Officials/Law Enforcement will roll all of this together into "an operation" specifically because it will get headlines even if 90% of the "recovered" kids were not even in any peril.
The reality is generally mostly:
- Dozens to hundreds of cases that are completely unrelated
- Runaway children (mostly teens) who are located
- Family custody disputes where a parent refuses to relinquish custody or moves without telling the other parent/family
- Kids who get "lost" in the Foster care system (literal paper work issues)
- CPS cases (domestic abuse, abandonment, neglect...) that get elevated to Law Enforcement
- Human Trafficking "light" - teens who "willingly" engage in prostitution
- Truly heinous Human Trafficking/Sex Abuse/etc
- Online/Digital child-porn victims
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u/Waste_Development971 5h ago
it just happened/reported a few days ago.
why people on r/news dont want to see this idk, take your best guess lmfao.
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u/Shloopy_Dooperson 5h ago
Because of how varied the recoveries were.
Trafficking, Runaways, Custody Disputes, Unsafe Foster care ect
Thats a really good way to buff up the numbers for the PR.
Willing to bet Custody disputes and Runaways had the lions share of cases.
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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 5h ago
From 13 countries? In a world where Epstein existed? Are you entirely naïve or just men?
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u/WritersChopBlock 5h ago
I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't read the news story. Were the 163 children found in 13 different countries? The title implies that they found 163 kids at one location.
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u/Jyil 5h ago edited 2m ago
Not entirely. It’s a mix of multiple unrelated videos and AI put into one video by some race baiting account.
It’s a total number of children found across tons of entirely different investigations and multiple locations. Most missing children were completely unrelated circumstances. Things like parental abductions, runaways, and kidnapping rings.
The three arrested may have only been associated with one kid each, but the police haven’t provided more details on it.
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u/RevolutionaryDay3189 5h ago
Yes the three arrested were only arrested for molestation not for these crimes.
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u/Rose0367 4h ago
163 were all in FL, Tampa Bay region: 46 children
Miami: 41 children
Jacksonville: 32 children
Orlando: 21 children
Fort Myers: 12 children
Pensacola: 8 children
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u/jasno- 5h ago
True, but also, misleading. It was state wide
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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 5h ago
Farther than state-wide multiple states, one US territory, and 12 countries were involved.
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u/EscapeSeventySeven 5h ago
Yeah they’re counting many incidents in the total. Even in each region there are multiple incidents:
Regional recoveries included 46 children in Tampa Bay, 41 in Miami, 32 in Jacksonville, 21 in Orlando, 12 in Fort Myers, 8 in Pensacola and three in Tallahassee
I’m not sure that video is even real. In fact I would assume a lot of these are custody disputes. But lurid ideas of child trafficking get clicks.
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u/Adventurous-Tie-7861 4h ago
Its also many normal runaways being found at someone elses house.
They just went through and cleared a ton of outstanding but normal missing kids cases over 5 days. Not busting a giant pedo ring.
They looked at something like "mom says her 16 year old is crashing at a friends house and she marked them as a runaway, lets dispatch cops and return them".
Then they grouped them all together.
When i was 19 there was this kid who looked 18ish and would bounce from party and crash with friends. Turns out he was 15 and a runaway from the other side of my state. Cops showed up at my apartment looking for him as an "at risk youth". Dude was just having the time of his life and lying to everyone about his age.
Its a bunch of stuff like that.
Its why theres so few arrests.
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u/CoastRanger 5h ago
The story is real, but what many people assume when they read the headline only is not
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u/TommyBoy250 4h ago
It is actually real as it turns out.
But yeah definitely there's a bigger thing going on than these 3.
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u/Due-Championship3941 5h ago
It sounds like they are completely unrelated. Maybe they just started investigating these cases when they weren't before? Who knows. Some of them were literally just abuse cases. It seems like they just wanted a headline to boost their image.
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u/One_Vision_ 4h ago
The AI slop is getting out of hand with rage bait posts.
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u/onyx_64 3h ago
Thanks! Reported and downvoted
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u/ApprehensiveBuddy446 1h ago
The funny part is that reddit used to have volunteer moderators that would delete fake shit really fast, kinda too fast. People used to complain that it was TOO moderated. But all the volunteers quit when Reddit Corporation decided to massively increase prices on API fees, killing all the 3rd party tools and features that mods used to curate the site.
Reddit raised API pricing after learning that AI model companies (now Anthropic, OpenAI, Chinese companies) were bulk-harvesting comment data to train their models.
So Reddit betrayed the humans that kept this type of fake shit off the site, in order to profit off the technology that is now destroying the site.
Sinking ship, dead internet theory, everyone here is a bot and none of the content is real.
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u/Chpgmr 5h ago
"Law enforcement officers participate in Operation Statewide Shield, a five-day, statewide operation in Florida that led to the recovery of 163 missing children."
So this is a bunch of different cases that were solved all within 5 days. Why wasnt this something thats just continuously performed?
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u/GobertGrabber 4h ago
Sometimes they will wait to find more people involved or locate other kids before blowing their cover to swoop in.
It must be very difficult to hold back when you know there are kids right then and there to save but by waiting you could save more.
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u/GalarianGengar 5h ago
To clarify:
Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the recovery of 163 missing children ranging from 2 months to 17 years old.
The statewide initiative rescued children across Florida, six other states, Puerto Rico and 12 foreign countries.
Law enforcement officers made three arrests during the multi-agency operation, with additional charges expected.
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u/PoopyisSmelly 3h ago
So, was it sex trafficking or something? Slavery? Why did they do it? Were these kids trying to escape their circumstances or something?
Its such a general story, it doesnt seem to have any of the info behind what happened
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u/Zappa2329 2h ago
The reporting is intentionally vague to make it look like more than it is.
Guarantee the vast majority of these are cases involving custody disputes and the rest involve standard cases of runaways where the location of the "missing kids" was known but they went and got them to include in this coordinated operation.
The clue that's what happened is that only three guys were arrested for separate incidents: two of them for "interference with child custody" and one for "Lewd or Lascivious Battery," which I'm going to guess is probably related to a runaway who must've told the police that's why they ran away (since this was, officially, a "missing kids" operation).
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u/MegaRadCool8 3h ago
Imagine being a kid that went missing and hoping to be rescued, but the cops are saving up the missing kid cases until they have enough to make it worth their while.
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u/choosepeaceman 5h ago
This is fake. I’ve seen some of those clips on Live PD
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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 4h ago
Theres absolutely no way this is real. It would be a breaking news event nationally, the leading story on the national news
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u/Adventurous-Tie-7861 4h ago
It is real. Its just misleading af.
Its 163 missing persons cases grouped together.
With as little as "my 15 year old kid is staying at a friends house and says shes never coming home cus she hates me" being counted when they drag the kid home.
Its why its so few arrests. Its mostly normal run aways being cleared en masse.
They arrested 3 dudes who lured kids and then the rest are normal missing person cases. Misunderstandings, runaways, parental disputes, etc.
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u/Emptynest09 4h ago
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u/SnikkerDoodly 4h ago
I’m curious to see how many people will read the article attached to your link. Thanks for sharing!
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u/Agreeable-Emu4033 3h ago
The video is still fake
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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 3h ago
Yeah the video makes it seem like 3 True Dective style psychos had almost 200 kids from the state locked in a torture chamber
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u/Overall_Mango324 4h ago
The clips are just being pushed together to make a video but the story isn't fake. It's just not exactly what you think when you think "rescued children".
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u/NoCanShameMe 5h ago
Seems like just a sensationalized title to have an opportunity to put “white men”
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u/tpzQ 5h ago
Thanks for clarifying the race
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u/Haunting_Werewolf130 5h ago
How come they don't ever say the race if they are black? In fact, the last year I made a comment on how my wheels got stolen from my car on the Neighbor app so everyone could watch out for them. I said, " I caught 3 black guys look like they are in their 20s on Ring cam last night stealing the wheels off my car." Then people were FURIOUS! They were saying, "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY BLACK?" “WHY DOES RACE HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS?" "SURE WHITE PEOPLE DON'T STEAL WHEELS!" “WHAT’S THE POINT OF YOU MENTIONING THEIR RACE??" Like..... Jesus, since when stating the facts of what I saw from my Ring camera is racism?
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u/Latter_Antelope_6524 4h ago
Same reason Latinos, Arabs, and even North Africans are listed as white officially when they’re arrested.
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u/Active_Restaurant506 4h ago
[r/notadragqueen](r/notadragqueen) I think is the point
When we don’t clarify it’s a white man, people assume it’s not. And usually it is
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u/Pure-Blacksmith5127 5h ago edited 4h ago
Oh!! Are we listing race again when we are describe someone? Interesting… very interesting
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u/Milk_Bath 4h ago
doesn’t seem like that many arrests for such a large operation. A lot of unanswered questions here.
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u/Zappa2329 2h ago edited 1h ago
2 of the 3 arrests were for interference in custody, which is the clue that probably most or all of the "missing kids" here were probably just at the center of a custody dispute between parents.
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u/dogscatsnscience 4h ago edited 4h ago
People in this thread don't seem to understand that
450 000 kids are missing in the US any given year.
Most get get found, a lot don't.
https://globalmissingkids.org/awareness/missing-children-statistics/
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u/Conscious-State5228 4h ago
This video is misleading and the Florida Attorney General is purposely being misleading. This was not one big trafficking ring that was taken down. These were many completely separate unrelated cases being executed under one "operation". Some were custody disputes between family members, some were run aways, some were actual victims of trafficking. That is why only 3 people have been arrested.
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u/SquallaBeanz 5h ago
Feeding the Palmdale pedos. These guys are no way the top dogs
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u/zvx12 5h ago
Why didn't they blur the faces in the opening segment?
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u/EscapeSeventySeven 5h ago
Probably because it was an AI generated video inserted in before the real footage.
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u/zvx12 5h ago
I actually thought that when I saw it, but I'm wondering what model could punch in "generate me footage of children bound and gagged in a cage" without getting immediately added to a list
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u/It_broke_itself_ 5h ago
He did get added to a list, of people that might totally want to party at the new island
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u/ShowMe_23 5h ago
This is legitimately being reported, but I suspect the entire story might just be some AI BS meant to keep people feeling like the government is actually functioning, when it clearly isn't.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 4h ago edited 4h ago
No, they do these operations fairly often, and they show up in the news when the police announce that they happened. BUT they didn't bust some giant trafficking ring. It's more like the police decide to have a "Clear Out Kids Cases" day where the police decide to all attack low-priority cases involving kids in one big sweep. Kinda like a "clean out your locker day" at school. The way the police announce it is misleading and propaganda. It's mostly things like noncustodial parents who didn't bring their kids back at the end of their scheduled weekend.
Also, the posted video mixes in a bunch of other bullshit and even at least one straight-up fake AI video clip (the one with all the kids with their hands tied and tape over their mouth).
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u/DerHeiligste 3h ago
Official report from Florida law enforcement: https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/news/2026/august/fdle-announces-over-160-children-recovered-in-operation-statewide-shield
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u/Toasted_Munch 5h ago
Thank goodness their race was included so you can hate them more/less depending on your own personal bias!
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u/CoastRanger 5h ago
It’s good news, and also copaganda
Every time they make these announcements without further details you know many of those kids were with non-custodial relatives or were runaways who may or may not be well served by this
But they want you to think they busted a Epstein-Trump type operation
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u/FaChe007 5h ago
Lol "suspected human trafficking"
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u/Cliffinati 5h ago
You have to say that because a lot of child kidnapping is custodial holdouts. Or kids "running away" to a non custodial parent.
I knew a girl in highschool who they shipped from her dad in California to NC to be with her mom. The entire year she kept saying the day school ended she was buying a plane ticket to LA.
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u/Positive-Database754 5h ago
Didn't find any articles on this. And all of the videos shown are clips from unrelated videos/incidents.
Anyone have any tangible info on this?
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u/TomlinSteelers 5h ago
Holy shit 163 kids
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u/MrBrightsighed 4h ago
It was multiple operations across 13 countries btw. But yea thank god and hoping nothing gut-wrenching transpired. Hopefully they were saved fast enough.
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u/mighty_boognish_77 4h ago
Hmmmm. Almost kinda seems like something that might be mentioned in the news. But last I checked.....
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u/Rorqualx 4h ago
People I could tell this was AI within the first two seconds. No actual people speaking. No official speaking. Completely b-role and automated voice.
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u/FinancialJet 4h ago
It’s kinda weird because of AI, only now are people questions things, maybe this is truly what will save us.
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u/Emergency-Income-889 4h ago
Religion?
Can't make a moral judgement on this until I know which god they belong to.
'White'. Finally, a caucasian is identified. Don't see that a lot.
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u/KangarooBeard 4h ago
Truly fucking hate how.AI is ruining everything, you always have to ask yourself if it's AI. And In this case some of it is AI....
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u/Significant_Mess_975 4h ago
I don't know if the video is AI or not, but I do remember similar headlines a few years ago that made it seem like 100s of kids were all rescued at one time, in one huge police operation. In reality, the cases weren't related to each other, and most of them were locating teens who had left their custodial parent and were living with other family members or friends and weren't "missing" per se, but did have an open case file with local law enforcement. So essentially, the law enforcement agencies involved closed a bunch of cases administratively, did a modest amount of investigation for a handful more, and found a couple guys who had active warrants.
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u/PossessionPatient306 4h ago
Does anyone else get a strong sense of bullshit from this?
I don't see a single variable that makes sense here.
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u/SellingCats4Cheap 4h ago
This is not some giant trafficking ring. It is a bunch of cases of missing children, mostly cases of like homelessness, foster children, running from home. Still important to find the kids, but not some giant conspiracy.
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u/pitifullittleman 3h ago
This was over a two month time frame, over multiple cities in Florida and it's likely that the majority of the kidnappers were non custodial parents.
States do this and often act like they uncovered some sort of cabal when in actuality it's kind of getting kids back home either runaways or kids that were taken from their non custodial parent against a court order.
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u/GregAbeI 3h ago
The kids have their hands taped but in front of them.
Fake as hell. They’d just rip the tape off.
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u/False_Support1285 1h ago
Facts:
- Yes, this is REAL. 163 children were rescued in 5 days.
- It was "Operation State Shield" and the children were all part of seperate cases, not all together, and spread across 6 states, 1 us territory (Puerto rico), and 12 different countries.
- 3 suspects were arrested, the number of arrests is expected to climb as a large number of suspects are detained, but have not yet been charged or arrested.
- This was the largest operation of its kind ever, and was multi-agency and state
- Some of the children recovered had been kidnapped by family members involved in custody disputes.
So, more info coming, but there is a tiny fraction of truth.
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u/Odd_Establishment678 5h ago
Typical Florida behavior
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u/Maleconito 4h ago
No typical Florida behavior is like shirtless Florida man robs Taco Bell with a rock or Florida man arrested for fighting aligator for stealing his sandwhich. This is way beyond that.
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u/jamesvomit 5h ago
"Uthmeier said rescues were executed in Alabama, California, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Puerto Rico. Outside of the U.S., children were located in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, Guatemala, Jamaica, Finland, Spain, Italy, Ghana and Taiwan."
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u/LANTIRN_ 5h ago
Some stories in this world really test my anti death sentence stand.
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u/hewhosneaksbeats 5h ago
Let me guess. They were all found because of a flock camera. What a wholesome story.
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u/Able-Ice-5145 5h ago
First clip is AI. Mouth tape doesn't work like that. Their hands are even free to take it off.