200+ of the worst scum of scum arrested

Today is a good day because those dedicated to fighting human trafficking managed to save some of the most vulnerable among us....our children. 

From WashingtonPost:
 Hundreds arrested in broad child exploitation investigation involving more than 100 victims.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says more than 200 adults have been arrested in a five-week, international investigation of child pornography.
ICE Director John Morton says 123 child victims were identified in the investigation, which ended in early December. It found 110 victims in 19 U.S. states. The others were living in six countries.....

Below is one of the many, many sad tales of child exploitation and how ordinary people like you and I can defeat evil if we keep our eyes and ears wide open and pay attention to the people and the scene around us.

Mercedes White writing at DeseretNews:
Flying home from a conference    in the Dominican Republic, Nancy Rivard was struck by the strange behavior of a woman traveling with a little boy and girl. The children were visibly distressed. The girl was sobbing. But the woman wasn't concerned. In fact, she didn't even appear to know their names.

The woman's behavior suggested something was going on, and Rivard was not about to let it go unnoticed. Although she was a passenger that day, Rivard works as a flight attendant, and the conference she was returning from was the 2009 meeting of the Airline Ambassadors International. She had attended a workshop on human trafficking and learned a hotline that she could call if she saw anything suspicious.

When she disembarked, Rivard called the number and reported the incident. Weeks later she was surprised to get a call from the Department of Homeland Security. Her tip had led to the discovery of a child trafficking ring in Boston. Agents rescued 82 children who had been brought illegally from the Dominican Republic to the United States.

Moved by the impact of a simple phone call, Rivard joined the fight against human trafficking by working to educate other airline personnel. Her experience illustrates both the immense effect that a single person with knowledge of the issue can have and the difficulty in broadening industry awareness....