Youth pastor, teacher among 46 arrested in North Texas prostitution sting
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A youth pastor. A high school teacher and football coach. And an operations director of a large hospital network.
These were among the 46 men arrested in a massive undercover prostitution sting this month in Frisco and Southlake, local and federal authorities announced.
“When you think of trafficking, you think of streets in Dallas or Fort Worth or strip clubs,” said Agent John Perez, who oversees the North Texas Trafficking Task Force, part of Homeland Security Investigations. “But there’s a lot of demand in the suburbs.”
This is the second extensive commercial sex sting operation involving North Texas suburbs in recent months. Police arrested 23 people after an investigation at short-term rentals in Plano and Dallas .
In addition to the trafficking task force, agencies that took part in this month’s operation included the Arlington, Colleyville, Dallas, Flower Mound, Frisco, Irving and Midlothian police departments; the Collin, Dallas and Tarrant county sheriff’s departments; and the Dallas County district attorney’s office.
The operation coincided with the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign to highlight Human Trafficking Prevention Month , which is January.
“The victims of these heinous crimes are treated like commodities, used to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible,” Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said in a prepared statement. “Those who traffic victims are the scourge of the earth, and we will continue to target those responsible for the trafficking and those who solicit sex from them.”
Awareness of sexual trafficking and exploitation have grown immensely in recent years, heightened by a handful of high-profile cases. Last year, a 15-year-old girl disappeared from a Dallas Mavericks game at American Airlines Center and was found a few days later in Oklahoma City; three people were arrested on charges of human trafficking.
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No drag queens, though. Strange.
A youth pastor. A high school teacher and football coach. And an operations director of a large hospital network.
republican, republican, republican...
Seems the cream of the Texas population isn't as righteous as they would like you to believe.
Keep the drag queens, they seem to be a better lot than this group of hypocrites.
They only want to entertain us with their impressions of Liza Minelli and Barbra Streisand
Donna Summers impersonator was my neighbor back in PA with a wall full of trophies, lol.
I was trying to think of some of the great ones. She was one of the greatest
That was great! Thanks for sharing it
WTF....
A cast of characters in positions of trust...
obviously there was no chemistry between the youth pastor and his preteen sunday school class...
I wonder if they worked together and decided the easiest kids to snatch.
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Actually, I posted this story to help debunk a prejudice. See Comment #1.
First, I don't remember what my post was. I only know now because you quoted it. I have no idea why it was tagged as a taunt. It certainly wasn't intended to be one. If I were interested in taunts, I'd reply a lot more to certain people in this place. The fact that I don't should be taken as evidence that I try to avoid taunts.
My intent behind what I said was that, to my mind, stories like this depend on unrealistic expectations and a false sense of righteousness on behalf of commenters. To explain:
Youth pastor. People act as if the title defines the person. Ideally, it should, but would anyone argue against the idea that human beings are ideal? In spite of this, people seem to think that, because they haven't failed in this particular way, they have free reign to castigate an entire institution despite their moral failings in other areas. This is the reason behind what I originally posted.
And, in case some idiot thinks I'm saying we need to give this guy a pass, I think this guy should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But the guy isn't the point of my original post. It is the sanctimonious responses to your post that I am addressing.
Also, I see I am up to 7 tickets now, whatever that means. I wonder how many I have to be issued before being put in time out?
I don’t either. I didn’t flag it. I had no problem responding to it as a normal comment.
It never crossed my mind that you did. Seriously. Until you said this, the possibility never occurred to me.