SAN DIEGO—A multi-agency anti-human trafficking task force arrested 48 individuals in a total of 17 recent operations conducted by state, city, and federal officers, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan announced on Feb. 21.
Officers with Operation Better Pathways also freed eight children—with some as young as age 13—through the operation that lasted several days, with a total of 41 individuals rescued, said Stephan at a press conference.
“Doctors, teachers, and superintendents that are often out there buying someone—even though they have their own children, wives, sisters, and mothers—are still willing to go out and buy a human being for sex,” she told reporters. “That is what fuels the $810 million industry of human trafficking, and they must be held accountable.”…