Over 100 Arrested in Historic Child Sex Trafficking Bust in Ohio

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100 pedophiles arrested in massive child sex trafficking sting in Ohio

Over a hundred people have been arrested as part of an historic child sex trafficking sting operation in Ohio.

Twenty-four men were apprehended when they arrived at an undisclosed location to meet a young child for sex.

Among those arrested were a medical doctor and a church youth director.

Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Major Steven Tucker told WBNS that all men showed up with the intention of having sex with a child:

The reality that they were operating in, is that there absolutely was a child at the other end of that device, and that’s who they were coming to see. They show up with sex toys, they show up with lubrication. They show up with things that clearly somebody isn’t going to show up to a house with unless they intended to engage in sexual activity.

Kutv.com reports: The other arrests include:

  • 43 women arrested for selling sex
  • 36 men arrested for trying to buy sex
  • 1 man arrested for promoting prostitution

The major operation, involving more than 30 law enforcement agencies, focused on human traffickers, internet predators, and those who feed the child sex trade with money.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost told WBNS on Friday:

Criminals involved in trafficking other human beings prey upon those individuals that are already at risk, subjecting them to prostitution and addiction. Predators who seek to harm our children and grandchildren are not hiding in the bushes, they’re lurking on the internet. Please talk to your children. Please know what they’re doing online. Set the rules. Be the parent. Be the parent. Know who they’re talking to. You’re entitled to ask. You’re entitled to know. The children need to know, you can’t trust everybody. Not every adult is trustworthy.

Kosier was placed on “indefinite administrative leave pending a further understanding of these circumstances,” according to a statement from Genesis Healthcare System in Zanesville, Ohio where Kosier was an ER doctor.

Gibson has been removed from his position at Redeemer’s at Courtright Church, which he has been a member of since near birth.

The church released a statement to 10TV WBNS on Friday:

In the past 24 hours we have learned, as you have, of a law enforcement sting conducted on Human trafficking and prostitution. Our hearts are broken for those who experience the devastation and pain from these terrible crimes. Our own Youth Director in training was one of those arrested during this operation. Because we take this issue seriously, we have taken immediate action and have removed this person from his position.

17 Comments

  1. This country has been sliding down a slippery slope of immorality for decades. It’s difficult to identify a point in time when it started but the moral decay seems to mirror the decline in Christian values held by the general public and elected leaders, particularly the deep state. It was so easy to accept the growth of lgbtq following the feminine movement which necessitated abortions on demand. The country now seems headed toward pedophillia and worse. And, because of an acceptance of deviant human behavior by many otherwise normal people, with questionable Christian values, the immorality issues don’t appear to be turning back to civility soon.

  2. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law! Therefore his firing is illegal and those responsible are criminals!
    Entrapment is a crime and has been for decades, therefore the charges are bogus and those responsible for the illegal entrapment [sting is just another word for the ILLEGAL entrapment] are guilty of crimes and should be arrested tried and upon conviction imprisoned for life or executed for criminal violations of human rights. Prostitution is not a crime. Buying or selling. Freedom does not allow the government to tell us who we can or cannot have sex with. Furthermore adolescents are not children! Children are pre-pubescent, generally under 12. The article is clearly an attempt to create even more hysteria than there already is. Hysteria mongering is a crime! Since clearly no REAL child, or adolescent was RAPED, there is NO CRIME! Since no ages of these alleged victims is provided it is safe to assume that they could very well be adolescents and NOT children. Thus the author of the article is a liar and a hysteria mongering criminal. Again, entrapment is AGAINST THE LAW! And, No one was actually raped, there is NO actual victim. NO CRIME!

      • Regardless of what you have been indoctrinated to believe….intent is not a crime as intent is not an ACT! It is not a crime to THINK a thought. The Nazi police state criminals have indoctrinated the people to think, zombie like, that the police can actually read minds. The fact remains, everything I said is true and indisputable by any intelligent rational person.

        • what about “attempted to commit sex with a child”
          So if I am caught sneaking up to your house with a picture of you and i have a gun with a silencer on me, the cops get me outside our window, I should just be charged with “trespassing”?
          these guys show up with a boner to a child’s house, what crime should they be charged with?

          • I really wish you slow people would stop arguing with me over things like this. You’re wrong, just accept the fact and move on. The FACTS remain, it is ILLEGAL entrapment, entrapment [sting] was outlawed back in the 50s, there was NO VICTIM, adolescents, even if there was a REAL one, which there wasn’t, are NOT children. This is a fact regardless of what the babblers and mind-benders want us to believe.
            If I catch you sneaking up on my house [I will know because of cameras, sensors, and motion sensor lights, and a keen ear] gun or no gun you would be putting yourself at risk. The sign at the end of my driveway should be a clue: There’s nothing on this property worth dying for. [I have guns too!] Best if you just leave the gun in your car and smile at the camera.

          • relax, i was not threatening you, i was just spelling out the ridiculoussness of you train of thought. If you are on a computer and you are searching to communicate with minors and find one, and get info that they are minors and you go meet them, you really entrapped yourself. You are guilty. but don’t worry, i am not planning to go to your house and shoot you. but if i did, you would want the cops to put me away for a few years, not just charge me with tresspassing.

          • You don’t understand what I am saying. I’ll have to get back to you later, when I have more time. Meanwhile, read what I have already said and TRY to comprehend my message. Get on the train….it passes thru Reason, Logic, and Rational Law. Good places to live and think. [I’ll be back!]

    • Perhaps not in the backwards nation you live in but here in the U.S we do have very specific laws pertaining to adults not having sex with individuals under the age of 18. We also have very specific laws forbiding the solicitation of sex with a minor, the viewing of pornography involving a minor, the viewing of pornographic images involving a minor. We have these laws in all 50 states to protect children from the pedophile epidemic in the western world. You are free to live in any middle eastern nation that might still allow your way of thinking, although just about everyone of them has come around to see the abuse that comes from allowing anyone to follow that path. The laws are not what you feel they should be at the bottom of your tiny near non existant heart, the laws are created by the people for the people and 99.99999999999999999999999999% of us demand that those laws be in place and that pedophiles be put down like you would a rabbies riddled dog.

      • Aside from being an idiot, you are apparently incapable of reading English. And then there is your irrational, anti-freedom, anti-American, illogical, redneck stupid hypocrisy, not to mention your total lack of respect for Reason, facts, and intelligent thinking. On top of all that, your insane babbling does not change one iota of the truth that I expressed. What is truly scary is you live in the same country as I do and you clearly don’t have a clue. Most Americans have been indoctrinated, manipulated, conditioned, duped, and dumbed down to the point of stupid. Your willingness to defend these Nazi police state, anti-freedom, anti-nature, anti-American laws and criminals is pathetic.

  3. It is hard to wrap my brain around that there is such a large customer base, and that this happens so much and it is not caught more often. this is wild.

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