The U.S. Department of Justice is facing criticism from congressional Republicans and nonprofit leaders for removing information from its anti-child sex trafficking webpage, which critics contend is an attempt to distance itself from policies they believe have exacerbated the issue.
According to archived posts in the WayBackMachine, the DOJ removed multiple sections from its webpage on the sex trafficking of minors sometime between April 21 and May 28.
The erased sections included the “International Sex Trafficking of Minors,” “Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors,” and “Child Victims of Prostitution” pages. The current page, accessed Thursday, says it was last updated on May 12.
Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida criticized the changes in a press release last week, arguing that the administration is attempting to evade responsibility for border policies that have worsened child sex trafficking.
“The DOJ specifically deleted a section that implicated the Biden Administration’s open-border policies in correlation to the sex trafficking of children,” Luna’s statement reads.
“The deleted portion read, ‘One form of sex trafficking involves the cross border transportation of children. In these situations, traffickers recruit and transfer children across international borders in order to sexually exploit them in another country.’”
Another deleted section discussed how pimps and traffickers exploit children through street prostitution and nightclubs, as well as a variety of locations throughout the United States.
“DOJ’s blatant move to distance Joe Biden’s harmful policies from the global crime of sex trafficking should be no surprise to any of us who have seen the blatant sexualization and abuse of children this Administration is comfortable with promoting,” Luna continued.
Luna claimed the timing of the erasure was close to the release of “The Sound of Freedom,” a film that depicts the true story of a mission to rescue children from human traffickers in Colombia.
Victor Marx, a survivor of child sexual abuse and head of All Things Possible Ministries, also noted the erasure appeared to take place around the time of the film’s release. Marx contends that the removal of sections on child sex trafficking sends a message to women and children that the administration doesn’t care about the issue.
Obey
Article URL : https://www.christianpost.com/news/biden-doj-faces-criticism-for-removing-sex-trafficking-info.html