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#22977367 at 2025-05-01 04:27:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28041: IN IT TOGETHER Teamwork Determination STORM Edition
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During "Operation Lights Out," undercover investigators posing as children had numerous exchanges with persons on various social media and Internet platforms. During many of these exchanges, the subjects directed conversations with the child towards sex. 35 cases were established that met the threshold for arrest. 19 of those cases were concluded with arrests after the perpetrator attempted to meet the "child" in person. In some of these cases, the subject introduced obscene or lude content, often exposing what the perpetrator thought was a child to pornography or requesting the child to produce and send sexual or pornographic images for them. About half of the exchanges involved websites used for dating, socializing, or even websites used for classified advertisements.
Although some websites promote themselves as being for "adults only", it is not uncommon for law enforcement to work cases in which children access these sites, establish profiles claiming to be older, and then find themselves vulnerable to victimization, harassment, blackmail, or assault. Several subjects were identified as communicating simultaneously with multiple investigators posing as minors. Such activity confirms what investigators uncover conducting these types of investigations: that many predators specifically seek out minors on the internet to groom the children as potential victims for sexual contact.
"It takes collaboration and a team effort to protect the children in our community," said SAC Brian Johnston. "Operation Lights Out was a proactive investigation. We as law enforcement were working in an undercover operation to stop predators. These same predators would have been targeting the children of this community."
"I want to make a plea with parents to closely monitor your children to ensure they are not communicating with these individuals," said Muscogee County Sheriff Greg Countryman. "These predators will travel from near and far to victimize your children. We take these crimes against children very seriously. It will be our focus to find these predators so they may be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Twelve law enforcement agencies, all partners in the Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children's Task Force, participated in "Operation Lights Out." These agencies were:
Muscogee County Sheriff's Office
Georgia Bureau of Investigation (Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit, Georgia Information and Sharing Analysis Center, West Georgia Gang Task Force).
Cherokee County Sheriff's Office
Jasper County Sheriff's Office
Colquitt County Sheriff's Office
Polk County Police Department
Homeland Security Investigations
United States Army Criminal Investigations Division
Gwinnett County Police Department
Forsyth County Sheriff's Office
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
United States Secret Service
The Georgia ICAC Task Force is comprised of 290 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, other related criminal justice agencies, and prosecutors' offices. The Georgia ICAC Task Force, managed by the GBI, is one of 61 such task forces in the United States. The mission of the ICAC Task Forces, created by the U.S. Department of Justice, is to assist state and local law enforcement agencies in developing an effective response to technology-facilitated child exploitation. This support encompasses forensic and investigative components, training and technical assistance, victim services, prevention, and community education. The ICAC Program was developed in response to the increasing number of children and teenagers using the Internet, the proliferation of child sexual abuse material, and the heightened online activity by predators searching for unsupervised contact with underage victims. By helping state and local law enforcement agencies develop effective and sustainable responses to online child victimization and child sexual abuse material, the ICAC program delivers national resources at the local level. Any Georgia law enforcement agency wishing to join the GA ICAC Task Force is encouraged to contact the GBI's Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit.
Anyone with information about these cases or other cases of child exploitation is asked to contact the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit at 404-270-8870 or report via the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline at CyberTipline.org. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477), online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.