[11Alive] Beaumont Police and the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office worked together for a two-day joint operation targeting what officials called "sex buyers."
The 21 men arrested were soliciting sexual relations from both minors and adults, Beaumont Police said. Investigations are still ongoing, but additional charges are expected.
"Human trafficking is modern day slavery — the exploitation of men, women and children for forced labor or sex by a third party for profit or gain," Riley said in a statement. "A person doesn’t have to be transported across borders for trafficking to take place — it can occur anywhere."
| The list of arrested Johns at the link includes American names, Hispanic names, and names from the Indian subcontinent, both Hindu and Moslem. So at least the customers are ecumenical. No prostitutes were named, so perhaps they were ecumenical, too. |
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