- [Chuck] The numberskeep coming week by week.

In Ohio, a joint operation

between federal and state officers,

recovered 35 at risk missing children.

A similar operation rescued39 missing kids in Georgia.

Behind all this success, aunit of the US Marshal Service,

the Sex Offender Investigations Branch

is made up of only three men,

working overtime to saveas many kids as they can.

- When I assumed thisposition as the branch chief

of this Sex OffenderInvestigations Branch,

my eyes were opened.

There's over 430,000 missingkids a year, in our country.

- [Chuck] Of those,

at least 65,000 are victims ofthe commercial sex industry.

- [Whitwell] We'retrying to have an impact,

we're trying to do the best we can,

with the resources we have in place.

- [Chuck] Ongoing riots and violence

against federal courthouses in Portland,

and elsewhere however,

are taking agents awayfrom this important work.

- [Whitwell] But it's a zerosum game in order for us

to deploy these resources,

it detracts from other mission sets

that are often equally as important.

Our leadership is verypassionate and supportive

of this initiative,

and we're trying to throwas many resources as we can

to make an impact, but the reality is,

we're just scratching the surface.

- [Chuck] These operationsare also complicated

because those rescued need special care.

- Historically, we're copsand we catch bad guys.

But we're catching good people now,

we're catching kids,

what resources do we need to have in place

because it's not as simpleas just turning this child

over to somebody.

And so we spent a lot oftime, a lot of research,

a lot of talking with our partners,

with children's hospital, with DCFS,

with social services to getthese resources in place.

- It takes an incredibleamount of work to track down

these monsters who arepreying on America's children.

And since the Defund the Police movement

and the Covid crisis,

a lot of police departmentsaround the country

just don't have the resources to do that.

And that's where thebody of Christ comes in,

there are several ministries out there

that are now packaging up theinformation that cops need,

and passing it along.

One of them is, All ThingsPossible Ministries,

Victor Marx's outfit, hisnew chief operating officer,

is a guy that I wentto Ranger School with,

like 100 years ago.

- There are 150,000 newsex ads a day in America,

they need help on the frontend, identifying the victim.

They need that level of probable cause,

reasonable suspicion, that'swhat we offer law enforcement.

So we figure out who those girls are,

that are being sold, potentiallywho their trafficker is,

and we push that informationto law enforcement

to take action.

And then they, will conductan operation, a sting,

and they will confrontthat girl and offer her,

a new life, a path to freedom.

- [Chuck] And what theyfind is often chilling.

- There are particulartraffickers that will target

Christian girls, toget the small potatoes,

to get the girl who comes from,

a broken abusive relationship,

that didn't stroke his ego.

But for him to be able to pluck,

a pretty young woman from aChristian family in the suburbs,

and turn her out to be trafficked,

that was an ego boost for him.

- [Chuck] The Trumpadministration is taking action

to put a stop to these heinous crimes.

- Today, I'm happy toannounce that the department

is awarding over 100million dollars in grants

across the country, targetedat human trafficking

and these grants are gonna support state,

local and tribal jurisdictions,

victim service providers,

task forces and key research initiatives.

- [Chuck] Being on the front lines,

makes these men realize law enforcement,

isn't the ultimate solution.

- We as believers, wehave to do a better job

of protecting our young women.

Parents have to talk to their daughters

very candidly about what's out there,

especially in this Christian bubble

that a lot of us live in,

we don't fully appreciatethe evil that's out there,

and the evil that's trying towork its way into our lives.

- We as a society need tolook at this large number,

and start deploying resourcesand asking questions

as to why there are so many missing kids,

what are the underlying issues,

and it's only then thatwe can address those

and stop these high numbers.

We're very happy about our recoveries,

but there's a much larger problemthat needs to be addressed

and addressed holistically.

- [Chuck] From Washington DC,

I'm Chuck Holton, for CBN News.