authorities said in a news release. <\/a><\/p>\nThe vulnerable youth that were rescued included: <\/p>\n
46 in the Tampa Bay region<\/p>\n
41 in Miami<\/p>\n
32 in Jacksonville<\/p>\n
21 in Orlando<\/p>\n
12 in Fort Myers<\/p>\n
8 in Pensacola<\/p>\n
3 in the Tallahassee region<\/p>\n
The operation also led to an unknown number of other children being found in six states, one U.S. territory and 12 countries, FDLE said. <\/p>\n
“Recovered children needing assistance were safely transported by local law enforcement to designated recovery hubs, where they received support from social services, child welfare professionals, medical providers, victim advocates, and other child-centered resources,” officials said. <\/p>\n
According to FDEL, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier\u2019s Office of Statewide Prosecution and the Miami-Dade State Attorney\u2019s Office are taking on three felony cases as a result of the operation.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of these kids have been victimized by those who prey on the most vulnerable,\u201d Uthmeier is quoted in the news release. \u201cThanks to the outstanding work of FDLE, the Office of Statewide Prosecution, and our state and local partners, these children are now safe and receiving the care they deserve. Florida will continue leading the recovery of missing children, hunting down every predator, and prosecuting abusers to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One hundred and sixty-three missing children, including dozens in the Miami area, were found in what officials called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1219,28,225,227,226,123],"class_list":["post-386193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-florida","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}