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You have to get partway into this story before they admit that only 3 cases were "related" to sex trafficking, meaning most were runaways or non-custodial parents or other situations. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/authorities-find-123-missing-children-in-just-one-day-during-a-michigan-sex-trafficking-operation/ar-BBOaeIp?ocid=se
"Related" to sex trafficking is a vague term. It might mean trafficking (which, BTW, is usually at the hands of a family member of friend, no a stranger). But that is also used for teens, including LGBT runaways, doing sex work. That's not good either, obv, but not trafficking.
Between this and Georgia, I have to wonder if the Feds are trying to ramp up the trafficking narrative in advance of the election. But I'll wait until @ENBrown writes about it.
If I seem skeptical about these narratives it's because I've learned to be so. There was the Somali trafficking ring that turned out to be one. The Seattle K-girls that turned out not to be. And the Robert Kraft Florida thing turned out not to be. https://ordinary-times.com/2019/03/01/the-florida-story-teetering-on-the-edge/
The thing to watch for, in the weeks to come, is if criminal charges for trafficking are levied. That's always the reveal of whether there was actual sex-trafficking going on or if this was just grabbing headlines.
