> Tiegs argued that “100 percent” of sex work is human trafficking
He's completely upfront about conflating all sex work with human trafficking. I genuinely don't understand how you could read this and not get that the point of the "trafficking" rhetoric is shifting the definition to encompass what's not generally considered human trafficking.
That's probably because actual child sex slavery is relatively hard to find.
Can you quote that part of the article? They make reference to looking for kids and browsing escort listings, but they're obviously looking for people on the younger side and even the article contains this bit:
> When asked about Skull Games’s position on arresting victims, Tiegs emphasized that “arresting is different from prosecuting” and argued, “Sometimes they do need to make the arrest, because of the health and welfare of that person. She needs to get clean, maybe she’s high. … Very rarely, in my opinion, is it right to charge and prosecute a girl.”
I don't see the word 'adult' at all in the article unless my ctrl+F isn't working, so I'm not sure where you get the idea that their "ACTION" is doxxing adults.
That's an admission that they don't know the target's age. Which we knew anyway; they can't know it until after they do the doxx.
Even if they go for the ones who both have pictures and look young, there are more 18-and-19-year-olds out there than 16-and-17-year-olds, so their "random" sample will be mostly adults. And of course nobody is going to post a picture of a CHILD-child, since that's obviously a huge red flag that will get them caught.
> "but, using some of these tools, you’re able to identify her mugshot."
Children don't tend to have mugshots that often. And, by the way, if they have one, that means the system has arrested them in the past and obviously failed to get anywhere.
> "Finding a target’s high school diploma or sonogram imagery nets 15 points,"
Children don't tend to have high school diplomas almost ever.
I have no idea what the sonogram thing is about.
> "while finding the same tattoo on multiple women would earn a whopping 300"
I will admit that that does sound pretty off, so I won't claim it as going after the "self-employed". However, it does count as going after adults, since it's hard for a minor to get a tattoo at all.
> "In a July Skull Games webinar, one participant noted that they had been able to use PimEyes to find a sex worker’s driver’s license posted to the web."
The longer you have your license, the more time there is for a picture of it to get posted.
In fact, all of the stuff they say they're using tends to accumulate over time. You are far more likely to find any of that stuff on an adult than on a teenaged minor, and you'll pretty much never find any of it on a child as the term is normally understood.
As for arrests, first, they've already been doxxed, by people most of them would really prefer not know who they are, before the question of arrest comes into it. Second, "the group has no information about how many have resulted in prosecutions or indictments of actual traffickers". So they're handing this stuff over to cops and at best just hoping they won't prosecute any of the people they consider to be victims. That's, um, irresponsibly optimistic.
I used to work with multiple ex-vice detectives. They had some seriously harrowing stories about the shit they routinely found on motel raids.
If you think actual child sex slavery is "relatively hard to find," come visit Georgia. It's only been made hard to find because of FOSTA-SESTA; such services used to be advertised in plain English on Backpage.
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/atlanta/news/pr...
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/31-arrested-in-georgia-as-p...
> https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/atlanta/news/pr...
48 of the 71 individuals identified (and having their names published online) are female adult sex workers. No claims are being made that any were victimized.
10 are crimes related to children, of those, 7 are "enticement", which may be LE setups. Certainly, no one being trafficked into motel rooms here.
We don't have details on the "11 juveniles recovered", but they are more like a 17y at risk of homelessness than what one would traditionally imagine to be "child sex slavery". It's also unclear if they are being helped by this recovery, or if you'll find their name appear on the arrest list for prostitution by next year's "human trafficking operation".
> https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/31-arrested-in-georgia-as-p...
What this article actually describes are people arrested for possession of CSAM. No claim is made that any victim was found during any motel raids. There is this:
> Seven of those arrested in Georgia traveled for the purpose of meeting and having sex with a minor.
But the phrasing makes it pretty reasonable to assume they were meetings setup by law enforcement.
Even if it WERE being advertised openly, there'd still be less of it around than plain old adult prostitution. And as you point out it's NOT being advertised openly. So it is in fact relatively hard to find.
Therefore these guys go for the low-hanging fruit, because as far as they're concerned all prostitution is human trafficking (one of them says exactly that in the article). In their propaganda, it's in their interest to talk as if they were going after children in bondage... except, of course, when they give a count of their cases. That number is going to include everybody.
