33 Traffickers Arrested in European Crackdown on Child Trafficking

33 Traffickers Arrested in European Crackdown on Child Trafficking
The sun bounces off the Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, on Oct. 10, 2018. Peter Dejong/AP Photo
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Police have arrested 33 human traffickers and identified 45 human trafficking suspects in an 18-country joint operation targeting child trafficking, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) said on Friday.

Children are being trafficked across borders and used for sexual exploitation, forced begging, and other types of forced criminality, and these child traffickings remain underreported.