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In this RedState article, Ben Smith reports that FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau has dramatically escalated its child-exploitation enforcement efforts.
- Patel said the FBI has arrested 3,400 child predators, located or rescued 7,200 children, and dismantled 3 million pedophile accounts on the Tor network.
- According to Patel, those figures represent a 99% increase over the best year of the Biden administration.
- Patel credited part of the increase to moving 1,500 FBI employees out of Washington and into the field to work directly with state and local law enforcement.
- The report highlights Operation Grayskull, a global dark-web investigation targeting four major child sexual abuse websites, which led to 19 U.S. arrests and additional arrests in seven other countries.
- Patel said many of those arrested had no prior criminal record and described them as people embedded in ordinary communities, including neighbors, colleagues, and even family members.
- The article also cites a Tennessee case involving Zachary Sweeney, who is accused of coercing minors into producing child sexual abuse material, selling some of it, drugging victims, and livestreaming assaults.
- In Texas, Operation Soteria Shield reportedly involved 91 law enforcement agencies and resulted in 276 arrests and the rescue of 89 children.
- The piece also notes two Florida cases in which Montrey Roseberry and James Bernard Grover received life sentences for crimes involving child exploitation and abuse.
- Patel said the FBI intends to keep expanding its efforts, arguing that the bureau is pursuing offenders both “to the ends of the earth” and across the “cyber realm.”
Read the full story:
https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/07/kash-patel-says-fbi-has-rescued-7200-children-and-arrested-3400-predators-n2203115
