It isn’t just petty criminals and the psychotic that soft-on-crime, Soros-backed DAs have opened the door for. It’s also made blue cities paradise for sex traffickers.
While politicians call attention to January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month, a Texas mom wants to make lawmakers aware of how the state’s justice system is failing victims like her daughter.
Her daughter’s sex trafficking case made international headlines in April 2022 when the teenager was sexually assaulted and forced into prostitution after disappearing from a Dallas Mavericks game.
She’s now safe, but her parents remain frustrated that Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot failed to prosecute a suspect linked to the trafficking who was charged with sexually assaulting the 15-year-old girl.
Creuzot, as you may remember, owes his office in good measure to the $400,000 George Soros-related entities donated to his campaign in 2022.
“As a mom and as a woman, this is a hill I’m willing to die on,” the victim’s mother told Texas Scorecard.
She called the months since her daughter’s traumatic experience a “rollercoaster” and blames missteps by Dallas police and Creuzot’s office as well as “loopholes” in state law for allowing the man, who her daughter says raped her, to go free.
The victim, who lives in North Richland Hills, went missing from the American Airlines Center while attending a basketball game with her father. He raised the alarm after she went to the bathroom and didn’t return.
Surveillance video showed the victim leaving with Emanuel Jose Cartagena.
Ten days later, she was recovered in Oklahoma City after a private investigator, recommended to the girl’s parents by friends, found online photos advertising her for sex.
Local police immediately arrested three suspects and charged them with human trafficking, conspiracy, and computer crimes. Multiple people involved in the sex trafficking ring were eventually charged and sentenced in Oklahoma, but neither Cartagena nor other men seen on the Dallas surveillance video were found at the Oklahoma crime scene.
Nine months later, in January 2023, Cartagena was arrested and charged in Dallas with sexual assault of a child.
The victim told police Cartagena had sexually assaulted her in Dallas before she was taken to Oklahoma.
On October 30, 2023, a Dallas County grand jury no-billed Cartagena, meaning jurors did not see sufficient evidence to prosecute him for the crime.
“I was astounded,” said the mom.
The trafficking victim’s mom recounted multiple missteps by Dallas police and prosecutors.
First, she said the Dallas Police Department refused to let her husband file a missing persons report. Police classify older missing teens as “runaways,” she said, even though they are under the age of consent. They told the family to file a report with their local police, 40 miles away from where their daughter disappeared.
“That’s an enormous problem,” she said.
While Dallas PD idled, the private investigator tracked down her daughter “within a matter of hours” by searching online ads.
She said once her daughter was recovered, Dallas officials declined an invitation from authorities in Oklahoma to come up and gather information that could help with their investigation.
Ahead of the grand jury hearing the case, the victim’s mom said her lawyer offered the Dallas prosecutor more documentation about her daughter’s case, but the prosecutor refused, saying, “If I need it, I’ll subpoena it.”
She also said her daughter, who was too young to consent to sex, picked Cartagena out of a lineup as the man who raped her. Yet the grand jury still sided with Cartagena, and he went free.
“At the end of the day, take out all the trafficking stuff, how does that happen?” she asked.
After the grand jury no-billed Cartagena, she said Creuzot told her that prosecutors had followed “office policy” by not recommending an indictment and he would not re-present the case with the additional evidence.
It sounds like Creuzot’s office didn’t get an indictment because they didn’t want to get an indictment.
A Dallas Morning News opinion piece published this month says Cartagena has a history of promoting and compelling prostitution of minors and cites two Harris County cases in 2015 and 2016.
Prior bad acts are generally inadmissible as evidence, but the victim’s mom says Creuzot knew, or should have known, that Cartagena has a history of sexually exploiting children and recommended an indictment.
“The guy who did this had done it before and will probably do it again,” she said.
“I’m not done fighting,” she added. “I can’t let this go.”
The victim’s mom said, “Aside from the goodness of God, we wouldn’t have my daughter. We are lucky. My daughter is safe,” she added. “But we are not the norm. What about all the other victims?”
She noted that Texas is second in the nation for sex trafficking, behind New York, with Dallas and Houston as hot spots.
“It’s not just due to the state’s size,” she said. “It’s our laws and loopholes that go in the criminals’ favor.”
A 2016 study found that 79,000 minors were victims of sex trafficking in Texas. Child sex trafficking has continued to grow as traffickers use the internet to exploit children for money.
It probably doesn’t help that the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Anti-Trafficking Unit (ATU) was so badly run that it was disbanded earlier this year.
But it sounds like Emanuel Jose Cartagena would be behind bars right now were Creuzot and his fellow Soros-backed prosecutors not so intent on keeping him on the street.
Tags: Crime, Dallas, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Police Department, Emanuel Jose Cartagena, Erin Anderson, Harris County, John Creuzot, North Richland Hills, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, rape, sex offender, Social Justice Warriors, Texas
If I ran a trafficking ring on such a scale that it crossed state lines, I’d certainly invest some of the cash I was pulling down in protecting my business model. And one of the ways I’d do that would be to purchase the good will of politicians, DAs, and press.
Honestly, I cannot imagine how a DA would allow himself to look soft on this sort of crime, unless he was answering to someone other than voters.
When the legal system fails this completely, it’s time to hire someone outside the law to go around and mete out punishment … to the perps, to the Dallas DA, and everyone associated with this case who failed to do their job.1
Enough of these incompetent twerps drop dead and maybe the remaining ones will get the message.
Time long past for posses. Soros drones should top the list.
The people behind this, the “they” we all think of when hearing of these things? “They” are not going to like the brave new world that they’re making.
“They” think that by capturing the legal system, they’ve somehow attained real, permanent power. The sad fact is, that power is temporary, and will last only so long as it takes to convince the majority of the public that they’ve no real stake in the legalities of things any more. That which follows that realization will make the arseholes behind Soros rue the day they thought to grab control of it all, because they’re going to be the very first up on the list for “street justice”. I look for some of these prosecutors and judges to be dragged out of their offices, put on informal public trial, and then hung by the neck until dead, dead, dead. If they’re not simply set on fire, first.
You can’t deliberately crash a system like ours without paying a price, and the idjit class running ours is going to find out what that price is. I think we’re only a catalyzing moment away from all that; imagine one of the victims of this crap losing their sh*t and then getting up on the podium in front of a bunch of like-minded, fully-primed other individuals, and saying something like “Judge So-and-so released the man who murdered my wife and children, despite knowing what sort of criminal he was… I say we put the judge on trial…”
The minute that guy’s arguments resonate with enough people? Yikes. It will immediately get very, very ugly: Care to imagine a drum-head trial, out in front of the county courthouse, with a rope hanging from a tree, and the cops held at bay by the crowds? The prosecutors and the judges lined up, waiting for their “speedy trials” and subsequent executions by the duly appointed members of the public…?
I see something like that coming. They don’t have enough cops to actually police the country, once they’ve lost the consent of the policed. Don’t do your f*cking jobs, assholes? Get replaced. It’s that simple, and you really won’t like the accountability coming after the public gets tired of your liberal bullshit.
I think there’s a major sea-change coming, and if you’re smart, you won’t be out on the water when the winds shift.
@kirk
Keep saying “they” and all I can think of is the aliens from “They Live” … which is pretty apt.
At this point, how would we be able to tell the difference…?
What we’ve experienced here in the West, across all of our major nations, is a large-scale failure to create worthwhile elites to run things.
The French really got the ball rolling with their entire “grande école” concept, and we slavishly followed along with them. The sad reality is that every country that’s gone down that path winds up falling, because the fundamental flaw in that entire concept is that there is basically not one single way of injecting actual consequence and failure feedback into those school systems, once they get going. It’s all academic theory, all the time; Obama was a perfect exemplar, a man who has done nothing actually productive in his entire life, and who brought the sensibilities of the faculty lounge to governance.
Until we scrape these creatures out of the system, we’re screwed. They’re all deeply delusional, living in a dream world of their own making. Reality cannot intrude into their wild imaginings, because they’re so deeply in denial. Talk to one of them, sometime… Note the fulsome praise they have for their own fantasies, which are never checked against reality for whether or not they’re working. Homeless policy? We have more than ever. “Urban mass transit”? Nobody uses it. Any of their pet projects or policies fail, and they just ignore the actual real-world evidence and double-down on the failure.
If you got rid of them tomorrow, everything would turn around in a couple of years. What we have is a massive deficit of common sense and pragmatism.
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It crossed state lines. Did the mom call the FBI?
Given the surveillance state and the willingness of police to follow orders I don’t think there will be a backlash that includes dragging judges from their chambers. Any thing remotely close will wind up being J6 territory. It is much more likely that there will be a Godfather response. Mr. Cartegena will go to his car in the parking lot one day and be shot 31 times by some one in a Guy Fawkes mask who will then disappear. Same for Cartegena’s accomplices. Friends and family will be out some cash. Assassins will retire wealthy to warm climates. But something will be done.
They would rather rule over hell than serve in heaven. And they will tear down Western Civilization and the US in particular to create their hell.
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly. The rich have generally objected to being governed at all.” —GK Chesterton
[…] Soros DAs refusing to prosecute sex trafficking. Contributing to the breakdown of society. If people who rape teenage girls and traffic them as prostitutes are not prosecuted, then the average joe is finally going to start taking care of them problem themselves, which the resulting pile-on from the DA who refused to deal with the sex trafficker but will absolutely deal with the father who killed the person who trafficked his daughter. […]