I was curious… This past March, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd stood before a poster board at one of his now-famous press conferences, talking about the success of his six-day human trafficking sting cutely called “Operation March Sadness II”.

If you saw the press release and didn’t know better, this seemed to be a huge deal! News4Jax‘s headline was “Operation March Sadness II leads to 108 arrests on human trafficking charges”. Click Orlando‘s headline was, “Over 100 arrested in child predator sting operation” and NBC Affiliate WFLA‘s headline was, “4 Disney Employees Arrested in Polk County Human Trafficking Campaign.” Based on the news report and the seriousness of the press conference, one would question the sense of stepping foot in central Florida because the probability of being molested seemed inevitable.

We already exposed the truth about this “Operation” in a post 5 months ago (see: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/the-sad-operation-march-sadness/) but out of curiosity we wanted to do a quick follow up to see how these prosecutions are going.

I was particularly curious about the guy featured on cbsnews.com in their, “Retired Cook County Judge among more than 100 arrested in human trafficking sting in Florida.” A retired judge accused of human trafficking?!?! Clearly he must have gone away for life, right?

Hardly. I don’t want to further embarrass the guy by including his name or case number here, but he got a withhold of adjudication for “soliciting another to commit a lewd act”, 12 months “mail-in probation” and 100 hours community service. He was not human trafficking anyone but whenever someone googles his name from now on it’ll sure look like he was, headlines, mugshot and all!

 

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