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A recent case in Connecticut shows how difficult it is for prosecutors to hold alleged abusers accountable.

Investigators uncovered a trafficking ring suspected of frequenting gun shows to sell ghost guns in my district and across our commonwealth. this impacts regular americans like matthew bowersox of snyder county, pennsylvania that were shot and killed by heathers ex-husband, the subject of a protection order. he took her life with a ghost gun. a homemade 9 millimeter pistol. can you continue to talk about how the proliferation of ghost gun hinders the ability of law enforcement and what is dojs s...

Things are moving in the right direction finally. this week the two prison guards who were supposed to be watching him the night he was found dead, they have been charged, five counts of falsifying records and one count of conspiracy to try to cover it up. the woman in charge of prisons in america, kathleen sawyer got grilled by senators is weak for letting the most famous federal inmate die on her watch. >> we have a whole bunch of women who were raped by this guy, this is a trafficking ring in...

Are so many questions out there. things are moving in the right direction finally. this week the two prison guards who were supposed to be watching him the night he was found dead, they have been charged, five counts of falsifying records and one count of conspiracy to try to cover it up. the woman in charge of prisons in america, kathleen sawyer got grilled by senators is weak for letting the most famous federal inmate die on her watch. >> we have a whole bunch of women who were raped by this g...

My source is telling me as you said at least a dozen victims coming forward -- >> very powerful. they were so young at the time. now, the attorney general william barr, hes promised to bring anyone who helped epstein run his trafficking ring, theyll be pursued. do you expect charges, and who will be the likely targets of that? >> look, we know and i know from my reporting in the period that the government was looking at, 2003 to 2005, that maxwell has been named by some of the victims as someone...

Exercises one bit. brian todd, cnn, washington. we have new details in the death of accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. new yorks chief medical examiner says that the cause of death was ssuicide by hanging. he was found unresponse. sif in his jail cell last week. the 66-year-old was awaiting trial of charges of running a trafficking ring. the u.s. customs and border patrol computers are back online after an outage impacted airports coast to coast and led to long lines, people waiting to ...

Point in time he will flip a switch and he will tell her, you now work for me. >> theyre smart about what they do, and they know what to look for and those things are people who have been abused in the past. >> i remember looking at myself in the bathroom mirror and see ing how i was covered in bruises and my eyes were blood shot. >> kylie greg survived four years as a victim of sex traffic king and her traffickers used hollow promises to force her into sex work when she was only 10 years old. >...

Point in time he will flip a switch and he will tell her, you now work for me. >> theyre smart about what they do, and they know what to look for and those things are people who have been abused in the past. >> i remember looking at myself in the bathroom mirror and see ing how i was covered in bruises and my eyes were blood shot. >> kylie greg survived four years as a victim of sex traffic king and her traffickers used hollow promises to force her into sex work when she was only 10 years old. >...

The border and you know it. he said he needs the border wall to stop human trafficking. hes got his buddy bob kraft linked up in the biggest trafficking ring they found -- >> hold on. youre bringing in a lot of extraneous -- bob kraft was not human trafficking. >> i never said he was. >> oh, no, im sorry. to be clear, to be clear, the women, the women who were involved in the what everyone is calling the prostitution ring, that is in fact trafficking. >> it is. >> im not here to defend bob kraft...

Trafficking ring, not by him. listen to what he said. >> well, its very sad. i was very surprised to see it. hes proclaimed his innocence totally, but im very surprised to see it. >> surprised by what? a rich old guy allegedly paying for sex? please. what gets me is the hypocrisy. all the talk about a wall to stop trafficking but no word for the actual victims of the scourge. so let me get it straight. the president is all in about how anyone south of el paso is a threat, but nothing about whats...