31 Missing Children Located, Rescued After Month-Long Operation in Texas At least seven recoveries were of critically missing children with ties to sex trafficking. Cases included rescuing a 15-year-old girl from a “john’s” house in Fort Worth and recovering a 15-year-old girl from an Uber in Houston during a prostitution sting. The other 24 children were recovered from friends or relatives and reunited with their legal guardians. The operation was conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the police departments of Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Grand Prairie. “To observe law enforcement partnerships and community concerns culminate into such a successful recovery outcome is rewarding,” said Acting U.S. Marshal Quintella Downs-Bradshaw in a statement. “Victims should know they are not forgotten, there is hope and a way to return home.”