Blanche taps longtime prosecutor to coordinate human trafficking and child exploitation cases
Washington — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday appointed Alessandra Serano, a longtime federal prosecutor, to serve as the Justice Department's national coordinator on human trafficking and child exploitation cases.
TL;DR
- Alessandra Serano appointed as the Justice Department's national coordinator on human trafficking and child exploitation cases.
- Serano's role will oversee investigations and prosecutions and involve collaboration with other federal agencies and victim services organizations.
- The appointment comes amid the DOJ's investigation into 300,000 unaccompanied minors, with concerns of potential trafficking.
- Emerging trends in exploitation include financially motivated sextortion and nihilistic violent extremist groups coercing children.
- The DOJ is also increasingly seeing cases involving artificial intelligence-generated images of child sexual exploitation.