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Today the FBI announced the results of an unprecedented five-day nationwide sweep targetingcriminals involved in trafficking children for prostitution in the United States.  The stings,dubbed Operation Cross Country, spanned 16 cities and resulted in the arrest of 389 people andthe recovery of 21 children.  – In Kansas, Don L. Elbert, III forced three underage sisters – two of whom were 14 year oldtwins – into prostitution.  He was captured and pled guilty to child sex trafficking in Mary2007.  In January, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. –

Michael Rapino, a 48 year old Queens postal worker from Ridgewood, was busted in an Internet sex sting after arranging a liaison with a 14 year old boy, who turned out to be a detective. Rapino, a husband and father with no arrest record, had numerous obscene online exchanges with the undercover detective posing as a boy. He is charged with disseminating indecent material to a minor and attempted criminal sexual act. He was arraigned on the charges yesterday and a judge ordered him held in lieu of $20,000 bail