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exposethecriminals ago

Thank you for posting this. It is very common yet most people do not know.

Drug dealers use child care as front

(2009) More than a dozen Wisconsin child-care centers that reaped millions of dollars in state subsidies have had close ties to drug-dealing operations, including big-time crime bosses, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.

Records show many of those centers have been used to stash and transport drugs, launder dirty cash and provide fake employment for criminals - at taxpayers' expense.

Search warrants aimed at drug dealers often make no mention that the dealer's wife or live-in girlfriend is a child-care provider - even when the day care is the site of the search.

And nobody - not regulators nor law enforcement officials - tracks the overlap.

Yet, cops and prosecutors say they see links between day care providers and drug dealers all the time.

"Probably in 25% of the cases I deal with, there is a wife or girlfriend in the day care business," said Mario Gonzales, a veteran gang and drug prosecutor with the U.S. attorney's office.

Children's Fantasy has collected more than a half million dollars from the Wisconsin Shares program since 2006. The center is licensed to care for 57 children and had been billing the state roughly $20,000 every two weeks.

Police and prosecutors say drug dealers have found child-care centers to be natural shelters for illegal activity. Cloaked with lots of people coming and going at all hours, they don't usually raise the suspicion of neighbors. And, providers can easily funnel money through the business without drawing the attention of authorities.

"Day care centers are ideal sites, quite frankly, for conducting a drug-trafficking operation," Chisholm said.

fogdryer ago

“Avoid the crowds”, so much more can be going on ...

exposethecriminals ago

“Avoid the crowds”, so much more can be going on ...

It's common sense that drug trafficking and child/human trafficking usually go hand-in-hand, as you alluded to in the OP.

But I apologize for not spelling it out, aside from putting the obviously pedo day care name Children's Fantasy in bold italics.

Since you put forth concern, here is some research to bolster your/my point:

Since human trafficking is so lucrative, many drug traffickers are doing what any money-motivated businessperson would do: expanding their business into a new market; namely, human trafficking.....Supply and Demand

fogdryer ago

This is why I didn’t attend school online.

I think you are trying to help me but I am not quite sure what you are saying. ☹️☹️☹️ I hope it is ok I copy/paste your comment. If not I will take it down. The critical statement is the hardest for me ...