60 Missing Kids Found in Florida during Largest Rescue in US History

Sarah Anderson : Jun 24, 2025
PJ Media

Nascimento went on to tell the story of one of the girls who is pregnant with the baby of her trafficker and what happened the first time she heard her own child's heartbeat...

[PJMedia.com] Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and the United States Marshal for the Central District of Florida William Berger announced at a press conference on Monday that a two-week operation known as Operation Dragon Eye—one of, if not the largest child rescue mission in United States history—was a success.  (Image: iStock-mmg1design)

 The two-week operation saved the lives of at least 60 children and saw eight adults arrested on charges including human trafficking, child endangerment, drug possession, and drug trafficking. Operation Dragon Eye involved over 20 agencies and 100 people. 

Most of the children, who are ages nine to seventeen years old, were found in the Tampa Bay area. Their stories are heartbreaking.

Berger said the children have been "debriefed and provided with physical and psychological care," but some of them required additional assistance: maternal care. According to Natasha Nascimento of Redefining Refuge, many of the young girls were/are pregnant. She says the operation didn't just recover children; it recovered generations.

Nascimento went on to tell the story of one of the girls who is pregnant with the baby of her trafficker and what happened the first time she heard her own child's heartbeat:

And when she was brought to BayCare for medical assistance and to one of my team members, Addie, who I've already mentioned, Addie had the great privilege of going with this child to get her very first ultrasound. She was in her second trimester of pregnancy, and she had never, ever heard the beating heart of her baby.

And so, the ultrasound began, and she heard her baby's heartbeat for the very first time, and she just began to weep, and all she said to Addie was, 'My baby.'

But this moment awakened something in this child, and it shifted something in this child, and it was almost as though she realized that instead of just doing the soul-stretching work of surviving, she was willing to fight for the life that was inside of her... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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