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华盛顿——代理司法部长托德·布兰奇周三任命资深联邦检察官亚历山德拉·塞拉诺担任司法部人口贩运和儿童剥削案件全国协调员。
塞拉诺自2003年以来多次在司法部担任过多个不同职务，包括在加利福尼亚南区、维尔京群岛担任检察官，最近一次是在弗吉尼亚东区。
她此前担任副检察长高级顾问，并最近完成了在参议院司法委员会的临时借调任务。
作为全国协调员，塞拉诺将负责监督司法部及其他联邦机构开展的人口贩运和儿童剥削犯罪调查与起诉工作。
该职位还需要与司法项目办公室合作，该办公室向直接协助犯罪受害者和地方执法部门的受害者服务组织发放拨款。
“打击人口贩运和剥削儿童一直是，并且仍将是司法部的最高优先事项之一，”代理司法部长布兰奇在一份声明中表示。
“今天任命阿里·塞拉诺，我们向掠夺者发出了明确且毫不含糊的信息：我们正在追捕你们，”他补充道。
人口贩运和儿童剥削案件由司法部下辖的93个美国检察官办公室负责起诉。刑事部门还设有两个专门办公室处理跨多个辖区的人口贩运和儿童剥削案件。
她的新职责将涵盖这两个领域的监督工作，办公地点设在副检察长办公室，这实际上将该职位提升到了司法部内部更高的领导层级。
此次任命之前，司法部于上周宣布正在调查约30万名无人陪伴未成年人的下落，其中部分人员可能已被贩卖至劳工或性剥削场所。
司法部和国土安全部官员表示，他们正在关注所谓的“超级担保人”——这些人签署担保协议，照顾三名及以上单独入境美国的无父母陪伴儿童。官员们称，部分无人陪伴儿童最终沦为劳工或性剥削受害者。
在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，塞拉诺表示，司法部追查失踪儿童的工作将作为该部门打击人口贩运总体任务的优先事项之一。
“我不是说这些孩子全都遭到了贩卖，但我毫不怀疑其中很多人已经遭遇不幸。哪怕只有一名儿童被贩卖，都太多了，”她说。
塞拉诺将在120天内提交一份报告，更新司法部打击儿童剥削和人口贩运的战略。
塞拉诺表示，司法部正在观察到与人口贩运和儿童剥削案件相关的若干新趋势。
其中一种趋势是“以牟利为目的的性敲诈”，她说。这类骗局中，掠夺者在网上假扮青少年，诱骗受害者发送自己的不雅照片，随后威胁要散布这些照片，除非受害者向其汇款。
另一种趋势则与虚无主义暴力极端组织有关，例如名为“764”的组织，该组织成员胁迫儿童自残或实施其他令人发指的行为。
周一在佛罗里达中区的一起案件中，一名764组织成员对传播和持有儿童色情制品认罪。检察官称，该男子迫使一名未成年女孩割伤自己，并用鲜血写字。他还传播了儿童的血腥和色情图像。
与此同时，周二，一名与764组织有关联的马里兰州男子被法官判处30年监禁。该男子对至少10名未成年女性实施性剥削，并在部分案件中怂恿她们用剃须刀割伤自己，并用鲜血在墙上写字。
塞拉诺补充称，司法部还发现越来越多涉及利用人工智能生成儿童色情图像的案件。
Blanche taps longtime prosecutor to coordinate human trafficking and child exploitation cases
June 17, 2026 / 1:41 PM EDT / CBS News
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.
Serano has worked in various roles at the Justice Department on and off since 2003, including as a prosecutor in the Southern District of California, the Virgin Islands and, most recently, the Eastern District of Virginia.
She has been serving as a senior counsel to the deputy attorney general, and recently completed a temporary assignment with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
As national coordinator, Serano will be responsible for overseeing efforts across the Justice Department and other federal agencies to investigate and prosecute human trafficking and child exploitation crimes.
The role also entails working with the Office of Justice Programs, which awards grant money to victims services organizations that work directly to assist crime victims and local law enforcement.
“Ending human trafficking and the exploitation of children has been and remains one of the highest priorities of the Department of Justice,” Acting Attorney General Blanche said in a statement.
“With today’s appointment of Ali Serano, we are sending a clear and unmistakable message to predators: we are coming for you,” he added.
Human trafficking and child exploitation cases are prosecuted out of the Justice Department’s 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices. There are also two separate offices in the Criminal Division that handle human trafficking and child exploitation cases, particularly if they span across multiple districts.
Her role will combine oversight of both areas, and be based in the deputy attorney general’s office, effectively elevating the role to a higher level of leadership within the department.
Her appointment comes after the Justice Department announced last week it is investigating the whereabouts of some 300,000 unaccompanied minors — some of whom they fear have been sold into labor or sex trafficking.
DOJ and Department of Homeland Security officials said that they are focused on so-called “super sponsors” who sign up to act as sponsors for three or more unrelated children who enter the U.S. alone. Some of the unaccompanied children end up being trafficked for labor or sex, they said.
In an interview with CBS News, Serano said the Justice Department’s efforts to track down the missing children will be a priority for the administration as part of its broader mission to combat human trafficking.
“I’m not saying that all of these kids have been trafficked, but I wouldn’t doubt that many of them are. And one kid trafficked is one too many,” she said.
In 120 days, Serano will be tasked with helping to submit a report updating the DOJ’s strategy for combatting child exploitation and human trafficking.
Serano said the Justice Department is seeing a number of trends related to both trafficking and child exploitation cases.
One trend involves “financially motivated sextortion,” she said. The schemes involve a predator pretending to be a teenager online and tricking victims into sending illicit photos of themselves. The predators then threaten to distribute the photos unless the victims send them money.
Another trend involves nihilistic violent extremist groups, such as one known as “764,” in which the group members coerce children to harm themselves or engage in other heinous acts.
In one case in the Middle District of Florida on Monday, a member of 764 pleaded guilty to distributing and possessing child sexual abuse materials, after prosecutors said he caused a minor girl to cut herself and use her blood to write messages. He also distributed gore and sexually explicit images of children.
On Tuesday, meanwhile, a judge sentenced a Maryland man also associated with the 764 group to 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting at least 10 minor females and urging them in some cases to cut themselves with razors and use their own blood to write on the wall.
Serano added that the Justice Department is also seeing more cases involving artificial intelligence-generated images of children being sexually exploited.
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