Child Prostitute Pimps Arrested in Chicago

Working with local law enforcement in a nationwide sweep, the FBI has arrested 50 alleged pimps and rescued 45 teenagers from the illegal sex trade, some as young as 13. FoxNews:

Agents in cities from Miami to Chicago to Anchorage, Alaska took part in the operation.

The federal effort is also designed to hit pimps with much tougher prison sentences than they would likely get in state criminal courts.

Government prosecutors look to bring racketeering charges or conspiracy charges that can result in decades of jail time.

"Some of these networks of pimps and their organizations are very sophisticated, they're interstate," said Roberts, requiring wiretaps and undercover sting operations to bring charges.

In Boston the sting took place at the Marriott Long Wharf. No word on where the arrests took place in Chicago.