[FoxNews] Authorities located 12 juvenile victims ranging from 11 to 17 years old, as well as one 2-month-old infant.
Federal and local officials have rescued 13 previously missing children, whom authorities determined to be at risk of human trafficking, in and around Memphis.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), which worked with the U.S. Marshals Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Memphis Police Department and Tennessee Department of Children’s Services on the two-day mission called "Operation Not for Sale," said officials were focused on locating children at risk of being trafficked.
"There may be children coming from an environment where they have been sexually abused, previously, in their life. But that might be their norm," Foster Care Institute founder and director, Dr. John DeGarmo, who works with child welfare agencies across the globe, told Fox News Digital when asked what makes a child at risk of being trafficked.
Those children may be coming from broken homes or foster care and "seek out love" elsewhere because they have not found it in their current lives. Those children can be easily "misled by predators" and "groomed" under false hopes and promises of better lives, DeGarmo said. 
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