{"id":63134,"date":"2026-02-09T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63134"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:32:35","slug":"e-d-mich-this-is-how-federal-officers-treat-minor-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63134","title":{"rendered":"E.D.Mich.: This is how federal officers treat minor victims?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In executing a sex trafficking warrant in the wintertime (Detroit, 1\/14\/25), the minor victim they&#8217;d pinged for her whereabouts was handcuffed and left outside for a while. It was never apparent until inside the third floor was someone&#8217;s separate residence. The warrant was validly executed, but the alleged sex trafficking victim was mistreated by taking outside without adequate clothing. [According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/history\/daily\/us\/mi\/detroit\/KDET\/date\/2025-1-14\">Weather Underground<\/a>, the high that day was 21\u00ba and the low 14\u00ba.] United States v. Phillips, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25679 n.5 (E.D. Mich. Feb. 8, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Court notes that MV-1 was handcuffed in the doorway, while wearing lounge wear that exposed large portions of her skin, and escorted outside over snow-covered steps and concrete path, without a coat, hat, scarf, blanket, or shoes. The Court wonders if every alleged missing child\/human trafficking victim, as MV-1 is alleged to be, receives the same treatment from the participating law enforcement officers here. The Court requires that the government pose the same query to every participating law enforcement officer in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In executing a sex trafficking warrant in the wintertime (Detroit, 1\/14\/25), the minor victim they&#8217;d pinged for her whereabouts was handcuffed and left outside for a while. It was never apparent until inside the third floor was someone&#8217;s separate residence. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63141,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63134\/revisions\/63141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}