Kane spotlights efforts to nab child predators

SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane put a spotlight Tuesday on a new command center to track and apprehend child predators, the result of a $3 million funding boost for one of her top priorities.

“We’re making arrests almost every day at this point,” said Ms. Kane, about efforts by the newly created Child Predator Section in the attorney general’s office to combat what one agent calls an epidemic…

State funding for the program is now at $4.3 million. That enabled Ms. Kane to create the child predator section, hire additional agents and attorneys, upgrade the software and purchase two mobile forensic trucks to do on-the-scene analysis… (more)

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