{"id":7560,"date":"2022-08-14T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/connecticut-dcf-worker-charged-after-helping-sex-trafficking-suspect-evade-police\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:04:47","slug":"connecticut-dcf-worker-charged-after-helping-sex-trafficking-suspect-evade-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=7560","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut DCF worker charged after helping sex trafficking suspect evade police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">HARTFORD, Conn. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; Across the state line in Connecticut, a DCF employee is facing charges after helping a sex trafficking suspect evade police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Friday afternoon, Hartford police were notified of an individual at the Department of Children and Families office who had a warrant for his arrest for child trafficking offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When they arrived and began searching for the suspect, who was Melissa Roberson&#8217;s client, he allegedly took the woman and her 4-year-old son out of the building through a back exit and took her to another location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Roberson is now charged with hindering prosecution and risk of injury to a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2022. Western Mass News (WGGB\/WSHM).  All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernmassnews.com\/2022\/08\/14\/connecticut-dcf-worker-arrested-sex-trafficking-charges\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARTFORD, Conn. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; Across the state line in Connecticut, a DCF employee is facing charges after helping a sex trafficking suspect evade police. On Friday afternoon, Hartford police were notified of an individual at the Department of Children and Families office who had a warrant for his arrest for child trafficking offenses. When they arrived and began searching for the suspect, who was Melissa Roberson&#8217;s client, he allegedly took the woman and her 4-year-old son out of the building through a back exit and took her to another location. Roberson is now charged with hindering prosecution and risk of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}