WASHINGTON (TNND) — The FBI and Justice Department announced on Wednesday the arrest of 205 alleged child sex predators in the last week in "Operation Restore Justice."

Attorney General Pamela Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel praised the "historic, unprecedented national nationwide operation" during a news conference and thanked the 55 FBI field officers who helped rescue 115 victims.

"Their work undoubtedly saved lives and protected vulnerable kids from further horrific crimes," Patel wrote on X. "Operation Restore Justice is a powerful message: If you harm children in America, you will be given no sanctuary. There is nowhere you can hide. You will be hunted down, and you will be prosecuted."

Bondi highlighted the dangers of child predators online and emphasized the need for parents to talk to their kids about the risks.

"Parents, you have to know this is so serious, your child has no right to privacy on the internet, none," she said. "You have to monitor what your kids are doing, whether they're playing games on the internet, on social media, any other websites that children and teenagers frequent, an online predator can find them."

"I always say it's from instant message to instant nightmare," she continued. "They're predators. They pose as children. They get them sometimes to post explicit pictures of themselves after they talk to them, and then, in some cases, they even try to blackmail the children."

Some of the suspects charged include a Minnesota state trooper, a Metropolitan police officer in D.C., and an illegal immigrant from Mexico, according to Patel.

Patel said the state trooper, Jeremy Francis Plonski, was arrested for producing child sexual abuse material while in uniform. He faces a mandatory minimum of fifteen years in prison if convicted.

Metropolitan Police Department Officer Linwood Barnhill, a former already convicted sex offender, was arrested again for exploiting more victims, more children, while on supervised release, Patel added.

Barnhill allegedly recruited a series of minor children to engage in commercial sex acts and financially profited from those commercial sex acts, according to a complaint.

"These depraved human beings, if convicted, will face the maximum penalty in prison," Bondi said. "If you are online targeting a child, you will not escape us."