Ok so horrible, horrible question regarding this. I wondered this when this story first broke but got side tracked. It's awful to think about BUT does the FBI have units who are tasked with viewing ALL of the child *advertiser censored* that they find on people's computers to search for missing kids ? I would assume so but what a horrible job
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I mean we know of so many missing kids and so many are presumed to be sold into sex trafficking and when they find these people 's computers with child *advertiser censored* on it, it's never a few images . It's always in the 10s or 100s of thousands of images. I feel awful for anyone who has that job but surely someone must , right? Because they would want to try to know who these kids are and find them, right?
Shaking my da** head. You may think you're not hurting anyone by ' merely' viewing child *advertiser censored* but the reality is someone, somewhere had to ABUSE that child for you to see the image at your home computer. It should be a charge equal to assaulting the child victim, imho. Hang ' em up !
I can answer a little of this.
Yes, there are units in numerous agencies that specialize on these types of crimes.
When our office does the forensic exams, with the equipment we have, it can break many of the images into "known" CP and unknown CP. "Known" means these are images that have already been identified by NCMEC and victim info is often known. Unknown CP means just that, not already identified and further investigation is going to be needed to see if victim info can be determined.
NCMEC is our clearing house for CP. We send our images to them and it can take a few months for them to return info to us.
As I mentioned much earlier on in this thread, we had a local LE partner that our agency trained, that had to ask to be released from his 3-year commitment to us because of nightmares, anxiety, etc...basically, his mental health. Realize, he was a known officer to us before and hand-picked because he IS a great investigator. It just shows it DOES take a special person to be able to focus hour after hour on this type of crime and not have it impact your daily emotions.
A little off track of Jared, but I read a report on one of our exam returns just last week, and it was one of the most disgusting ones I have ever had to read. 5 victims in the images, and we now know 2 were ones the suspect manufactured - meaning, he (or, "allegedly" someone in his house, LOL) videotaped the criminal acts. Ages estimated were 2 years old, and 11 months.
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(The others were ages of 7, 5 and 5, IIRC. Bound, items forced in cavities, etc. When you read articles in the media about CP, you don't normally get the "real picture" of how horrifying those incidents can be.)
Shower time.